Thursday, 09 May 2019
The loss-making bistro at the Greenock venue may be shut down as management seeks to overcome a cash crisis that has threatened the future of the whole organisation.
Thursday, 09 May 2019
A new charity set up by local arts figures is raising money to buy and transform the Trinity Road police station into a new type of a community venue that will support social enterprises and provide spaces for artists to work.
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
The town’s five-year plan for culture, The Fire Within, follows consultation with experts and local cultural organisations. Wigan Council's Chief Executive Alison McKenzie-Folan said the document had been written “for the people, by the people”. The authority has previously announced its intention to bid for up to £2m from Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme.
Hopes for £2m to be invested in cultural activity (Wigan Council)
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
Following the opening of the Bridge Theatre in 2017, the pair, who previously worked together leading the National Theatre, are planning a new 600-seat venue in King’s Cross. The theatre, designed by Haworth Tompkins Architects and Tait, is expected to open in 2021.
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
The site-wide masterplans include a £19m upgrade and expansion of the venue's existing performance spaces and an integrated creative hub, featuring commercial enterprises and offices that will help secure its long-term financial resilience.
Competition: Cambridge Junction – Level Up (Architects' Journal)
Tuesday, 07 May 2019
Without admitting liability, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland has settled a case brought by Chief Executive Roisin McDonough, who alleged she had experienced age discrimination and victimisation. McDonough claimed that, when she asked to reduce her working hours from five to four days a week, no decision was taken and she was instead asked about her retirement plans.
Northern Ireland Arts Council chief gets £12k over age discrimination (Belfast Telegraph)
Tuesday, 07 May 2019
A mural featuring the journalist, who was shot dead last month, is among the displays included in the city’s Hit the North Street Art Festival this year. A spray-painted image of McKee, by artist Emma Blake, appears alongside the content of a letter she wrote to her 14-year-old self.
Lyra McKee mural draws crowds at street art festival (Belfast Telegraph)
Tuesday, 07 May 2019
Gwynedd arts venue Neuadd Ogwen, which stages concerts, plays and films and hosts a popular craft market, is aiming to expand into new buildings and acquire space to extend the front of house area and open an arts and crafts shop and a tourist information point.
Major expansion plans revealed for Gwynedd arts centre (North Wales Live)
Monday, 06 May 2019
At the request of the artist, the gallery will place sheets over the artwork, which depicts one of the five pillars of Islam in Arabic script, juxtaposed with images of nude women in the style of the US flag. Calls from some visitors for the paintings to be removed were rejected.
Friday, 03 May 2019
A new building, set to open in 2020, will convert an old Salvation Army building into a venue with new front-of-house facilities, a permanent education centre and a 158-seat theatre.
Friday, 03 May 2019
Street performers will be limited to 45-minute performances with a “full and varied repertoire” and will be unable to perform in the same location twice in one day, under new rules drawn up by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This follows a five-fold increase in complaints about buskers since 2014.
Friday, 03 May 2019
Acting Chief Executive Iain Munro told a Scottish Parliament inquiry into the future of arts funding in the country that it would take more than double current levels of Government funding to take advantage of Scotland’s creative industry potential.
Creative Scotland warns culture cash is at 'tipping point' (The National)
Friday, 03 May 2019
The proposed partnership with the bus company, for an exhibition of the four shortlisted artists, has been dropped a day after it was announced. This follows revelations that Stagecoach’s co-founder and chairman, Sir Brian Souter, backed a failed campaign to ban teachers discussing gay rights in Scottish schools 19 years ago.
Friday, 03 May 2019
Concerns have been raised that an online bidder may have been deliberately pushing up prices among the 82 prints, drawings and paintings the council controversially put up for auction last week. A ‘hold’ has been put on the sale of all items bid on by the individual, and they may be put up for auction again.
Online auction foul play probe puts Herts County Council art sale on hold (St Albans Review)
Friday, 03 May 2019
Shetland Arts, which runs the 280-seat Garrison Theatre, is looking for volunteers to explore the potential of an independently-run venue, to shore up its finances following reductions in public funding.