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Despite what you may have heard, theatre isn’t dead. Moving online has made new spaces for creativity and collaboration that…
Despite what you may have heard, theatre isn’t dead. Moving online has made new spaces for creativity and collaboration that…
In a constantly changing landscape, the ability to understand and respond to audiences’ changing preferences and behaviours…
In these uncertain times, it’s important to return to our core principles: making the most of the information we have and no…
Handing over the reins is a start, but it shouldn’t be an abdication of responsibility. Mentor Suzann McLean and mentee mala…
Jon Flinn shares what happens when locking down provides the opportunity to reach up and out.
Tajpal Rathore explains why he is creating a home for Black art that is more ambitious, more radical – more itself – f…
Susan Jones says freelance artists carry a unique economic burden that has left them vulnerable to the vicissitudes of Covid-19. A…
Rishi Sunak said hard hit workforces like the arts may have to retrain to adapt to the new economy. Sara Whybrew counters that the…
Big brands and advertisers are cottoning on to the marketing potential of street art. What does that mean for the artists? Timothy…
What the new importance of digital in arts and culture has shown most clearly is that now is the time to reinvent – not rein…
Lucie Andersen-Wood explains how this year’s festivals have combined oral tradition with broadcasting – and given…
The groups least likely to visit a gallery can curate shows the public wants – and that directors would never dream to creat…
A culture strategy based on behavioural change isn’t sexy, but it is necessary if Plymouth wants to do more than simply surv…
Adrian Vinken shares how the two biggest developments of 2020 – Black Lives Matter and Covid-19 – have affected commem…
Deborah and Michael Parkes say lockdown presents challenges to budding rural artists. It also gives them an abundance of two thing…
Covid-19 has intensified the barriers women face to becoming leaders in the arts, writes Sacha Lee. The most marginalised will be…
A live cultural event is about much more than just the performance, so when Covid-19 closed venues, innovators in the club scene s…
The tendency to overstate impacts through uncritical narratives of success risks undermining the credibility of arguments about wh…
Would we still see the same benefits to wellbeing if we took art and culture out of ‘culture on referral’ programmes a…
While theatres are in lockdown it’s difficult to look ahead. But Andrew Howard sees technological change as driving a new an…
Even during the pandemic, virtual reality can offer a bridge into theatre for digitally curious audiences. Laura Mallows explains…
Festival UK* 2022 is not a ‘celebration of Brexit’ but a celebration of the place we call home, argues Sam Hunt.
Right now past data is a poor predictor of the future, but understanding the scale and nature of change while responding to issues…
With freelance workers still living on the brink and campaign groups springing up to lobby for a more equitable future, work is go…