Captions speak louder
As part of Captioning Awareness Week, Melanie Sharpe is campaigning to raise awareness of access to the arts for deaf, d…
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Law students launch free clinic for performing arts charities
University of Sussex law students are offering free advice to performing arts charities. The Performing Arts Law Clinic is supervi…
Ireland to pilot basic income scheme for artists
None of the four UK nations plan to replicate the three-year initiative, though pressure is building.
Participation is everywhere. Now what?
When and why did the art world decide that everyone’s creativity should be celebrated and supported? What change does it pro…
75 years of Arts Council and the amateur arts
As he reflects on Arts Council England’s 75th anniversary, Robin Simpson thinks it’s not unfair to say it has never qu…
Can corporate sponsorship be part of the environmental agenda?
As arts organisations struggle with post-Covid recovery, Michelle Wright asks whether sponsorship can grow in this economic climat…
Do artists hold the key for achieving COP26 goals?
We need to think about how to live in a broken world, and how to begin to mend it. Christopher Smith says the arts and h…
From cultural participation to cultural ownership
Many organisations seek to put community at the heart of their work. But Maddy Mills asks why is it important and what does it act…
£125k fund secures evicted arts centre’s legacy
Programmes formerly hosted by Stratford Circus Arts Centre have funding until August, but further support is not assured.
One fifth of NPOs fail to report environmental data
Exemptions are available, but four times as many organisations fail to report without one.
Whose ‘lived experience’ matters most?
A new strand of political correctness is reshaping conversations on race: the idea of ‘lived experience’ driving the d…
We need more content specialists in the arts
The pandemic has forced cultural organisations to develop their digital infrastructure and programming. But, as Zosia Poulter argu…
LEEDS 2023 announces two international collaborations
Cultural festival LEEDS 2023 is bringing locally-based artists together with international collaborators in two new programmes as…
Scotland opens £75k fund for creative caregivers
Creative Scotland has opened applications to its Radical Care Fund, a £75,000 project aiming to improve working conditi…
London taskforce develops a warehouse worth of creative workspaces
A network of more than 60 creative and commercial organisations has been established but plans for a “major creative moment&…
Derby Council invests £1m in cultural economy
Derbyshire County Council has set aside £1m to boost the county's culture and creative industries. The money,…
Survey highlights financial barriers to creative career development
Creative Access says survey findings confirm money issues "exclude those from under-represented communities from progres…
Worldwide royalty collections expected to drop by 35%
A report into worldwide royalties estimates collections in music, visual arts, drama and literature could decline by up to 35% thi…
Scotland to stage cultural events alongside COP26
Details of the cultural events set to mark COP26 across Scotland have been confirmed. Scotland's five national performing arts…
Disabled artists’ programme moves to Wakefield
Relocating to Yorkshire heralds an independent future for a "big family" of disabled artists internationally.
UNBOXED 2022 offers innovation – and employment
Once derided as the Festival of Brexit, the eight-month mega event will "prove the naysayers wrong".
Welcome to UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK
What happens when creative minds from different sectors and disciplines come together to imagine and design bold, large-scale even…
Covid-19 and the global cultural and creative sector
Anthony Sargent says we need to identify what we've learned from Covid, then build on those foundations rather than reassemble…
An explosion of creative energy
Universities often lack the resources for large scale art programmes, yet the University of Kent has launched an ambitious cr…
