Friday, 21 April 2017
Five residents in luxury flats neighbouring Tate Modern have claimed a viewing platform, located in the gallery’s new extension, has created a state of “near constant surveillance” and breaches their human rights.
Friday, 21 April 2017
Entrepreneur Peter Dawe and festival organiser Mark Ringer are currently in discussion with the owners of the Broadway Theatre in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, about taking over the venue.
Big plans for Peterborough’s Broadway Theatre under new owners (Peterborough Today)
Friday, 21 April 2017
London’s New Diorama Theatre has announced that ND2, a 4,000-square-metre space, will open from May. It will be a creative hub by day and an events space by night.
The New Diorama Theatre Announces New Rehearsal Space ND2 (Broadway World)
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Leading playwrights and composers have been brought together for a two-year project, supported by six-figure funding through the Genesis Foundation, to address a “lack of seriousness” about musicals in the UK and to provide a “seedbed” for new work.
Thursday, 20 April 2017
The Diversity School Initiative, set up by Royal Central School of Speech and Drama student Steven Kavuma, aims to lobby drama schools to develop more inclusive curriculums and facilities, and hold schools accountable for their diversity decision making.
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
(IN POLISH) The Second World War and Westerplatte museums will combine to create a new Museum of World War II, Culture Minister Piotr Gliński has announced. The news follows an intervention by the Polish Supreme Administrative Court to overrule a lower court’s decision to block the merger.
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
The new-look studios in Hertfordshire will bring the entire Henry Moore Archive together in a new building, which will include further project space for digitisation and a new visitor centre.
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
A ‘singing clock’, to be created by Turner-Prize winning artist Susan Philipsz, will be installed at the site of a planned high-speed railway station in the city, mostly financed by corporate sponsors and key stakeholders.
The news follows the city council’s decision to cut funding to major arts organisations in the city by 32% in 2017/18.
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
The £19m project will see almost half a million physical recordings, including theatre and music clips, digitised and stored in a network of ten sound preservation centres across the country.
British Library launches recording preservation project (Classical Music Magazine)
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
After its costume appeal prompted a few “wry comments” on Twitter, the Royal Opera House has been moved by the Telegraph to explain its use of charity fundraising tactics.
Royal Opera House adopts charity fundraising tactics (The Telegraph)
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Plans for a £22m art gallery and museum - the centrepiece of proposals for a new cultural quarter in the town - look increasingly uncertain as a petition by opponents of the scheme gains traction, and the new Director appointed to lead the project steps down.
£22m gallery and museum project rocked by senior resignation (Swindon Advertiser)
Thursday, 13 April 2017
The team behind the Village Underground venue in London’s Shoreditch are submitting proposals to Hackney Council to reopen Hackney Arts Centre, after decades of neglect have seen it fall into disrepair. They hope to “breathe life back” into the 81-year-old art deco venue and restore it for use as a cultural and community space.
Village Underground looking to reopen Hackney Arts Centre (Resident Advisor)
Thursday, 13 April 2017
(IN SPANISH) Congress of Deputies is asking Spain’s Ministry of Culture to draw up an inventory of under-utilised and abandoned public spaces that could be transformed for cultural use.
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Plans will see the library building sold to fund new facilities and improvements at the North London arts venue.
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
The cultural discussion programme is being cut as a cost-saving measure. In its place, Radio 4 will broadcast a Saturday highlights edition of Front Row.
'Front Row' gets weekend edition, but 'Saturday Review' is axed (The Bookseller)