Final Speaker Announced for Spotlight On Broadening Your Audience
Last few places available – book now!
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- Date: Tuesday 31st March 2009
6.30pm - 8.30pm. Followed by optional networking session: 8.30pm – 9.30pm.
- Venue: Contact
Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6JA. Find it.
- Cost: Free to PANDA members / £5 non-members
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We are pleased to confirm the final guest speaker for our Spotlight On event, in partnership with Contact. Nadine Andrews will join our panel and chair the discussion on how and why to attract a diverse audience for your work.
This practical panel-led information and networking event is open to anyone working in the performing arts in the North West. Join us at 6.30pm on Tuesday 31st March 2009 to find out more about broadening your audience…
- Is it about ticking the right boxes?
- Getting more bums on seats?
- Reaching new people with your work?
- Creating new opportunities for your practice?
It can be all of these things. Find out how to attract a diverse audience for your work and the ways this new audience can benefit your practice from our panel of experienced guest speakers.
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Nadine Andrews, a leading figure on cultural diversity and audience development policy and, practice. Her work as a consultant with audience development agency Arts About Manchester lead her to a CLORE Fellowship in 2005/6. Nadine now directs Culture Probe; creative research and consultancy supporting individual and organisational learning in the North West.
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Chris Hammond, Director of Full Circle Arts, is passionate about equality, inclusion and the development of individual and corporate potential. Chris is a key player in the development of disability arts and inclusive practice. Chris will explain why a diverse audience isn’t just desirable but necessary, and discuss whether artists and audiences become trapped by labelling and stereotyping.
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Siobhán Rocks, a British Sign Language interpreter will unearth the creativity in BSL and explain how it can be used as a tool for broadening audiences.
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Claire Will, is Head of Marketing at Contact theatre, a space where young people can take creative risks. Claire will reveal how you can attract and retain a diverse audience for your work using simple methods to outreach through your marketing.
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Sazzadur Rahman, Founder and Company Director of Peshkar Productions, a leading North-West British South Asian theatre and production company. Sazzadur’s work with Peshkar forged new partnerships with theatres and community groups and as a result delivered participatory work across the region, bringing new audiences and artists. Sazzadur is now a freelance arts practitioner.
The speakers will offer an insight into how they have achieved a diverse audience for their own practice and outline practical steps for you to broaden your own audience. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate plus further signposting to allow you to pursue the issues raised in the way which best suits you.
You are invited to stay on after the discussion for an additional hour-long networking event. This informal discussion with the panel speakers will be welcoming and relaxed with plenty of opportunity to chat to all the new contacts you’ve made.
The event will take place in Space 2 at Contact theatre. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival and you are welcome to stay on after the event for a drink in Contact Lounge bar.
Last few places available – book now!
To book a place at Spotlight On Broadening Your Audience contact Rachel Morton on 0161 274 0626 or email rachel@panda-arts.org.uk.
