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New Writing North has undergone a significant board reshuffle, welcoming a new Chair, Vice Chair and three new trustees as the charity...
LIAM MCMULLAN has been appointed Executive Director of the Barn Theatre in Cirencester.  An independent commercial producer and general...
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has appointed ALAN CUMMING as its new Artistic Director. He will take up the role in January 2025, following the...
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NAZIR AFZAL is to become Chair of The Lowry in Salford from this December as Sir ROD ALDRIDGE steps down after 17 years in the post. Afzal...
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English National Opera has appointed ANUPAM GANGULI and GILLIAN MOORE to its board of trustees. The pair will take up post immediately,...

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I would argue that this whole thing wasn't really about the actual price they charged. It was actually about a poor decision to...
Since the data from this research purports to be UK-wide, it would be good to be able to see whether there are any differences between the...
PLEASE the new Chair must be a woman... it's been men, men, men in senior positions for way too long. Even if men do good work at...
Arguments about excellence creates a false binary, as certain artforms are excellent therefore other artforms aren’t (and therefore should...
I recall one Jeremy Newton the then Deputy Director of Eastern Arts, (later to become CEO of NESTA) speaking at a meeting of the Council of...
Good grief - I would have thought ACE would have been doing this for the past 10 years. Before ACE asks for funding it should sort the mess...
Posted by Chris Hodgkins on ACE embarks on arts investment lobbying drive
As a thought experiment, I’m curious about the rationale for privileging one musical genre over any other. What makes orchestral music ‘the...
Posted by Dave Camlin on Orchestral music as an agent for change
The ACE has an exemplary track record in dealing with cases affected by race discrimination. It has fought hard and consistently to build...
This case has shown the need for respect and probity on both sides of a court case. Any and every court case must meet these fundamental...
Is it possible to find out the details of where exactly in the published accounts this financial information is coming from? For instance,...

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