Birmingham must embrace its Heavy Metal heritage
Regeneration is all very well – but it is only through celebrating its authentic working class culture that the city can dis…
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Creative wellbeing for the Windrush generation
Pauline Bailey looks back on a project that developed social confidence and artistic expression among Birmingham's BAME elders…
Please don’t turn our libraries into trendy arts hubs
ACE is right to focus on libraries in its new strategy, says Hassan Vawda – but it must put communities at the heart of its…
When the best response is an angry one
We should pay attention to what makes people angry – it points the way to growth and real change, says Hayley Williams-Hindl…
Want justice for arts freelancers? Just ask a pirate
Looking for role models who are fleet of foot, democratic, and full of creative flair? Look no further than the Golden Age Pirates…
Can libraries deliver culture for all? ACE’s new strategy unveiled
Children, young people and libraries are central to the funder’s ambitions to enable everyone to benefit from creative and c…
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.
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…
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…
Female artists’ work three times more likely to be undervalued than men’s
New research “confirms many fears that female artists are making less money, regardless of talent”. So what’s th…
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…
New national agency to study ageing and creativity
A three-year project will research ways to support later-life creativity and creative technology solutions for an ageing populatio…
Classical music must face up to abuse
Harassment will continue until institutions are willing to take difficult decisions, says Jonathan Knott.
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…
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…
Does ‘Pay What You Can’ pay off?
As new customers are more likely to buy high price tickets than existing customers, can we expect Pay What You Can schemes to deve…
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…
