How to get audiences to pay more for streamed content
What would happen if an audience was allowed to make a reservation for a small fee, enjoy the experience, and then pay afterwards,…
What would happen if an audience was allowed to make a reservation for a small fee, enjoy the experience, and then pay afterwards,…
Small theatres and companies are ideally placed to give their local communities a voice. But there will have to be new models of w…
A generation of unrealised talent will be the cultural legacy of Covid-19 unless we use the financial lifelines the sector has bee…
The CULTURE RESET programme is up and running. Richard Watts shares the vision – and the inspiration.
The massive surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement has everyone busily writing diversity policies, but more importan…
R&D funding for artists is hard to come by, but Hannah Grannemann and Amy Whitaker believe emerging artist-centric sources of…
The pandemic didn’t stop Music in the Round running the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival online – and learning from th…
Dance thrives on physical contact and live audiences, so how can the country’s largest youth dance festival move to an onlin…
The experience of running participatory work online has led Theatr Clwyd to rethink the whole concept of ‘reach’. Let&…
Having flexed our innovation muscles in response to the pandemic, now’s the time to assess what we’ve done and use thi…
Covid-19 has only accelerated what was bound to happen in the arts world – the collapse of unsustainable economic models. It…
Conventional monitoring and evaluation isn’t always helpful in community settings, but with some creative thinking, it can b…
Covid has given us a chance to imagine a new kind of future for our theatres, but without big goals we will be hostages to fortune…
The costs of making and distributing music have both come down, but streaming income is very low. John Funge examines the financia…
Light on resources and heavy on challenges – even before Covid-19 – the cultural sector can nonetheless take small, re…
Until the arts sector defines its expectations of the learning needed by employees, even aspirational and potentially career-enhan…
In the current climate it’s time to adapt digital fundraising strategies and look at how your data can help boost online don…
Despite the blow the lockdown has dealt to its plans, dreams, ambitions and finances, Tomorrow’s Warriors are managing to th…
Delivering arts and health services digitally can extend access for some, but others are excluded. Nesta Lloyd-Jones looks at the…
A collective of Black and Asian artists, curators and educators explains how the impenetrable glass ceiling keeps them on the marg…
Given where we now find ourselves, we have few choices but to pool resources and develop new economic and business structures with…
Communicating re-opening will be much, much harder than closure, says Kate Fielding-Cox, who proposes four key principles that eve…
“Two pigeons in the foyer, a baby seagull falling off the roof and the lager kegs exploding in the heat”: Elspeth McBa…
“Radical, representative reinvention” is the only moral choice for the sector now, says Richard Watts, who examines wh…