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The Findings at a Glance Act 2 Findings At A Glance 62K 232 Audience responses Organisations Booking Only 17% Half NOW for of those booking are for events of respondents are from NOVEMBER events booking for events Returning 67% 70% would consider attending would not consider booking for to events events if venues re-opened events for at least 3 months with social distancing Covid-safe ‘kite mark’ Masks for audiences Households seated together Safety & Unallocated seating Limited numbers Restricted facilities ü Seat spacing û Comfort Digital 83% >½ Culture interested in culture online would pay for it Outdoor 94% >¾ Culture Are interested in culture outdoors would pay for it Audiences expect to Economic 81% Concern for survival of spend 4% more on Viability cultural organisations culture Act 2 Wave 1 Report June 2020 © Indigo-Ltd 3 Appendix 2: Participating Organisations England Ipswich Regent Theatre Strode Theatre YMCA Theatre Scarborough a space arts Jacksons Lane Sunderland Culture Arts Centre York Concerts ADC Theatre Jersey Arts Centre Washington Alnwick Playhouse Jumped Up Theatre Take Art Scotland AMATA, Falmouth University Junction Goole Tetbury Music Festival Aberdeen Performing Arts Arts In Rural Gloucestershire Kenton Theatre Tete a Tete Productions Ayr Gaiety Partnership Artsadmin Kings Theatre Portsmouth The Albany Byre Theatre artsdepot Kirkgate Arts The Albany Theatre Cranleigh Arts Artsreach Kneehigh The Apex Edinburgh Festival Fringe Assembly Hall Lakeside Arts, Uni of Nott. The Atkinson Edinburgh International Attenborough Centre for the Leeds Playhouse The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Festival Creative Arts Lichfield Garrick Theatre Centre Hanger Farm Arts Centre b-side CIC Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for The Bridgewater Hall Live Life Aberdeenshire Barbican Centre the Arts The Core Theatre Solihull Lyth Arts Centre LTD Bath Box Office Lincoln Arts Trust Limited The Corn Hall, Diss Pavilion Theatre Glasgow Bath Festivals Little Angel Theatre The Courtyard Scottish Chamber Orchestra Birmingham Contemporary London Musical Theatre The Crescent Theatre Scottish Ensemble Music Group Orchestra The Factory of Creativity (Hope Scottish Opera Birmingham Literature Festival London Philharmonic Mill Theatre) Scottish Society of Playwrights Blackheath Halls Orchestra The Fisher Theatre SEALL Bournemouth Symphony London Symphony Orchestra The Forum the Barn Orchestra Louth Riverhead Theatre the forum theatre Barrow-in- The Brunton Bradford Theatres Manchester Camerata Furness, Cumbria The Swallow Theatre Brighton Dome and Brighton Manchester International The Guildhall Trust The Touring Network Festival Festival The Hallé Traverse Theatre Bristol Cultural Development Marina Theatre, Lowestoft The HandleBards Tron Theatre Partnership Mayflower Theatre The Headgate Theatre Universal Hall Promotions Bristol Old Vic MGSO4 Epsom & Ewell Arts The Horton Usher Hall Britten Pears Arts Festival The Lamproom Theatre Britten Sinfonia Middlesbrough Theatre The Lord Chamberlain's Men Wales Calstock Arts Middlesbrough Town Hall The Lowry Borough Theatre Abergavenny Camberley Theatre Midlands Arts Centre The Maddermarket Theatre Canolfan Ucheldre Centre Cambridge Music Festival Minack Theatre The Maltings Canolfan y Celfyddydau Carn to Cove Miracle Theatre The Manchester Lit & Phil Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cast Nevill Holt Opera The Met Carnegie House Castleford Phoenix Theatre New Vic Theatre The North Wall Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl CBSO New Writing North The Old Market Hijinx Cheshire Rural Touring Arts Newcastle Theatre Royal The Old Vic Memo Arts Centre Chichester Festival Theatre Nonsuch Studios The Place New Theatre Cardiff Chipping Norton Theatre Northern Stage The Point, Eastleigh & The NoFit State Circus Cornerstone Norwich Puppet Theatre Berry Theatre Pontardawe Arts Centre Cornish Riviera Box Office Nottingham Playhouse The Princess Theatre and Arts Royal Welsh College of Music Criterion Theatre Octagon Theatre Bolton Centre & Drama Dash Arts Oldham Coliseum Theatre The Rose Theatre Swansea Grand Theatre De Montfort Hall Opera North The Royal Shakespeare Taliesin Arts Centre Derby LIVE Orchestra of the Swan Company The Gwyn Hall Theatre Eastern Angles Theatre Co. Oxford Playhouse The Sixteen Ltd Theatr Clwyd Ellipsis Entertainment Ltd Painswick Music Society The Stoller Hall Torch Theatre EM Forster Theatre Tonbridge Paraorchestra The Wardrobe Theatre Venue Cymru School Penlee Park Open Air Theatre The Watermill Theatre Welsh National Opera Empire Consett Peoples Theatre The Woodville Scottish Opera English National Opera Philharmonia Orchestra Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Taliesin Arts Centre English Touring Opera Pocklington Arts Centre Hall Nottingham The Brunton Ex Cathedra Poplar Union Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds The Byre Theatre Farnham Maltings Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham Theatre Royal Plymouth The Gaiety Theatre Gala Theatre and Cinema Red Ladder Theatre Company Theatre Royal Stratford East Traverse Theatre Grand Theatre Ribble Valley International Theatre Royal Wakefield Tron Theatre Guildford Shakespeare Piano Week Theatre Royal Winchester (Play Universal Hall Promotions Company Trust Ltd Rotherham Theatres to the Crowd) Guildhall Arts Centre Royal Albert Hall Theatre Severn Guildhall School of Music & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Three Choirs Festival Drama Royal Opera House Trinity Orchestra Gulbenkian Sadler's Wells Turner Sims Southampton Hall For Cornwall Science Gallery London UCL Culture Harlow Playhouse Slapstick Festival Victoria Theatre Halifax Haverhill Arts Centre Southbank Centre Villages in Action Hertford Theatre Spot On Lancashire What Next? East London Hexham Book Festival St John's Smith Square Wigmore Hall HOME St Martin-in-the-Fields WildWorks Hull Theatres Stamford Arts Centre Wiltshire Creative Hull Truck Theatre Stephen Joseph Theatre Wokingham Music Club .
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