• Access
• Collaboration
• Education

As the first Associate Director of Arts and Culture at the University of Southampton, and the Director of Turner Sims concert hall, Louise Coysh reflects on the civic role of unive…

• Health and wellbeing
• Research

This week a report* on the state of the creative health sector in London has been published. Here, its author Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt presents an overview of its findings an…

• Diversity
• Equality
• Music

Orchestras for All exists to fill a gap in music education. With its deep commitment to creative inclusivity, Katie Villa thinks it has a powerful impact. 

• Diversity
• Equality
• Human resources

Part of the point of art is the lens it offers us to look at the world in a different way, to converse with people and perspectives that are not our own, to learn, to disagree and…

• Cost-of-living crisis
• Equality
• Management

Without the real Living Wage, creative and cultural growth will just replicate existing inequalities, writes Lianna Etkind.

• Festivals
• Health and wellbeing
• Scotland

The Edinburgh Fringe can be an intense, overwhelming experience. It’s the heart of thousands of artists’ performance calendars but, as Bryony Nisbet shares, it can play…

• Children and young people
• Collaboration
• Education

Following their collaboration on a groundbreaking project, Sarah Bailey, Kate Houlton and Danielle Lewis-Egonu reflect on how a socially engaged approach to arts education can crea…

• Access
• Digital
• Disability

The Space has convened an Accessibility Working Group to support the sector to work in more inclusive and accessible ways. One of its first outputs has been to provide a pool of kn…

• Children and young people
• Theatre

The arts bring moments of creativity, joy and imagination, but what do they mean to the lives of children and young people, families and communities? asks Dienka Hines.

• Children and young people
• Education
• Music

In a radical reimagining of the classical music paradigm, Sarah Alexander shares the National Youth Orchestra’s model for engaging young people.

• Dance
• Education
• Health and wellbeing

Dance is part of the national curriculum and schools are statutorily obliged to provide it. So why is a blind eye being turned to the dramatic decline in dance education at all le…

• Diversity
• Education
• Equality

Apprenticeships offer far more than just a qualification. Charlotte Nicol is convinced they can and will radically change the make-up of the arts sector.

• Children and young people
• Education
• Placemaking

With the general election looming, Jason Jones-Hall explains why all parties should embrace an arts-led approach to place to enhance our children’s education.

• Children and young people
• Education
• Engagement

Arts organisations are committed to reaching marginalised young people through their creative practice. But what happens when young people say things we don’t want to hear? a…

• Children and young people
• Education
• Engagement

In the latest in our series on the arts in education, Steve Ball shares an initiative which connects schools and arts organisations across the city of Birmingham.

• Children and young people
• Education
• Policy

Regardless of the setting, every school deserves a teacher who is afforded the space and professional trust to teach an inspiring arts curriculum, writes Steven Berryman.

• Evaluation
• Health and wellbeing
• Supporting artists

Failure is part of life. We all know this, creative folk perhaps better than most, says Katie Villa. But how can we learn to fail well?

• Children and young people
• Policy
• Theatre

Directors of Education and Learning from some of the country’s most high-profile theatres are calling on all political parties to commit to 'Theatre for Every Child'….

• Digital
• Equality
• Participatory arts

Does your website give equal priority to main house shows and community events? Lauren James has some tips on how to use your website to be more inclusive of the local community.

• Diversity
• Equality
• Participatory arts

There is significant under- and misrepresentation of the Black community in the creative industries. Emma Sithole of Be United thinks it's time the sector addressed this q…