Arts & Festivals Creative Industries Support
Welcome to the Arts and Creative Industries Support page. Please see below for details on:
- Arts & Festivals Network Meetings
- Shropshire Festivals and Artists Training Opportunities / Network Events
- Creative Industry Advice Sessions
Arts & Festivals Network Meetings:
Shropshire Council Arts Service will be hosting a series of Arts Network events across the county.
Artists, festival organisers and community and voluntary arts organisations are invited to attend the networks, please feel free to attend any they are not area specific.
Throughout the evenings, there are a number of presentations and opportunities for artists to network and exchange ideas and information.
We hope to see you there!
North Shropshire
May 2010, Date TBC
October 2010, Date TBC
February 2011, Date TBC
Central Area April 2010, Date TBC
September 2010, Date TBC
January 2011, Date TBC
South Shropshire
7th June 2010 at Bobby Britnell's studio, Moor Hall Farmhouse, Bettws-y-Crwyn, Newcastle-on-Clun, SY7 8PH
Directions: http://www.bobbybritnell.co.uk/workshops/MoorHall.asp
November 2010, Date TBC
March 2011, Date TBC
To book a place at one of these meetings please contact:
Sarah Rollason on Tel: 01743 252305 or email: sarah.rollason@shropshire.gov.uk
What would you like to see at these meetings? Do you have a specific topic you'd like to hear a presentation on? Would you like to give a presentation, workshop or performance? Sorry we can't pay speaker fees but can pay travel expenses.
For the Southern area contact Jenny Henrywood on 01743 255935/ 07810 050037 or email: jenny.henrywood@shropshire.gov.uk
For the Northern area contact Alexa Pugh on 01743 255938/ 07929 057310 or email: alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
For the Central area contact Sue Goodwin on 01743 255078 or email: sue.goodwin@shropshire.gov.uk
For information on Festivals contact Joy Durrant on 01743 255077 or email: joy.durrant@shropshire.gov.uk
Shropshire Festivals and Artists Training Opportunities / Network Events
Shropshire Festivals Network Events - Spring 2010
As we battle on regardless through the economic downturn our thoughts are very much focussed on audience numbers and box office returns. So some questions for you ....
Do you want to increase audience numbers at your festival or event this year?
Do you have a local audience base, but would like to attract audiences from further afield?
Or perhaps you know who your audience is, but struggle to communicate with them?
We want to help you, and have arranged Festival Network events that offer to share marketing ideas and knowledge to help build your audience (and box office) and perhaps to introduce different ways of marketing. The Festival Network meetings come with that added essential ingredient - an opportunity to talk with other organisers about all sorts of good ideas.
Festival Network Events (three events in total) are organised by the Arts and Festivals Development Team at Shropshire Council and grant funded by RDPE and Shropshire and Telford Destination Partnership.
BOOKING (For any of the Festival network meetings)
Delegates will need to complete and return the booking form (attached below) by Monday 15th February. Please contact Mark Jones, for more details. Email: mark.jones@shropshire.gov.uk or Tel: 01743 255042.
Booking Form - Training Events (27KB)
An Introduction to Social Marketing for Festivals
Wednesday 17th February 2010 from 4.30pm-7.30pm at Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, Shropshire
So what can Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and all the other 100s social media sites do for you and your festival? Well quite a lot actually - and its all free (just takes a bit of time).
With bang up to date info and case studies on how to make social media work for you within your current portfolio of marketing communications this Network meeting makes it easier than you may think. We'll tell you about some successes, highlight one or two pitfalls, and give you the top 10 tips to start you off and inspire you to promote your festival in the social media world (and save paper to boot).
Light refreshment will be provided.
Audience Development Seminar and Workshop for Festivals and Art Organisations
Saturday 20th March 2010 10.00am to 3.30pm at Wem Town Hall, Shropshire
The day will introduce ways in which you can find out more information about audiences in Shropshire. Audiences Central, our regional audience development agency, will guide us to identify ways to target your marketing material to increase audiences at your events. Models such as MOSAIC and ACORN will be discussed
The day is designed to encourage you to network and build partnerships. It is possible arts organisations and / or festivals may form partnerships to support each other to develop audiences and funding may be available for those organisations who make appropriate proposals. Lunch will be provided.
Free Creative Industry Advice Sessions - Shropshire & Telford
If you were unable to attend the creative industry advice sessions planned and would like specialist business advice in the future, please send your details to:
Sarah Rollason, Support Assistant, Culture & Leisure, Shropshire Council
Tel: 01743 252305 or email: sarah.rollason@shropshire.gov.uk
Your details will be added to a waiting list and you will be notified when we arrange future advice sessions.
The specialist business advice is provided for people working within the Creative, Cultural and Digital Sector to discuss their development needs.
During the session you can discuss many business issues including:
- Reaching more customers and audience
- Making the most of your money
- Ways of streamlining your business processes
- Keeping up-to-date with the law
- Maximising the sales of your work
- And much more
Each session will last approximately 40mins.