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Performing Arts

Plea to save UK's grassroots music venues as hundreds face closure: 'We'll all be poorer for it'
Images of musicians performing live in Hot Box, Chelmsford
Grassroots music venues

Plea to save UK's grassroots music venues as hundreds face closure: 'We'll all be poorer for it'

Nearly a quarter of the UK’s grassroots music venues required  'emergency' support to help them stay open over the past year
'There's a war against buskers': Inside the crackdown on buskers – and why street artists are at risk
Busking

'There's a war against buskers': Inside the crackdown on buskers – and why street artists are at risk

Laura Mvula: 'I don't know if I'd be a singer without my family'
Laura Mvula recording her rendition of Paul Simon's 'I Know What I Know' for John Lewis. Image: John Lewis
Music

Laura Mvula: 'I don't know if I'd be a singer without my family'

Choreographer Oona Doherty asked young people about UK's 'good, bad and ugly'. This is what they said
Dance

Choreographer Oona Doherty asked young people about UK's 'good, bad and ugly'. This is what they said

How world's first drag troupe with Down's syndrome is breaking boundaries for people with disabilities
Learning Disability Week 2024

How world's first drag troupe with Down's syndrome is breaking boundaries for people with disabilities

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Artist Ray Young: 'Our government is threatening disabled people's rights – there's no compassion'
Theatre

Artist Ray Young: 'Our government is threatening disabled people's rights – there's no compassion'

The arts overtake agriculture as a UK economic power – but cuts continue
orchestra
Art

The arts overtake agriculture as a UK economic power – but cuts continue

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