Clore Leadership Workforce Development Survey: Have your say!

In July 2020, Clore Leadership undertook a market research survey exploring workforce development priorities across the sector in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have used the learning from the survey to help inform the structure and content of Clore Leadership programmes over the past year, ensuring that they remain topical and relevant.

We are now keen to investigate the impact of the last 12 months on the aspirations of organisations and individuals in the arts & culture sectors and whether there have been any changes in priorities for continuing professional development.

We are eager to hear from as wide a range of voices as possible, including freelancers, artists and independent practitioners as well as those responding on behalf of their organisations. We would therefore be grateful if you could take 10 minutes to respond to the questions and to share this survey with your contacts.

Watch now: Voices from the Gallery: Engagement & Audiences

We were delighted to partner with Art Fund to deliver an exciting new programme of activity focusing on change making and leadership in the galleries and museums sector.

In Voices from the Gallery: Engagement & Audiences our speakers shared personal case studies from their work in the sector, highlighting their challenges and successes and offering actionable advice and tips.

Clore Leadership presents... Brilliant Routes: Healing Wounds

Before we can be resilient, we first must heal.

Working within cultural contexts can be exhilarating, liberating and generative – until it's not. Many Black, Asian and ethnically diverse sector workers experience trauma through neglect, racism, bullying and abuse while labouring at the frontline of change.

Healing Wounds will bring therapeutic and workplace specialists together to explore both personal and organisational strategies for healing and nurturing new healthy organisations. We will be joined by Eugene Ellis and Shumela Ahmed for this session.

29 July | 3pm | Pay What You Decide

Governance Tomorrow: Putting Young Trustees at the Heart of Governance

Last week we welcomed several organisations who took part in our first Governance Tomorrow event, which was developed in partnership with Cultural Governance Alliance. The 3 day conference sparked interesting debate surrounding the lack of young trustees on charitable boards.

A huge thank you to Contact Manchester, Beatfreeks, Rising Arts Agency and Matt Wilde who led the sessions, providing tools and action plans to effect real change.

Matt's final session aimed to inspire and start manifestos for the future and as part of his Clore Leadership Fellowship, he has explored this further with his provocation around youth governance and how we can embrace the skills and experience of young trustees.

Youth Governance: The Effective Listening Issue by Matt Wilde

Values-led: Leadership for Change with Rebuilding Heritage

In partnership with Rebuilding Heritage, our programme will close with a final event exploring what it’s like to lead through change. Speakers for the event JC Niala, Acting Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, Sarah Robertson, Communications and Special Projects Director for Bristol Beacon, and James Blake, Chief Executive of the Youth Hostel Association will share their personal experiences as leaders navigating change.

Thursday 29 July | Online | 2pm – 3.30pm | FREE

Date for your diary: Governance Now 2021 Conference  | 18-19 Nov | Registration opens soon

This year Clore Leadership has been working with Inc. Arts, Arts Council England and the Cultural Governance Alliance to invite speakers and delegates to address three key areas of Race, Sustainability and Ableism/Disability.

Plenary Keynote speakers from a range of sectors will offer a wide-angle perspective of critical issues for the civic space within each of these paradigms.    

All conference sessions will be delivered online, with further details of speakers, dates and registration launched soon.

Coventry City of Culture 2021  - the celebration is in full swing, showcasing the city with events, music, dance, theatre, and large-scale spectacle. See what the city has to offer.

Shedinburgh Fringe Festival - For those still not ready, or able, to venture to Edinburgh, the Fringe is being brought to you with an online festival showcasing the best of the fringe stalwarts, streaming globally. 3 - 30 August 2021. 

Edinburgh Fringe Festival - After the capital’s famous event was cancelled last year in the wake of the pandemic, the world’s biggest arts festival will return to the streets of Edinburgh. 6 - 30 August 2021.

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence #TheDigitalStage - The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has expanded its ambitions for their 2021 edition, launching a summer-long digital festival showcasing an extensive programme of operas, concerts, preludes and podcasts. Until end of summer.

São Paulo Art Biennial - Inspired by the Venice Biennale art festival, the event allows Brazilian and international artists to display their works in the Oscar Niemeyer building in the Parque Ibirapuera. 4 September - 5 December 2021.

Tokyo Tokyo Festival - Coinciding with the Olympic Games, the festival comprises of 13 arts and culture projects, selected from a staggering 2,436 proposals submitted by local and international creatives. Until end of summer. 

Darwin Festival - An 18-day celebration featuring a vibrant programme of music, theatre, visual art, dance, cabaret and more in the tropical city of Darwin, Australia. 2 - 22 August 2021.

Artisti in Piazza - During the International Performing Arts Festival, all the streets of Pennabilli, Italy, become stages for Italian and international artists with late night sounds, lights, words and colours animating the town. Until 31 August 2021.

696: Celebrating Black music in South London - The Horniman Museum and Gardens presents live gigs, installations, collaborations, residencies, talks, specially commissioned works and a summer music festival as the Black British sounds of south London take centre stage. Until 29 September 2021.

England’s Creative Coast - a landmark project between 7 arts organisations — Cement Fields, Creative Folkestone, De La Warr Pavilion, Hastings Contemporary, Metal, Towner Eastbourne and Turner Contemporary — to create a new outdoor cultural experience that connects art with landscape and local stories with global perspectives. Until 14 November 2021.

