From page to stage: should more libraries become theatres? | Natasha Tripney
There's plenty that links the two – not least their umbilical link with communities. Is it time to think more creatively about what libraries can do?The words on the page fade to white. A voice in my ear instructs me to keep reading. There's somethin...
Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts
Carol Ann Duffy's excellent, funny but coruscating poem (A Cut Back, Review, 9 April) went a long way towards expressing widely held views on the cuts to arts funding and the implications for both artists and communities.I was the director of the Lanca...
Letters: Young fighting cuts in Cameron county
In David Cameron's home county of Oxfordshire young people are certainly being hit hardest by the cuts (Young people bear brunt as councils reveal which services are being cut, 1 April). Conservative-run Oxfordshire county council plans to cut 100% of ...
What the Poetry Book Society means to poets
There's more to the PBS than the TS Eliot prize – its book club is a unique network of response to new work that benefits readers, publishers and poets alikeThe withdrawal of Arts Council England (ACE) support for the Poetry Book Society is an incomp...
Letters: Rural theatre and poetry hit by cuts
It was good to read that Swaledale "can breathe easily again" (In praise of…, 4 April) with the reprieve of the Hudson House community facility in Reeth, but just as the national park restores its commitment to this rural community, Arts Council Engl...
Withdrawal of Poetry Book Society funding sparks outcry
Many of the UK's most prominent poets have spoken out against the end of Arts Council England subsidy for 'a widely respected and internationally unique organisation'More than 100 poets have signed a letter protesting about Arts Council England's deci...
Letters: Short-sighted and dangerous cuts to the arts
You are probably right to say Arts Council England "played the hand as well as could reasonably have been expected" (Editorial, 31 May). Except that hidden, unannounced, was a major change of policy: the termination of regular funding to the eight audi...
Funding for literature rises 9.9% amid the cuts
While avoiding overall cutbacks, there were still clear winners and losers with some gaining at the expense of othersLiterature has fared best in the new Arts Council England budget, with spending set to increase by nearly 10% while all other fields se...
The arts cuts: David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, David Peace and others give their verdicts
The axe has fallen on the arts. Were the cuts fair? As some groups celebrate and others face oblivion, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, Jude Kelly and more give their verdictsRichard Eyre: directorWhat Arts Council England has done seems quite smart. Equ...
Arts Council England funding cuts – the great axe falls
More than 200 organisations lose support on 'agonising' day of 15% cuts to the arts – but those who win, win bigLive blog - culture cutsIt is a day of radically mixed fortunes for the arts in England, as organisations up and down the country receive ...
Arts cuts prompt stage stars’ appeal to prime minister
Sir Richard Eyre, Tony Hall and Jude Kelly warn of lasting damage likely to result from curtailed government spendingLeading figures from the arts have written to the prime minister asking him to join a dialogue about a "long-term policy for public inv...
Campaigners launch legal challenge to library closures
Claims that cuts proposed by Somerset and Gloucestershire councils violate statutory obligations due to be tested in the high courtLibraries are set to be a legal testing-ground for David Cameron's vision of the "big society", with lawyers arguing that...
