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Annual Report 2016 14 King’s Head Court, Bridge Street, APPLEBY, Cumbria, CA16 6QH Tel: 01768 353954 email: [email protected] Every Story I Have Ever Told is Part ofEvery I Told Part Ever is Have Me, Claire Peach Story Annual Report 2016 – 2017 Highlights is supported by: 1 Contents Contents Section Page 1 Summary 3 2 Highlights’ Vision statement 3 3 Fact File 3 4 Projects and Development Work 5 5 Contemporary Craft Tour Winter 2016 9 6 Training & Marketing 10 7 Workshop Programme 12 8 Future Plans 13 9 Company Details 13 Appendices Venues 2016-17 14 Programme, Artists, Companies 2016-17 15 Show Comments 16 Web Site data 17 Map of live venues 18 Performances & workshops: Data breakdown 19 -33 ‘Mavis Sparkle’, M6 Theatre Company – Autumn 2016 2 1 SUMMARY This report reviews the activities and plans of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. 2016/17 was the second year of the National Portfolio Organisation [NPO] 3 year agreement with Arts Council England [ACE]. The NPO agreement is awarded to Highlights [H] and Arts Out West [AOW] together, with Highlights as the lead partner. The level of the award represents a standstill arrangement (in relation to the 2015-16 amount received). Local Authority funding from County Durham and Northumberland overall remained at a standstill amount; and the amount from Cumbria was cut in its entirety. The Management Committee started and ended the year with six members. Over the course of the year, Geoff Hoskin resigned as Chair; and John Holland was elected as his replacement. Two new members are due to join the committee in July 17. A joint Away Day with AOW was held in October 2016 to prepare for the H/AOW partnership NPO application for 2018-22. 2 HIGHLIGHTS’ VISION STATEMENT Vision statement: Highlights’ vision is to develop the provision and promotion of high quality arts to local communities by using the resources, expertise, experience and partnerships available to them. We will do this by: supporting a network of local promoters involved in the development of a performing arts and Contemporary Craft programme in the area making the arts socially, geographically, economically and physically accessible to communities across, Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland providing training opportunities for promoters to develop transferable skills improving access to the arts for people living in isolated areas. providing quality and choice at a local level building new audiences at grass roots level promoting the work of multi-cultural companies to rural venues co-commissioning new work suitable for rural venues supporting a sustainable local economy, encouraging audiences and companies to use local amenities supporting village halls as viable community centres, contributing to the upkeep of the hall and social life of the village 3 FACT FILE 3.1 Programming o 75 venues booked events, training or workshops through the year (an increase of 10). o 152 performances took place, using 40 companies (an increase of 6); plus a Contemporary Craft tour, exhibiting at 6 venues, giving 72 exhibition days, using 19 visual artists. o There were 51 workshops and masterclasses and 8 promoter training sessions 3 o Total audience numbers were 8,065 for performances; 19,889 visitors to Contemporary Craft Exhibitions; with an additional 181 for the free storytelling sessions which were linked to the Contemporary Craft Tour. o The total box office figure was £63,004 (an increase of 201 Autumn Theatre, Kali Wedding, Pat Cow BigMy Fat around 4,164) o Of this sum, £59,089 was returned to Highlights. This means that village venues kept £3,915 (last year £6,119); (a decrease of £2,204). This decrease will be explained by the increase in performances programmed, the overall box office increase and corresponding increase in 6 return to Highlights o 1,122 people participated in 51 workshops and masterclasses (last year 25 workshops) and 8 training sessions (184 attendees) this represents an overall increase of 445 in relation to 2015-16. [A full breakdown of Workshop activity is included in Section 6]. The overall increase is due to the increased partnership projects (Balbir Singh Dance Project, RTDI Panta Rei workshops [see 4.3 Partnerships]), as well as the increased numbers and successes of the Contemporary Craft Workshops and masterclasses o The value of volunteer contributions to secure the successful running of the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme equates to around £64,599. This is calculated at an estimated 370 volunteers giving a total of 4,920 hours @ £13.13 per hour (an accepted, if modest, “skilled volunteer” hourly rate) Please see the Appendices for a full breakdown of performances, venues, box office income etc 3.2 Web Site and digital engagement o Highlights’ digital output continues to increase. All contracts are sent out electronically. The “menu” is posted on the web site, so promoters can access digital clips when choosing companies. All forms eg Show report forms, travel expenses forms etc are available to download electronically. o Highlights benefited from the services of a Social Media Intern trainee in September 2016; and has since employed a part-time worker to boost Social Media activity. o Highlights’ web site had 45,408 pageviews (last year 39,408) - from 16,941 sessions (last year 15,343), with 11,617 users (last year 10,753) o The number of people who have signed up to the Highlights web site e mail alert list remains steady. The percentage of people at performances stating that they found out about the event from the automated e mail alert system, which is generated from the Highlights web site, has increased. We’ll monitor this closely in the coming years. o In 2016 -17 Highlights sold 911 tickets on line, using the Ticket Source facility, out of a total of 8,784. This represents 10.37% (last year 7.8%) Highlights will monitor this statistic carefully in coming years. NB: Ticket Source data doesn’t include data from either the Old Fire Station or The Witham (both of which have substantial audience numbers – but each has its own online ticket selling system) o At 1st April 2017, Highlights had 1,082 followers on Twitter (last year 809); with 1,137 likes on our Facebook page (last year 1,076). 4 4 PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENT WORK 4.1 Engagement in ‘hard to reach areas’ This is a requirement of Highlights’ NPO agreement with ACE. By programming work directly into community venues, Highlights attracts a diverse audience from different socio-economic backgrounds. We reach out to communities of all ages in underprivileged areas. Whilst Highlights receives no funding from ACE or Local Authorities for participatory work, it continues to build on its relationship with venues, schools and community groups, organising this year a (separately funded) workshop in one of our most rurally isolated schools in Weardale. This was part of the ‘Dance Across the North’ project [see 4.2 Diversity] “I just wanted to tell you how much we all enjoyed your workshop. The images of what you did with the children have remained so strongly in my mind. The performance by Balbir Singh was so inspirational and I wake often thinking about that performance.” Carey Turnbull (teacher, Wearhead Primary) [more in section 5: Contemporary Craft Tour Report and in and in Section 6: Workshop section] Highlights also organised a week-long residency with Norwegian dance company Panta Rei (courtesy of Northumberland M Northumberland the NRTF’s Dance Initiative programme [more in 4.3 partnership work] Rei Panta Two company members, Julia Ekornes and Kari Vikjord were in residence in the Alnwick area of work Northumberland, working with schools and dance Dansformation, of Young members with groups in the week leading up to their 2017 arch performance. Workshops took place in Shilbottle, Warkworth, Alnmouth and Alnwick with participants aged from 7yrs to 75yrs. The company delivered a total of 8 x ½ day workshops with 4 groups totaling 88 participants. They gave two informal sharings to school audiences of 100, rehearsed 3 groups totalling 32 young people for 3 curtain raiser performances to open their show and performed their own work to an audience of 120. Total engagement figures for the project are 340. Shilbottle Community Hall sits in an ‘area of low engagement’ It is an ex mining village of around 800 houses with a large retired population and young families who have moved into the new housing. the project was a fit with the aims of the promoter to develop family audiences and the promoter was prepared to take a risk on dance as it was wrapped in a project that offered additional support and the potential for audience development through community participation. 4.2 Diversity Highlights was a partner in the 2 year ‘Dance across the North’ Strategic concert in concert Touring Programme (led by Blaize). The company Dance Singh Balbir project was delivered in partnership with Balbir Singh Dance Company. The project Appleby created cultural opportunities for rural - audiences to experience and engage with 2016 Autumn high quality culturally diverse dance via – House 5 performances, a house party and outreach workshops. Highlights successfully programmed and ‘My Big Fat Cow Pat Wedding’ (Kali Theatre) and ‘Labels’ by Working Light Theatre Company. Both were showcased at NRTF’s “New Directions” in July 2015 and 2016 respectively, and examined mixed heritage. ‘The Chef Show’ and NTC’s ‘How to make a Killing in Bollywood’ opened windows on the British Asian experience. Highlights Contemporary Craft Tour included artists from Japan, India, France and Italy. Mayumi Arakawa (Japan) ran workshops in Hexham, and Linda Toigo (Italy) worked in Stanhope, Co.
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