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…
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‘No guarantee’ of funding for UK City of Culture 2025 winner
The contest will continue into 2029 and beyond, with £40,000 grants to develop longlisted applications regardless…
Bradford cultural strategy to ‘harness the power of our diversity’
The city aims to add 3,000 jobs to its cultural sector by 2031 – half of them from underrepresented groups – as its cu…
Rehearsal complex to be a ‘godsend’ for freelancers
New Diorama Theatre will open a free workspace in July, welcoming up to 80,000 creatives per year: "We would be delighted if…
DCMS revives £42m Culture Investment Fund
Grants of up to £5m are available for capital works outside of London, while libraries and museums are also eligible fo…
‘Very good news’: Huge optimism as partial venue reopening confirmed
London launches a massive domestic tourism campaign as England progresses to the next stage of the reopening roadmap.
Reshaping our places and communities post-Covid
Cultural organisations can play a key role in creating thriving places for people to live, work and visit, but only if they reach…
A year of reorientation in the Borough of Brent
Lois Stonock planned the London Borough of Culture 2020 to respond to Brexit. Then Brent became home to one of the UK’s firs…
Don’t leave your community out in the cold
What does it mean to have a civic role in challenging times? Andrew Barnett and Deborah Bull discuss.
Visible and viable: why a Cultural Quarter makes sense
Swindon's new Cultural Quarter – an £80m development by Swindon Council – will be the first thing visitors s…
The public art of placemaking
Public art can connect us to the places, landscapes and buildings where we live. Lindsey Hebden explains what that means in practi…
People need places (and vice versa)
Caitlin Warfield writes that the future of culture and business in urban centres depends on their ability to work together.
Compact to secure Liverpool as ‘UK’s second City of Culture’
Liverpool has a new five-year strategy to reboot the region by building a more inclusive coalition from its creative workforce, wh…
Coventry 2021 will be ‘a return to live’
The UK City of Culture year will press ahead with a full calendar of festivals and events from May 15 – two days before the…
Let’s move beyond the spin
Hull’s leaders want to build a ‘collective legacy’ for its City of Culture year. Victoria Bissett and Michael Ho…
Surrey venues draw sightseers, spending and social benefits, study finds
New research shows 70% of visitors to Surrey arts venues would not have come into town – and spent an extra £40 o…
National Collections Centre planned for Coventry
Arts Council England will relocate its 8,000-piece collection to a former IKEA store in an effort to create a legacy for Coventry…
The creative industries aren’t closed
Louise Blackwell says creative practitioners have been at the forefront of place-based recovery. Their strategy? Come together, li…
Fear and hope for local authority venues post-Covid
Trusts and companies operating council venues are folding under financial pressure. Can cash-strapped local authorities retai…
Medway eyes international recognition with new cultural strategy
The "ambitious and forward-thinking" document will be the cornerstone of a bid for UK City of Culture 2025.
We’re nothing without our people
A UK City of Culture bid won’t succeed unless it’s authentic, writes Richard Dunbar.
Legacy as a collective act
How will Hull face the future following its triumph as UK City of Culture? Lee Corner and Stephen Munn reflect on the legacy of 20…
Strategy to put Gloucester ‘on the cultural map’
Signature events, including a potential UK City of Culture bid, will "signal the cultural regeneration of Gloucester".
New horizons
As we say good riddance to 2020, Liz Hill takes a glass-half-full look at progress in the cultural sector this year, and what the…
