Arts Council NI funding streams target individual artists
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has opened a range of funding programmes to support the work of individual artists as part of…
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West Yorkshire launches arts, culture and heritage consultation
West Yorkshire Combined Authority is launching a consultation into a new programme to develop arts, culture, heritage and sport in…
BIMM granted university status
The BIMM Institute has become BIMM University after being granted full university status by the Department of Education. The…
Arts programmes should offer a range of creative activities
A study on the impacts of a remote arts programme for older adults during the transition out of lockdown offers three key recommen…
Pandemic research informs future of NI museums
New research shows that “the pandemic was a time to reassess museum purpose and find new ways of keeping relevant”, sa…
PRS offers grants for performance of contemporary orchestral works
PRS Foundation has announced the re-opening of its Resonate initiative, inviting UK orchestras to programme and perform the best B…
Freelands Foundation funds Black-led visual arts organisations
Freelands Foundation has awarded £608,000 in the form of seven new grants to small and medium-sized Black-led visual arts or…
ArtsPay Survey 2022: preliminary findings
Initial findings of ArtsPay 2022 survey reveal earnings growth for full and part-time workers failing to keep pace with inflation,…
Initiative to improve accuracy of public performance royalties
A new music industry initiative is hoping to drive more accurate royalty payments for artists and songwriters from public performa…
New West End theatre to open in autumn
A new build West End theatre will open this autumn, the first for 50 years. The theatre, called @sohoplace, forms part of a £…
Ukrainian Cross awarded Grade II listed status
A second world war Ukrainian Cross in Cornwall has been awarded Grade II listed status by DCMS. It is being granted to “reco…
DCMS launches consultation on how to spend dormant assets
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental ca…
ACE embeds health and wellbeing targets into delivery plan
The funder publishes a dedicated Creative Health & Wellbeing plan, which includes a commitment to develop the use of arts and…
Arts Council of Wales begins review into funding process
Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has opened a consultation into the way it allocates its funding to arts organisations. Known as The In…
Government urged to increase support for EU tours
A cross-party group of MPs and peers set out a roadmap for making EU touring simpler and more financially viable for musicians and…
Leicester gains record for tallest street art in Europe
Europe’s tallest piece of street art, rising 82 metres up the side of a towerblock in Leicester has been completed. The piec…
Exclusive: Major arts organisations affected by ransomware data breach
Southbank Centre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House and The Old Vic among many UK arts organisations affected by huge d…
Dance school drops ballet from auditions
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) in Leeds has announced that it will no longer require candidates to perform balle…
Natural History Museum ‘on path to irrelevance and failure’
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is “set on a course that can only lead to irrelevance and failure”, a former member o…
Work begins on £3m development of Coventry’s Albany Theatre
The Albany Theatre in Coventry is undergoing a £3m redevelopment that will include a new studio theatre, two education space…
Inclusivity drive for independent music venues launches
Independent music venues will be encouraged to form a national network offering daytime programmes of music-based activities to en…
Art Fund announces museum of the year
The Horniman museum in South East London has been crowned the Art Fund museum of the year. This year’s edition of the annual…
Teachers call for Science Museum gallery boycott
An open letter signed by more than 400 teachers and educators is calling on the Science Museum to drop oil giant Adani as sponsor…
UK Music opens workforce survey
UK Music has launched the latest edition of its UK Music Workforce Diversity Survey. First launched in 2016, the biannual survey a…
