All arts organisations speak about the need to engage the next generation in culture. Sarah Kaye and Robert Dingle refle…

How do artists engage with people living with dementia? Stephen Higgins, Electra Perivolaris and Nina Swann share their diffe…

This week’s budget shows that there’s no easy path to high wages and low ticket prices in theatre. So what’s nex…

For thousands of years philosophers have asked: ‘What makes for the good society?’, or ‘the good life?’ Su…

With many retail outlets and offices standing empty across the UK, an ingenious new charity is matching creatives with landlords….

Julie McCarthy reflects on three years of action research into the role of culture in shaping the lives of the people of Greater M…

What is it like to perform as an older woman in an industry obsessed with youth? Sandy Cuthbert shares her experience of returning…

What happens when creative minds from different sectors and disciplines come together to imagine and design bold, large-scale even…

Anthony Sargent says we need to identify what we've learned from Covid, then build on those foundations rather than reassemble…

Creating and sharing new knowledge – through teaching, learning, impact and public engagement – lies at the heart of r…

Universities often lack the resources for large scale art programmes, yet the University of Kent has launched an ambitious cr…

The arts have a huge role to play in health and wellbeing. Jane Rich shares how creative practitioners can support mental hea…

Our sector is supported by trustees and directors who, through their passion and skills, have stepped up to support organisations…

Over the past year, Amanda Parker has been privy to several board-level conflicts that she describes as nightmarish. Boards, she a…

Ten years ago, while most 21-year-olds were exploring their freedom, Toks Dada was spending his evenings and weekends reading comp…

Boards in the cultural sector often focus on improving the delivery of a conventional model, but as Anisa Morridadi argues, both t…

One of the oddities of sitting on a board or being a trustee of a cultural institution is that there are no rules for how to do it…

One of the most powerful things to emerge during the pandemic is the importance of the arts to our wellbeing. Gilane Tawadros says…

We often don’t notice statues of people, but they are part of our cultural history. Who are they? Why are they there? And wh…

Birmingham International Dance Festival is a celebration of the return to outdoor arts. For Debbie Jardine and Raidene Carter, it…

When the best of technology meets the spark of creativity, incredible things can happen regardless of what century – or mill…

Jake Bartle reports on how Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is shining a spotlight on disabled artists.

Sarah Philp explores the challenge of developing funding to get more people to visit museums and see more art.

Without volunteering, many organisations in the cultural sector simply couldn’t operate. But it can also act as a route for…