Flagging up the night-time economy
Town and city centres after dark have long been perceived as places of contention, places to control and regulate, but more recent…
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Art and life
What is the value of the arts exactly and theatre-going in particular? Ben Walmsley asks why we engage in this mysterious pursuit…
Design and build
Andrew Lock describes two architectural projects at the Southbank Centre that reveal the benefits of participation by users in the…
Bienvenue la danse!
Why do we see the world’s finest contemporary dance companies in our theatres across the UK? Because Dance Consortium has ma…
Charity shop fundraising
Beckie Smith tells how a charity shop is contributing to funding Tewkesbury’s theatre, The Roses.
Let’s get commercial
Sean Egan believes that the new Localism Act gives local authorities the opportunity to enter into a more commercial relationship…
Long live senior creativity
Philip Thomas spent five weeks on a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel fellowship researching the American senior theatre mov…
Leading change together
No arts organisation should just be the passive receiver of money: robust partnerships are the only way forward for a sustainable…
A new image for Africa
Five years ago, the Arterial Network, a pan-African arts network, was set up to address poor government policies, the marginalisat…
Reading from the same page
Oldham Libraries and the Oldham Coliseum Theatre have been working together while the theatre undergoes rebuilding work. Andrea El…
The value of creativity
How do we put a proper measurable value on creativity and how do we realise that value for the people who have the original ideas?…
Tabloid attack
From tabloid hostility to acts of God, Juliet Dean discusses the challenges of managing a major Cultural Olympiad arts project.
Deepening engagement
Andrew McIntyre outlines a new approach to exploring cultural engagement which provides an insight into people’s behaviour – a…
Streaming Out to digital audiences
Live streaming offers arts organisations the potential to develop new income streams by creating and presenting work in different…
Moving in
Earlier this year Unlimited Theatre became the resident company at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP). Jon Spooner, Unlimited Thea…
A cultural blueprint
Beatriz Garcia reflects on the Cultural Olympiad and the learning that can be passed on to Games hosts of the future.
Critical friends
What happens when audiences give feedback to artists and composers as part of the process of creating new work? Andrew Burke decid…
Breathing Life Into In Memoriam Giving
In Memoriam giving remains one of the most under-developed and reactive methods of raising funds within the whole voluntary sector…
Bringing heritage to life
Ambitious projects can still be financed through the unlikely source of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Alastair Fairley explains…
Intercultural connections
The impact of participatory art on the experience of new migrants and their interaction with a new cultural environment is now the…
Explore and discover the arts
Marina Castledine explains how the Arts Award is reaching out to more young people
The devil in the detail
Will there be a mismatch between the vision articulated in the Henley Review of Cultural Learning and the strategies for making it…
Digital intelligence
At the ‘Shift Happens’ conference, Dave Moutrey gave us a glimpse of the digitally enabled organisation of the future
The world’s a stage
Harper Ray explains how Globe Education is producing education resources that are as vivid for those further afield as for those a…
