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18.05.2012 / AI Profile
The National’s Future perfect
Lisa Burger, chief operating officer, Royal National Theatre
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18.05.2012 / Dea Birkett
It’s a dog’s gallery
Non-humans are getting a look-in at museums. Dea Birkett asks if it’s time to reconsider our attitude to animals
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18.05.2012 / Good Practice
Courses for dark horses
Learning disabled actos can and should share the stage as professional equals, says Vanessa Brooks
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18.05.2012 / Digital
Making social collections
A new online facility, Historypin, has been devised to help repair fractured societies
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18.05.2012 / Music
Our Simon Bolivars
We have a children’s orchestra system to rival Venezuela’s, but we have no La Sistema to support it. Simon Tait talks to the director of the National Children’s Orchestra, Roger Clarkson
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18.05.2012 / Heritage
The Sitwells and another jubilee
Simon Tait visits a revealing exhibition at the 17th century Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire, home of the literary Sitwells
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19.04.2012 / AI Profile
To rule a wooden world
Neil Constable, chief executive, Shakespeare's Globe
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19.04.2012 / Digital
Filling the digital gap
A collaboration between Arts Council England and the BBC is exploring a new arts world through The Space. Alison Cole, ACE’s executive director for the project, introduces it
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19.04.2012 / Festivals
The outsiders
Some of our leading festivals are part of Without Walls, a consortium determined to promote ‘the outside arts’. Its new chair, Jo Burns, talks to Simon Tait
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19.04.2012 / Dea Birkett
Nostalgia’s not what it used to be
Dea Birkett sees Belfast’s Titanic grief-in and wonders what we’re weeping for
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19.04.2012 / The Word
Keeping Tamil Kool
When the Tamil Tigers were finally defeated in Sri Lanka in 2009, Tamil cultural tradition all but disappeared. With her current one woman play called Looking for Kool in the boiler room of the Royal Festival Hall – on until Sunday - Rani Moorth...
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19.04.2012 / Museums
New life on-line
The National Media Museum’s eagerly awaited gallery devoted to the Internet has just opened. Patrick Kelly takes a look
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20.03.2012 / Heritage
Titanic task
Belfast hopes to boost tourist numbers with an extraordinary tribute to the ship which sank 100 years ago, Patrick Kelly writes
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20.03.2012 / Education
The Not Fame School
ArtsEd is a unique vocational school in West London which an unprecedented cash award from Andrew Lloyd Webber has thrust it reluctantly into the limelight
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20.03.2012 / The Word
The art of economic growth
Anthony Bowne, principal of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, argues that the ‘soft’ unversity subjects can be the hard earners for the country
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