Scotland’s Bursary scheme to benefit 865 creative practitioners
Four out of five of the 1,069 applicants to the first round of the Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary fund are receiving sums rang…
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Fundraising campaign brings reprieve for small music venues
140 grassroots music venues are being removed from the ‘critical’ list following the #saveourvenues campaign initiated…
Plans could see a pound shop turned into a performance school
An empty Poundstretcher store in Brighton could be turned into a dance and performance training suite if planning permission is ap…
New alliance to give higher visibility to disabled creative practitioners
Concerns that progress towards diversity is being de-prioritised as a result of the Covid crisis have prompted a new forum from wh…
Plans for a national furlough skills exchange programme take shape
Fears that the current crisis is leading to “an incredible level of retrenching” on diversity have prompted actions to…
Performing arts institution prepares for expansion in Liverpool
A £15m campus for Liverpool’s media, music and performance arts institution, LMA, will open in September, offering deg…
Southport Theatre operator calls in liquidators
Coronavirus is being blamed for the collapse of Southport Theatre and Convention Centre. Since 2018 it has been operated by 'c…
Refund scandal could tarnish the reputation of the theatre industry
Ticket buyers fighting to claim refunds from ATG Tickets have found the company is not automatically refunding transaction fees, c…
Independent festivals could face oblivion under refund claims
With at least 90% of UK festivals being cancelled this summer, festival organisers could be facing refunds of up to £800m, a…
Research body campaigns for culture and creativity
As the Arts and Humanities Research Council sets out to demonstrate the role digital developments can play in arts and culture, so…
Early applicants were more likely to be winners in ACE emergency funding rounds
Demand for emergency grants to support non-NPOs and individual artists through the Covid crisis could outstrip the funding availab…
Music lobby gathers steam and support
Proposals for a taskforce to help ‘get the music industry back on its feet’ and a petition to increase royalties for s…
Museums have risen to the pandemic challenges, report concludes
Museums have been "quick and proactive in their response to the pandemic, shifting their focus to addressing needs within the…
Fears grow that ‘risk aversion’ will undermine new work
New guidelines have been drawn up to protect playwrights whose future work is under threat, existing work is being streamed free,…
Delay Brexit or the music sector faces devastation, says report
Brexit fall-out is biting harder as musicians find it more difficult to secure European opportunities while uncertainty over the t…
Royal Albert Hall under threat of closure, says CEO
Social distancing rules make it impossible to run the Royal Albert Hall safely, according to CEO Craig Hassal, who has told the Su…
Storytelling harnessed to support creative SMEs in rural areas
A two-year £1m storytelling project led by Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Orkney will be developing a digital platform to…
France commits 12-month support to seasonal cultural workers
Financial support for 'intermittent artists', making authors eligible for a 'solidarity fund for the self-employed'…
Some redundancies likely in Scotland’s visual arts
Three-quarters of Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) members lost on average half their normal income in April, and 29% of i…
New company to champion women playwrights
A new not-for-profit company is providing a forum for writers who identify as women. Writers Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley ha…
Concerns about crowds and social distancing will slow visitors’ return to museusm and galleries, research finds
A growing number of people are anticipating visiting a tourist attraction in the next 3 to 6 months, according to a tracking study…
Local authority leaders propose a coordinated post-Covid ‘reset’
Delivering solutions to social and economic problems after the pandemic will require policy-makers in different areas to “re…
Union speaks out on recompense for artists whose work is streamed
As ad hoc agreements are hastily put in place to enable performances to be streamed to audiences at home, AP has discovered an eco…
Equality still a distant dream in publishing, report finds
Tokenistic diversity schemes, middle-class professional networks and a heavy London bias in the literary and publishing industries…
