The value and Impact of Outdoor Events and Festivals

Chair Carole Sleight Warwick District Council Angus MacKechnie Outdoor Arts Kate Livingstone Art in the Park Jan Ford Kenilworth Arts Festival Maddy Kerr Heartbreak Lou Lomas Freelance Helen Meeke Warwick Words Angus MacKechnie Outdoor Arts 2020 Overview January Southpaw Dance, Brent 2020 January Bread&Circus Christchurch,New Lightopia New YearChinese BuskersFestival, ChiswickHouse, Parade,London Zealand London Festival, World WesternAustralian BoroughCultureof Galway Dance, WembleyDance, of Rise CircusFestival Brent London 2020 begins 2020 Culture Capital begins Southpaw Park European 2020 Freiburg,Germany SydneyFestival, Internationale Canary WharfCanary Winter Lights Kulturbörse Australia , February Light PooleUp February Festival, Norwich Light Festival Copenhagen Netherlands Nottingham Light Night, Love Light StrtFstvl Australia Adelaide Utrecht, Festival, , Tunbridge Wells Binche Winter Lantern Perth Festival, Grow Festival, Cheltenham Australia Light Up Belgium Parade Corby Carnival, Reykjavík Winter Festival Light,of Lights Festival, Light UpPoole Southampton CirkusMania Stockholm, Illuminate Westquay Oldham Sweden Iceland , March St Patrick's DayParade, Dublin March Corby Mardi SpilsbyLight Leicester LightUp Night Gras Day Parade, St Patrick’s London Parade, Dublin Day Festival& Netherlands St Patrick’s Tweetakt, Igualada Festival Mostra Spain , April Axial Dance, Axial Dance, Sandbach Festival of Transport April Transport Festival Mela in Mela in the City, Emerge Festival, Cannock Cannock Chase Atmosphere Worcester Sandbach Sandbach Festival, London Southall Southall Vaisakhi Mela Puppetry Puppetry Festival, Streetsof Bexhill Sismògraf Ypres, Belgium Festival, Spain City City of Wings, Moving Parts Newcastle Dance Dance May Motionhouse, Brighton Festival May Festival, Valladolid, Valladolid, Festival, Calle, International International Calle, Norfolk & Norwich Norwich & Norfolk Oldham Festival of FestivalOldham Imaginarius, Santa Santa Imaginarius, Brighton Open Air Open Brighton Festival & Garden Garden & Festival Teatro Y Artes de Y Artes Teatro Festival of Fools, Festival Theatre season Theatre Maria da Feira, da Maria Accelerate: Transport Portugal Belfast begins Spain Party Fira Trapezi Reus, TrapeziFira Fair, Lleida, Spain Lleida, Fair, Puppet Theatre Puppet B Umore Bath Fringe & & Fringe Bath - Birmingham Leioa Bedlam Fair Bedlam Side Hip Hop Hop Hip Side LightNight Liverpool Festival, Spain , Spain , Azoka , de Carrer, Vila de Carrer, Festival de Teatre Festival Wandsworth Arts Wandsworth Brighton FestivalBrighton Grenoble Street Grenoble Art Fest, France Fest,Art Quays Festival,Quays Luton Carnival Luton Salford Quays Salford Fringe Spain - real, International Arts International Lyme Regis FossilRegis Lyme Wye Valley River Valley Wye éléphants, Laval, Laval, éléphants, Brighton Brighton Hereford RiverHereford Festival & City City & Festival Festival Les 3 Les Festival Encounters Salisbury Salisbury Carnival Festival Festival France Fringe June... Les Vernisseurs, DAGFest, Dagenham June... Festivals,Hounslow Bradford Literature ArtReach FestivalMirabilia, DagFest,Creative Dagenham, Dagenham Barking & Barking Festival Italy Night of BasingstokeFestival Diss Carnival Diss& Fun Festival, Cohesion Plus, Gravesend Plus, Festival,Ireland Fusion StreetFusion Carlow Carlow Arts And... Day International Dance Cork Cork Midsummer Festival,Ireland GlasgowMela EdenFestival, Birmingham Birmingham Lockerbie Festival June... Upswing, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival June... Irish Irish Aerial Fest,Dance Glastonbury Glastonbury Festival Handmade Handmade Parade Hebden Bridge Hebden Letterkenny Greenwich+Docklands International Festival La Strada, Bremen, Imagine Imagine Watford Germany And... Festival, Holzminden, Hebden Bridge Hebden Arts Leicester Riverside Straßentheater Internationale Germany Festival Festival June Walk the Plank, Manchester Day Parade June Somerfest, Taunton Manchester Day River Festival, Physical Fest, Liverpool Liverpool Parade Sotteville,France Viva Cité, International Street Sibiu Sibiu International Festival, Germany Theatre Festival, Preston Carnival Oerol Festival, Netherlands Tête Romania - à - Tête July... Annapurna Annapurna Indian Dance, Bradford Festival July... Brazilica Festival, Derby Derby Caribbean Buxton Festival Bell Square, Square, Bell Hounslow Hounslow Liverpool Carnival Fringe Birmingham Mela Birmingham Norm, WorcesterNorm, Bridge Disrupting Disrupting the Camp Camp Bestival Productions, Productions, Worcester BigJohn’s Imagineer Encontro Street Band Band Festival, Glasgow Quayside Festival, Chalon dans dans Chalon la Deventer Op Netherlands Rue, Rue, France Bridgwater Big Splash, BigSplash, Somerset