Three reasons why ACE’s new strategy won’t cut it
As Arts Council England prepares to publish its next ten-year strategy, thought leaders suggest a radical alternative.
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Arts and dementia work failing to reach South Asian communities
There is “an urgent need” for funders and arts organisations to develop more culturally appropriate approaches, says a…
Angry, powerless and invisible: cultural sector migrants speak out
The sector must be held accountable to those suffering under the ‘hostile environment’ immigration regime. Migrants in…
Exit interview: ‘Theatre is diverse by its very nature’
Outgoing Tara Arts Artistic Director Jatinder Verma looks back on 40 years of championing diversity on and off stage. Is the fight…
Call for more collaborative cultural leadership
The Creative People and Places scheme is helping develop a new generation of progressive arts leaders, according to research.
Warning over misuse of creative apprenticeships
Using apprenticeships to take on graduates employers would hire anyway is putting diversity at risk, an expert has cautioned.
Quotas alone won’t achieve gender equality
Setting targets helps, but wider strategies are needed to dispel the sense of novelty value that still surrounds female musicians….
ACE treads carefully with ‘intrusive’ new social class metric
Arts Council England will begin collecting data on the socio-economic background of its NPO workforce next year, but will need to…
AP’s end of year quiz
Arts numpty? Or sector swot? Test your team's knowledge with ArtsProfessional's light-hearted look at the year's news&…
How the Fringe is forcing out working class voices
Edinburgh Fringe is full of people making obscene amounts of money on the backs of artists who are bringing everyone to the city i…
How can heritage respond to a changing world?
Climate change, activism, funding constraints, policy priorities… How can museums and heritage organisations adjust their p…
Finding faith in voluntary arts
How do policies and prejudices around religious belief affect the cultural workforce? People of faith tell Martin Cox how they fee…
Glasgow School of Art defends ‘hurtful, outdated and offensive’ lecture
Students’ association President pushes for change following upset over a guest speaker’s allegedly racist and transpho…
A truly national theatre? Exploring new ways to collaborate
National Theatre partnerships with theatres around the country are creating an opportunity for them to share and compare experienc…
Diversity and inclusion: why are we still talking about it?
A reluctance to self-reflect and a tendency to recruit in our own image are at the root of the sector’s failure to employ a…
Bonding with the Bard: how Shakespeare brought East Londoners closer together
Can theatres really forge deep and meaningful connections with their local communities across age, class and ethnicity? Douglas Ri…
We need more welfare funding of the arts – literally
If the arts sector really has faith in everyday creativity, it should put its money where its mouth is, writes Jonathan Knott.
Head to head: can a toolkit solve the sector’s class problem?
This year Jerwood Arts published a toolkit for cultural organisations, designed to encourage greater socio-economic diversity in t…
Can you quantify class?
Asking questions about someone’s social class may feel uncomfortable, but people are less sensitive than you might think. Ma…
Changing the narrative in East Leeds
It’s been five years since Heads Together opened Chapel FM in East Leeds. Linda Strudwick looks at what can be achieved from…
‘We raise each other up’: supporting a new generation of writers
New Writing North is helping young people in some of the region's most socio-economically disadvantaged areas express themselv…
A welcoming space for affordable training
The lack of affordable skills-based training and opportunities to learn from others makes it much harder for people from disadvant…
‘Racism and microaggressions’: publishers reveal industry biases
BME people in children’s publishing are often “pressured to comment on diversity issues” amid expectations their…
Celebrating local excellence
We spend too much time trying to learn lessons from cities and apply them in other places, argues Brendan Keaney. It’s time…
