Spotlight On Broadening Your Audience
In partnership with
- 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 announce details of our first Spotlight On event of 2009, in partnership with Contact.
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.
Confirmed so far
- Chris Hammond, Director of Full Circle Arts, will explain why a diverse audience isn’t just desirable but necessary, and discuss whether artists and audiences become trapped by labelling and stereotyping.
- 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.
- Claire Will, Head of Marketing at Contact, will reveal how you can attract and retain a diverse audience for your work using simple methods to outreach through your marketing.
- Sazzadur Rahman, CEO of 3media, will offer an insight into how performing arts practitioners can access and engage non-theatre goers as a new audience for their work, based on his personal experience of outreach work with diverse communities.
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 may include a participatory workshop, an 'open space' style discussion or networking exercises. Whatever the format, you can guarantee it 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. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival and you are welcome to stay on after the event for a drink in the cool and comfortable surrounds of the Contact Lounge bar.
Book your place
To book a place at Spotlight On Broadening Your Audience contact Rachel Morton on 0161 274 0626 or email rachel@panda-arts.org.uk.