Cultural institutions need to take a deep dive if they really want to attract their missing audiences, according to a new EU report.

Proving that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (or title), there are many compelling reasons to read the EU’s recent ‘Policies and Good Practices in the…

Open All Areas - Grundvig Funding 2012/14 

On the 9th November 2012 Rich Hadley emailed in jubilation after a to and fro of activity,

"Absolutely brilliant news A full house! Now to work!"

(UK Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway,…

TEDxLaceMarket worked as I wished it was going to. It was an energising experience.

TEDxLaceMarket was held on Saturday 24th November 2012 at Nottingham's most prestigious arts venue "Nottingham Contemporary" it's theme was Family, How can we live better together? This was our TEDx idea "Worth Spreading". This was a showcase opportunity.

Although I am known as a social media nutcase who works with Arts…

For twelve weeks from June 2007, the streets of London were turned into a Gallery – as around 30 full size recreations of National Gallery paintings were hung on the walls, in the most unexpected and unusual of places.

Masterpieces…

Northern Ireland based audience development agency Audiences NI has seized the opportunity to use unsold capacity in venues and organisations to encourage new attenders to go to the arts using guest tickets, writes Sara Gunn.

The flagship Test Drive the Arts NI project has been running since February 2010 and has encouraged almost 14,000 new audience members to walk through the doors of venues across the country and enjoy what…

Do you feel the wind blowing across Europe, asked conference moderator Chris Torch, the recognition that great art cannot exist without great audiences: that they are symbiotic?

At the EU's recent …

Do you feel the wind blowing across Europe, asked conference moderator Chris Torch, the recognition that great art cannot exist without great audiences: that they are symbiotic?

At the EU's recent …

Welcome to Arts and Audiences conference in Stockholm on October 10th to 12th. Here is a taste of the program, and you can register today.

The main theme for the upcoming Arts and Audiences conference, which will take place in Stockholm October 10.-12. is ’culture and inclusion’. The program will be structured around how the arts can be perceived as relevant for more…

AEN congres, Audiences insight/out

Date: Wednesday 30 may 2012, Rotterdam





Introduction

At the start of the congress we posed three main questions to our visitors. We asked them to keep these questions in mind during the congress so we could discuss them in the closing session. Here you find a summary of the final debate and also some points noted…

The museum now knows a little more about its visitors after carrying out a one-year museum marketing study and conducting 2,102 situational interviews.

The study is based on the following sections:

• Quality measurement, differentiating between expectations prior to the visit and the quality perceived after the visit.
• Visitor profile, in order to see the type of people who visit the museum (gender, age,…

Cultural professionals from around Europe arrive in Barcelona for the latest adventure in Extending the Margins on Thursday 19 April 2012. The conference considers how big prestige cultural institutions are able to reach out to and engage with their local…

What's hot, what's not, and what's next...

Industry Compass 2011: Global Issues, Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities Impacting the World of Festivals and Events
The most comprehensive global analysis of festivals and events in 2011, featuring 22 contributors from 13 countries

New Blog Post from The Experience Business about audience insight and a pioneering new qualitative research training programme

http://http://www.theexperiencebusiness.co.uk/blog/entry/from-lip-service-to-love-affair-changing-your-relationship-with-audience-data/

I recently attended and spoke at the first annual Stage Management Association conference. Anyone who follows my content stream may have seen the posts. I won't bore you with here but available on request! Unsurprisingly I was talking about social technologies and how they can be used to make the work place more effective, productive and efficient. The work place being the rehearsal room and theatrical production process for the stagemanagement department. My career has been behind the…

To our conference in Førde, Norway, 5 July we have chosen the following theme: In with the audience – out with prejudice. The conference is organised as a collaboration between Førde Traditional and World Music Festival and…

Do you have a story to tell? Colleagues at the European Commission are planning a conference focusing on audience development in October 2012.  They are looking for case studies to showcase.  

Here's what they say:

The Commission is organising a conference on audience development in autumn 2012 and is looking for good examples from projects supported by the Culture and Media…

I'm delighted to announce the launch of a pioneering strategic insight consultancy,The Experience Business.

Following on from years of audience research in the arts and cultural sector, I decided to bite the bullet and establish a consultancy that specialised on…

Wednesday 21st December

CultuurNet.be have upload all the slideshows to slideshare. See…