Arts Council of Wales opens artform conversation
Dialogue with artists, the arts sector, participants, Assembly members, representative bodies and audience members is underpinning…
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Maintenance grants keep theatres in trim
Six theatres have been granted a total of £24.5k to spend on small scale capital projects, in a second round of grants from…
ACW gears up for artform debate
The Arts Council of Wales is determined that its artform strategies should be informed by all who love the arts, not just the &lsq…
Wales says no to EBacc
A 14-month review of qualifications for 14 to 19 year-olds in Wales has rejected the EBacc in favour of retaining GCSEs as the mai…
NTW to assemble in Bangor
A bid by secondary school teacher Elen Clampitt has won Bangor Youth Group the chance to host National Theatre Wales’ (NTW)…
Up in the air
Simon Wales describes how a creative and cultural space in West Bromwich has transformed its ecosystem with a community of floatin…
Welsh venues set to become ‘leaner and greener’
Forty-two arts venues in Wales are set to become ‘greener and leaner’ thanks to a new initiative to help them reduce t…
A problem shared…
Wales Millennium Centre is at the hub of a network that shares Tessitura’s state-of-the-art software. David Pearce explains the…
A new mindset
When the Arts Council of Wales challenged Welsh arts organisations to examine the quality of their creative activities and the eff…
Making it theirs
A free stage in the foyer creates opportunity for artists and audiences alike. Sarah Gilbert explains why the Wales Millennium Cen…
ACW establishes cost-cutting measures
The Arts Council of Wales has published detailed plans for the reduction of its own costs to meet Government targets
Emerging concerns
Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales, an independent not-for-profit company, is working closely with the Welsh Government to promote und…
Wales gets Womex
Following a year-long campaign to bring the event to the Welsh capital, Womex, the leading world music expo, is to be hosted in Ca…
Mixed messages
Michael Tooby sets the record straight on the development of new spaces for the contemporary arts in Wales
Capital plans for Wales
Revenue projections will be demanded for capital investment bids under ACW’s draft Capital Strategy
Capital consultation
Helping its revenue-funded organisations to realise the full potential of their facilities is central to a new draft Capital Strat…
NPO Applicants whose applications were reviewed
Applications by the following organisations to be included in Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio of regularly f…
Festival time in Wales
Eleven of Wales’s arts festivals are to share over £500,000 of Lottery funding to enable them to “showcase cultu…
Welsh Labour steers the same course
Arts Council of Wales will be at the heart of Welsh Labour plans for culture
New literature agency for Wales
Academi, the literature promotion agency and society for writers, and Ty Newydd Writers’ Centre, have joined together to for…
Recognition for volunteering – how about tax breaks?
One of the contradictions of the Big Society is that volunteering is to be encouraged, yet funding is being cut from many organisa…
A committed consortium
Alan Hewson reports on a collaboration which is enabling a new production of ‘Wuthering Heights’ to tour Wales
Wales forges links with Cape Town
Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and Cape Town Opera are to join forces in a three-year strategic partnership aimed at strengthening…
Public art, public consultation
A consultation paper setting out proposals for art in the public realm has been issued by Arts Council of Wales (ACW). The propose…
