Mischief La-Bas
Mischief La-Bas, an interactive walkabout performance company devoted to 'gently warping the underlay of the fabric of society', will be performing their latest creation - Montague Place - at this year's Big in Falkirk and The Wickerman Festival. GGA will undertake audience research with attenders at the events.
Platform
GGA has been commissioned by Greater Easterhouse Arts Company (GEAC) to produce a project framework for a peer-led, capacity-building scheme involving young people, lone parent families and older people in Greater Easterhouse, an area experiencing major social regeneration. GEAC is responsible for the management and programming of a new arts facility in Easterhouse called Platform, (due to open in 2006) which will be at the hub of a cultural campus to be known as The Bridge.
Scottish Ballet
Following the company's Spring tour, GGA will carry out qualitative research with Scottish Ballet audiences to investigate the motivations and perceptions of regular, seasonal and new attenders.
The GGA Team: out and about...
Family Friendly Initiative Seminar: Considering Families Needs
30 March - Horsecross, Perth
The day looked at family audiences' needs and included case studies from organisations who regularly provide for families, essential information on child protection issues and support for organisations who may be planning for change and wishing to be more 'family friendly'. Contact Dianne at GGA if you would like to discuss any aspect of the Family Friendly Initiative
Pride and Passion
30 March - The Hub, Edinburgh
Pride & Passion is a movement created by people who work in the leisure tourism industry* and want to take the visitor experience from great to even greater in 
Scotland. As part of Tourism Week, this 'Question Time' session, chaired by Lesley Riddoch, asked:
1. Is the Scottish attitude stopping us reach our full potential?
2. Why is tourism at the bottom of the list of career options?
3. Why should it just be up to the tourism industry to make visitors feel welcome?
*Includes performing and visual arts, literary, events and festivals as identified by VisitScotland.
Contact Kirsty at GGA if you would like to know more about the Pride & Passion movement.
Gaelic Music Festival
22 & 23 March - City Halls, Glasgow
This unique two day event brought together key players from the Gaelic arts scene to celebrate the incredible growth in Gaelic Music and support those involved in the industry to develop their skills and increase audiences for their work. Julie Tait, Director, GGA presented workshops that focused on audience development and was a panel member alongside Matthew Rooke, Director, Scottish Cultural Enterprise and Donna Cunningham, Director, Firefly Productions.
Looking for Office Space?
Fancy sharing some office space at GGA? We have a room available for a cultural organisation - if you would like to join us please give Julie a call on 0141 248 6864 for more details. Favourable rates apply!
Independent Theatre Council (ITC) Training Programme 2006/07
ITC works for professional arts organisations by providing management and legal advice, contractual negotiation and conciliation services, networking, advocacy, information exchange and training & personal development services.
Communication and Marketing Seminars
1. Arts Marketing: Understanding the Basics (8 Sep 06 & 24 Jan 07)
2. Introduction to Press Relations (23 Nov 06 & 6 Mar 07)
3. Widening Your Audience and Marketing (22 June 06 & 21 Mar 07)
4. Enhancing Your Audience's Experience (12 Oct 06)
5. Making the Most of Your Annual Report (30 Nov 06)
Other courses and seminars will take place under the following headings: Management - Resources, Management - People, Producing and Touring, Legal, Finance, Funding, Personal Effectiveness, Leadership, Working with Young People.
Culture Shock
The fifth in the series of our audience segment workshops looked at targeting Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Glasgow by discussing how to incorporate their unique demographic and lifestyle characteristics into marketing and programming plans. Lalitha Rajan, Artistic Director, Ankur Productions; Harminder Berman, Cultural Diversity Officer, Glasgow City Council and Irfan Younis, Business Development Director, Oceanic Consulting (Scotland’s leading black and ethnic consulting and promotions company) proved to be quite an astute panel of experts who enthusiastically shared their knowledge with delegates.
Feedback from the workshop:
“In the short term, I will share what I have learnt today with peers at the weekly marketing meeting and in the long term I will develop our audience development strategy to include the communities I have learnt about today.”
“I will look into more focused marketing to reach the communities that may not be aware of our work.”
“Thank you. A very useful couple of hours...”
