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Shakespeare North Playhouse Chief Exec steps down

Shakespeare North Playhouse’s first Chief Executive, MELANIE LEWIS, is to leave the organisation at the end of June. Lewis, who has been...
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Young Vic names Nadia Fall as Artistic Director

The Young Vic Theatre has announced the appointment of NADIA FALL as its new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive, effective from...
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Permanent Chief Executive for ENO

English National Opera (ENO) has appointed JENNY MOLLICA as Chief Executive of ENO and the London Coliseum. She will take up the role with...
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Cheltenham Music Festival appoints new Artistic Director

JACK BAZALGETTE has been appointed Artistic Director of Cheltenham Music Festival for the 2025 season onwards. Bazalgette is is a conductor...

Reshuffle of Arts Council Ireland board

The Irish Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, CATHERINE MARTIN, has announced the appointment of five new...

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    You don’t get to work in the arts and support the monarchy

    With a Royal garden party for the creative industries coming hot on the heels of cultural leaders’ participation in a trade mission to Saudi Arabia, Steven Hadley reflects on why the sector is happy to give legitimacy to imperialism and oppression. 

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    An explosive level of jeopardy

    The challenges facing London’s cultural sector are legion, but they cannot be addressed in isolation. Southbank Centre's Artistic Director Mark Ball says we need to create an interconnected national ecology.
     

  • Are we doing enough for physical health in the music industry?

    While a great deal of effort has been focused, rightly, on the mental health and wellbeing of performing artists, Claire Cordeaux of the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM), says we should not neglect physical health.

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    A louder Tees Valley voice

    Tees Valley Combined Authority has launched a radical new programme for artists which could provide a groundbreaking model for other authorities, writes Charlie Kemp. 

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    Open letter to Dame Mary Archer

    Representatives from across the cultural sector have written an open letter to Dame Mary Archer, who is due to chair the government's Public Body Review of Arts Council England.

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    We make the road by walking

    Long-term Heart of Glass collaborator Chrissie Tiller reflects on working with the Merseyside-based NPO and how, by building deeper relationships with communities, the arts can create fairer futures.

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Good news. Stonewall have been providing inaccurate information in their training and information packs - focusing in the law as they would...
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Great article. This is exactly what is happening in the arts. The usual suspects no doubt will be along shortly to whine ‘transphobia’ but...
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Just to be clear, my previous reply of “hear hear, well said” was to Frankafka for her “very revealing” comment! 100% agree with that.
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Rosie Kay and Denise Fahmy should be not just saluted but emulated for standing up for freedom of expression in the arts. They have really...
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The puerile tone of this comment just about sums up what we are dealing with here. Bitter entitled misogynous narcissistic men who have no...
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The arts and by that I mean comedy writers, comedians, actresses, actors, musicians, dancers, radio DJ's etc should be leading the way...
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Thank you, Rosie, for this thoughtful piece and the excellent work you and Denise are doing. There are so many who support you.
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Hear, hear - well said.
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Most of the censorship and self-censorship happens well behind the scenes and well before performances, events, exhibitions are ever staged...
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well it depends on what your 'cause' and work is. You are making your life's work putting tans people under threat of...
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