A number of challenges face arts and cultural organisations in showing their impact on public service outcomes. Jessica Harris examines the types of evidence that commissioners want and looks at how arts and cultural organisations are providing it. This article was originally published by Arts Professional.
This case study explores the key success factors and learning outcomes of Philharmonia Orchestra’s successful audience development project, iOrchestra. Discover how a mixture of digital installations, interactive stations and live concerts were used to reach audiences whose engagement with top quality orchestral music was low or non-existent.
Discover how Birmingham Contemporary Music Group launched the pioneering audience development and fundraising scheme, Sound Investment, to raise funds for their new work.
This is a story about how Circus Oz, a medium-sized performing arts company in Australia has been working with RMIT University to develop a digital platform – the Living Archive – to change not only the company’s operational business and artistic practices but its relationship with and conception of its audiences.
Explore how Channel 4 juggles the demands of delivering public service content and balancing commercial needs in this report of Jonathan Allan’s keynote at AMA conference 2013.
Shoshana Fanizza of US consultancy Audience Development Specialists (ADS) considers the importance of creating programmes to connect with communities that link up with what’s already getting their attention in the world outside the arts. This short article has been adapted from the ADS blog and was originally posted in 2013.
This case study from Queensland, Australia outlines how the Cultural Precinct has engaged with regional communities in recent years. Queensland’s Cultural Precinct has a strong presence in regional communities across the state, through touring programmes and exhibitions, artist workshops and residencies, performance simulcasts, collections loans, virtual access to collections, digital engagement projects, research and internships. … Read more
Lincoln Drill Hall is a thriving arts centre based in the heart of Lincoln servicing the city, county and beyond. In this case study, Gavin Street, Drill Hall’s Marketing Manager, desribes how the venue has recruited a team of volunteer village and community reps to help spread the word about Drill Hall in their village or … Read more
At Wolff Olins they ‘do brand’ and in a nutshell they believe that brand is not the organisation’s name, logo, slogan, advertising campaign or marketing activities. At its simplest they believe that brand is: 1. Your purpose – why you exist in the world 2. The way that all your different stakeholders experience that Owen … Read more
This research undertaken in 2011 by Morris Hargreaves McIntyre on behalf of Creative New Zealand, uses two sector specific products Audience Atlas and Culture Segments to identify and understand arts, culture and heritage audiences in New Zealand. The research is designed to help arts, culture and heritage organisations to target, reach and engage with new audiences and meet … Read more