#BAFA14RS: LONDON: Friday 25 April 2014
ACCESS ALL AREAS: Development The Annual BAFA Spring Road Show #BAFA14RS brings festivals & events of all sizes together with leading professionals in a unique active learning forum
LONDON Friday 25 April 2014 Time 13.00-17.00 Venue Theatres Trust 22 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0QL 12.00: Hungry? Why not find something different for lunch at the Southbank Centre’s Real Food Market before walking over the Hungerford Bridge to the Theatres Trust for an afternoon packed with information and inspiration!
More information? Email: info@artsfestivals.co.uk or BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
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#BAFA14RS: LONDON: Friday 25 April 2014
13.00-13.20: Coffee and registration Welcome and Introduction by Brendan Miles from The List The guide to what’s on in the UK – learn how to get listed
SESSION ONE 13.20-14.20: Audience Development: Attitude is Everything 2014 State of Access Report Jacob Adams, Festival Project Manager What does access for the deaf and disabled sector really mean for festivals? What is the latest in best practise and what does the most recent research reveal? Also in this session we will hear from Stagetext a charity who provide captioning and live speech-to-text to the arts sector
SESSION TWO 14.20-15.00: Audience Evaluation: Introduced by Spektrix Box office software used by a growing number of festivals and events ‘Qualia’: i-DAT, Plymouth University the technology designers behind this innovative project Learn about Cheltenham Festivals successful and ground-breaking NESTA R&D audience evaluation project. How can your festival benefit?
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#BAFA14RS: LONDON: Friday 25 April 2014
15.00-15.30: Coffee with La Playa Longstanding BAFA partners, La Playa are the leading providers of festival and event insurance and will also be signposting their new financial advisory service with specific reference to the new pension regulations that are coming everyone’s way. Learn how to find out when you will be affected!
SESSION THREE 15.30-16.35: Funding Development: Introduced by Sioned Hughes from the Cultural Attaché Network Christoph Jancowski, Interim UK Creative Europe Desk for Culture What are the relevant funding streams for the festival sector in the brand new EU Creative Europe programme? We will also hear a live case study from community arts organisation Parrabbola who have been successful in applying for EU funding 16.35-17.00: Meet the Experts All of today’s speakers will be available for 121 discussions over a final coffee 17.30: Free live music at the Southbank Centre another walk—back over Hungerford Bridge! ROBERT MITCHELL & RANDOLPH MATTHEWS More information? Email: info@artsfestivals.co.uk or BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
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