Nottingham Refugee Week shows how opportunity can come out of a crisis when communities work together, writes Anna Ball.

The place in which a cultural organisation finds itself can determine how it thrives, survives or even dies, but many organisation…

A perpetual, community-led art project is transforming neighbourhoods in Exeter, street by street. JoJo Spinks explains why handin…

The global finance hub is forging a new identity through risk-taking alliances between its commercial, public and cultural sectors…

Patrick Towell unpicks the crucial differences between creativity and innovation in the context of rapid change in the cultural se…

Challenging the notion of a ‘hard-to-reach community’ in Luton, Imrana Mahmood explores the need to create pathways th…

Lucy Jamieson explains how pooling resources, creativity and ideas rather than working in silos can bring about eff…

A paid internship scheme provides theatre company Third Angel with essential administrative support – and develops talent th…

Liz Moreton explains why Battersea Arts Centre has taken the unusual step of opening up a new space for start-up businesses.

A three-year project delivered by five universities in the North East helped hundreds of creative businesses test new ways of work…

Lucy Neal welcomes François Matarasso's nuanced and passionate exploration of the growing field of participatory art.

Without creative thinking, society will sleepwalk into a climate disaster. The arts have a crucial role to play in inspiring, chal…

Theatrical productions typically give priority either to the playwright’s text or the director's interpretation. Eve Lei…

A project bringing together theatre-makers from Hull Truck Theatre and Freetown in Sierra Leone has overcome logistical and cultur…

As arts and cultural organisations rise to the challenges facing the sector, some are adopting new and ground-breaking templates f…

Dance company Motionhouse’s partnership with a furniture manufacturer is as close as it gets – they work side by side….

Artists are using their creative insight to advise business on strategies and methods of production. Catherine Morel and Philippe…

When Oxford Playhouse was asked if it could run acting technique workshops for John Lewis, the answer had to be a yes, says Louise…

What motivates businesses to support the arts? David Watt explores the main reasons beyond 'doing the right thing'.

The Government representative did not provide any further clarity on the future of EU arts funding, progress on reciprocal agreeme…

Wellbeing and the economy are among the key themes of the strategy, with the final version due to be published later this year.

Calls for unity have been made following comments accusing Arts Council England of appropriating a radical movement and likening t…

Just one in ten of the arts organisations participating in Nesta’s matched crowdfunding programme said the effort they put i…

The research centre will aim to “pre-empt the needless wheel-spinning, data-churning and combative cross-talking that has ch…