Writing and Publishing
The State of Youth Arts
Director of the London Youth Arts Network, Anne Engel, takes time out from the hectic schedule of the first Festival…
Children embrace Creative Partnerships
When poet Bob Beagrie joined other artists to collaborate with a group of boys at Tollesby special school in Middlesbrough,…
Musical Theatre joins International Festivals
One of the world’s oldest and most loved art forms is about to experience its first ever festival, an international…
Artists take refuge
Two years ago, Artistic Director Caryne Chapman Clark had a dream to start a theatrical organisation for refugee artists in…
Agriculture Crisis, or Culture Crisis?
The English countryside is not what it used to be. Faced with the reality the rural industry might soon be…
Collision course
It's been a tumultous year for artistic directors worldwide, with some forced to resign because of their ambitious creative vision.…
Bah to the High Priests of Art
British art critic Matthew Collings is currently in Australia, to lecture (not surprisingly) on art, or, as he explains: ‘What…
Passionate about New Music in UK
It’s just over two years since the launch of the PRS Foundation, an independent charity funding new music in the…
Schumann, Shelley and Galloway
Most people, myself included, know Janice Galloway as a writer. An award winning writer at that. But Galloway likes surprises,…
Music Marketing and how the Internet changed it all
Director of production company Manhattan Multimedia, Malcolm Burt details his research on the age of the internet and its real…