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Arts Council

Elsecar Heritage Centre, the site of the Fitzwilliam family's ironworks and industrial workshops

Elsecar Heritage Centre: Earl Fitzwilliam's railway station to be upgraded

South Yorkshire sculptor, ceramicist, Deborah Frith, from Rawmarsh. Photographed for the Yorkshire Post by Jonathan Gawthorpe.

The unstoppable Yorkshire 54-year-old who is a teacher, lockkeeper and biker

The Hepworth Wakefield

Council to grant new lease to ease Hepworth Wakefield’s ‘funding difficulties’

Glassblower Jo Kenny, who now lives in Whitby has been awarded an Arts Council grant for her What Lies Beneath project inspired by Whitby's rockpools. She is working with Scottish master glassmaker Gordon Taylor
Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer,  James Hardisty.

The former teacher turned artist who is inspired by Whitby's rock pools

5th High Wolds Poetry Festival at North Dalton's All Saints Church. Pictured assistant curator - community Caroline Coath from East Riding Council.
Photographed by Yorkshire Post photographer Jonathan Gawthorpe.
15th August 2023.

Strange tale of the white man sold to slavery for 20 years

Bronte Birthplace

One of the most significant buildings in literary history could be opened up

Darren Henley is chief executive of Arts Council England.

Why we're investing £5m of new funding into Bradford 2025 - Darren Henley

Annapurna Dance School performing for Diwali at The Piece Hall, Halifax.

The power of culture as a tool of recovery - Nicky Chance-Thompson

Paul Fleming of Equity.

Art needs more than the 'lipstick on the pig of austerity' - Paul Fleming

The moment Bradford found out that it had been awarded  'City of Culture 2025' in Centenary Square. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Arts Council funding represents a vote of confidence in region - Henri Murison

The moment Bradford foud out that it had been awarded  'City of Culture 2025' in Centenary Square. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Investment in creative organisations can make a difference - Darren Henley

Bradford Literature Festival director Syima Aslam, in St Georges Hall. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Arts funding gets 'levelled up' with £161m for Yorkshire's creative groups

Trippets Lounge Bar

Ad Feature Trippets jazz venue celebrates ‘lifesaving’ £110k Arts Council grant

Elsecar Heritage Centre is to receive £4m of Government funding

Elsecar Heritage Centre 'can become international attraction after £4m grant'

Tom Simpson, owner of the Parish, in Huddersfield

Music's road to recovery: Reasons to be optimistic ahead of Independent Venue We...

Light Night Leeds. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Arts funding makes a real difference to Yorkshire venues - Sarah Maxfield

Alan Bennett

A middle-class jamboree, or is culture worth every penny? – David Behrens

Arts and culture are integral to the revival of towns and cities like Hull.

How arts have power to save our high streets – Pete Massey

Hull was the nation's City of Culture in 2017.

How culture and Olympic ‘urban sports’ can revitalise high streets – The Yorkshi...

Culture is intergral to the future prosperity of Bradford and Leeds, says the Arts Council.

How culture can change lives in Leeds and Bradford – Darren Henley

Mitesh Soni (Charley), Caroline Parker (Fagin) and Nadeem Islam (Artful Dodger) in Oliver Twist. (Photography by Anthony Robling).

How Ramps on the Moon is leading the way for deaf and disabled people in mainstr...
This week marks the first anniversary of the start of these lockdown profiles of the theatres and companies in our region.

A review is being launched today into the future of the North's cultural sector following the pandemic.

Northern culture is a £2bn industry that must be nurtured – Julie Elliott

Leeds Grand Theatre auditorium

Sheffield Crucible and Leeds Grand theatres to get next round of arts funding

Jamie Hudson, CEO of Yeadon Town Hall, says the venue needs a 'miracle' to survive the Covid-19 pandemic after missing out on Arts Council funding

Theatre needs a 'miracle' after missing out on Covid survival arts funding

Victoria Ryves, Project Manager for Heritgae Doncaster, and Gary Hammond.
Picture James Hardisty.

'Horrible Histories for grown ups' tackling loneliness

Red Ladder's production of The Damned United with Luke Dickson playing Brian Clough. Photo credit Malcolm Johnson

How Leeds company’s fighting spirit offers hope for embattled theatre industry

Tape covers the gates at Shakespeare's Globe theatre as a part of the Scene Change initiative, as the lifting of further lockdown restrictions in England comes into effect.

