News
International performance festival Transform makes senior team changes
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (250+ words) Hannah Keating, Amy Letman and Ema Boswood (left to right) A Leeds-based international performance festival has announced developments in its core team, with the promotion of EMA BOSWOOD to executive producer and HANNAH KEATING to senior communications manager. They will…...
Holding the road and the body: Touring and pregnancy
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (598+ words) During the tour of Lay Down Your Burdens the issue of family-friendly touring came into focus Last year, Rhiannon Faith went on tour with a show featuring two pregnant performers. Here she discusses how the company adapted to support the…...
Exclusive: Extent of cuts to Scottish arts spending laid bare by new tracker
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (786+ words) The new dataset shows since 2013, the share of total public expenditure allocated to culture has reduced, despite overall public spending rising Director of policy and public affairs at Culture Counts Joseph Peach tells Arts Professional that uplifts in arts spending…...
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens to public
23+ hour, 37+ min ago (356+ words) Quentin Blake beside his new mural A Bridge to the Past The space in Clerkenwell is the first museum in the UK dedicated to illustration and holds 40, 000 of Blake's drawings. The UK's first museum dedicated to the art of illustration…...
In other news: Serpentine Pavilion unveiled, playwright mentor scheme + bomb disposal drama
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (483+ words) The 2026 Pavilion, designed by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo Stories you may have missed this week also include a grant for a significant Shakespeare house, extended hours at the National Gallery, and an Australian church detective. This year's brick-themed Serpentine…...
Graeme Thompson becomes director of producing at Nottingham Playhouse
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (195+ words) Graeme Thompson has worked for Dance City and Live Theatre in Newcastle Nottingham Playhouse has appointed GRAEME THOMPSON as its new director of producing. Thompson has over 15 years" experience as a producer in theatre, and is currently a senior producer…...
We are not an ecology, we are an ecosystem
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (778+ words) Rural touring is more connected to community and audience development functions than any other touring tier - Aquanauts Adrift for Applause Rural Touring The recent Arts Council report into the state of touring in the UK said "touring is in crisis,…...
Who is subsidising who?
6+ day, 35+ min ago (569+ words) Arts organisations invest heavily in creating experiences that bring people into towns and cities Much of the discussion around arts funding focuses on subsidy into the sector. But, according to thrive's Verity Peet, their latest research raises a different question:…...
Norwich Theatre includes 'fair freelance charter' in new six-year strategy
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (81+ words) Norwich Theatre will commit to supporting freelancers 'across the full engagement cycle' The venue says it is responding to a "national conversation" around the treatment of freelancers in the creative sector. Support independent journalism in the arts, culture and heritage…...
How to spend digital ad budget for arts audiences
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (73+ words) How and where should we be spending our digital ad budgets in 2026? In this panel discussion featuring thought leaders from across the culture sector, we'll explore how arts, cultural and heritage organisations can utilise digital ad spend for optimal results....