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Sunday, August 6, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Western Arts Alliance Celebrates 50th Anniversary » Portland’s Western Arts Alliance (WAA) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and with that milestone comes a whole n...
Monday, July 17, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) IFACCA Announces New Executive Director » The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) announced that Magdalena Moreno Mujica has be...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) World Fringe Day: Celebrating the Global Fringe Movement » 2017 marks the 70th year of the world’s first fringe in Edinburgh and 70 years of the fringe movement. To celebrate this m...
Friday, July 7, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Wanted: Young American Visionaries for Lincoln Center and BAM » Several of America’s important performing arts curating jobs are open. But where are the new leaders? Why is there any sho...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Connecting Australians: Results of the National Arts Participation Survey » Many Australians have a narrow view of what the arts include, often dismissing the things we enjoy most frequently, such a...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) EU Calls for the Arts to Empower and Integrate Refugees » A recent report with case studies conducted by a working group of European Union (EU) explores the ways culture and...
Thursday, June 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Why Won’t The Arts And Entertainment Industry Talk About The Threat Of Terrorism? » For years now, I have ‘thrown in’ questions about security and potential terror attacks at the end of my interviews. And f...
Thursday, March 30, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway » While powerful emotions born out of prejudice and misplaced fear fuel these hate crimes, artists too harness powerful emot...
Sunday, March 19, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Why Every Day Should be Baby Day at the Theatre » Having a baby can leave even the most committed theatregoer feeling unwelcome. But " a theatre culture that values familie...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) National Arts Strategies Accepting Applications for Creative Community Fellows » The National Art Strategies just began their application process for this year's Creative Community Fellowship. This fell...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Why Was That Band Deported? » This NPR article dissects the controversy recently erupted about the Italian post-punk band Soviet Soviet , who were den...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Entries: Fringe Central Events Programme 2017 » Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society opened its call for entries for the 2017 Fringe Central Events Programme. ...
Thursday, February 2, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) APAP Accepting Applications for Its Leadership Fellows Program » The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) launched the third cohort for the Leadership Fellows Program , an...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) IETM’s Publications on Value of Contemporary Arts and Cultural Practice to Individuals and Society » IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts)’s latest publication series Fresh Perspectives exp...
Monday, January 23, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) South Korea's Culture Minister Arrested Over Arts Blacklist in Political Scandal » South Korea’s culture minister resigned after being arrested on Saturday, January 21 for allegedly creating a “blacklist”...
Saturday, January 21, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Arts Leaders React to Possible Trump Call for Eliminating Cultural Programs » After an article from The Hill which stated that the Trump transition team is considering eliminating the National Endo...
Thursday, December 15, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Rotterdam Philharmonic Take Part in Classical:NEXT 2017 Conference to Address Populism, Diversity an » After opening its online registration, the leading classical music meeting Classical:NEXT has announced high-ranking spe...
Saturday, December 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) .ART Domain Launched » The first internet domain dedicated to the global art community, .ART, is now active and has more than 60 well-known...
Thursday, November 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Survey Report: How And Why Arts Managers Change Jobs » ArtsHacker , an online publishing platform targeting arts administrators as a core audience group, released survey results...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) The Nordic-Baltic festivals' Conference of 2016 Brings Together Arts Leaders from the Region » The second edition of the NordicBaltic Festival Platform (NBFP) is taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania, Novembe...
Monday, October 10, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Survey Report - Diversity in Artistic Work – What Needs to Change? » Should more be done to increase the diversity of the UK’s art and artists? And if so, what? ArtsProfessional's latest surv...
Monday, September 5, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Melbourne Wins With New Arts Center » Monash University in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, announced last August that it will build a AU $45M (US$ 34...
Thursday, September 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Creative Thinking Can Boost the Arts – and Empower Communities » IN 2016, many of the challenges facing society can appear chaotic, cruel and unknowable. To understand them and make...
Thursday, September 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Classical:NEXT Opens Call for Proposals for 2017 Edition » Classical:NEXT is accepting suggestions for showcase artists, project pitches and conference sessions to be hosted a...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) On (Not) Measuring Arts and Culture: An Interview with Leon Wieseltier » Cultural policy has got to live with a greater degree of uncertainty and a greater degree of risk than social policy, beca...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Creative Scotland's Arts Strategy Published » Creative Scotland published Arts Strategy , setting out priorities and policy direction for their work to support t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Edinburgh Festivals 2015 Impact Study » An Independent research, commissioned by Edinburgh's Festivals, confirms the huge contribution that Edinburgh’s Festivals...
Monday, July 25, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) The State of the Arts in Canada » Increasingly, the arts are part of Canada’s effort to differentiate itself from a larger Western world move toward nationa...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Examining How Governments Around the World Support Artists » By giving more of a safety net to artists born with less means, government programs can make it easier for artists to risk...
Friday, July 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) The British Arts Sector: Should We Be Worried? » We will now work doubly hard to make up for the shortfall in opportunities that may be heading our way. We may be leaving...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) If Equity Is Not Equality, What Is It? » Because without an active assertion of what equity, inclusion and diversity really means — what these should look like in...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Intersection of Broadway and Non-Profits Boost Creative and Commercial Growth » One of the last week’s Tony Awards trophies went to the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent agency of the Unit...
Monday, June 20, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) National Day of Action in Australia: Art and Theatre Join Forces to Make Culture an Election Issue » June 17th, 2016 has been declared the National Arts Day of Action. Artists and arts organisations across Australia are mou...
Saturday, June 11, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Edinburgh Fringe Launches 2016 Program » The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has launched its full program for 2016, boasting 50,266 performances of 3,269 sh...
Monday, May 30, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) The Link Between Culture and Health is Vital for First Nations in Canada » " Epidemics of obesity, diabetes, infectious diseases and suicide that plague First Nation children across Canada are comp...
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