WAYS TO ENGAGE
Tour-ready Presentations
Discover five-minute opportunities to promote your work that is touring or ready to tour in the next 12-24 months at local theatre events. These sessions will mainly take place in The Albany’s Theatre, equipped with a big screen and outstanding sound. This is your chance to showcase your digital assets, advocate for your production, and connect directly with venues, programmers, and potential partners in the theatre in towns around you. Bring the work, sell the production, and start meaningful conversations while leveraging valuable theatre resources.
Pipeline - Pitchers and Panellists
Designed for collaborative development of new ideas for future midscale touring (24 months+), this initiative focuses on local theatre events. Each pitch will be heard by a chair and a panel of three midscale venue managers, all committed to supporting theatre in towns. The aim is to help promising ideas find supporters, sharpen their proposition, and receive constructive feedback from those who understand the touring landscape and their local audiences. This is for evolving ideas, not finished products. Venues with theatre resources to share and test are encouraged to pitch too.
Wanted: Producer Pitchers and Venue Manager Panellists.
Collaborate - you choose the topic
This strand will focus on more transparent and collaborative relationships between producers and venues, particularly around the development of new touring work for local theatre events and theatre in towns.
We want to hear your thoughts on what needs to be discussed. What barriers hinder better collaboration? What would enable venues and producers to make decisions earlier, share risks more intelligently, and build tours on stronger foundations? What digital solutions could assist you in delivering or programming a touring production, considering available theatre resources?
Applicants are invited to suggest topics for this strand.
Dream - think big
What would you reinvent if the room had the will to do it? Perhaps a new approach to co-production for local theatre events? A better touring model that benefits theatre in towns? Shared marketing infrastructure and new ways of building audiences? A different relationship between venues, producers, and artists in the realm of available theatre resources?
Participants will be invited to suggest bold topics in the morning. The hottest ideas will be discussed in the afternoon.
This is the space for the bigger questions: not just how we survive the current model of theatre, but how we might change it.
Marketplace - make connections
The Marketplace will run throughout the day, providing opportunities for organisations to connect with delegates between sessions, especially in the context of local theatre events and theatre resources.
Whether you're a producer looking to find new venues for theatre in towns, a venue hoping to broaden your programming, a service provider with a solution for the midscale, or a sector organisation wanting to engage directly with decision-makers, the Marketplace is your opportunity to start conversations and build relationships.
Wanted: Producers, venues, suppliers, sector organisations, funders and partners who have something valuable to share with the midscale and local theatre events.
Live Moments - share something unforgettable
Live Moments are short performances woven throughout the day, bringing Midscale to life and giving delegates a taste of work in front of an audience. These local theatre events aim to inspire conversations while showcasing the breadth of drama, music theatre, dance, and opera for midscale touring also enriched by theatre resources available in our communities.
We're looking for companies with pieces that can be easily presented with one or two performers and minimal technical requirements. We want to connect with artists and companies that have compelling live work to share, contributing to the vibrant theatre in towns across the region.