Blog

Cate Canniffe, Director of Dance and Claire Mera-Nelson, Director of Music, reflect on the opportunities within and challenges faced by the South Asian dance and music ecology.

Sir Nick Serota blogs on the challenges cultural organisation face as they work to recover from the pandemic.

Watershed’s Creative Producers International programme brought together 15 incredible leaders to learn and make change together, working across contemporary art, placemaking, community engagement, corporate collaboration, urban innovation and social activism.

Through labs in Bristol and Tokyo, online workshops and development grants, the aim was to develop individual practice, raise ambitions and make real change across the world on a city scale. This was made possible through the Arts Council’s National Lottery Ambition for Excellence fund.

After publishing an evaluation report, we caught up with CEO at Watershed, Clare Reddington to hear her reflections on this ambitious three-year global exchange, which has more resonance in the current context than anyone in 2016 could have possibly imagined!

At the close of an unprecedented year, Darren Henley reflects on the journey we've been on, the resilience of the sector, and looks to the future.

Laura Dyer, from our Executive board, blogs about new research that can help us do more to encourage everyday creativity.

As we fast approach a Christmas under very different circumstances, we’ve seen a rallying cry online to shop with the small and local businesses that need our support now more than ever. Here we pull together our guide to the brilliant gifts available from just some of the arts and cultural organisations that form the backbone of our communities.

To mark Giving Tuesday and Museum Shop Sunday our Senior Manager, Visual Arts and Philanthropy, Helen Cooper, looks at the role of cultural philanthropy in the time of Covid.

The new Thriving Communities fund promotes health, wellbeing and connection in communities.