Here in TheLab™ we get a lot of audition notices for a wide variety of jobs. Sometimes there’s a problem though and its usually with the way the notice is written. More often than not notices are composed so that they can be printed out and displayed on a noticeboard (apparently people still use those […]
Last week, Arts Professional revealed that one of Arts Council England’s senior employees, Andrea Stark (Executive Director), had left her position with the funding monolith for pastures new at the High House Production Park in Essex. The chairman of that organisation is Tony Hall, the former CEO of the Royal Opera House, recipients of tens […]
Money Money Money! What are we going to do with all this cutting, the austerity, the terrible policies, the madness of it all? The Big Bad (ACE) is about to hand down another, albeit smaller, cut to the arts in the shape of a 3% snip over the next two years. If they do it […]
Just before the Christmas break further cuts were announced by the government which were then passed on to their departments which were then passed onto organisations like Arts Council England (ACE). Over the next two years, ending in 2015, ACE will lose another £11.6Million of funding. Since the Big Bad has already cut itself to […]