You have you actors, you have your script, the costumes and set are ready, and the props are all sorted. All systems go then for y…

Ethics in the Arts – In these shaky financial times should the arts accept cash from anyone? Who should a sponsorship policy exclu…

“It will be a nice piece, of course?” an interviewee asked me after a chat we’d had for a feature. In truth I&rs…

Some decisions are hard to make. Now, I’m not talking about whether to have soup or salad as a starter (although I won’t deny it c…

I heard a comedian, his name escapes me, like most of the moderate to essential memories currently tunnelling their way out of my…

Last night I was lucky enough to have a ticket to accompany a friend to press night of Cosi at the King’s Head Theatre. For…

Whether or not you got tickets for London 2012, it is now swinging firmly into view. The Cultural Olympiad was officially launched…

‘Are they serious?’ – words I have found myself saying at some recent arts job ads. I asked around and it would…

One of the great things about the arts is that there seems to be a genuine sense of people really supporting each other in their w…

I can’t be the only arts manager currently looking at the business plan carefully constructed for the next three years with…

So you’ve passed out of employment and you’re ready to launch yourself into the world of freelance, but how do you get…

A new report from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Hidden Connections) provides powerful evidence of the importance of ar…

I was in Bristol last weekend to celebrate my birthday (21… again). Fortuitously, I had timed my trip perfectly to coincide with…

I’ll almost guarantee you read that headline and thought “I wish”. The perception is often that trying to convince a n…

Last week I went to two art exhibitions. Paul Graham at the Whitechapel and George Shaw at the Baltic. Looking at Graham’s photos…

Picture the kind of digital messiah the arts really needs. What would he or she look like? Are they minister shaped? No. Are they…

Amid all the furore over the current arts funding crisis, there has been a lot of talk of the arts embracing wider corporate busin…

It seems the Place Prize just can’t get it right. In 2008, then Theatre Director John Ashford named the young choreographer…

I’ve been busy getting my feet under the table at Travelling Light Theatre Company, producing projects with young Bristolian…

Having recently spent a week in New York – taking part in the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange organised by Old Vic New Voices &ndash…

I know that the term ‘social networks’ is perhaps one of the most blogged about in the entire history of everything in…

FROM Mike Layward, Artistic Director, DASH In your article ‘ACE grapples with equality’ (p1, AP236), I would challenge…

A month has passed since Arts Council England announced the 695 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio from Ap…

I took a very sad trip around Leicester Haymarket a few weeks ago. Once it was thriving. Once upon a time you could see interestin…