Queensland Touring Showcase 2014
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QUEENSLAND TOURING SHOWCASE 2014 Welcome to Queensland Touring Showcase 2014. Thanks to your input and feedback, we have reimagined the Showcase. The program today includes a host of new sessions to enrich presenters and producers’ touring knowledge, a market place for networking opportunities, a new format for pitching highlights plus a special mix of evening performances. The Queensland Touring Showcase is produced by arTour. arTour is Queensland’s centre of contemporary touring knowledge. arTour supports performing artists and producers to tour work through regional Queensland. arTour also assists Queensland presenters to program performance work for their local audiences. arTour is managed by Circa and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts. The arTour team is here to help, both today and throughout the year: Luke Harriman - Creative Broker Luke can help you find the right show for your audience, give advice on engaging with communities, developing audiences, getting your production tour-ready, and finding funding. Jo Currey - Tour Producer Jo can help with tour itinerary development, tour management, production schedules, technical specifications, travel, freight, accommodation, risk management, APRA obligations, insurance requirements, crew for your tour and budgeting. Beck Grace - Marketing Manager Beck can help artists, producers and presenters with developing marketing strategies and campaign or materials advice. We hope you have a great day, make new connections, begin conversations, find the right shows and experiences for your audiences and communities, and find the right market for your creations. COVER IMAGES FROM TOP LEFT TO RIGHT: Lean Forward Arts - Dancing with Bach, Metro Arts -Boy Girl Wall Photo by Justine Walpole, Force of Circumstance - HOME: A Story of Belonging , Lisa Wilson - Lake , Dead Puppets Society - Argus photo by Dylan Evans. All information correct at time of printing. 1 QUEENSLAND TOURING SHOWCASE SCHEDULE REGISTRATION OPENS 8.30AM EVENT BEGINS 9.15AM MC LEWIS JONES Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts 9.15AM – 10AM PERFORMANCE SPACE Hello and welcome from arTour Meet the new arTour team, get an overview of the changes in the touring landscape and hear about several exciting touring initiatives. FEATURING Little Black Dress Creatives, Queensland Ballet, Metro Arts - New ERA Touring and Anywhere Theatre Festival 10AM - 11AM PERFORMANCE SPACE Community engagement session Be inspired by successful case studies on community engagement and workshop ideas for your project and audiences. Community engagement is a major focus for the Playing Queensland Fund and this session will drive ideas on developing your own community engagement packages. FEATURING Queensland Music Festival, Red Chair Productions and Dancenorth. MORNING BREAK 11AM-11:15AM Morning Tea will be served in the Foyer 11:15AM – 12PM PERFORMANCE SPACE Speed dating Make over 30 connections with presenters and producers in 45 minutes. Flirt with potential touring partners, kick-start new relationships and significantly expand your showcase networks in less than an hour. 12PM - 3.30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE & MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM Marketplace and workshop sessions Delegates are free to move between Marketplace, pitches and workshop sessions. Lunch will be made available during this period. Marketplace Meet producers and presenters one-on-one, see how people can work together, discuss availability, scheduling and buying and selling work. PERFORMANCE SPACE MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM Pitch and performance sessions Workshop sessions 12PM – 12:30PM 12PM – 12:30PM Large Productions over $5,000 + Concept Shows Understanding risk • LaBoite – Pale Blue Dot (concept) Discover what it means to take risks in programing • Ellen Belloo – Motherland and production development and how to minimise • ILBIJERRI Theatre Company - Beautiful One risk. Day SPEAKERS Chloe Goodyear – Queensland Folk Federation and Stephen Foster – Creative Venues, Cairns Regional Council Performance Space: Ground floor Music Rehersal Room: Level 4 2 1PM – 1:30PM 1PM – 1:30PM Large Productions over $5,000 Marketing on a shoe string budget • Dead Puppet Society – Argus Get tips on achieving high impact with small • Little Red Company – Rumour Has It: Sixty marketing budgets, where to save your dollars and Minutes Inside Adele how to stretch your spend for maximum results. • Red Chair – Women in Voice and Acoustic SPEAKERS Willow Hart - artsworx and Fiona Guitar Spectacular MacDonald - Imaginary Theatre 2PM – 2:30PM 2PM – 2:30PM Small to Medium Productions under $5,000 + Content marketing Concept Shows Learn how content marketing can support your • deBase Productions – Spoilt and Fly In