£5m for new children’s arts programme
A new £5m DCMS/Arts Council Youth Performance Partnership will benefit 10,000 young people, culture secretary Jeremy Wright has announced.
Tate latest to turn away from Sackler
Tate has announced that it will accept no more gifts from the Sackler family charities, following the National Portrait Gallery’s decision this week to refuse a £1m gift.
Red House to merge with Snape
The Britten-Pears Foundation created at the Red House, Aldeburgh, by the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears is to merge with Snape Maltings, the concert hall they founded in Suffolk.
TAITMAIL Twinkling under the Stratford gloss
Post-Olympic Stratford is booming. The V&A, Sadler’s Wells, University College London and even the London College of Fashion are all settling in at the Olympic Park, or what Boris Johnson called Olympicopolis. It’s getting a £2.3bn international quarter for global corporations, the 34-storey Sky View Tower and the 14-storey City West Tower. Even the multi-storey car park by the station is to turn its top level over to a roof garden.
Dancing in the streets
Behind the gloss of post-Olympic prosperity, the communities of Newham are still seriously challenged. For 30 years East London Dance has been lifting their hearts and aspirations and now, as it prepares for its third Ideas Summit, it is contemplating its own biggest step forward. Simon Tait talks to its director, Polly Risbridger
New team at Birmingham Rep
And a change at Sheffield’s industrial museums
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has chosen Sean Foley as its new artistic director.
THE WORD Art breaking the gender gap
Anita Choudhrie on why it is time for the gender imbalance in art to be evened up
NPG rejects £1m Sackler sponsorship
The National Portrait Gallery has turned down £1m in sponsorship from the Sackler Trust because of the controversy over the drug OxyContin produced by the Sackler pharmaceutical company.
London puts culture on the map
The capital’s cultural infrastructure from pubs to recording studios to libraries is being made on a free interactive online map https://www.london.gov.uk/cultural-infrastructure-map.
What's up in... Norwich
AI looks at what's coming up around the country – this week, the arts in Norwich
2m teenagers to get new creative careers chance
A new programme devised by creative industries leaders is aimed at giving career chances to 2m youngsters.
Lost words carved in stone for posterity
Words from nature deleted from the Oxford Children’s Junior Dictionary are being immortalised by artists in an exhibition opening on Friday (March 15) at Snape Maltings Lettering Centre in Suffolk.
Wordsworth’s £6m birthday present
William Wordsworth’s 250th birthday in 2020 will see a £6.2m expansion of the museum devoted to him at his home village of Grasmere in Cumbria, the Wordsworth Trust has announced.
Central cleared of racism
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – graded gold standard for its teaching, the highest achievable level - has been cleared of racism by rejecting quotas for black and mixed ethnic applicants.
Huckle’s new 1st City contemporary music role
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) has appointed Seb Huckle to the new post of executive director.
£20.5m concert venue for Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is to build a new 400-seat concert hall, for students and public.
Maestra! Covent Garden boost for women conductors
The Royal Opera has chosen International Women’s Day today to announce two new women conductors' courses.
Saving the curator – charity takes responsibility
A charity is stepping into new territory – funding core cultural activities. Simon Tait reports
Leicester’s Phoenix in £7 million expansion
Leicester's Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre has been given the go ahead for a £7m expansion.
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