Newport Stelten, And... Birmingham Mela Birmingham DN Festival,DN Right Carnival, Oxford Bristol Harbour Up Out Street, Cowley Road Doncaster Festival Cratère Surfaces, Dundee Dundee Summer Time, Time, Hyde Park, Bradford Festival British Summer Streets Festival Alès, France London July... Quatuor Stomp, Winchester Hat Fair July... WaterfrontFestival Festival Lambeth Country Country Lambeth IF: MiltonKeynes IF: Show, London International Hartlepool Hartlepool Festival France d’Avignon Festival,Glasgow Merchant City , FleetwoodFestival of Transport:of Tram LatitudeFestival, Hardwick Park, Winchester IncludFest, Sedgefield HatFair, Sunday Suffolk Miramiro,Gent, Belgium Community Mela Community Henley FestivalHenley Kendal Calling, Kendal Calling, GrowFestival, Maidstone Cumbria Corby And... Nine London Elms, Nine Manchester Mega HillviewFestival, Kelburn Happy Streets,Happy King’sCross, London Party Mela Garden July Beautiful Beautiful Bones, Surge Festival July Mouth of the Tyne the of Mouth Sandown Carnival, Sandown Isle of Wight of Isle Birmingham Birmingham Tilt Festival,Tilt Tynemouth Summer in in Summer Southside, Southside, Festival, Southampton Mela Southampton National Theatre Summer Streets, Summer Timber Festival,Timber WE WonderWE River Stage, Sunderland Wentworth Feanedock Festival, London Whirligig FestivalWhirligig of Denmark / Sweden/ Denmark Splendour Festival,Splendour trAction, CrewetrAction, Passagefestival, Weston Surge Festival, Outdoor Outdoor Arts, Helsingborg, Helsingborg, Nottingham Helsingør & & Helsingør Glasgow Mare - super - St Leonards FestivalSt Platt Festival,Fields Tunbridge Wells Days,Swansea Taliesin Dance Mela FestivalMela Manchester August... Dhol Dhol Drums, London Mela August... Green Festival,Man Leicester Belgrave Leamington Spa Brecon Beacons Art Art in the Park, Enchanted Enchanted Horsham Mela Leicester Caribbean ArtReach, Leicester Exeter Street Arts Journeys Festival Boomtown Fair, Middlesbrough Middlesbrough International, Winchester Carnival Festival Mela Festival d’Aurillac, Just So Festival, World, Reading Loughborough Loughborough Carnival the of Cheshire France And... Mela International Street Leeds Leeds Carnival Manchester Luton Luton Mela Festival of Devizes Festival August Générik VapeurGénérik , Stockton International Riverside Festival August Appetite, Stoke Newcastle Mela Journeys Dance The The Big Feast, Lincolnshire SO Festival, on Festival - Trent - Spoffin Festival, Theaterfestival City, Wakefield Seaside Seaside in the Netherlands Netherlands Amersfoort, Notting Hill Boulevard, Carnival Wells Spraoi Festival, Wells Carnival, Nottingham Waterford, Shambala Shambala Carnival Festival Ireland - Sea next - the - Riverside Festival London London Mela, International Remarkable Nutkhut Nutkhut / Worthing Stockton Sheffield Carnival Carnival September Illuminos, Bournemouth Arts by the the Sea September Freedom Festival, Kendal, Cumbria All All in the Mind Derby Festé Basingstoke Lakes Alive, Festival, Hull Guacheon Festival, Out ThereFestival, Bournemouth Arts Festival theof Sky, Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth Cleethorpes Lancashire bythe Sea Encounter Korea Llawn, Llandudno Inside OutDorset Festival, Activate Festival Thrift,of Totally Thames b Arts Weekend - side festival, Portland Redcar La Mercé Festival, FiraTàrrega, Spain de Mostra Cardiff Mela Rua Barcelona , Portugal de Artes October Dance Dance Umbrella, London October Dartford Festival of Festival, London FreshStreet Illuminations Bloomsbury Lamplighter Lightpool Lightpool at Todmorden Blackpool Festival, Light Italy Seoul StreetSeoul Arts Festival, South #4, #4, Korea Halloween Festival Mela, Mela, Manchester Dashehra Diwali Macnas Festival, Dublin, Galway,Ireland Leap Leap Festival, BramStoker Hartlepool Hartlepool Liverpool Ireland Parade Festival Lightof Swale Fusion , Canterbury Festival de de Manresa, Spain Fira Mediterrània Light Night Leeds Journeys Festival Now Now Northwich International, Manchester ArtReach, Droving, Penrith The WinterThe Paisley Halloween Lightopia Festival, Journeys Festival Dance Dance Umbrella, Fun Palaces,Fun UK International, Portsmouth Edinburgh ArtReach, London Festival November Parade of Friendly Monsters, Depford X November Lightopia Festival, Bonfire Night Heaton Park, Manchester Edenbridge Bridgwater Carnival Shepton Mallet Carnival Lights, Lights, Doncaster Glow, Eastbury Manor Manor House, Show, London DN Festival of Lord Mayor’s Barking Winter Carnival Wokingham Light Light LancasterUp Festival of Ireland, National Circus Deptford X, London Tralee December The The Winter Droving, Penrith December Candlelight Dunster Illuminites Ashford by Night Fall, Stockton Salford Quays Leonardslee Illuminated, Lightwave Festival, Audiences

