One in eight arts workers get no sick pay
73,000 arts and entertainment workers do not quality for statutory sick pay, according to trade union body TUC. The figure amounts…
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Equity calls for mandatory masking
Venues and producers should enforce mask wearing for audiences, performers' union Equity says. A joint statement from Presiden…
Australia and the arts during Covid
Most reports of the plight of the arts during the pandemic have focused on economic analysis. Julian Meyrick asks what the ar…
£2.7m recovery funding for Northern Irish artists
1,433 artists working in Northern Ireland will share £2.7m in emergency funding. The final wave of the £5m Creative In…
City advisors ‘the only way’ to save night time economy
A Night Time Advisor in every major city will help kickstart the industry's recovery. The Night Time Industries Association (N…
Half of creative Kickstart roles filled
The flagship scheme to address youth unemployment has been hamstrung by red tape and low demand, but is still "really positiv…
Scientists say ‘hierarchy of controls’ needed for events
As the Omicron variant reaches the UK, findings from the Government's test events scheme say masks and anti-crowding measures…
English museums tighten Covid measures
Museums across the UK are tightening their Covid measures in light of the Omicron variant. The Museum Associations reports many mu…
Is the future of digital theatre in the balance?
Over half of publicly subsidised theatres that streamed performances during the pandemic have reverted to in-person performances o…
Panto ticket sales down by half on 2019
Panto ticket sales through October are half of what they were this time in 2019, analysis from The Audience Agency (TAA) suggests….
£1m to support South Yorkshire’s cultural recovery
Creative and cultural start-ups and small businesses in South Yorkshire can now apply for grants supporting post-Covid recovery.&n…
Culture hit twice as hard as rest of UK economy
Merseyside, South Yorkshire, and the West Midlands are among the regions that lost the most economic value due to Covid-19.&n…
Scotland adds negative tests to passport scheme
Unvaccinated people will be able to attend venues in Scotland after negative test results were added to its certification scheme….
Plea to save NI arts from urgent ‘threats to very existence’
An anticipated £13m in Executive support may not be enough, as more than half the sector's jobs remain at risk.
Distanced performances ‘crucial’ over winter
Venues face a choice between offering lower capacity events or losing up to a third of their audiences, surveys suggest.
Covid cuts Northern Ireland arts workforce by a quarter
A quarter of Northern Ireland's arts workforce has been lost to Covid-19. The number of people employed by arts organisations…
Half of arts sector jobs were furloughed
The cultural sector has suffered a 60% drop in economic output over the past 18 months, a University of Sheffield study reveals. R…
Final West End theatres reopen post-Covid
In a milestone for the industry, London's Prince of Wales Theatre and Playhouse Theatre became the final West End th…
£107m Culture Recovery Fund round to sustain sector over winter
925 organisations will share the latest round of grants from the £2bn fund – 873 of them for a second o…
Grants to develop Manchester musicians
Ten creatives will receive £1,000 and development opportunities via Manchester International Festival's MIF Sounds initi…
Digital staff undervalued amid pandemic pressures
Research into the effect of the digital pivot on workers has coincided with calls for better pay for social media and ma…
Ireland brings in vaccine passports
People attending the theatre or cinemas in the Republic of Ireland must show proof of vaccination from Thursday (Novembe…
Scotland gives libraries £1.25m lifeline
Twenty-three library projects across Scotland will receive a share of the £1.25m Public Library Covid Relief Fund. The Scott…
New cultural partnership for Blackpool
Blackpool will establish a new cultural partnership to help the local arts sector recover from Covid-19. Initiatives including a t…
