Just a few months ago, the idea of Edinburgh without the Fringe and our sister festivals would have been totally unthinkable; now, like so many other aspects of our day-to-day lives, we must pause and take stock in the face of something far bigger.

This report analyses the activities and objectives of registered charities in England and Wales involved in ‘arts, culture, heritage or science’ (ACHS) with a particular focus on arts and culture. The analysis applies natural language processing and clustering techniques to the information that charities provide when they register. This allows for a more detailed understanding of what charities are doing, and what they are trying to achieve, than is available from existing classifications. The work produces an automatically-generated taxonomy of keywords used by ACHS charities.

China saw box office revenue totaling a staggering 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in the performance industry in 2019, but is still waiting to break out of an ice age this year caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, according to a report from the Lighthouse Research Institute.

El Consejo de Ministros ha aprobado hoy un Real Decreto Ley que establece nuevas medidas de protección económicas y sociales y facilita también la aplicación de las previamente aprobadas adaptándolas a las especifidades del sector cultural. En el marco prioritario de lucha contra una pandemia global, en el que el Gobierno trabaja en extender una red social de protección, el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte pretende que el sector cultural y deportivo quede también amparado y protegido, desde el compromiso gubernamental de no dejar a nadie atrás.

Minister of Culture, Ph.D. Nina Obuljen Korzinek sent a message to artists and cultural practitioners about all actions and measures taken to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lithuanian Culture Council (LKT) provides information about the initiation of new funding measures for individual creators and non-governmental sector organisations operating in the field of culture.