Our next workshop -
Access All Areas - will look at the positive marketing steps that can be taken to benefit both your organisation and attenders/participants with additional support needs – details to be released later this week at
www.growyouraudiences.com
AMA Press and PR Day Event – Pressing Matters
It’s easy to churn out press releases, once you know the tricks of the trade but where do you go from there? Being held at Sadler’s Wells, London on 18 May 2006 (10am to 5pm) this day event is for those who are looking to move beyond a piecemeal approach to media coverage and progress their press and PR activity to a more strategic level.
Keynote speakers:
Roberta Doyle, Director of External Affairs, Scottish Opera
Claire Hyde, Head of Media Relations, Barbican
Sammie Squire, Time Out
Seminar leaders:
Caroline Leech, Consultant (ex Head of Press and Public Affairs at Welsh National Opera)
Jim Fletcher, Consultant (ex Head of Public Affairs, English National Ballet)
Kim Gowland, Communications Manager, Manchester Art Gallery
AMA Conference 2006 - Five Portions A Day
19-21 July, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
This year's AMA conference is taking place as one event to maximise networking opportunities and provide greater content flexibility. Delegates will be able to pick and mix from a range of seminars and breakout discussions including keynotes in conversation, practical seminars, strategic level discussions, round table sessions (at a variety of levels), audience data sessions, management sessions and industry discussions. Delegates will be able to create a programme which is intellectually stimulating, challenging and fun regardless of their experience or job title.
New Match Funding Awards from A & B Scotland - Available Now
The Scottish Executive has made funding available to Arts & Business Scotland to incentivise private sector sponsorship of the arts. £350,000 is available through the Scottish Executive New Arts Sponsorship Awards in both 2006/07 and 2007/08. Application guidelines and an application form can be downloaded from the website at www.AandB.org.uk/Scotland
The main objectives for the Awards are to:
1. Increase the number of businesses sponsoring the arts in Scotland
2. Encourage cultural organisations to approach businesses which have not sponsored the arts before, or have not sponsored for at least 3 years
3. Encourage non-Scottish based companies to sponsor arts activities in Scotland
To discuss eligibility, or if you have any questions about the application process, please contact Jeanie Scott at Arts & Business Scotland.
Tel: 0131 220 2499 Mobile: 07970 224 479.
Ticket Offer: Perth Theatre on Tour - Phedre
Adapted by Ted Hughes
Directed & Designed by Graham McLaren
Citizens' Theatre 18-22 April @ 7.30pm
"a timely and memorable Phedre with a lucid intensity
not to be forgotten" Joyce McMillan
Perth Theatre is delighted to be back on the road after a break of over 10 years. The theatre is now part of Horsecross, the award winning organisation that also runs the new Perth Concert Hall - launched amid great excitement in Autumn 2005. This tour is one of the ripple effects of the explosion of arts, community and conferencing activity created by Horsecross.
Special Offer: £6 tickets
There are a limited number of £6 tickets (normally £12) available to GGA members on Wed 19 and Thurs 20 April at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Please quote GGA when booking.
Touring in association with theatrebabel
Cultural Leadership Opportunity from NESTA
Louse Mitchell will receive a Cultural Leadership Investment of £47,180 over two years from March 2006. The award has been given by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).
After a decade of leadership Louise will take six months out from her position as Director of Glasgow Cultural Enterprises, the charitable company, which manages and operates The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the recently refurbished City Halls and Celtic Connections Festival.
NESTA's Cultural Leadership programme selects individuals from science, technology and arts sectors to undertake placements with outstanding leaders from around the world to enhance their knowledge, skills expertise and their own behaviours as leaders.
Read more...
Mitchell Switches On a New Colour Scheme
The Mitchell Library is the latest Glasgow landmark to be bathed in coloured light as part of a £5m project. Around 200 bulbs covering the entire
B-listed building near Charing Cross have been switched on.
The £300k scheme, in North Street, is the latest part of a council drive to make some of Glasgow's historic and important buildings more attractive and safer.
