Following the departure of GEMMA OKELL, PAULA REDWAY, currently Director of Narberth A Cappella Voice Festival, will take over as the Director of Salisbury Arts Centre this spring.
7th January 2016
FABIENNE MORRIS, who has been with the London Symphony Orchestra for six and a half years, is to leave her role as Communications Manager to join Intermusica as Head of Communications & Marketing.
President and Managing Director of Warner Bros. Entertainment UK, Ireland and Spain JOSH BERGER is to take over from GREG DYKE as Chair of the British Film Institute.
Greenock’s Beacon Arts Centre has appointed JACKIE SHEARER as its new Chief Executive, following six months at the organisation as Transition Director.
6th January 2016
Following the sacking of MICHAEL DUGHER, previous Shadow Defence Secretary MARIA EAGLE has been named Labour’s new Shadow Culture Secretary, becoming the fourth MP to hold the title for the party within a year.
17th December 2015
Arts Council England Deputy Chief Executive ALTHEA EFUNSHILE is to step down in October 2016, having been in the role since 2012 and with the organisation since 2007. She is to lead and complete the planning of the 2018/19 to 2020/21 investment process before departing.
GEMMA OKELL is to leave Salisbury Arts Centre after 10 years with the organisation – and four years as Director – to take time off to go travelling.
CEO of West Australian Ballet STEVEN ROTH is to become Executive Director at Scottish Ballet from March 2016, joining the recently appointed Chief Executive / Artistic Director CHRISTOPHER HAMPSON.
JULIE LOMAX, Director of Visual Arts at Australia Council for the Arts, is to be Director of Development at Liverpool Biennial from March 2016. She will be joined by KITTY SCOTT, currently Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, who is to be Co-curator of Liverpool Biennial 2018.
10th December 2015
KIKI GALE, former Chief Executive of East London Dance, has been appointed Director of Dance for Parkinson’s Network UK - based within People Dancing’s national team - for three years on a part-time basis.