29th March 2018

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Mackenzie to replace Wadley at ACE London

RUTH MACKENZIE will be the new Chair of Arts Council England’s London Area Council from 1 July. Currently Artistic Director of Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and for the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, she previously led the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Her CV includes senior positions at Scottish Opera, Chichester Festival Theatre, DCMS and Nottingham Playhouse, and she was previously Drama Officer at Arts Council England.

She replaces VERONICA WADLEY, whose term of office ends on 30 June. The new appointment was made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, as laid down by the Arts Council England Royal Charter and the GLA Act, and approved by Culture Secretary Matt Hancock.

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Théâtre du Châtelet - Hélène Pambrun
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Sillars appointed Director at MIMA

LAURA SILLARS will join Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art as Director in summer 2018, leaving Sheffield’s Site Gallery where she has been Artistic Director for seven years. She takes over from ALISTAIR HUDSON, who is now Director of Manchester Art Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery.

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New Chair for Hepworth Wakefield

Internationally acclaimed design critic ALICE RAWSTHORN will be the new Chair of The Hepworth Wakefield. She will take up the role in May when the gallery’s first Chair, DAVID LIDDIMENT, steps down after a seven-year term. 

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Michael Leckie

Fuke to manage new gallery at Goldsmiths

OLIVER FUKE, Gallery Manager for the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, has been appointed as the new Gallery Manager for Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, which will open to the public in September 2018.

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Peter Moser steps down after 25 years

Founder and current Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Morcambe-based More Music, PETER MOSER, is leaving the organisation. A composer, performer, teacher, producer and author of Community Music: A Handbook, he has been with the organisation for 25 years.

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Fundraising Regulator announces new CEO

GERALD OPPENHEIM, currently Head of Policy and Communications at the Fundraising Regulator, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive to replace current CEO STEPHEN DUNMORE, who will be standing down at the end of June.

Oppenheim, who has been with the Fundraising Regulator since its inception in 2016, was previously Director of Policy and Partnerships at the Big Lottery Fund, is a Trustee and Chair of the London Emergencies Trust and has served on other charity trustee boards as well as the BBC Charitable Appeals Advisory Committee.

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Heffernan joins Humber Street Gallery

Formerly Head of Exhibitions at Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh, JOHN HEFFERNAN has been appointed as the new Senior Curator at Hull’s Humber Street Gallery. He will be developing a long-term plan for the gallery, which opened last year during the Hull 2017 programme and was originally intended to be a pop-up contemporary art space.

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Henry leaves Hippodrome

HELGA HENRY, Director of Organisational Development at Birmingham Hippodrome and previously Director of Creative Shift, is leaving to set up her own consultancy practice.

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Familiar faces return to Pendleton Performing Arts Department

Former staff member NEIL G BENNETT, Artistic Director and founder of youth theatre group MYT Productions, has re-joined Pendleton Sixth Form College’s Performing Arts Department as Head of the Centre of Excellence for Performing Arts. Former student JOSEPH MEIGHAN has been appointed Associate Theatre Director. 

New General Manager for Maddermarket theatre

ALICE WRIGHT, previously Marketing and Communications Manager at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, has joined Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich as General Manager. Her earlier career included work at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall, Rose Theatre Kingston, Tricycle Theatre, HQ Theatres and Norwich Playhouse. 

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