Creative Bedfordshire - Planning to Succeed - Creative Networking - December 2015

Welcome!

Creative Bedfordshire!10th December 2015!

The Quarry Theatre at St Lukes, !Bedford, MK40 2NN!

7-9pm!

PLANNING TO SUCCEED hosted by Sandra Dartnell for Bedford Creative Arts!

Join us for creative networking in December. Our focus is good planning and you will hear from Independent dance producer Jih-Wen Yeh, and the Quarry Theatre team. We

are also here to celebrate the achievements of our network during 2015 and to look ahead together to 2016. !

Mentions!Our host !Bedford Creative Arts !@wearebca!

@CreativeBeds !#CBNetworking!

Our venue tonight !The Quarry Theatre!@quarryatstlukes!

Mentions!


Tonight we celebrate some of the people, projects and collaborations from across the Creative Bedfordshire network on the big screen loop at the Quarry Theatre. Thanks to all who submitted examples of work from 2015. For more information about any of the work please email [email protected]!

View the complete loop presentation http://www.slideshare.net/CreativeBedfordshire/creative-bedfordshire-celebrates-the-work-of-the-creative-network-in-2015-56346007!

Photo Credit to Cat Lane for Bedford Creative Arts. !

Work credits to David Litchfield. Erica Roffe. Katie Allen. Paul Pibworth. Paul Hutchinson. Kayte Judge. Cat Lane. Darren Rose. Rebecca Cracknell. Claire Rulton. Matthew Rulton. Jon Canty. Charlotte Tenneson. Lisa Tilley. Kristina Bullen. Bedpop, Animal Studio. Bedpop Fun Palaces. Circus of Illustration. The Bedford Clanger. The Bedford Film Festival. The Bear & The Piano. The Bedford Song Book. Bedford College. BAFTA. Bedford Arts Choir. The Quarry Theatre. The Higgins. Sustrans. Network Rail. Beauchamp Middle School. Culture Challenge. Do Something Brilliant. Hampton Court Palace. Central Bedfordshire Council. Bedford Borough Council. And the many more who took the photographs, appear in the photographs, hosted the events, attended the events, and bought the work – all contributing to our local economy and our business ventures. !

Mentions!Sole Traders Tax!Handout!

Claire !@AddisonAccounts!

Matthew!@acuriousjoy!


This evening includes a chance to shout-out about your latest work, and to chat informally.!We encourage you to share your experience via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.!

http://instagram.com/creativebeds/!

http://facebook.com/groups/creativebedfordshire/!


We encourage you to connect with the people you meet tonight on LinkedIn.!Create a profile, connect and create a network of creative professionals at your fingertips online. !

http://linkedin.com/company/creative-bedfordshire!

LinkedIn is the hub from which we share event presentations via SlideShare.!

http://slideshare.net/CreativeBedfordshire!


Jih-Wen Yeh !Artistic director & producer!

Edinburgh Festival producer trainee 2015 !

Escalator dance producer 2012!

Member of Independent Dance Management Network!

@Twitter Handle!Grants for the Arts !Introduction sources!

Spring Surgeries!

Rescheduled Introduction talk from Sue Hughes!

http://www.stepoutarts.co.uk/! http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/!


The Quarry Theatre Team!Kati Donlon, Theatre Assistant !(Box Office/Publicity & Marketing!/Bar Manager/logistics)!

Fi Fowler, Theatre Assistant !(Technical support/Speech & Drama Teacher)!

James Pharaoh, Theatre Manager !

Jules Crossley, Director of Theatre!

@Twitter Handle!

http://www.quarrytheatre.org.uk/!


Independent dance producer Jih-Wen Yeh, will talk about the importance of the planning skills of a producer to the success of creative projects across the performing and visual arts.!

Watch Rhiannon Faith ‘Scary Shit’ Promo!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtprfoFobQc!

@StepOutArts!


Jih-Wen Yeh !

Photo Credit to Rhiannon Faith !

@jihwenyeh!

Gained BA (Hons) dance degree at the Laban centre, London in 1993. Have worked as a dance artist and a dance teacher. Set up my trading company Step Out Arts to promote Chinese Culture in 1995. !


Jih-Wen Yeh !@StepOutArts!@jihwenyeh!

2004, appointed as an artist consultant by Westminster City Council to programme an action plan called Chinatown Arts Space (CAS) and became project manager of CAS from 2004 - 2008. !

Also a member of a judging panel Westminster Arts funding. !

2008, made a critical decision to leave the post at CAS and set up Step Out Arts LTD to focus on supporting the visibility and sustainability of British East Asian dance artists nationally through showcases, productions and educational projects.!


Jih-Wen Yeh !

Photo Credit to Kimiya Yoshikawa !

