C21 News July 2007 Issue 9 |
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Welcome to the latest edition of C21 News, keeping you in touch with news, views, opportunities and job vacancies as well as ArtsPass offers from some of the best venues in Glasgow. The Tron adds a culinary influence to this edition with a special offer for their restaurant. Read on to find out more about this and other great offers for ArtsPass card holders.
This month's C21 News features...
Staff Changes
There have been a few staff changes over the last month -
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The CCA recently announced the appointment of a new Marketing Manager – Kirsty Lincoln.
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Neshla Caplan has taken over from Sarah Fleming as Box Office Manager at the Arches.
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Platform has appointed a new Sales & Front of House Coordinator - Diane Canning. Diane joins Platform from Carynx where she was an Events Manager.
Welcome to you all and good luck in your new positions!
SDT celebrate 10 years with Janet Smith
Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is celebrating 10 years with Janet Smith as Artistic Director. Since Janet joined in June 1997, SDT’s size and status have grown significantly. They are now touring internationally, have seen the construction of a brand new £1million studio and have received the Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Repertoire in 2004. So, as they celebrate ten years with Janet and look forward to the future and all that it brings for the company, they can rest assured that ‘whatever happens SDT will not stray from its geographical and emotional roots’ (Janet Smith).
Art Gallery in running for £5m windfall
One of Glasgow's most popular galleries has moved a step closer to winning a share of a £5million arts bonanza. The Gallery of Modern Art has been chosen alongside nine other galleries in UK to go forward to the second round of a charity collecting scheme run by The Art Fund. The arts charity announced it was committing £5million to a new initiative aimed at developing the collections of international modern art venues. A total of 29 museums throughout Britain responded to the call for entries, with applications for cash totalling more than £28million. Only 10 proposals have made it to the next round - including GoMA's. Five of the museums and galleries on the list will be given funds to help bolster their collections of contemporary art.
Jobs Board
Audience Development Internship Programme
A fantastic opportunity awaits...Working in partnership with Scotland's two audience development agencies, Glasgow Grows Audiences (GGA) and The Audience Business (TAB), the Scottish Arts Council has created Scotland's first Audience Development Internship Programme. They seek two interns for a period of one year. Find out more on the GGA website.
Closing date for applications: Friday 17th August
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Office Manager (maternity cover)
Glasgow Grows Audiences (GGA) seek an outgoing, enthusiastic and resourceful Office Manager to help provide cover for particular aspects of the Finance & Administration Manager's job during a period of maternity leave - salary £14,000 - £16,000 (pro-rata). Find out more on the GGA website.
Closing date for applications: Friday 24th August
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Marketing & Development Officer
East Ayrshire Council seeks a Marketing & Development Officer (temporary for 6 months) based in Kilmarnock - salary £27,846 - £30,449. For further information, including detailed job description and job outline visit the award winning East Ayrshire Council Website.
Closing date for applications: Friday 10th August
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Communications Assistant
The RSAMD is currently recruiting a Communications Assistant to join its External Affairs Department - salary £14,040 - £15,726. For further information contact The Human Resources Department, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB. Tel: 0141 270 8303. Download a job description and application form from the RSAMD website.
Closing date for applications: Monday 13th August
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Ushers Required
For gigs, theatre shows and other events at the Arches.
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Training Events/Opportunities
What: Online Marketing
Where: Targeting Innovation, Glasgow
When: 5 September 2007 (10am - 12noon)
Cost: Free
This seminar will discuss the basic elements of online marketing including optimising the pages to maximise the positioning of your website on the key search engines. The seminar will also discuss other online marketing approaches including email marketing and site linking strategies. It serves as a useful introduction to the concepts of online marketing and will be of particular value to companies whose website is not delivering the anticipated benefits. This is a two hour, interactive seminar, where questions are encouraged and live links to relevant web resources are utilised. For further information contact Adele Coyle at Targeting Innovation (T. 0141 572 1600 or email acoyle@targetinginnovation.com).