Recommendations released for colour-conscious casting - New guidance for colour-conscious casting across stage and screen productions has been released by advocacy group British East and South-East Asians in Theatre and on Screen.

Edinburgh Art Festival: Anti-Brexit project sees Auld Lang Syne sung in Gaelic and EU languages - A choir of recorded voices from across the continent will sing the New Year’s anthem in an exhibition called ‘Sound of the Union’.

First-look images of Theatre Royal Drury Lane released after £60m restoration - The venue has reopened its doors for the first time in two years, with owner Andrew Lloyd Webber aiming for it to become an all-day destination in the West End.

BBC Proms to reopen at full capacity - BBC Proms will open at full capacity, with audiences encouraged to wear masks and Covid status certification checks on arrival.

Prisons, historic cinema and children's hospital to host Edinburgh book festival events - The Edinburgh International Book Festival has revealed plans to stage special events in prisons, a historic cinema and a children’s hospital when it returns next month.

The National Football Museum on its new signing - Unity the unicorn, one of the inflatables famously ridden by the England squad has found a new home.

Museum of the Year 2021: Introducing the shortlist - The five finalists for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 have been announced. The shortlist ranges from a contemporary arts centre in Northern Ireland, to a cultural organisation and social hub in the Scottish Highlands. The winner of the prestigious award will receive £100,000.

BBC Contains Strong Language Festival comes to Coventry -  The festival will come to Coventry for the first time in September to celebrate poetry and spoken word as part of the UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations. 

The annual festival will feature more than 50 Covid-19 compliant and in-person poetry events across the city from 23rd to 26th September 2021. It is the fifth year of the event which ran in Hull for three years before travelling to Cumbria last year.  

Festival Safe Publishes Covid-19 Festival Guide -  Industry-backed online festival safety initiative, Festival Safe has been expanded to provide an array of advice to people attending festivals during the pandemic.

Fundraising Manager, Beatfreeks
£26,000 - £28,000 pa

Beatfreeks is seeking a Fundraising Manager to join their team. In the last few years, they have been successful in becoming a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) of Arts Council England, and looking for someone to support them in making the most of this recent success increasing impact, driving sustainability and maximising opportunities for further development.

Deadline: Ongoing

Artistic Associate, Northern Stage
£27,000 pa

Northern Stage is looking for a creative individual to work closely with new Artistic Director Natalie Ibu to deliver a vision that reaches beyond the ordinary, making Northern Stage a building that is informed and transformed by the region so that they are an essential part of everyone’s lives, making vital pieces of culture for the North East of today and tomorrow.

Deadline is 9am, 28 July 2021

Acting Head of Exhibitions and Creative Learning, Modern Art Oxford
£16,615 for 32 weeks (£45,000 pa pro rata)

The Acting Head of Exhibitions & Creative Learning is a part-time senior position for seven
months (late September 2021 - May 2022) created to provide cover for the delivery of the
exhibitions and creative learning strands of Modern Art Oxford's artistic programme during a sabbatical for its Chief Curator, Emma Ridgway.

Deadline is 9am, 30 July 2021

Marketing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe
£28,800 pa (rising to £32,000 pa from 1 November 2021)

Working closely with the Head of Marketing and Head of Campaigns to develop and implement effective marketing strategies and sales driving campaigns across the Globe’s full offering, these two roles will lead on specific campaigns and communications across the full marketing mix, and jointly line manage the Marketing Officer.

Deadline is 10am, 2 August 2021

Trainee Leaders (Various Roles), Graeae
(Various)

The organisation are looking for arts professionals with an interest in shaping the future of Graeae to take on leadership responsibilities and shape the work they create and how it is shared with the public. The four roles are:

• Trainee Producer
• Trainee Marketing and Development Manager
• Associate Artist - Directing and Devising
• Associate Artist - New Writing and Artist Development

Deadline is 9 August 2021

Artistic Director, Tamasha
Unspecified

Tamasha are seeking a bold and visionary leader / emerging leader to join them at this exciting new chapter in their development. You should have wide-ranging experience and skills, not necessarily gained in the theatre industry – you could work in another creative discipline or sector, or could be a creative producer, community producer, or programmer, but you do need to be passionate about supporting ethnically diverse creative practice, and have ambition to build on Tamasha's reputation for being a pioneer in high quality theatre.

Deadline is 6pm, 10 August 2021

Trustees, Music for All
Unpaid

The Board of Music for All is looking to recruit two dynamic and enthusiastic new trustees with specialist expertise in fundraising and diversity

Deadline is 16 August 2021

CEO, Blackpool Grand Theatre 
£65,000

Blackpool Grand Theatre are seeking a Chief Executive who will lead the team and take the Grand to new heights, building on successes achieved pre-Covid and helping to take forward the theatre’s Capital Development Masterplan, designed to deliver 21st century facilities for the audiences of tomorrow.

Deadline is 31 August 2021

Festival Director, Edinburgh International Festival

The Festival Director oversees all aspects of the artistic programme for each Festival, collaborating with arts practitioners world-wide to create, produce and deliver a programme of events that showcase the best of international, UK and Scottish talent. They promote and maintain an organisational culture which values the highest standards - both in executing the artistic vision and in management practice - drawing the very best from the team of permanent and temporary Festival staff.

Deadline is 1 October 2021