Reflecting the world
No wonder there is so much talk about the death of opera when people are excluded from it all the time, says Bill Bankes-Jones. Bu…
No wonder there is so much talk about the death of opera when people are excluded from it all the time, says Bill Bankes-Jones. Bu…
Screen organisations should also consider dropping age limits for training programmes and increasing targeted initiatives to suppo…
Concerns have been raised about the quality of diversity data, with Arts Council England Chief Executive Darren Henley labelling u…
BAME-led organisations are short-term beneficiaries but long-term victims of traditional arts funding, a paper has claimed.
Could business hubs and hatcheries help address the current diversity imbalances in the arts, asks James Doeser.
Failure to diversify will cause theatre to become irrelevant to the majority of the British population, the report concludes.
Quotas in the arts failed in the 1980s. But now is the time to champion their reintroduction, across workforce and artistic progra…
Tired of seeing classical music magazines filled with middle-aged white faces, James Fleury proposes four ‘mental makeovers&…
Birmingham may be diverse but its cultural leaders are not. Lara Ratnaraja and Helga Henry discuss how the RE:Present programme is…
Non-English actors are encouraged to change their name and disguise themselves as English in order to be cast in productions &ndas…
In the fourth of a series of articles, Christy Romer says it’s time for data about workforce, programming and casting to be…
The first full year’s worth of data from the Audience Finder survey raises important questions about the inclusivity of arts…
Fears that existing arts audiences resist ‘more diverse artistic product’ appear to be unfounded, ArtsProfessional&rsq…
What does the Artistic Director of England’s most highly-funded theatre think about quotas, naming and shaming, and the lack…
Arts Council England’s two new funds aim to increase the diversity of senior leaders in arts organisations and support devel…
Research by Jerwood Charitable Foundation found only a quarter of people working in the arts entered the sector with a paid positi…
National Portfolio Organisations must diversify their programming to access ACE funding, but there will be no naming and shaming o…
The sector has voiced concerns about barriers facing diverse artists and the ‘ghettoisation’ of diverse art.
Part of the NPO funding previously earmarked for the venue will now be distributed in the local area to promote arts activity.
We’ve been reading, writing and speaking about diversity in the arts for decades. In the third in a series of articles, Chri…
How can a more inclusive leadership style increase diversity in our audiences? Anne Torreggiani identifies three distinct characte…
Creative Scotland is to gather evidence on individuals’ occupation, employment status and career progression across the coun…
Adam Taylor, an organiser of the NewHorizons16 conference on diversity and inclusion, responds to one of the day’s themes: o…
Survey findings reveal a deep division in opinion among arts workers about how to increase the diversity of the sector’s wor…