theaudienceagency.org Outdoor Arts Audience Agency Report

Feature: Attracting audiences other artforms cannot reach Case in Point: Without Walls Associate Touring Network International Agent: Outdoor Arts above & beyond audience development @OutdoorArtsUK @OutdoorArtsPRO @OutdoorArtsPRO

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outdoorartsuk.org [email protected] Jan Ford Kenilworth Arts Festival Kate Livingston Art in the Park

Maddy Kerr Heartbreak Lou Lomas Freelance About me

■ Outdoor Arts Producer working in the city since 2011 ■ Passionate about changing perceptions of the city ■ Worked with communities across all wards of the city ■ 9 years working with artists and creatives, regionally and nationally ■ Excited by the possibilities of sport, arts and cultural collaborations ■ Member of Outdoor Arts UK Board Where we are?

■ European City of Sport 2019-2020 ■ UK - Coventry City of Culture 2021 ■ Commonwealth Games 2022 ■ Cultural Strategy Working with artists and communities

■ It’s about the invitation – open invitation to city (groups, communities) ■ Reaching all parts of the city to engage in a programme of activity which holds the sensitivities of all communities. ■ Raising the regional, national and international profile of Coventry, working across platforms, sectors and artforms ■ To be known as a city that delivers World Class experiences – to its citizens and to visitors

Partnership Working

■ Schools, colleges, universities, artist communities, public health, sport /leisure centres as cultural venues and sports clubs ■ Coventry Bid ■ Community leaders ■ Surgeries, meetings outreach and attending networking events that are already set up in community centres e ‘F13’ ■ Health and Wellbeing agendas ■ Creative Match-making (not always about money….its about time and empowering people) ■ Developing a clear marketing strategy Imagineer – Bridge

Venues, Locations & Audience Engagement

Training and mentoring

■ Identifying community leaders, gatekeepers, champions who can help to broker new relationships ■ Go/See money ■ Future jobs schemes ■ Supper Clubs - Creative People and Places model ■ Advocacy ■ Steering groups

Helen Meeke Warwick Words