@StepOutArts!@jihwenyeh!

2009, had a successful application for funding to develop the sector which I repeated in 2010.!

2012, selected as one of the 5 Escalator dance producers funded by Arts Council England. !

Benefited me with a year of solid training including visits to regional, national and international festivals. !

I branched out to my independent dance producer career and at the same time I expanded my scope beyond only British East Asian artists.


Jih-Wen Yeh !@StepOutArts!@jihwenyeh!

There are many different kinds of producers, and it is for artists to seek the right person by speaking to different individual producers to find the suitable one. A producers can be the one who assists only in the planning, or the one overseeing and managing all aspects of the work. !

Watch Shaping sounds part 2!https://vimeo.com/69823195!

@StepOutArts!


What is a producer !

Photo Credit to David Ball!

@jihwenyeh!

For the one off project – !

Stage 1!Meet up and find out what the project is about ?!What stage it is of the project?!What does the artist want to achieve?!Would I be interested in the project and would I be able to help to achieve the aim? !

Stage 2 !Look into the resources, what’s there and what we need to find? !Draw up the budget/ time line !Submitting the funding application !

Stage 3!Informing all artists and partners !Contract all the collaborators !Working toward the schedule !Evaluation & Report !


@StepOutArts!

Photo Credit to Mire Loew

@jihwenyeh!

David: A digitally interactive dance experience exploring identity and community through the act of watching other online. **You can interact with David online, right now! He is on facebook (David David) and instagram (david.da.v.id.david). Your decision and interaction will change who he becomes and how he interacts with his world. !

Currently crowd funding http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/david!

Jih-Wen Yeh !

For the long term development project !

All the above, plus; !

Plan ahead, draw up a yearly plan !

Profile raising !

Looking for opportunities and develop existing and new partnerships for next stages such as further development to premiere the work and touring!

Watch The Point at Which it Last Made Sense !https://vimeo.com/84348935!Direction: Robin Dingemans & Nick Bryson!Performance: James O'Shea & Rosa Vreeling!Video Design: SDNA!Composer: Alessandro BosettiCostume !Design: Louise Bennetts!Lighting Design: Guy Hoare!Producer: Jih Wen Yeh !


Jih-Wen Yeh !@StepOutArts!

Photo Credit to Chris Nash!

@jihwenyeh!

Good planning tips from producers (part 1)!Dream big but be realis.c Contract all collaborators JWY! JWY!

Monitor budget

JWY! JWY!


@Twitter Handle!@Twitter Handle!

Get to know your regional arts council officer

@StepOutArts!@jihwenyeh!

Sue Hughes !Rescheduled: Sue Hughes from Arts Council England, will talk about the Grants for the Arts programme of funding, including how to apply and tips for successful funding applications. New Date 4th February 2014!

Key sources of information http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/grants-arts/!Initial questions to Enquiries team on 0845 300 6200 or 0161 934 4317!

@Ace_National!


Grants for the Art Spring Surgeries 2016!Register your interest in our Arts Council England 'Grants for the Arts' Spring Surgeries with Bedford Creative Arts. A limited number of one-to-ones will be held in Central Bedfordshire on 12th January 2016 3-6pm with representatives from the Arts Council and Bedford Creative Arts, to informally preview Arts Council England 'Grants for the Arts' draft applications and to help fine-tune them, in readiness for submission. !

Register your interest: http://www.creativebedforshire.com!The deadline to register interest is midnight Friday 19th December 2015.!

@WeAreBCA!


News from Bedford Creative Arts !@weareBCA!


The Bedford Song Book!https://www.facebook.com/Bedford.Creative.Arts/ !

@WeAreBCA!

The Quarry Theatre team!The Quarry Theatre team step front-of-house to offer practical planning advice, across the perspectives of: producing a local festival, an international festival and producing in a professional theatre.!

@quarryatstlukes !


A new theatre for Bedford!The Quarry Theatre officially opened at the end of June 2015 but we started to produce and stage plays from the end of April 2015 onwards. !

@quarryatstlukes !


The Quarry Theatre team!Perspectives on planning:!


International festival! Local festival!The team Early development Venue hire Previews Paying the actors Accommoda.on Marke.ng and publicity

Decide when!Find a venue!Insurance!Brand & identity!Sponsorship / In Kind Support!Accounting!Programming Marketing!Staffing!Post event accounting!

And then…!Eat!!Sleep!!Enjoy.!

@quarryatstlukes !

International Festival!Valiant at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015!

@quarryatstlukes !


Aims !

Potentially transfer Valiant to a London Fringe theatre, either as it was or for development!

Give our actors professional exposure !

Long-listed for the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award !

Taking part in JW3’s International Women’s Day celebration, February 2016 !

Local Festival!Bedford Fringe Festival 2015!

@quarryatstlukes !


Facts and impact!

Number of days: 10!Number of venues: 5 (Auditorium, Studio, Bar, Gallery & Forecourt)!Number of events: 95!Number of tickets issued or sold: 3424 (a 47% increase on 2013)!Number of performers: 191!Number of Edinburgh previews: 39!Cash raised for Keech Hospice Care: £372.15!Front of House volunteer hours (23rd July – 1st August): 830!

Website hits counted (www.bedfringe.com home page): !1st April (website launch) – 1st August = 69,214!1st May – 1st August = 56,0781st June – 1st August = 45,919!1st July – 1st August = 28,920!Reads of digital brochure (April 23rd – August 1st): 2,498!

Professional Theatre!The biggest challenges we’ve had so far!

@quarryatstlukes !


Trying to meet everyone’s expectations while sticking to a budget, and while still sticking to our own personal aims and artistic vision.!

Having enough hours in the day/building up our staff team! Also keeping our families/loved-ones happy as they have hardly seen us for the past six months!!

Raising awareness of the fact that we’re here – people still regularly write to the local papers saying “we need a theatre in Bedford” and they have us and The Place! We’ve had around 9,000 people through the door so far since the end of April 2015 so hopefully a few people know we’re here at least.!

Because we’re brand new we’ve had to get systems into place as we’ve been going along.!

Learning by mistakes!

Getting our glass recycled!!!

Good planning tips from producers (part 2)! Learn to say no/be selec.ve Stay calm -‐ there is normally a solu.on TQT! TQT!Accept offers of help whenever you can TQT!


@Twitter Handle!@Twitter Handle!

Don’t offend other people who work in a similar field to the opera.on you’re star.ng – collaborate as much as possible

@quarryatstlukes!

TQT!Make as many funding applica.ons as possible – you will underes.mate the .me they take so allocate enough .me to each one so you can do it properly. TQT!

Read all the guidelines the organisa.on gives you and ask them for help if they offer it – they know what they’re look for in terms of giving away their money TQT!


Over to the room. Who wants to say something about their creative business or creative need?!

Shout outs!Circus of Illustration!http://www.circusofillustration.com/!


Pavilion at the Park!http://pavilion.attheparkbedford.co.uk/!

Bedford Language Centre!http://www.bedfordlanguagecentre.co.uk/!

Wood End Gallery!http://www.tabwood.co.uk/!

Keeping it Social!http://www.keepingitsocial.co.uk/!

Conscia!http://www.conscia.org/ !

Auris Music Agency!http://www.aurismusicagency.com/!

Next up: Connecting with your audience!

@PlatePeople!

14th January 2015!Friends Meeting House, !27-29 North Street, Leighton Buzzard !LU7 1EQ!7 – 9 pm!


Join us in Leighton Buzzard for creative networking on Thursday 14th January from 7 - 9pm at The Friends Meeting House. Network and explore how to tailor your business behaviour and messages to your audience. Our January 2016 speakers are Tabitha Mary and PlatePeople. Tabitha Mary will offer a +one-year-in perspective and new business PlatePeople will tell you how they approached their first Christmas and beyond. Both will speak about how they get their content right, covering: products, research, channels, collaboration and commitment. !

Tabitha Mary, the brand of designer Tabitha Wainwright, has a following in Bedfordshire and beyond. Selling own design prints and tea towels, Tabitha Mary has been commissioned by small businesses, Bedford Borough Council and We are Anglesey.!

PlatePeople decorate plates and other ceramics. The creative child of Claire and Matthew Rulton, the PlatePeople look is simple and distinct. The character is quirky and personalized, generating sales online and at creative markets and pop-ups.!

http://www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/index.php/events/creative-bedfordshire-connecting-with-your-audience/!

@TabithaMary!

Save the date!Creative Bedfordshire4th Feb 2016!7 – 9 pm!The Ents.Shed!Bedford!


Creative Bedfordshire3rd Mar 2016!7 – 9 pm!Venue TBC!Central Bedfordshire location TBC!

Heads up!Funding surgeries – Arts Council - Grants for the Arts12th Jan 2016!3 – 6 pm!Ampthill, Central Bedfordshire!


Creative Bedfordshire ‘Grow Your Creative Business’ Conference!4th March 2016!9.30 – 3 pm!Bedford !

Thank You!

Creative Bedfordshire is a network of creative people and businesses in Bedfordshire and offers regular networking events

and professional development opportunities. Sole traders, freelancers and creative businesses of all kinds are welcome to

attend. It is funded by the economic development teams at Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council and is run by

Bedford Creative Arts. For more information email [email protected]!

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