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…
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We’ll lose more than money when Edinburgh’s festivals don’t go ahead
Is it possible to transfer a festival experience into an online space without losing its essence? Katey Warran examines the social…
The show must go on? Increasing cancellations due to Covid-19
Sector bodies have thanked audiences for continuing to attend shows as a growing number of performances, tours and events are canc…
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.
Arts should be central to ‘UK Garden City’ scheme, report says
MPs have championed gardens as an artform and argue their contribution to the creative economy must be “explicitly recognise…
A seat at the table
Challenging the notion of a ‘hard-to-reach community’ in Luton, Imrana Mahmood explores the need to create pathways th…
Use culture to re-invent struggling seaside towns, urge peers
A Lords Committee heard that Thanet has seen 84% growth in creative businesses between 2013 and 2016, following a long-term progra…
Without Walls festival network doubles in size
The number of partnerships connected to the Without Walls consortium, one of Arts Council England’s new core-funded organisa…
‘Town of culture’ competition to engage Greater Manchester
The pledge to set up the programme is part of the region’s first ever cultural strategy, which will run for five years until…
35 million people reached by WW1 centenary arts programme
14-18 NOW’s five-year programme included projects in 220 locations across the UK, and was mostly accessible to the public fo…
Waltham Forest embraces urban nature for culture year
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the borough’s diversity was ‘an asset to be unlocked’.
Attracting audiences other artforms cannot reach
How do outdoor arts have the potential to reach audiences other artforms can’t, and how can we best support the sector, asks…
Dancing in the streets
Losing NPO funding was devastating for Dance Manchester, but it has liberated the company to pursue its own path driving placemaki…
Midsummer tasters
For people reluctant to pay to see a full-length Shakespeare play, the RSC’s open-air, non-ticketed theatre staging amateur…
Performing in the public realm
Alison Fordham explains how IF: Milton Keynes International Festival’s programme of outdoor events is a key audience develop…
Creating a cultural landscape
Partnering with Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty has created opportunities for Activate to bring exciting contemporary art…
A coastline for cultural tourists
Outdoor events have been key to attracting tourists to Kent’s coastal towns and driving culture-led regeneration, says Sarah…
Touring without walls
Taking an outdoor show on tour presents many challenges, quite different to those for venue-based touring. Irene Segura explains h…
Out and about in Leicester
A research project examining Leicester’s 24 arts festivals uncovered interesting insights into audience behaviour and prefer…
Alternative in-flight entertainment
An immersive theatre performance lasted 13 hours – the time it took to fly from Heathrow to New York via Iceland. Kate Hargr…
How to… create a successful volunteer programme
Volunteering in the arts should be an enriching experience, says Cathryn Peach. She shares five tips for designing programmes that…
A long and tough journey
For Joe Mackintosh the first three years of the Creative People and Places investment programme has passed in the blink of an eye…
Seaside arts
Tourism has been in decline in England’s seaside towns for years, but now a network bringing world-class circus and str…
Brilliant app design
In the competitive world of apps, how can a cultural tour app stand out? Researchers at King’s College London and the Univer…
