Pivoting: when a dance festival moves online
Dance thrives on physical contact and live audiences, so how can the country’s largest youth dance festival move to an onlin…
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Outdoor performances given green light for July 11
Indoor performance pilots with the London Symphony Orchestra will shape further reopening plans amid concerns about the safet…
2020 festivals: there’s no going back
Having flexed our innovation muscles in response to the pandemic, now’s the time to assess what we’ve done and use thi…
Coventry City of Culture delayed until May 2021
Partners say the new date means the cultural showcase “can be reimagined in response to challenges facing the country”…
Artists on the front line
Outdoor Arts producers and artists are experienced at turning the most unpromising setting into a performance space, and their bac…
When the festivals fell silent
Familiar voices may be muted this year, but some have found new ways to communicate with their audiences, and to reach new ones. M…
Why student theatre will lead the way forward for the rest of us
The energy, invention and will to survive shown by young companies will replenish and rekindle our industry says James Phillips, b…
Co-creation and community contact
How can an organisation that depends on face-to-face interaction with its audience sustain its work during the Covid-19 lockdown?…
Learning the art of ‘un-producing’
How are small theatre companies living through the current crisis – and what does the future hold for them? Matthew Austin&#…
When the Games can’t go on
The stories behind the Olympic Games and other cultural mega-events are important, says Beatriz Garcia. Now is the time to look be…
Coventry 2021: a lot more than a party
The city has no intention of shirking difficult challenges in its year as UK City of Culture, writes Chenine Bhathena.
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…
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….
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 we make festivals greener?
Festivals can have all the recycling schemes and sustainable policies in the world, but it’s getting workforce and attendees…
ACE to fund Edinburgh Fringe showcase
The funder plans to invest up to £2.25 million in England-based performance artists “to build and strengthen internati…
A world with walls: how Brexit could stifle the success of outdoor arts
The outdoor arts sector has experienced growth over the last decade, but could a no-deal Brexit put the brakes on this? Maggie Cla…
Shining a light on local culture
The LightNight festival initially aimed to showcase Liverpool's artists to outsiders – but it is now more concerned with…
From crisis to creativity
Nottingham Refugee Week shows how opportunity can come out of a crisis when communities work together, writes Anna Ball.
Weaving a rich tapestry
Kirklees in West Yorkshire has a vision for local development rooted firmly in its historic links to the textile and music industr…
Festival locations cancelled after funding flop
Almost half the shows in a touring film and theatre festival have been cancelled at short notice following lacklustre ticket sales…
Job Ladder – Tom Velvick
Tom Velvick looks back on how a career that began in advertising has now led to him overseeing the "all things to all people&…
Changing the narrative
By opening up more realistic discussions around motherhood, Motherworks seeks to support those suffering unnecessarily. Ruth Dudma…
Crafting their next steps
Katy Sadler explains how a festival in one of Birmingham’s busiest thoroughfares enables craft and design graduates to test…
