A powerful performance
Gus Christie tells the story of Glyndebourne's wind turbine, the first to be commissioned by an arts organisation.
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Programming and partnerships
Ian Ritchie believes that the City of London Festival’s success over 50 years is based on taking programming risks and explo…
Bonding with local businesses
Kerry Thomas tells how Eye Candy, a visual pop culture festival, made such a positive impact on Birmingham’s Southside.
Productive partnerships
Julian Rudd talks about his experience of partnership-working and why it is the backbone of the London Mela.
Here today and tomorrow
Rachel Adam argues that the Juice festival is not a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ event unconnected to the year-round cu…
Design a temporary theatre
The winner of an international competition to design a sustainable temporal theatre space will be revealed at the World Stage Desi…
A survival story
When public funding dried up, NEoN, Dundee’s digital arts festival, faced a stark choice: adapt or die. Lyall Bruce tells th…
Becoming dementia friendly
The Courtyard in Herefordshire is the first arts venue to sign up to the Dementia Action Alliance and Alice Saunders hopes it lead…
Laughter is the best medicine
Women & Theatre has delivered comedy courses in residential homes to people with varying degrees of dementia. Sabra Khan asks…
Older men moving
Fergus Early is excited about the funding Green Candle Dance Company has secured for a dance and exercise project for groups of ol…
Creative learning comes of age
Zoë Briggs describes how her Creating Learning department at the Ambassador Theatre Group is successfully targeting the growing r…
Creativity despite dementia
Veronica Franklin Gould of Arts 4 Dementia discusses how partnership projects are benefiting people with dementia by reviving…
Belly dancing beats ballroom
Annabel Turpin reports on how ARC’s silver programme is responsive to the needs of the target group − and that&rs…
BollyWalking to better health
‘Ageing artfully’ has introduced vulnerable older people to BollyWalking. Christina Christou and John Pinder of Akadem…
Old and young unite
Jane Coyle tells how DU Dance’s inter-generational programme has recently seen a dance performance by women of all ages, inc…
Unlocking art in older age
The Elderly Accommodation Counsel launched the Over 60s Art Awards twenty years ago. John Galvin reports on how the awards have sh…
The source of being smart
What does working smarter in the arts sector mean? Julie Tait describes a project exploring staffing, technology and audience data…
Feeding a monster
Louise Amery describes how Aberystwyth Arts Centre has worked with Tincan to develop and build its new, rather hungry website.
Pleasing all the people
Ed Green demanded a lot of functionality when he tendered for a new ticketing system and now reports that the Spektrix system has…
Slick ticketing
Dan Eastmond describes how the Monad ticketing system has resulted in a smoother service for customers and more marketing data for…
Ticketing without borders
A combination of technologies offers travellers the opportunity to book tickets for events at the same time as they book their tra…
Cheery smiles
The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust uses 450 regular volunteers in various roles from demonstrating crafts to litter-picking. Lucy…
Digital interaction
Clayton Shaw describes how a volunteering project in digital technology appealed to young people in Birmingham.
Open Stages
Where would you see Juliet played by an English student and Romeo by a Polish cage fighter or ‘Much ado about nothing’ perform…
