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Celebrating 20 years of bringing some of the world?s most original, risk-taking and popular artists to the capital, the 2001 London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), marks the end of its...
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The management of the US ticketing giant Tickets.com Inc, whose UK subsidiary is one of the UK?s major box office systems and Internet ticketing suppliers, has concluded a deal for a $15m, which is...
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A series of roadshows aimed at musicians who want to develop their skills in helping others to learn through music is being launched by the Musicians? Union (MU) in collaboration with community music...
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Despite earlier fears that foot and mouth disease would lead to the cancellation of summer arts festivals, the vast majority are going ahead as planned.
Festival organisers are launching their main...
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The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has re-advertised funding opportunities from two of its schemes, in support of text-based theatre in both Welsh and English. Contact Judy Purdy at ACW t: 029 2037...
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Trading places: The rise of independent artist-run spaces across the UK, and a seemingly impenetrable gallery circuit in London, appear poles apart. Gordon Dalton in Edinburgh and Tim Birch in...
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I found the leader article in last week?s ArtsProfessional confusing. Resource is an agency with responsibility for Museums and Libraries and yet they were offering views on the suitability for...
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ArtsProfessional and Dispatched have received over 700 personal email messages of support since their launch was announced at the end of April... so thank you all for your kind words. Here?s our very...
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As the Year of the Artist draws to a close, Nick Capaldi reviews the Regional Arts Boards? stewardship of this nationwide initiative in England.
Someone was bound to ask the question sooner or...
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Vanessa Dell was initially artist in residence at the architectural practice of Hunter and Partners in Chichester for sixteen days over a period of three months.
The residency focused on two new-...
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Mixed media artist Adi French has been helping patients, staff, visitors and volunteers at St Leonard?s Hospice in York get in touch with their creative side.
St Leonard's is a voluntary and...
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Now we all know that arts professionals never have time to surf the web just for fun, but there are some sites that, should you have a spare hour in the middle of the night to surf, you might like to...
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So it?s general election time again. A good opportunity to vote into power the party that will do most to support, nurture and promote the value of the arts? Or a disappointing illustration that...
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For promoters, a key issue is fitting the space to the art; just as much as fitting the art to the space. Ed McKeon explains why.
Over recent years it has become fashionable for arts...
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20 venue promoters, 3 cathedrals, 21 projects in four artistic strands ? Eastern Touring Agency?s (ETA) The Creative Promoter was always going to be big, explain Viv Ewington and Catherine Rose.
The...
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The promoter at a standard concert hall, opera house, theatre or dance venue is restricted in many ways by the physical layout of the space within which they have to operate, writes Michael MacLeod....
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Review by Barbara Matthews, Producer and Consultant.
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A new and broadly-based National Training Organisation (NTO) for the cultural sector has been proposed by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, with a view to streamlining...
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A workspace scheme using shipping containers to provide affordable studio space for artists and other creative professionals opens this week at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. Construction of the...
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Parallels between the mighty arts funding structure and the diminutive organisation that is ArtsProfessional are, it must be said, pretty limited. But just at the moment, we are both facing new...
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A new website for the arts community in the South East of England has been launched, providing news about venues, organisations, artists and events in the region.The site currently includes a...
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(Industrial Society, 1998, ISBN 1 85835 899 X, £12.99 (£16.20 inc. p...