£330k emergency fund for authors affected by Covid-19
The slush fund is the latest urgent funding measure to support imperilled freelancers.
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Covid-19 closures could cost more than £1m per day
New research showing a 92% drop in ticket sales and revenue in a single day suggests income will continue to plummet.
Calls for freelancer income protection fund
Creative professionals are calling for a "time-limited and carefully targeted" income protection fund for freelance work…
Opera members take pay cut to protect colleagues
Musicians at Chicago's Lyric Opera have voted to receive less than full pay so ring cycle members can receive a weekly paychec…
BBC launches Culture in Quarantine
The BBC has launched 'Culture in Quarantine', an arts and culture initiative across radio, television and digital platform…
DCMS leads mass volunteering push
DCMS is leading a major volunteering drive to support the civil sector during the Covid-19 outbreak. Bodies such as the National C…
£330bn Covid-19 package ‘not enough help to freelancers’
Plans are in place for Government-backed loans, but sector leaders say they fail to support the freelance arts workforce.
Covid-19: Funders pledge flexibility to save the sector
Grant funding will be ‘refocussed’ as freelancers rally to support each other – but there may not be enough cash…
Culture Secretary forced to self-isolate
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has been forced to self-isolate after one of his family members showed symptoms of the coronavirus…
Glastonbury is cancelled
Glastonbury Festival 2020, the event's 50th anniversary, has been cancelled. It is the first major UK festival to be called of…
Digital festival goes online only
Leeds Digital Festival, the UK's largest tech festival, is hosting its spring event online. Organisers have postponed holding…
ACW delays funding conditions for three months
The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has delayed funding conditions for its portfolio for three months. Advice issued late on Tuesday s…
Covid-19: Connecting online during social distancing
As the sector turns to technology, here’s what you need to know about running online-only events.
Stroud venue’s staff offered redundancy
Workers at a 186-year-old entertainment venue in Stroud have been offered redundancy. Subscription Rooms, which runs music and com…
Britain’s theatres go dark
Britain's theatres are closed until further notice, sector bodies have announced. More than 300 theatres and concert hall…
Plans for UK’s biggest stadium revealed
A £350m indoor arena planned for Manchester would be the largest in the UK. OVG, the firm behind the scheme, insists&nb…
Tate Modern worker tests positive
A Tate Modern staffer has tested positive for the coronavirus, The Art Newspaper reports. They only worked one day while infe…
Edinburgh Festival events to be streamed online
Edinburgh International Festival has cancelled all launch events, opting instead to livestream them as Covid-19 spreads. Open…
The show must go on? Increasing cancellations due to Covid-19
Sector bodies have thanked audiences for continuing to attend shows as a growing number of performances, tours and events are canc…
Ireland’s cultural institutions closed over coronavirus
Cultural institutions in the Republic of Ireland will close for a fortnight from 6pm on Thursday as the country responds to the co…
Stratford Circus Arts Centre fights closure
Stratford Circus Arts Centre is fighting plans by Newham Council that it says will force it to close. The council wants to expand…
Drama school to close after review reveals courses ‘pushed students to the edge’
The death of a student, significant mental health issues and a "clear and worrying picture" of conflict are behind plans…
Council ‘exploring options’ for Derby theatre replacement
Derby City Council is "exploring options" for a semi-permanent theatre to replace a local venue in a bad state of repair…
Budget 2020: What’s in it for the arts?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed business rate cuts for small music venues and millions more pounds for arts education. But so…