Cultural and Leisure Services
Glasgow City Council has unveiled its budget for 2006/07. During this financial year, which sees a freeze in Council Tax charges, the City Council will invest £79m in Cultural and Leisure Services (art galleries and museums, libraries and sports centres etc) - an increase of £6m on last year. The diagram below shows where every £1 of Council Tax money goes:
Image copyright: Glasgow City Council
Glasgow's the Place To Be
Glasgow came second in a league table of 31 European cities where "in the next five years, it will be a more pleasant to live", with 91% of Glaswegians agreeing. The information contained in an Urban Audit Perception Study, compared Glasgow to, among others, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Manchester, Paris, Rome and Stockholm. 87% also said they were satisfied with Glasgow's cultural facilities.
GGA News Review
Catch up on the week's news, which includes press review ratings of GGA members' events by logging onto GGA's online Resource Library.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is running a competition for schools to coincide with its forthcoming family-friendly concert, The Night Mail, the Sultan and the Devil’s Violin.
The competition is for pupils in classes P5 to P7 to design a picture inspired by WH Auden’s poem The Night Mail (as featured in the concert). Two winners will be chosen by a panel including SCO Managing Director, Roy McEwan and First Scotrail Print and Design Manager, John Wilde.
“This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner and the girl next door…” (Download the recording of The Night Mail (read by Paul Rissmann) here).
The Night Mail competition for schools runs with support from First ScotRail.
SCO Up for Music Award
The SCO is in the running for the best ensemble at this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society awards.
DADA
DADA has recently launched a brand new service, DADA VIP. This extension to the traditional DADA offering allows arts organisations to reach current and new target audiences, promote their activity, drive custom and achieve real results. DADA is keen to work alongside arts organisations who want to get the most out of their marketing budgets whilst developing their audience base. Recent clients of DADA include the RSNO, Scottish Ensemble, Citizens’ Theatre, Scottish Ballet, Cineworld and Xscape. Contact Graeme McGowan, Brand Marketing Manager at DADA for more details.
The Arches
The curtain rises on the annual Arches Theatre Festival next week, heralding the arrival of 14 international and local productions. This year, the two week festival will use every inch of the Arches complex to stage new and challenging work in some of the most intriguing and inspirational theatrical spaces in the city.
Museum Visits Up
The DCMS has announced that the number of visits to museums in the UK has risen by 5 million since entry fees were scrapped. This means an increase of 66% since December 2001, which comes in spite of the effect of the July 05 bombings. Visits to galleries and museums which have always been free have also risen by 2%.
This month's highlighted supplier: Oceanic Consulting
What they say about themselves:"Oceanic Consulting is Scotland's leading Ethnic consulting and promotions company. With the success of our campaigns, events and dedication to our customer needs, we have established a respectable database of companies known locally and nation-wide. We strongly believe that our success stems from being committed to our work and maintaining exceptional standards."
Clients include Glasgow Mela, Glasgow City Council, the BBC, Bollywood Films and the Harlequin Group.
oceanicconsulting.co.uk
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list of suppliers who have been recommended by GGA Members. Call us now if you think you should be there too!
Charlotte Winter
Find out a bit more about
Charlotte, GGA's Market Research Manager.
Download Sales
US hip-hop duo Gnarls Barkley have become the first act to score a UK number one single on the strength of digital sales alone (with 31,000 download sales). The chart landmark comes less than a year after download sales were first counted towards the top 40. Before that, the singles scene looked rather gloomy - sales had dropped from 80 million in the late 1990s to little more than 20 million in 2005. Music downloads to mobile phones already account for 7% of all chart sales.
Stressed at your desk? Blame the work mates
Don't blame the boss or a difficult customer - if you want to know who is the cause of your stress, look at the person sitting next to you. Workers have cited their own colleagues as the main cause of annoyance at work. Recruitment agency Monster asked more than 2000 workers in the UK what irritated them most about their job and the largest percentage, 30%, said "work mates". A quarter of respondents revealed that long hours leave them irritated, with 24% feeling annoyed at the amount of red tape their work requires. Just 10% said nothing about their work irritates them.
Don't forget to reserve your place for the Access All Areas workshop - booking details will follow soon.
Best wishes
Dianne Greig
Audience Development Manager
Glasgow Grows Audiences
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