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Bristol Beacon has appointed SIMON WALES as Chief Executive suceeding LOUISE MITCHELL who departs in July 2024 after 12 years in post. ...
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FutureEverything has appointed LUCY SOLLITT as Creative Director. She will take over leadership of the Manchester digital arts and culture...
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The former General Manager of Perth Theatre, VANESSA RAWLINGS-JACKSON, has been appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees for Perth Theatre...
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The Royal Opera House has announced LADY SARAH CHATTO as President of The Royal Ballet. Vice President of the ballet company since 2004,...
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NATHAN POWELL has been appointed Creative Director for two of Merseyside’s most iconic venues - Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres....

Latest Features

  • Images of school pupils with a lousie bourgeois sculpture

    The challenges facing London’s cultural sector are legion, but they cannot be addressed in isolation. Southbank Centre's Artistic Director Mark Ball says we need to create an interconnected national ecology.
     

  • While a great deal of effort has been focused, rightly, on the mental health and wellbeing of performing artists, Claire Cordeaux of the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM), says we should not neglect physical health.

  • A woman in a dressing gown standing on a table by a river bed

    Tees Valley Combined Authority has launched a radical new programme for artists which could provide a groundbreaking model for other authorities, writes Charlie Kemp

  • Let's Create image

    Representatives from across the cultural sector have written an open letter to Dame Mary Archer, who is due to chair the government's Public Body Review of Arts Council England.

  • Census 2021 leaflets

    Cultural policy makers have not focused much on census data in the past, but that data is a goldmine for researchers, says Mark Taylor.

  • Image of people dressed in white, hands aloft, with white confetti/petals falling

    Long-term Heart of Glass collaborator Chrissie Tiller reflects on working with the Merseyside-based NPO and how, by building deeper relationships with communities, the arts can create fairer futures.

Readers' Comments

Good news. Stonewall have been providing inaccurate information in their training and information packs - focusing in the law as they would...
Trans people have always existed and will always exist. Why does their flourishing trigger you so much? Amazing how theses bigots who...
Posted by jgillham on A cultural revolution in the arts
This article reads as: 1. Trans people are not humans as we know them - how can we undermine them? 2. We have to get OUR opinions on...
Posted by nowordsfindswords on A cultural revolution in the arts
This is a good and balanced article..it is vital that artists are able to express themselves freely. Having lived and worked in communist...
Thank you for this thoughtful and heartfelt piece. The hyperbolic first comment- it’s hard to believe the author read the piece- shows the...
Posted by Rachel Bell on A cultural revolution in the arts
Important and timely piece. The arts and artists should be free to say what they like and say it wherever they can. If you're in...
Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
At present the dogma that deconstruction and linear forms of activisms (many of which are dully, overtly misogynist and/or hypersexualised...
Posted by Vinaigrette_Girl on A cultural revolution in the arts
Thanks for all your work. The arts council is out of control with authoritarian pseudo intellectualism.
Rosie Kay is a dancer not a writer but, like her dancing, her writing comes from the heart and is grounded in her personal experiences....
Posted by Margaret E on A cultural revolution in the arts
Great article, thank you Rosie for having the strength to speak up. The Arts are indeed truly lost when a ‘minority’ has so much clout - on...
Posted by Fondue Lover on A cultural revolution in the arts

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