Over a third of music industry jobs lost in 2020
69,000 music jobs – one in three of the total workforce – were lost last year due to Covid-19, UK Music&rsqu…
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Manchester’s Factory to open in 2023 after delays
The £186m arts complex continues to make a “strong strategic case” with a revised business case and new training…
CMA to assess music streaming market
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a study into the UK’s music streaming market. The watchdog wil…
White-led Chinese art gallery seeks new director
Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) is recruiting a new director following the resignation of Zoe Dunba…
LGBTIQ+ development programme reopens
Brighton's Malborough Productions has opened applications to the fourth year of its New Queers on the Block development p…
Design chosen for National Windrush Monument
The Windrush Commemoration Committee has selected Basil Watson’s design to stand as the National Windrush Monument. Watson&r…
Essex to launch local arts recovery fund
Essex County Council will launch a local Arts and Cultural Recovery Fund next month. The fund is geared towards recovery…
London to repurpose Royal Docks as cultural quarter
London’s Royal Docks is set to become ‘London’s cultural engine’ under plans to repurpose the space a…
Scotland starts enforcing vaccine passports
Venues that fail to comply face a maximum £10,000 fine but policing falls to overextended local authorities and un…
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory stops production
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has announced it will stop producing plays after 21 years. Sited at Bristol's Tobacco…
London loses almost a quarter of nightclubs
The number of nightclubs in London has fallen by 22% since the start of the pandemic. Figures from the Night Time Industries Assoc…
UK languishes on ‘best country for creativity’ list
A new survey reviewing how financially advantaged creatives are in different countries has placed the UK near the bottom of the li…
Local authorities’ culture offer hinges on Spending Review
Councils call for an extra £400,000 funding for arts and culture as venues in smaller authorities face life-threatening…
Digital pivot reverses as theatres struggle to monetise online shows
The trend has raised fears about diminishing access for disabled audiences – but research suggests they too are starting to…
Live venues await green light to reopen in Ireland
Live entertainment is expected to fully reopen in Ireland next week despite concerns over rising Covid cases. Capacity l…
Scottish National Gallery revamp faces further delays
Managers of the Scottish National Gallery’s refurbishment have asked the Scottish Government for a bailout after further del…
‘Break glass’ campaign highlights inequalities in the arts
A giant box bearing the slogan "break in case of arts emergency" has appeared in London as part of a campaign…
ACE invests £2.78m in cross-curriculum creativity
Eight school networks will develop creativity to inspire long term curriculum change – but not necessarily in arts subjects.
Citizen’s assembly invites input on arts in placemaking
A citizen's assembly on the role of arts and culture – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – has begun. A new website…
Voice acting school joins LIPA
A voice academy founded mid-pandemic has joined the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). Bristol Academy of Voice Actin…
15,000 jobs lost from late night cultural events
The night-time cultural economy has lost 86,000 jobs due to Covid-19, 15,000 of them in culture and arts events. Defined as a…
UK strikes visa-free touring deal with Romania
Romania has been added to the list of EU countries that UK performers can tour in sans visa. As has become customary, DCMS conceal…
Volunteer run museum is the UK’s most family friendly
Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery, a small volunteer-run museum in Alnwick, has been named the UK's most family friendly….
Trainee scheme to be catalyst for theatre careers
Donmar Warehouse plans to recruit 13 paid trainees under a new career development programme. Catalyst trainees will work in either…
