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An art gallery in Oxford has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £25,000 toward a £2m renovation.
The campaign by Modern Art Oxford, run on Art Fund's Art Happens platform,...
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More than £100,000 in grants will be split between 24 theatres across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales through the Theatres Trust Small Grants Programme.
The scheme, run with...
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Council says it is working on plans to bring the historic venue back to life following its controversial closure last year.
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STEVE MARMION has joined Watford Palace Theatre as Chief Executive and Director of Programming.
Formerly the Co-Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Soho Theatre from 2010 to 2018, Marmion is...
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Residents and cultural organisations are being asked to share their views on a draft strategy for the future of arts and culture in Central Bedfordshire.
Central Bedfordshire Council said the...
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Central School of Speech and Drama is scrapping a £40 audition fee for its undergraduate acting degree.
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Welcome to Metroland. We are in Brent, London’s fifth largest borough, an urban sprawl and home to 340,000 people. But, as Lois Stonock shares, the cultural infrastructure needs support.
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Building work to transform a former industrial building in Loughborough into a creative arts centre will begin this month.
The BBC reports that the £2.5m project to create a large-capacity,...
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Arts leaders from the devolved nations have called for the establishment of an arts fund dedicated to UK and international touring.
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To mark World Intellectual Property Day, Adele Morse thinks it’s time the UK caught up with other countries in paying its artists fairly.
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Attendees at the Northern Music Awards in Manchester have criticised a lack of support for young musicians.
Speaking to The Guardian at the event, singer and songwriter Lisa Stansfield said:...
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Business acumen within arts organisations is necessary in the face of local authority funding cuts, survey findings suggest.
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The Swan Theatre in Worcester has been added to a list of organisations set to benefit from a share of £5m of Levelling Up funding after Worcester City Council (WCC) was given an extension on...
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Shadow Culture Secretary says Arts Council England would be 'central to a decade of national renewal' under a Labour government.
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Ballet Cymru is offering support to children and young people living with juvenile arthritis as part of a creative collaboration launched with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, funded by Arts...
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JON MORGAN will leave his role as Director of Theatres Trust in December after nearly eight years.
Prior to joining Theatres Trust, Morgan was Director of the Federation of Scottish Theatre for...
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Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced SELINA CARTMELL as its Creative Director. She will take up the newly-created role in August.
The theatre adopted a new leadership...
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Clore Leadership has announced SUZANN MCLEAN, JONATHAN REEKIE and KATE VARAH as new trustees.
McLean is the Artistic Director of Theatre Peckham and the Founder and Director of the theatre school...
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Fewer than half of visual artists in the South West have been commissioned to create new work in the past year survey finds.
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Co-Founder of Freedom in the Arts, Rosie Kay, thinks the arts in the UK have strayed into a culture of intolerance, which has led to cancellation and a climate of self-censorship that has to be addressed.
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The UK’s largest indoor arena has postponed launch events with Peter Kay, due to be held this week, after work on its power supply fell “a few days behind schedule”.
"It is...
Adam Behr asks why arts education is under fire when the UK’s creative industries generate more revenue than cars, oil and gas.
As France prepares to slash its budget for culture, Jonny Walfisz compares how the cuts line up with arts spending across continental Europe and the UK.
In his profile of Southbank Centre's Chief Executive Elaine Bedell, Alex Lawson uncovers the depth and inequality in the current funding crisis and lays bare the soaring costs facing the flagship arts complex.
Cash-strapped councils are cutting cultural spending to help plug budget shortfalls, but could desperate local authorities sell off artworks to raise funds? James Goodwin looks at the legalities.