£5m for Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Grants of up to £10,000 are on offer to creative and cultural activities celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Arts…
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Co-creating change
How do we enable people to create real change through art and culture? David Price believes it's through harnessing the &lsquo…
Shaping a city
Jon Davis explores how Coventry’s history is a map to its artistic and cultural future.
Manchester International Festival achieves record audience numbers
An extended programme helped Manchester International Festival (MIF) deliver record audience numbers this year despite social…
LEEDS 2023 announces two international collaborations
Cultural festival LEEDS 2023 is bringing locally-based artists together with international collaborators in two new programmes as…
UNBOXED 2022 offers innovation – and employment
Once derided as the Festival of Brexit, the eight-month mega event will "prove the naysayers wrong".
Question marks over festival insurance scheme
Event organisers say they have been unable to obtain quotes for the Government's Live Events Reinsurance Scheme. Associa…
Welcome to UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK
What happens when creative minds from different sectors and disciplines come together to imagine and design bold, large-scale even…
City of Culture 2025 a ‘springboard’ regardless of longlist
The challenge now for some of the latecomers will be completing years' worth of planning in weeks.
Dance is back – live and direct
Birmingham International Dance Festival is a celebration of the return to outdoor arts. For Debbie Jardine and Raidene Carter, it…
Coventry 2021: spotlighting disabled artists
Jake Bartle reports on how Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is shining a spotlight on disabled artists.
Council axes popular blues festival
The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival has been cancelled by Colne Town Council due to rising costs. Council chair, Liberal D…
Live Events Reinsurance Scheme officially opens
The Government's insurance scheme for events has officially opened with an extra £50m to cover potential Covid-related c…
Birmingham 2022 releases festival details
Birmingham 2022 has released details of the six-month festival set to run across the West Midlands as part of the Commonwealth Gam…
Reinsurance won’t cover cancellations due to capacity limits
Any reintroduction of social distancing won't be covered under the Government's £750m scheme, which comes with…
126,000 events industry jobs lost to Covid-19
93% of organisers have changed their business models in response to the pandemic but a full recovery isn't expected until 2023…
Festival visit sparks call for Irish capacity events
Irish deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar has been criticised for attending a music festival in London whilst his government m…
Nations press ahead with vaccine passports for events
More concrete plans to require certification at large events come as research indicates the policy could put people off…
UK City of Culture competition in need of redesign
The UK City of Culture is a DCMS success story by any standards. But, as Andrew Dixon explains, serious flaws in this year’s…
Higher Covid rates for festivals in test events scheme
DCMS says its Events Research Programme is proof events "can be conducted safely" despite thousands testing po…
£750m live events insurance scheme approved
The sector's prayers have finally been answered but the scheme comes with a significant premium that could prove challenging f…
The future of festivals with 5G
Brighton Dome has been participating in 5G Festival trials to test new technology that could revolutionise the festival experience…
Masks to stay in arts venues as Stage 4 opening confirmed
The Government "expect and recommend" masks in enclosed public spaces – and cultural venues are taking the lead.
Coventry 2021 weighs options around social distancing
The City of Culture must take audiences' comfort into account, its Creative Director says, as the upcoming change to restricti…
