Community productions across England are transforming attitudes to theatre among audiences with little experience of the artform,…

Advocates hope the funder’s upcoming delivery plan will address concerns its strategy does not support communities’ in…

Organisations visited more neighbourhoods, worked with more schools and made more money last year – but attendance is still…

The Great Place Scheme demonstrates how projects flourish when official bodies allow them freedom from pre-determined outcomes, sa…

We can only change our local communities if we’re willing to change ourselves, says Carol Jones.

Welsh arts organisations have been told to model for a 10% funding cut amid the council’s drive to reach new audiences.

Lottery funding, low pay, and that boat…Amanda Parker meets the Arts Council England Chair and architect of the UK’s…

A flexible pricing experiment caused the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art's visitor numbers to soar while maintaining steady inc…

Not everyone can be a winner in Arts Council of Wales’ drive to share the benefits of culture more widely, says Nick Capaldi…

New research says that “when it comes to reaching more diverse and younger audiences … digital may be having less of…

The liberal, left-leaning values of cultural workers leads to “a divergence in worldviews between those tasked with represen…

Striking differences between urban and rural areas make a strong case for a dual regional policy, argue Anne Torreggiani and Zoe P…

The city has no intention of shirking difficult challenges in its year as UK City of Culture, writes Chenine Bhathena.

Creating a theatre inside an empty shop challenges top down hierarchical systems and provides a safe space for conversations, says…

Regeneration is all very well – but it is only through celebrating its authentic working class culture that the city can dis…

Pauline Bailey looks back on a project that developed social confidence and artistic expression among Birmingham's BAME elders…

ACE is right to focus on libraries in its new strategy, says Hassan Vawda – but it must put communities at the heart of its…

Children, young people and libraries are central to the funder’s ambitions to enable everyone to benefit from creative and c…

If we think of contemporary art as only suitable for experienced audiences, we are missing huge opportunities to inspire newcomers…

It’s time we all started thinking of ourselves as experience makers. Lasting memories and positive emotions can be created a…

Toma McCullim, artist in residence in Skibbereen’s Ludgate Hub, describes a project reconnecting diaspora and reinventing tr…

National Theatre partnerships with theatres around the country are creating an opportunity for them to share and compare experienc…

An evaluation says the programme brought “profound but somewhat fragile” changes to Hull’s economy, community an…

As new customers are more likely to buy high price tickets than existing customers, can we expect Pay What You Can schemes to deve…