Rural Touring Mentoring Scheme
PANDA, in partnership with Cheshire Rural Touring Arts (CRTA), deliver an annual scheme to offer mentorship to a PANDA company keen to develop their work for rural touring.
The Rural Touring Mentoring Scheme is one of our longest-running and most successful development schemes, having mentored five companies, and supported many more to tour their work to a rural audience, since it was launched in 2005.
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Posted: Friday 26th November 2010
Creative Conversation on Rural Touring
Date: Tuesday 7th December 2010, 11.00am - 1.00pm.
Venue: greenroom, Whitworth Street West, Manchester, M1 3WW.
Cost: £5 per person.
Join us at our partner venue, greenroom for special mince pie filled festive edition of our monthly discussion series, Creative Conversations. The December session will focus on Rural Touring and will be led by Claire Smith from PANDA Rural Touring Mentoring Scheme partner, Cheshire Rural Touring Arts.
Book your place now.
The Scheme
The scheme provides the mentored company with an understanding of the issues and contexts in which rural touring operates; including advice on marketing, pricing, administration, contracting, press and publicity, licensing, designing for small community spaces, technical considerations, artistic content and liaising with promoters.
The mentored company showcases their work-in-progress at CRTA's annual Promoters Day and attends the National Rural Touring Conference. The scheme culminates with the inclusion of the mentored company's show in the CRTA Autumn Menu for Rural Touring.
2007 Rural Touring Mentoring Scheme company, Inky Fingers.
New for 2010/11:
- Artists and companies will have the opportunity to pitch their idea or performance piece to a group of rural touring promoters to
gain feedback in addition to the opportunity to be selected as the
mentored artist or company for 2010/11.
- We are also seeking to link up with other Rural Touring Networks across the UK to work towards more sustainable rural touring for artists and companies.
This excellent scheme is a valuable entry-point for any company wishing to establish themselves on the rural touring network.
The current mentored company is Two Friends Productions who toured their production Pretty Witty Nell as part of the Autumn 2009 Menu for Rural Touring.
Take a look at the past mentored companies that we have supported through the scheme.
PANDA members can also find more information about rural touring from the Info On...Rural Touring fact sheet.