How the show will go on for our theatres – Caroline Dinenage

Leeds West Indian Carnival. Picture: Simon Hulme.

Hundreds of Yorkshire arts organisations share £5m from Arts Council package

Operations worker Andrew McCallum cleans Damian Hirst's unicorn Myth as work continues behind the scenes during the lockdown period at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Picture: Tony Johnson

Sculpture Park proves value of our cultural sector – The Yorkshire Post says

Nick Ahad says the coronavirus outbreak has prompted some searching questions.

Coronavirus pandemic prompting soul searching for life’s meaning: Nick Ahad

Opera singer Bibi Heal

Surgery where the ‘doctor’ prescribes only songs

Dyad Creative, one of the organisations participating in GUILD.

Leeds-based East Street Arts has been quietly championing artists across the cit...
There has been a quiet revolution in the arts unfolding in Leeds over the past quarter century, led by East Street Arts.

Project manager Jude Holland

From the trenches to Doncaster – remarkable story of pet who survived against th...

Quentin Letts criticised the RSC and its production of The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich. (RSC).

Nick Ahad: Why the likes of Quentin Letts have had their day

Mark Rylance as Olivia, right, and Samuel Barnett as Viola in the Globe Theatres all-male production of Shakespeares Twelfth Night. (Picture: PA).

John Mann: Don't let North's coalfields become deserts of culture

Barrie Rutter as King Lear. Picture: Nobby Clark

Final curtain for Barrie Rutter at Northern Broadsides

Twenty years at the helm of York Theatre Royal

The Hon. Nicholas Howard with Edward Harley, chairman of the Acceptance in Lieu panel, at Castle Howard

Castle Howard haul stays put in £5m tax deal

Barrie Rutter earlier this year at Dean Clough, Halifax, the home of Northern Brodsides. Picture by Simon Hulme.

'We called the Arts Council's bluff - they called it back,' Barrie Rutter on wh...

The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds

World comes to region for new sculpture event

Kerry Chase with the sculpture by Jesse Darling, March of the Valedictorians

Yorkshire Sculpture Park marks 40th anniversary

Nicola Sturgeon has put a vote on Scottish independence on hold.

YP Comment: We are still all in it together...Sturegeon in retreat over Scottish...

Artist Claire Ford showing her work to Edna Roncoe at the project's launch.  Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Bringing art to an audience... one person at a time

Curator Jeanine Griffin with works by Ryan Mosley. Picture by Scott Merrylees

Sheffield gallery goes with the flow to celebrate contemporary art

RECLAIM THE NIGHT: Leeds theatre company RashDashs The Darkest Corners is being performed at a secret location in Holbeck.  Picture: tom joy

The world's a stage

Setting the barre high

Think big

An image from Mind the Gap's previous production of Stig of the Dump.

Funding boost for Yorkshire theatre companies bringing ground-breaking shows to ...

A portrait of William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor. Picture: National Portrait Gallery

Scarborough talents' modern take on bard classics

Artist's impression of upgraded Hull New Theatre

Hull theatre upgrade becomes latest culture city project hit by delays

The eyes of the world will be on Hull, and a new purpose-built open air theatre, when it is the UK City of Culture next year.

Darren Henley: Keep the faith. Yorkshire is a cultural powerhouse

Craven District Councils lead member for Enterprising Craven, Coun Simon Myers, Director of Services Paul Ellis and Chief Executive Paul Shevlin, at Skipton Town Hall, after it was announced that Craven District Council has been awarded £250,000 to create a high quality multi-use and theatre space at Skipton Town Hall.

Trio of Yorkshire arts projects receive £750,000 funding boost

John Whittingdale

Whittingdale backs fairer spread of arts funding

The Freedom Festival's programme next year could be affected  following the collapse of HEYCF.

Charity folds owing £650,000

Sheffield Theatres chief executive Dan Bates says diversity is something all theatres need to address.

Why Yorkshire’s theatres top a league of shame

Paul Slater with his sculpture, which draws inspiration from birds and Barnsleys manufacturing history .Picture: Scott Merrylees

A little bird told me that this must be the artistic route to Barnsley...

August 17: Time to make the case for more arts funding

August 8: Inequality of arts funding

Darren Henley: Our challenge to make the arts part of everyday life

£20,000 of support for festivals

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