BAFA 2006 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE - WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE (WMC) - CARDIFF THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 17.30-19.00 Venue: Welcomes:
WELCOME RECEPTION National Assembly for Wales Festival Host: Jo Benjamin,
Music:
CEO, Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre Welsh Welcome: Rosemary Butler, Assembly Member and Chair, Culture Committee Welsh Harpist, Claire Jones
9.00-9.45
FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER REGISTRATION
Arrive, register, coffee, network Nick Dodds, BAFA Chair and CEO, Brighton Festival and Dome WMC Welcome: Fiona Allan, Director of Programming, WMC 9.45-11.00 KEY NOTE SPEECH Robyn Archer, Festival Artistic Director and Singer 'Putting the Arts in their Place' Previously Artistic Director of Australia's Melbourne and Adelaide festivals and until recently Artistic Director of the Liverpool Culture Company, Robyn reflects on the origins of festivals and how contemporary celebrations of the arts shape up in that context. 11.00-11.30 Coffee and network 11.15-11.20 Talk by Steve Heap, Folk Arts England (FAE) 11.30-13.00 SESSION 1 'There's A Place For Us - Festivals:Connections' Community partnerships and regeneration Geraint Talfan-Davies, Chair, Welsh National Opera Chair: Joanne Davies, CEO, Audiences Wales Speakers: Peter Finch, CEO, Academi Gwyn L Williams, CEO, International Eisteddfod and Royal Pavilion, Llangollen Irfon Bennett, Deputy Director, Urdd Eisteddfod 13.00 Buffet lunch and network TESCO Stage: Taina Niemela, pianist Music: 14.15-15.30 SESSION 2 - delegates select A or B: A 'Heroes or Villains? Arts Leadership for the new Millennium' Sue Hoyle, Speakers: Deputy Director, Clore Duffield Programme Hilary Carty, Director, Cultural Leadership Programme Jonathan Holloway, CEO, Norfolk and Norwich Festival B 'They Wont Come if you Don’t Ask Them' Guy Chapman, Director, GCA and marketing Speaker: consultant to Cardiff Musical Theatre Festival 15.30-16.00 Tea and network 16.00-16.30 SESSION 3 'A Welsh Perspective' Simon Lovell-Jones, Speaker: Regional Director, Arts Council Wales 16.30-17.15 BAFA AGM, + launch of new BAFA identity 17.20-18.00 optional TOUR OF THE WMC 18.00-19.00 Free time
19.30 Venue:
CARDIFF FESTIVAL SHOW OPTIONS Various venues in Cardiff delegates select one: A BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre Semi-Final B Bridgend Youth Theatre - Fiddler on the Roof C Guys and Dolls at the WMC
SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER REGISTRATION
9.00-9.45
Arrive, register, coffee, network
Welcomes:
19.00-20.00
DRINKS RECEPTION
Venue:
The Tube, Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre
Talk:
'A Sense of Place'
Music:
BBC Radio 2 - performers from: 'Voice of Musical Theatre' Competition followed by brief guided walk to supper venue
20.30-late
CONFERENCE SUPPER
Venue:
Harry Ramsdens, Cardiff Bay
Music:
various Welsh performers including: FERNHILL: 'Folk music but not as we know it'.
9.10-9.40
Informal forum for smaller festivals
9.45-11.00
KEY NOTE SPEECH Brian McMaster, Outgoing Director, Edinburgh International Festival '15 Misspent Years' Brian, the longest serving director of the EIF, who stands down after this the 60th Edinburgh Festival, reflects on his 15 years in the hot seat. Coffee and network Talk by John Willan, Chair, International Arts Management Association (IAMA) SESSION 4 - delegates select two: 8 roundtable discussions repeated twice: 'Keeping on the right side of the Law'. Legal Update 'Its not just about the money'. Led by The Institute of Fundraising 'Access for All: meeting the needs of your deaf and disable patrons'. Led by SHAPE 'Working with Local Authorities the does and don'ts'. Led by NALGAO 'Are you Covered? Effective Insurance for your festival'. Led by La Playa Limited 'Non-specific venue event management'. Led by Wicked Events 'Artists Managers and Festivals'. Led by IAMA 'Effective Programme Building'. 1st session: Jo Metcalf, Festival Director, Salisbury Festival 2nd session: Jonathan Holloway, CEO, Norfolk and Norwich Festival Conference Roundup and light lunch Nick Dodds, BAFA Chair and CEO, Brighton Festival and Dome TESCO Stage: Cor Meibion Mynydd Mawr in association with Ty Cerdd
11.00-11.30 11.15-11.20 11.30-13.00 A B C D E F G H
13.00-13.30 Roundup: Music: