Reaching Out to New Audiences

VAN briefing sheet

Earlier this year I wrote a briefing sheet on Audience Development for the Voluntary Arts Network. It has just been published and you can find it on VAN’s website.  Do take a look and let me know what you think. There are lots of useful briefing sheets in this series, all aimed at voluntary sector organisations. They are written in jargon-free language and give lots of references to other places to go for help or more information. It’s a brilliant resource so do take a look.

I was commissioned to write the sheet by Audiences Northern Ireland who are committed to providing support to the arts sector in Northern Ireland, including the Voluntary Arts Sector. The library on their website is well worth looking at as they have gathered together a range of useful resources.

On a different subject . . . . ACE have recently launched a dance mapping project, it aims to pull together existing research and generate new research that will help us make the case for dance. There is already a useful bibliography on ACE’s website, and they are calling for people involved in dance to get involved in the online consultation. If you are interested in dance audiences I suggest reading new research done for the East Midlands by Heather Maitland and Rachel Gibson, which as some useful insights and is available on Deda‘s website.