Campaign for the Arts (Campaign for the Arts) director Jack Gamble has warned that local authorities’ investment in culture is 'gravely at risk'.

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'Funding will help create a diverse art and vibrant quarter, establishing the area as a destination for art and cultural events.'

In a win for local arts access, £20m will be invested in regenerating Harlow's arts quarter, to the west of Harlow Playhouse.
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'Who knows how many young actors are lost to us, due to lack of funds. I hope this inspires others to follow suit in trying to make attending drama school fairer for all.' – Martin Freeman

Central is scrapping audition fees for prospective students. 🙌theguardian.com/education/2024…

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'This sector is vital to the country’s future and the vandalism to it unconscionable.'

UK Higher Education is shrinking.

QMULUCU is tracking redundancies on this live page. Where disciplines are mentioned, disproportionately it's arts subjects.
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'Touring is really important in terms of people having access to the arts everywhere. People want that to continue and we need to make sure it does', says Jack Gamble at #FutureOfTheatre

.Campaign for the Arts's Jack Gamble on outreach, arts education, and advocacy #FutureOfTheatre

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The #BBCProms 2024 has officially launched, and a scorching summer of music is just on the horizon 🌞

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'The grassroots music sector plays a crucial role in bolstering scenes and developing talent.'

We welcome this new PRS Foundation fund for early-career promoters, supported by Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.
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Higher Education faces a deepening funding crisis, and arts subjects are being disproportionately targeted. It has to stop.

13 staff members at the Arts Council of Wales (Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales) have left or been made redundant, following a 11% cut in funding from the Welsh Government.

It will mean longer waits for artists and companies applying for grants to make work.

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'British universities have historically only offered token gestures to include Black British writers on the curriculum. The MA in Black British literature shouldn’t be seen as dispensable.'

Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths' landmark course.
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'A bitter blow' for arts access in Northern Ireland: the Waterside Theatre NI in Londonderry is set to close due to funding issues.

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'creating inclusive, inspiring opera projects with people vulnerable to homelessness and people intersecting with the criminal justice system'

Kate Guelke will use award funding to help vulnerable people to rebuild their lives through the arts.

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“We have a number of institutions making similar arts & humanities course closure decisions independently, simultaneously and rapidly as a result both of market challenges but also of a serious funding crisis in higher education.”

Arts education is critically at risk.

'It probably amounts to cultural vandalism'.

The BBC reports on the planned closure and demolition of Sunderland's National Glass Centre.

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The first minister has defended cuts to Museum Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales), which has seven sites across the nation.

These cuts will axe 90 jobs and may result in the closure the Cardiff site.

Arts access in Wales is at risk.

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Great news that Aye Write festival has been saved this year following a private donation.

But it shouldn’t have been at risk to begin with & more festivals still under threat of being cut back or cancelled.

Scottish Government should convene a crisis summit to discuss sustainable funding.