Glasgow Life boss to retire
SUSAN DEIGHAN will retire as chief executive of culture and sport charity Glasgow Life in June 2025. Deighan was appointed to the…
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Royal Academy of Dance welcomes new chief executive
ELIZABETH HONER has been appointed chief executive of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), succeeding TIM ARTHUR, who stood down from…
Charles Dickens Museum announces next director
The Charles Dickens Museum in London has promoted its current deputy director FRANKIE KUBICKI to the post of director of the museu…
Manager appointed to ‘reimagined’ role at Eyam Museum
EMMA MACBEATH is to become museum manager at Eyam Museum in Derbyshire, taking up the post in February 2025. Describing the role a…
LAMDA names new chair
London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) has appointed Sir NIGEL CARRINGTON as its new chair. Carrington will lead the b…
Artistic director of National Children’s Orchestras steps down
CATHERINE ARLIDGE is leaving her role as artistic and education director of the National Children’s Orchestras (NCO) next spring…
Debbonaire appointed life peer
The former Shadow Culture Secretary and Bristol MP, THANGAM DEBBONAIRE, has been offered a peerage by Prime Minister KIER STARMER….
Creative Industries Taskforce members announced
The government has announced the fourteen members of its new Creative Industries Taskforce, including leaders in the arts, politic…
New trustees for Liverpool theatres
The Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust (LMTT), a charity that oversees the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres, has nam…
Nottingham Contemporary appoints new chair
Nottingham Contemporary art gallery has appointed PAUL KIRKMAN as its new chair of the board. Before leaving to begin his current…
Glyndebourne names three new trustees
East Sussex opera house Glyndebourne has appointed three new trustees. The new appointments are television and radio presenter KA…
Chisenhale Gallery’s director to step down
ZOÉ WHITLEY is stepping down as director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery. Whitley will depart the east London gallery in March n…
Serota’s tenure as ACE chair extended for 18 months
NICHOLAS SEROTA’s tenure as chair of Arts Council England has been extended by a further 18 months. A statement from the Departmen…
Talking Birds theatre company appoints new chair and vice-chair
The Coventry-based theatre company Talking Birds has appointed a new chair and vice-chair. Writer and artist DAN THOMPSON, who is…
Paloma Faith and Tinie Tempah to join Ivors Academy board
The Ivors Academy has announced its new board, with pop artists PALOMA FAITH and TINIE TEMPAH, and film music composer DAVID ARNOL…
Baroness Hodge to head independent review of Arts Council England
Culture Secretary LISA NANDY has announced that former Culture Minister Baroness MARGARET HODGE has been appointed to lead an inde…
Wildworks artistic director launches ‘courageous’ new theatre company
MYDD PHARO, artistic director of Cornwall-based Wildworks, has announced he is leaving the immersive theatre company to set up a n…
Museums Galleries Scotland appoints new chair
Museums Galleries Scotland, the national development body for the sector, has appointed DUNCAN DORNAN as its new chair of the boar…
Songwriter Crispin Hunt appointed president of PRS Members’ Council
Multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer CRISPIN HUNT has been elected as the new president of the PRS Members’ Counc…
The Scottish Institute appoints new head of acting
WILL COWELL has been appointed head of acting at the Livingston-based performing arts organisation, The Scottish Institute. Cowell…
New director for Oxford Cultural Leaders
Dr XA STURGIS has been named the new academic director of Oxford Cultural Leaders (OCL). Sturgis, who is currently director of Oxf…
Imperial War Museum makes trustee reappointment
EDWARD STRINGER has been reappointed as a trustee of the Imperial War Museum by the Prime Minister KIER STARMER. His new four-yea…
Mansion House welcomes new board directors
Calderstones Mansion House has appointed JAMIEJOHN ANDERSON, ANDREA NIXON and LIAM BLACK to its board of directors. The community…
New chair elected for Ivors Academy Trust
The board of The Ivors Academy Trust has elected MICHELLE ESCOFFERY as its chair. A singer-songwriter, educator and co-owner of pr…