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What: Podcasting for Business
Where: Targeting Innovation, Glasgow
When: 19 September 2007 (10am - 12 noon)
Cost: Free
Podcasting is the most cost effective electronic media distribution channel available. How can you harness it to reach new customers, improve customer service, marketing, staff and customer training? Podcasting provides convenience and choice whether you want to catch up with an audio newspaper or church sermon. The session will explore Podcasting directories, blogging, RSS feeds and much more. For further information contact Adele Coyle at Targeting Innovation (T. 0141 572 1600 or email acoyle@targetinginnovation.com).
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What: Sustainable Tourism Conference
Where: Radisson SAS Hotel, Edinburgh
When: 2 October 2007 (All day)
Cost: £85 & VAT
Learn all about good practice in sustainability in tourism from international and domestic businesses/destinations and hear about the benefits to your business of being more sustainable, not simply the benefits to the environment. Key speakers attending are:
- Justin Francis, director of Responsibletravel.com;
- Auden Schendler of
Aspen
Snow Mass;
- Sarah Rooney of The Rezidor Group (Radisson); and
- Peter Grant of Globaltrees.
For further information on this event please contact Katharine George at Stark Events (T. 0141 357 2235 or email katharine@starkeventsuk.com).
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"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing"
Aristotle
Industry News
Glasgow Grows Audiences in the virtual world!
 Second Life is a global community working together to build an online space for
creativity, collaboration, commerce, and entertainment. Residents strive to
bridge cultures, welcome diversity and believe in free expression, compassion and
tolerance as the foundation for community in this world.
Glasgow Grows Audiences has an 'office' in this 3-D virtual world, which is entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 8,506,683 Residents from around the globe. If you have never experienced Second Life check it out - you never know who you might meet!
Would you please pipe down driver?
3,000 plus black cab drivers are being recruited to welcome visitors to the World Pipe Band Championships and Piping Live. Thousands of tourists and competitors will descend on Glasgow and organisers are making sure they get a warm reception from the moment they arrive. A spokesperson for Culture & Sport Glasgow, which is organising the championships, said: "Our taxi drivers are well known for their friendly banter and for giving advice and we want to make sure they have all the information they need at their fingertips". Up to 250 bands and 8,000 pipers from Europe, Australia, North America, South America and New Zealand will take part in the championships and its sister event Piping Live! which are expected to draw a crowd of 25,000. Piping Live! runs from the 6th of August until the main competitions on the 11th of August.
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City's superstar attraction
It's official, stunning Kelvingrove Art Gallery is a star - literally. This month it became the fourth most popular gallery in the UK and it has been awarded a coveted five-star rating by VisitScotland. To mark this achievement, the tourism body has arranged for a star in the Pegasus constellation to be named Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Visit Britain appoints team Saatchi to review Britain's brand identity
VisitBritain has appointed boutique creative agency, Team Saatchi, under a new brief to review Britain's brand identity internationally. Following a five-way pitch, the appointment is a key element of work to consolidate Britain's position as a world-leading destination. Team Saatchi will help VisitBritain develop a new approach in light of the opportunities presented by the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and realise the potential £2 billion tourism benefit for the whole of the UK. This first stage is a strategic review of the Britain brand, which will be undertaken with the expert input of partners from the national tourist boards and industry from the public and private sectors.
£11m UEFA Cup Final bonanza for Glasgow
Glasgow's economy received an £11.5 million shot in the arm by staging last season's UEFA Cup Final. And the benefits from the event will continue for years to come with almost 75% of visitors so impressed with Glasgow they will return. The value of holding the match, contested by Spanish teams Sevilla and Espanyol, was calculated by global analyst group Experian. Findings of the report were -
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Supporters of the two finalists spent an average of £411 per head - well above tourism expenditure levels
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91% of supporters visited a cafe/restaurant
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58% of fans shopped during their trip and 16% visited a gallery, museum, exhibition or show
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The local economy will continue to benefit from the final in future years with 55% of fans likely to return within three years
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Almost 91% of fans thought the quality of their visit was either good or very good
EventBritain launches to help win more international events
In the middle of a summer filled with world class events, VisitBritain has launched a new strategy to help British destinations capture the attention of the world's event organisers. It will help the UK events industry to bring hundreds more major business, cultural and sporting events - worth up to £1 billion - to Britain. The new unit EventBritain will provide a comprehensive support service for any British city, region or nation aiming to win new events for Britain, complementing the excellent work being done by, for example, UK Sport, UKTI, London Olympic, EventScotland and the local, regional and national events organisations.