Fly marketing strategy. As digital marketing becomes Out increasingly important discover what content you • Opera Queensland – Figaro, Barber of Seville should be creating to deepen connections with (concept) your audience. • Creative Regions – It All Begins with Love SPEAKERS Alana Capra Queensland Ballet and (concept) Louise Bezzina – Bleach* Festival 3PM – 3:30PM 3PM – 3:30PM Small Productions under $2,500 Arts for all Queenslanders • Melissa Western - Sweet, Sour and Saucy Hear Arts Queensland share their vision behind • Belinda Raisin – Confessions of a control the Arts for all Queenslanders strategy, examine freak cultural tourism and the plan to renew RADF and • Collusion - SOLOs Twogether the outcomes for regional communities. SPEAKERS Gillian Gardner – Arts Queensland AFTERNOON BREAK 3.30PM-4PM Afternoon Tea will be served in the Foyer 4PM - 5.15PM PERFORMANCE SPACE 4PM - 5.15PM MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOM Getting ready to tour 2014 Marketplace review Producers hear how arTour can support you, Presenters get down to the detail of which navigate the Playing Queensland Fund and productions are most likely to get a tour up. Put understand what to expect post showcase. forward your preferences and sketch out some SPEAKERS Jo Currey - arTour, Tina Hill– Arts potential tours. Queensland, Beck Grace - arTour 5:15PM – 5:30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE Where to from here Presenters and producers come together to discuss where to from here. SPEAKERS Kate Fell and Luke Harriman - arTour 5:30PM – 5:50PM PERFORMANCE SPACE A message from the Minister Ian Walker, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts FEATURING A performance excerpt by Queensland Theatre Company of Buried Country DINNER BREAK 6PM – 7:30PM Dinner is not provided so check out the great local eats – just make sure you’re back in time for the evening performances. You wouldn’t want to miss out! 7:30PM – 9:30PM PERFORMANCE SPACE Evening performance Join us in the theatre for a cabaret style event. Enjoy a beverage from the bar as several producers perform excerpts in this evening of entertainment. FEATURING MC Liz Skitch, Force of Circumstance – HOME, Rachel Leary – Everything Must Go, Joseph Simons – First Things First, The Follies Company - A Sign of the Times EVENT FINISH 9.30PM 3 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DAY Queensland Touring Showcase has changed from previous years. Here’s some tips to make sure you get the most out of your day. Be ready to Find others on your tour network, chat, route or in your region and share, negotiate and think outside work together throughout the square. the day. Be clear about the needs and preferences of your audiences. Think about what works well and what will offer added benefits to your Use the calendar community. (page 60) and map (page 9) in this handbook to help with scheduling and The shows pitching and performing logistics. only make up some of the great Dinner is not shows available – this handbook and provided so the new arTour website are full of check out the fantastic shows available for tour. great local eats – just make sure you’re back in time for Make notes on the evening the worksheet Use the showcase to think about what sparks performances. (page 54) to your interest. arTour will send out a survey in You wouldn’t help refine your the week following so you can formally lodge want to miss choices through out! out the day. interest in specific shows. If you’re feeling lost, confused and don’t know where to start, just ask one ENJOY of the arTour staff to point you in the YOURSELF! right direction. We’re here to help. CONTENTS Queensland Small PAGE 9 PAGE 10 Region Map Productions under $2,500 Medium Large PAGE 18 Productions PAGE 34 Productions $2,500 - $5,000 over $5,000 Expression Concept PAGE 46 PAGE 54 of Interest Productions Worksheet 2015 PAGE 60 PAGE 62 Notes Calendar 5 PRODUCTION CATEGORIES SMALL MEDIUM LARGE CONCEPT PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS UNDER $2,500 $2,500 - $5,000 OVER $5,000 Maximum cost per performance, based on 3 performances per week and Production in remount costs split over a 9 venue, 3 week tour. Cost changes according development, to number of venues involved in the tour. Specific price information is price to be announced available from Producers and/or arTour. SMALL PRODUCTIONS under $2,500 Page BELINDA RAISIN Confessions of a control freak 11 BRAVE THEATRE Miss Bronte 11 CHRISTINE WHEELER AND FRIENDS Rain in the mountains: Songs from Henry Lawson 12 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA Four musicians read the old dream slowly 12 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA SOLOs twogether 13 COLLUSION MUSIC AUSTRALIA TRIOs in Folk Style 13 DEBASE PRODUCTIONS Spoilt 14 JENS ALTHEIMER Squaring the wheel 14 JUDY HAINSWORTH #FirstWorldWhiteGirls 15 LINSEY POLLAK