‘Emergency childcare scheme’ for arts workers
Parents and Carers in Performing Arts, the charity that recently uncovered a £3k-a-year ‘career penalty’ for art…
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Budget grants more millions to Coventry 2021
£8.5m has been allocated to the city to improve facilities ahead of its year as UK City of Culture in 2021. Part of the fund…
Plymouth Arts Centre to sell building following NPO funding loss
The organisation will cut its visual arts programme and sell its historic building following its loss of Arts Council funding in A…
Boost for Opera North in £11.6m ACE funding round
The organisation has been awarded almost £500k towards an £18m redevelopment project from the Arts Council’s sma…
First UK range of ballet shoes for non-white dancers
Dance company Ballet Black has partnered with dance shoe manufacturer Freed of London to create two new tones of pointe shoe. The…
Canadian doctors to prescribe museum visits
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has teamed up with a doctors’ organisation in the city for a pilot project that will issue up t…
Report slams ‘mythical barriers’ to programming diverse work
Analysis of a 14-week theatre tour by a black-led NPO finds large and diverse audiences, high ticket sales and positive reviews.
Advice on arts A Levels is not Government’s business, says minister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Education Lord Agnew said that arguments for music to be viewed as a ‘facilitating s…
National Gallery ends corporate partnership with Shell
The decision follows years of protest and the termination of similar relationships at two major Dutch galleries.
Arts Council grants £5m to Coventry 2021
The grant will be used to both prepare for the year of activities and fund the programme of work.
Royal Opera House to appeal musician hearing loss ruling
The venue has been granted permission to challenge a ruling by the High Court in March that it was culpable under noise at work re…
New bursary for emerging disabled artists
Shape Arts, Disability Arts online and a-n The Artists Information Company have collaborated on the scheme for developing artistic…
Elyse Dodgson has died aged 73
The Royal Court’s international director, who was awarded an MBE in 2010, died on Tuesday. Tributes have poured in, with pla…
Council backs Leicester art centre expansion
Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, which has already been awarded £4.2m from Arts Council England, has been backed with £1…
Job losses feared at Inverness theatre
Eden Court Theatre says it has lost £400k in annual funding from Highland Council and Creative Scotland this year – eq…
‘Worrying drop’ in older pupils at music education hubs
A new study by Birmingham City University has found the number of pupils receiving whole-class ensemble teaching through the hubs…
Suspected arson damages disused Burnley theatre
Firefighters were dispatched to tackle a blaze at Burnley Empire Theatre, which ranked 14th on this year’s Theatres Trust Th…
Nesta opens £3.7m loan fund
Arts, cultural and creative organisations will receive lower interest rates if they can demonstrate positive social impact.
London immersive theatre plans fall through
All productions at the Buzz, which was due to open next month, have been called off, with the venue blaming “unexpected circ…
Glasgow arts centre to reopen
The Centre for Contemporary Arts, which has been closed since the nearby Glasgow School of Art was destroyed by fire, is to reopen…
Report calls for ‘arts premium’ for schools
6,000 students from across England shared why and how they engage in cultural activity, with a quarter saying that their school in…
Parents and carers in the arts face £3,000-a-year ‘career penalty’
A new survey finds that 43% of women with caring responsibilities would increase their working hours if “adequate” chi…
Arts and homelessness spinoff from Streetwise Opera to go independent
With One Voice, which grew out of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and is led by Streetwise Opera founder Matt Peacock, will encourage i…
Birmingham arts organisations braced for further 30% cut
The City Council’s advice to organisations to prepare for the potential cut comes less than a year after promising to hold f…
