Shaping a city
Jon Davis explores how Coventry’s history is a map to its artistic and cultural future.
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Captions speak louder
As part of Captioning Awareness Week, Melanie Sharpe is campaigning to raise awareness of access to the arts for deaf, d…
75 years of Arts Council and the amateur arts
As he reflects on Arts Council England’s 75th anniversary, Robin Simpson thinks it’s not unfair to say it has never qu…
Can corporate sponsorship be part of the environmental agenda?
As arts organisations struggle with post-Covid recovery, Michelle Wright asks whether sponsorship can grow in this economic climat…
Do artists hold the key for achieving COP26 goals?
We need to think about how to live in a broken world, and how to begin to mend it. Christopher Smith says the arts and h…
From cultural participation to cultural ownership
Many organisations seek to put community at the heart of their work. But Maddy Mills asks why is it important and what does it act…
Creating safe and inclusive workspaces in theatre
As a new code of conduct is launched for the theatre industry, Sebastian Cheswright Cater makes the case for the journey the secto…
We need more content specialists in the arts
The pandemic has forced cultural organisations to develop their digital infrastructure and programming. But, as Zosia Poulter argu…
Harnessing the power of young people
All arts organisations speak about the need to engage the next generation in culture. Sarah Kaye and Robert Dingle refle…
‘A contemporary horror story’
How do artists engage with people living with dementia? Stephen Higgins, Electra Perivolaris and Nina Swann share their diffe…
Rishi isn’t coming to the rescue
This week’s budget shows that there’s no easy path to high wages and low ticket prices in theatre. So what’s nex…
Data are cultural: what does that mean for understanding well-being?
For thousands of years philosophers have asked: ‘What makes for the good society?’, or ‘the good life?’ Su…
Matchmaking creatives with empty spaces
With many retail outlets and offices standing empty across the UK, an ingenious new charity is matching creatives with landlords….
Great Place Greater Manchester
Julie McCarthy reflects on three years of action research into the role of culture in shaping the lives of the people of Greater M…
Older women dancing
What is it like to perform as an older woman in an industry obsessed with youth? Sandy Cuthbert shares her experience of returning…
Welcome to UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK
What happens when creative minds from different sectors and disciplines come together to imagine and design bold, large-scale even…
Covid-19 and the global cultural and creative sector
Anthony Sargent says we need to identify what we've learned from Covid, then build on those foundations rather than reassemble…
Arts and higher education: a successful partnership in action
Creating and sharing new knowledge – through teaching, learning, impact and public engagement – lies at the heart of r…
An explosion of creative energy
Universities often lack the resources for large scale art programmes, yet the University of Kent has launched an ambitious cr…
Changing lives with creativity
The arts have a huge role to play in health and wellbeing. Jane Rich shares how creative practitioners can support mental hea…
Governance beyond the ‘great and the good’
Our sector is supported by trustees and directors who, through their passion and skills, have stepped up to support organisations…
When boards go bad: how to take inclusive action
Over the past year, Amanda Parker has been privy to several board-level conflicts that she describes as nightmarish. Boards, she a…
Where are the young people on arts boards?
Ten years ago, while most 21-year-olds were exploring their freedom, Toks Dada was spending his evenings and weekends reading comp…
Questioning assumptions underlying governance
Boards in the cultural sector often focus on improving the delivery of a conventional model, but as Anisa Morridadi argues, both t…