An ex-bar manager at the Tron remembers when they hosted an annual Burns Super and a girl in the admin department had the task of preparing individual place names for the tables from an itinerary and guest list document. She was amused to see that Selkirk Grace was expected to attend!
Latest ticket offers available to ArtsPass card holders...
What's on: Game Theory
Where: Tramway
When: Wed 5 - Sat 8 September 2007
ArtsPass Offer: 2 for 1 tickets
Game Theory is a compelling new play about the desire to win measured against the need to reconcile. Forgiveness, civility and the difference between saying something and meaning it are examined in this play in three parts, which is in turn funny, dark, disturbing and moving.
Envoys from three warring factions meet to negotiate the wording of a press statement that will announce the beginning of conciliatory talks.
Siblings return to their family home, partially destroyed during a civil war, each with a claim of rightful ownership.
A victim, the perpetrator of the crime and an arbitrator meet under the auspices of a restorative justice scheme.
Quote ArtsPass when booking by phone on 0845 330 3501 or visit the box office at Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE. Age restrictions 13+.
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What's on: Tron Bar & Restauarant Offers
Where: Tron Theatre
When: Until 30 August 2007
ArtsPass Offer: 20% of Total Food Bill. Bottle of House wine £8
With an outdoor terrace, a friendly bar, a wide selection of beers and wines, scrumptious bar food and the most irresistible pre-theatre menu in town, the Tron has much more to offer than a night at the theatre.
The Tron Bar & Restaurant are offering all ArtsPass card holders 20% off their total food bill - as if that isn't enough, why not enjoy a bottle of house wine for only £8! This culinary offer is valid Sunday to Thursday for the entire month of August. To find out more...
Just flash your ArtsPass when ordering at Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB.
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What's on: Subway
Where: Tron Theatre, Glasgow
When: Preview Sat 11 Aug 2007 (Tues 4 - Sat 8 Sept 2007)
ArtsPass Offer: £6 tickets (preview performance)
Tickets normally £10
Told to the tune of a seven-piece band, Subway is the brand new show from Vanishing Point (the company behind Mancub and Lost Ones). Commissioned by The Lyric Hammersmith and co produced by the Tron Theatre, this is an epic show of a man's reconciliation with his father, in a world they no longer recognise.
Subway is a dystopian musical adventure, starring Sandy Grierson, most recently in Fergus Lamont for which he was awarded a CATS award, and Ros Sydney, most recently in Rapture Theatre's Broken Glass, and featuring an extraordinary group of musicians from Kosovo. To find out more...
Please note this offer is not redeemable on previous tickets purchased. Quote ArtsPass Subway Offer when booking by phone on 0141 552 4267 or visit the Box Office at Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB. Limited to two tickets per transaction.
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What's on: The Flute Player & Kong Nay
Where: The Arches, Glasgow
When: Sun 5 August
ArtsPass Offer: 2 for 1 tickets
The Arches presents a night of Cambodian music and film. The Flute Player is an extraordinary story of survival by the recently Oscar-nominated Jocelyn Glatzer and sets the scene for live music courtesy of Kong Nay (nicknamed the "Ray Charles of Cambodia") and his protege Ouch Savy with their huge double strung guitars. The event kicks of at 7pm.
"As a singer I am very drawn to voices, and it was Kong Nay's voice that pulled me in right at the beginning" - Peter Gabriel
Quote ArtsPass when booking by phone on 0141 565 1023/1024 or visit the Box Office at The Arches, Glasgow. Age restrictions 14+.
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What's on: Easy Allstars
Where: The Arches, Glasgow
When: Sun 26 August
ArtsPass Offer: 2 for 1 tickets
Easy Allstars play Dub Side of the Moon and Radiodread (reggae versions of the classic album Dark Side of the Moon and Radiohead songs). To find out more visit www.myspace.com/easystar
Quote ArtsPass when booking by phone on 0141 565 1023/1024 or visit the Box Office at The Arches, Glasgow. Age restrictions 18+.
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