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Greener, cheaper, better
A year since the 10:10 campaign was launched, Julie’s Bicycle looks at ways in which the cultural industry is coping with carbon…
Orchestrating a greener future
Stephen Maddock reveals how touring live shows while lowering carbon emissions and costs can work in harmony together
Make a stand… and deliver
Michaela Crimmin reviews how artists are making a physical difference to the environment
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Pop in, sit up
The success of recession-fuelled pop-up theatre shows that creativity need not be restrained by budgets, argue Roland Smith and Je…
Talent and tenacity
How can creative graduates maximise their chances of securing paid work post-university? Zoë Ellsmore takes a look
Making a merger work
Are two heads better than one? Mahmood Reza explains why and how arts organisations can merge to ensure survival and success
The public debate on private giving
Philanthropy can only supplement arts funding, not be a substitute for it. And so Arts & Business looks to confirm in its new…
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Nosheen Iqbal and Eleanor Turney explain what the Spending Review will mean for the arts
This afternoon’s highly-anticipated Spending Review announcement has reiterated that the government will maintain free…
Breaking News: ACE funding decisions
Arts & Business (A&B) is to lose all of its funding from Arts Council England by 2012/13, and suffer a 50% cut in 20…
Band of glory
From classrooms to concert halls, music is instrumental to the success of the UK economy says Deborah Annetts
Playtime for youth music
Music education need not be confined to the classroom, Georgie Goddard and Lyndall Rosewarne desciribe how Power Play makes a diff…
Winning when you’re singing
You don’t have to be a professional to enjoy the benefits of singing – Sarah Robinson explains why Making Music insists we all…
Need to know
Need advice on work matters? AP hunts down some answers
In the public eye
Public art is all too often derided and overlooked by a sneering national press, but it’s time we appreciated the breadth of exp…
A climate of change
Lindsay Endean and Gareth Veal explain how arts organisations can measure their carbon footprints – and then start reducing them
A graduate incline?
What can the Creative and Media Diploma offer schools, students and the arts sector at large? Catherine Rose explains
Vetting and barring
Organisations working with children and vulnerable adults are subject to a plethora of rules and regulations. Keith Arrowsmith exp…
Last word
The big C word Overused, allegedly undervalued, and bouncing off the pages of any arts report worth its weight in words: Creativit…
Sense and structure
How are arts organisations operating in the twenty-first century? Nosheen Iqbal introduces five different ways of working
Launchpad to success
How did Cockpit Arts learn to fly with creative business incubation? Vanessa Swann explains
