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STEVE MARMION has joined Watford Palace Theatre as Chief Executive and Director of Programming. Formerly the Co-Chief Executive and...
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JON MORGAN will leave his role as Director of Theatres Trust in December after nearly eight years. Prior to joining Theatres Trust, Morgan...
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Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced SELINA CARTMELL as its Creative Director. She will take up the newly-created role in...
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Clore Leadership has announced SUZANN MCLEAN, JONATHAN REEKIE and KATE VARAH as new trustees. McLean is the Artistic Director of Theatre...
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The Cathedral Music Trust has appointed JONATHAN MAYES as Chief Executive Officer. He will take up the post in July. Alongside Mayes,...

Latest Features

  • ISM demonstration outside Department for Education

    The decimation of arts education has hit the music sector particularly hard. Deborah Annetts of the Independent Society of Musicians calls on government departments to work together to stop the decline.

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    As activity this year gathers pace, Michelle Wright explores the many quandaries arts organisations have to navigate in deciding where to focus their fundraising efforts.

  • Metroland studios

    Welcome to Metroland. We are in Brent, London’s fifth largest borough, an urban sprawl and home to 340,000 people. But, as Lois Stonock shares, the cultural infrastructure needs support.

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    Today is World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), and it’s time the UK caught up with paying its artists fairly, writes Adele Morse

  • Image of three faces with mouths taped closed

    Co-Founder of Freedom in the Arts, Rosie Kay, thinks the arts in the UK have strayed into a culture of intolerance, which has led to cancellation and a climate of self-censorship that has to be addressed. 

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    Voters across England go to the polls next week (2 May) to elect many thousands of new councillors and 10 metro mayors – one of them being the Mayor of London. Phoebe Gardiner outlines what mayoral hopefuls need to understand about the capital’s culture.

Readers' Comments

The arts and by that I mean comedy writers, comedians, actresses, actors, musicians, dancers, radio DJ's etc should be leading the way...
Posted by Just a Note on A cultural revolution in the arts
Thank you, Rosie, for this thoughtful piece and the excellent work you and Denise are doing. There are so many who support you.
Hear, hear - well said.
Posted by Writersblock on A cultural revolution in the arts
Most of the censorship and self-censorship happens well behind the scenes and well before performances, events, exhibitions are ever staged...
Posted by Jan Macvarish on A cultural revolution in the arts
well it depends on what your 'cause' and work is. You are making your life's work putting tans people under threat of...
Posted by nowordsfindswords on A cultural revolution in the arts
Apart from the overall principle that one would imagine and hope that artists would decry what is effectively censorship of any artist, it...
Posted by CeramicsRUs on A cultural revolution in the arts
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

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