19th October 2018
Curator, author and journalist HANNAH AZIEB POOL will be joining the Bernie Grant Arts Centre as Artistic Director in February next year. A trustee of the London International Festival of Theatre and a patron of the SI Leeds Prize, the biannual award for unpublished fiction by UK Black and Asian women, she was recently Senior Programmer for Contemporary Culture at the Southbank Centre and was a programmer of the WOW Women of the...
SEBASTIAN CHESWRIGHT CATER, formerly Director of Marketing & Sales at Sadler’s Wells, has left the organisation to join Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund as Development Manager.
AMY SHAKESPEARE, Marketing and Impact Officer for the Cornwall Museums Partnership, and freelance educator SARAH MORENO have become the first ever Young Trustees at Kids in Museums. They will receive governance training and be paired with an existing Board member who will provide support and advice.
LUKE SYSON, formerly curator at the National Gallery and currently Head of Sculpture and Decorative Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will take up the role of Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in the new year. He will succeed TIM KNOX, who left the Museum earlier this year to become the Director of the Royal Collection.
After three years at the helm of Torbay Culture, KATE FARMERY is joining The Box, Plymouth, as Head of Business. She will be responsible for commercial income generation, visitor services and operations, business support, marketing and development for the organisation, which will open to the public in 18 months. Her earlier career included 20 years in senior commercial, operational, development and marketing roles at Manchester...
Dance and performing arts tutor KELLY RYAN has joined dance enterprise Serendipity as Project Manager. For the past 20 years she has been working with young people in East London and Leicester, including in partnership with East London Dance to deliver The Community Dance Practitioner course.
The board of the Three Choirs Festival has appointed BEN COOPER, a local antiques dealer who regularly appears on BBC One’s Bargain Hunt, as a new director. He will chair the Worcester city committee and act as an ambassador for the festival, as preparations begin for its return to the city in 2020. NICOLA LAWSON has joined the festival’s management team as Trust and Foundations Fundraiser.
12th October 2018
After a long relationship with Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), first as a Development Producer and then as Artistic Director and CEO, DAVID JUBB has announced he will “head off on a new adventure as a parent of young children” from April 2019.
Artistic Associate SHELLEY HASTINGS and Associate Artistic Director SARAH GOLDING will also be leaving next year, in February and March respectively...
After 20 years as Artistic Director, SIMON STOKES is leaving the Theatre Royal Plymouth, to explore new opportunities and artistic challenges. During his time at Plymouth, the theatre has won more than 20 major national theatre awards and proved that “the ‘remote’ and slightly forgotten far south west can also be a huge engine for national creativity.”
One Dance UK has appointed LAURA NICHOLSON as Head of Children and Young People’s Dance, to lead on the strategic planning and delivery of programmes with and for children, young people and teachers. She has worked extensively in the north of England in youth and community settings as a performer, workshop leader and community artist, and in the education sector.