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Alexandra Ansanelli in Ondine at the Royal Ballet
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....
Robert Khan, James Seabright and Sofi Berenger stand outside Kings Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre, in London's borough of Islington, has announced ROBERT KHAN as its new Chair. He took up the post on 14 May,...
Graham McKnight sits in a theatre auditorium wearing a dark suit
GRAHAM MCKNIGHT will join Crewe’s Lyceum Theatre as Theatre Director. He succeeds RHYS HOPKIN who, after two years in the role, will take...
Lisa Reuben and Bianca Roden
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced that LISA REUBEN and BIANCA RODEN will be joining its board. A former specialist in the...

Latest Features

  • 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.

  • Sky at night with lights

    With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector can deliver what they do best, in the best way possible?

  • Image of Central School of Speech and Drama

    Covid has affected the UK theatre industry at all levels, with wide ranging impacts on the workforce, livelihoods, working practices and support networks. But, as James Rowson explains, early career workers have been particularly affected.

  • Senedd, Welsh Parliament, Cardiff Bay

    After a recent appearance before Wales’s Culture Committee, Charlotte Faucher has been rethinking our new relationship with Europe.

  • Performers on a stage looking up at multiple spotlights

    Evaluation reports in the cultural sector can be packed full of learning. Emma McDowell explores how we might unearth this existing knowledge.

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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...
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Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
We have supported artists and their freedom to free expression since 2009. When we started people could understand why, why in London. We...
Posted by Agnieszka Kołek on A cultural revolution in the arts
Absolutely this. Hopefully more people will feel able to speak up now the Cass Report has been published. We are sick of being silenced.
I know a writer who had a book deal cancelled and an actor who keeps losing work because they hold there are 2 sexes and women are...
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Thanks for publishing this excellent article. Remember when singer Roisin Murphy got piled on for saying puberty blockers were '...
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Great article. This is exactly what is happening in the arts. The usual suspects no doubt will be along shortly to whine ‘transphobia’ but...
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Just to be clear, my previous reply of “hear hear, well said” was to Frankafka for her “very revealing” comment! 100% agree with that.
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