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Also this week: Mayor backs tourism vision for London, and plans underway to establish new Governance Alliance for the cultural sector

Also this week: academic warns of crisis in arts education, and London named live music capital of Europe

Also this week: Sadiq Khan sets out vision for green London as mayor plans to make capital first National Park City

Also this week: BBC Proms launches first disability-inclusive concert

Also this week: Help Musicians UK launches helpline in response to mental health ‘crisis’

Also this week: British culture ‘risks £16.7 million a year funding cut due to Brexit’ and RSC to introduce ‘chilled performances’ allowing audience noise

Also this week: London mayor Sadiq Khan has defended the proportion of arts funding that goes to the capital

Also this week: refugee theatre festival to take place in London, and Lottery arts funding plummets by £55m

Also this week: House of Lords peer laments ‘ridiculous’ erosion of arts in cities and London named museums capital of the world

Also this week: Tate launches new website for kids

Also this week: Equity union aims for gender balance for arts company boardrooms, and free West End shows announced for Kids Week 2017

Also this week: London culture spend third highest in the world, and North London drama school to launch with emphasis on affordable training

Also this week: V&A museum plans to revive design skills and Creative Industries Federation issues election manifesto for arts

Also this week: Culture minister Matt Hancock launches Culture Is Digital project

Also this week: dance companies to combat widespread physical inactivity

Also this week: Up Next Gala raises over £1 million to fund greater access to the arts for children and young people across the country

Also this week: report is calls on public bodies to support and protect cultural hubs, music venues and nightclubs

Also this week: Trans Creative launches as ‘first transgender-led theatre company’

Also this week: Arts Council to fund an additional 216 NPOs from 2018, and Underbelly granted permission to build Marble Arch theatre

Also this week: teacher survey: 10% claim arts education is casualty of funding cuts

Also this week: British museums and art galleries hit by 2m fall in visitors

Also this week: peers pressure government to commit to arts sector post-Brexit

Also this week: Sadler’s Wells and East London Dance launch scheme to support mental health

Also this week: Labour's Tristram Hunt quitting as MP to head V&A Museum

Also this week: 11-year-old British composer debuts first opera in Vienna

Also this week: Lloyd Webber makes School of Rock free to schools, and £186,000 awarded to eight choreography research projects

Also this week: major arts centres announce 20% turnover boost over three years

Also this week: history of art A level saved after outcry, and arts organisations suffer drop in trust funding

Also this week: theatre more popular than sports for a night out, survey finds

Also this week: children's laureates demand UK government investigate school library closures.