Being brave
The evidence suggests that a diverse workforce will bring a diverse audience. So it’s time for the arts to be bold and lead…
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Thriving in an unequal world
Being a young, female leader in the arts is a novelty – one Isobel Colchester has come to realise she must explore and celeb…
Conservatoire application process attracts the privileged
A report into the success rates of applicants to the UK’s Conservatoires finds persisting levels of inequality, with those f…
Wales delivers on equality with access card scheme
Arts venues in Wales have joined forces to implement a new national scheme that aims to provide more consistent and reliable arts…
Knocking down the barriers
The Scottish Government’s youth arts strategy aims to increase engagement in the arts as well as tackle inequality. Fiona Hy…
Mental health in the workplace
As mental illness contributes significantly to the number of lost working days, Eleanor Deem advises employers to take a proactive…
Northern Ireland prioritises access
The Arts Council’s new five-year strategy makes a commitment to promoting equality and tackling poverty and social exclusion…
Slow progress on widening diversity
Report finds that many arts organisations lack the expertise or resources needed to meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010…
ACE to monitor diversity of artists and performers employed by NPOs
The British Film Institute goes one step further and introduces quotas for Lottery-funded films.
Book review: ‘Reaching Out: Music education with ‘hard to reach’ children and young people’
The authors write “with passion and authority”, making this book relevant to a wider readership than the title suggest…
Take us seriously!
The Creative Minds project asks how the work of artists with a learning disability can best join the mainstream. Mark Richardson e…
Mainstreaming equality
How has Northern Ireland’s cultural sector responded to equality and community relations since the Good Friday Agreement? Ni…
Anti-poverty goals climb the arts agenda
The culture ministries in Wales and Northern Ireland have set out plans to put social inclusion at the heart of their policy-makin…
Taking positive action
Jenny Williams is looking forward to the day when our national cultural institutions are led by a beautiful diversity of people ac…
Mind the gender gap
Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.
Arts and peace
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is committed to promoting equality, as demonstrated in its first Intercultural Arts Strategy.
Commitment remains
In responding to Viram Jasani’s comments (AP256, ‘A Different Agenda’) I don’t believe it would be h…
A different agenda…
Viram Jasani sees ACE’s rejection of the Asian Music Circuit’s NPO bid (AP255) as symptomatic of its ambivalence towards race…
End of road for NPO legal challenge
The High Court in Manchester has rejected a claim by the Asian Music Circuit (AMC) that Arts Council England’s (ACE’s)…
Access is everything
Suzanne Bull makes the case for disabled access to be at the heart of music venues’ strategic plans – not an afterthought
From the margin to the mainstream
Niranjan Kamatkar reflects on the impact of society’s slowly changing attitudes towards homosexuality on LGBTQI artists
Fair play for rural arts
A new report is lobbying for statutory agencies to produce a strategic plan in relation to culture, creativity and rural communiti…
Producing equality
Dan Baker on what can be done about gender inequality in theatre
In search of diverse outcomes
Jenny Williams says it’s time to stop ‘parachuting in’ arts projects to diverse communities and instead to suppo…
