LEEDS 2023 announces two international collaborations
Cultural festival LEEDS 2023 is bringing locally-based artists together with international collaborators in two new programmes as…
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£1.9m to transform 500 primary school libraries
New investment into the World of Stories programme will target seven areas highlighted as Arts Council England priority places.
Online opera course to take students ‘behind the scenes’
A new online initiative for opera lovers from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) aims to shed light on the…
Scotland opens £75k fund for creative caregivers
Creative Scotland has opened applications to its Radical Care Fund, a £75,000 project aiming to improve working conditi…
London taskforce develops a warehouse worth of creative workspaces
A network of more than 60 creative and commercial organisations has been established but plans for a “major creative moment&…
Derby Council invests £1m in cultural economy
Derbyshire County Council has set aside £1m to boost the county's culture and creative industries. The money,…
Old Vic pulls play over director’s involvement
London’s Old Vic has decided not to stage a new production of Into The Woods, due to the involvement of co-director Terry Gi…
Glyndebourne to launch on-demand streaming service
Opera house Glyndebourne is set to launch an on-demand streaming service, Glyndebourne Encore, next month. The service will offer…
Arts centre trustees signed gagging order under threat of eviction
The council, which owns the building, says it was "not required to consult, nor did consult" on the removal.
Arts Council NI and British Council extend partnership
Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council have extended their partnership to 2024. Now in their tenth yea…
Theatre bodies update anti-discrimination principles
UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre (SOLT) have updated their ten principles for creating safe and inclusive working spaces i…
Theatre Artists Fund issues £500k freelance grants
The Theatre Artists Fund has distributed grants of £500 to 1,003 theatre freelance workers in its latest wave of funding aim…
Survey highlights financial barriers to creative career development
Creative Access says survey findings confirm money issues "exclude those from under-represented communities from progres…
Worldwide royalty collections expected to drop by 35%
A report into worldwide royalties estimates collections in music, visual arts, drama and literature could decline by up to 35% thi…
Universities return looted bronzes to Nigeria
Two universities have become the first UK institutions to return Benin bronze artifacts to Nigeria. Cambridge University returned…
Budget 2021 doubles creative tax relief rates
DCMS gets a £600m boost next year but a £270m arts education pledge has been dropped.
Medway creative sector gets Levelling Up boost
A Medway theatre is one of three local creative sector projects due to share £14.4m in Levelling Up funding. The first tranc…
Brighton Hippodrome restoration vandalised
Vandals have graffitied Brighton Hippodrome the day after the front of the building was redecorated. Restoring the disus…
Vaccine passports cause drop in attendance
DCMS reportedly believes certification would drive live events attendees to pubs and “dire consequences” are…
£10.4m Anglo-Saxon attraction slated for Northumberland
A new visitor attraction representing little-known Anglo-Saxon history will open in Northumberland next autumn. Ad Gefrin will rec…
Former ballet principal jailed for sexual assaults
Yat-Sen Chang, a former principal dancer at English National Ballet, has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for sexual…
ArtsEd admits sexualised culture worsened by ‘failure in leadership’
Principal Chris Hocking has resigned so the drama school can show "how serious we are about transforming our culture" th…
British Museum denies sharing intelligence with BP
The British Museum has denied sharing information about environmental activists with its sponsor BP. An OpenDemocracy investigatio…
Scotland to stage cultural events alongside COP26
Details of the cultural events set to mark COP26 across Scotland have been confirmed. Scotland's five national performing arts…
