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…

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…

When it comes to choosing your life partner, is it just physical beauty that matters? Or must they have other qualities like kindness, empathy, a good sense of humour, skills in the kitchen or up a ladder? And maybe, when the wrinkles and folds have begun to show,…

Posh consulting firm Oliver Wyman helped a group of American orchestras to find out what was ‘killing them’. Not the hall acoustics, nor quality of playing, nor the conductor, it was the nightmare of parking your car on concert night, particularly for inexperienced…

We Rotterdam and culture/ Wij Rotterdammers en cultuur



Analysis of data and trends from five years of audience research





Audience research is currently very topical. The need to cut in budgets is often coupled with "the interests and wishes of the public '. The demand for knowledge about audiences is therefor currently very great. Rotterdam Festivals coordinates since a number of years research into the Rotterdam culture public.…

Theatre, live performance. The smell of the grease paint, the roar of the crowd! Good theatre starts with a great story. Tallented actors can pull off a poor script but its rare. Can theatre be delivered through the medium of social media? I'm going to find out. The information below is all I have to go on. I have signed up and I am curious and cynical in the same breath. The new wave of digtal participation has inplication for the theatre and those who work within the industry. This excites…