My Gurus: Sowing the seeds of possibility
Shanaz Gulzar led Bradford's successful bid to become City of Culture 2025. Having now taken up the reins as its Creative Dire…
Shanaz Gulzar led Bradford's successful bid to become City of Culture 2025. Having now taken up the reins as its Creative Dire…
DAWN BUTLER and RACHNA SUNDARAM are joining National Youth Theatre’s (NYT) Board of Trustees. Butler is the Labour MP…
Professor COLIN LAWSON, Director of the Royal College of Music (RCM), is to retire in August 2024. Lawson, the tenth director of R…
LIZA VALLANCE, Artistic Director and CEO of Studio 3 Arts is standing down to take on a new role as Deputy Director of Learning (P…
The National Theatre (NT) has invited playwright and actor NATASHA GORDON and voice coach and performer HAZEL HOLDER to join…
HELEN FEATHERSTONE is joining the National Lottery Heritage Fund as Director of England, North. She will take up post in Jan…
Arts organisation Metal is welcoming new Artistic Director and CEO SUSIE THORNBERRY. The announcement comes following the dep…
Professor SHIRLEY J THOMPSON is President of The F-List for Music, effective from today (21 November). She will hold the role…
Storyhouse has appointed DAVID WATSON Chair of the Board of Trustees. Watson takes over from the incumbent PETER MEARNS,…
MICHAEL SLAVIN is joining North Yorkshire charity Rural Arts as CEO in January. He will leave York Theatre Royal, where he has spe…
From a background where the world of art was out of reach, Paul Denton talks about the people who have helped him forge a car…
SONIA FRIEDMAN has been appointed President of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD). Friedman succeeds MICHAE…
Five new governors will join the Southbank Centre’s board in December. They were endorsed by DCMS in October 2022. The…
The Courtauld Institute of Art in London has appointed MARK HALLETT as its new Märit Rausing Director. Hallett is a histori…
The London Library has announced HELENA BONHAM CARTER as its President. A member of the library since 1986, Bonham Cart…
CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMANN has been announced as Chief Executive of the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS). Zimmermann has spen…
Hull Truck Theatre has announced new members joining its Board of Trustees. NATASHA BARLEY, CHRIS JACOBSEN, SUE ALLAN, FRANC…
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced two new DCMS Research Fellows. The fellowships form part of a new collab…
SIMON WEBB is to become the BBC’s first Head of Orchestras and Choirs, commencing January 2023. Beginning his career as…
Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) STEPHEN MADDOCK is to step down after 23 years in post. H…
JOHN ROSTRON is to become CEO of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) this month. Rostron, Co-Founder of Cardiff&r…
The Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum have announced REBECCA YORKE as Director. Yorke first joined the West Yorks…
AYSHA POWELL has joined New Adventures as Chief Operating Officer. New Adventures is a dance and theatre company founded by…
Each year Shape Arts selects a mid-career disabled artist for the Adam Reynolds Award to support their career. This year's rec…