AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR Fact Sheet: Participating Organisations Audience Outlook Monitor, Australia, May 2020 Introduction Baseline data for the Audience Outlook Monitor was collected in May 2020 in collaboration with 159 arts and culture organisations, including museums, galleries, performing arts organisations and festivals. Researchers at Patternmakers and WolfBrown worked with the Australia Council and arts agencies in every State/Territory to invite a sample of organisations to participate. The goal was to ensure a balance of organisations sent the survey to a sample of organisations, so that the Audience Outlook Monitor would provide reliable insights about all artforms, regions and organisation sizes. Organisations from all States and Territories are participating The table below displays a State/Territory breakdown of organisations that are participating in the study. Table 1: State breakdown of participating organisations State/Territory No. of organisations Australian Capital Territory 8 New South Wales 30 Northern Territory 3 Queensland 32 South Australia 16 Tasmania 4 Victoria 44 Western Australia 22 Total participating organisations 159 Most organisations are small-to-medium The majority of organisations participating are small, with 5 to 19 staff members, or medium- sized with 20 to 199 staff members. 1 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR Around one-fifth of organisations are ‘micro’, with 0 to 4 staff members, and one-quarter are ‘large’, with 200 or more staff members. Table 2: Size breakdown of participating organisations State Micro (0-4 Small (5-19 Medium (20-199 staff) Large (200+ Total staff) staff) staff) ACT 5 1 2 8 NSW 3 11 10 6 30 NT 2 1 3 QLD 3 8 14 7 32 SA 4 4 7 1 16 TAS 1 1 2 4 VIC 3 14 19 8 44 WA 4 8 9 1 22 Grand Total 18 53 63 25 159 This study is hearing from organisations across a range artforms Participating organisations represent a range of artforms. The most common artforms represented in the study are theatre (55), music (53) and galleries, libraries, museums and archives (GLAM) (38). Many participating organisations operate as multi-artform (44) or in other performing arts (40). This list of artform categories was compiled in consultation with supporting partners. Please note that many organisations are working in more than one artform. Table 3: Artform breakdown of participating organisations Artform ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Total Community Arts and Cultural 2 2 2 10 4 1 9 2 32 Development (CACD) Dance 2 4 1 5 4 2 10 5 33 Emerging and Experimental Arts 1 1 3 4 1 5 1 15 (EEA) Film and screen 1 4 1 2 1 4 4 17 First Nations 1 1 5 1 6 2 16 Galleries, Libraries, Archives and 3 6 6 3 1 16 3 38 Museums (GLAM) Literature 2 1 3 4 10 2 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR Artform ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Total Multi-artform 2 6 9 7 1 12 7 44 Music 3 8 1 13 5 3 12 8 53 Other performing arts 2 2 1 10 2 2 14 7 40 Theatre 2 9 2 9 4 2 17 10 55 Visual arts 3 2 2 4 4 1 11 7 34 Total 8 30 3 32 16 4 44 22 159 There is a balance of metropolitan and regional/remote organisations participating Most organisations participating in the study are metropolitan (112), however a significant number operate in regional or remote locations (42). A smaller number are in outer- metropolitan areas of capital cities (5). Table 4: Region breakdown of participating organisations Row Labels Metropolitan Outer Metropolitan Regional/Remote Total ACT 6 2 8 NSW 22 2 6 30 NT 1 2 3 QLD 19 13 32 SA 14 1 1 16 TAS 1 3 4 VIC 31 2 11 44 WA 18 4 22 Total 112 5 42 159 List of all participating organisations ACMI Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Film Festival Adelaide Fringe Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Art Gallery of Ballarat Art Gallery of New South Wales Art on The Move Art, Not Apart 3 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR arTour ARTRAGE INC Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Margaret River Inc Artsource Artspace Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Australian Dance Theatre Australian Festival of Chamber Music Australian Museum Australian Theatre for Young People Barking Gecko Theatre Bathurst Regional Council T/A Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre Belconnen Arts Centre Bell Shakespeare Belvoir Bendigo Venues & Events Biennale of Sydney Black Swan State Theatre Company Brisbane Festival Brisbane Multicultural Art Centre (BEMAC) Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane Writers Festival Brown's Mart Arts Ltd Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre Bundaberg Regional Council Bunjil Place (City of Casey) Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Campbelltown Arts Centre Canberra Glassworks Canberra Youth Theatre Centre for Contemporary Photography Chamber of Arts and Culture WA Chunky Move Circa Contemporary Circus Circus Oz Colac Otway Performing Arts & Cultural Centre Country Arts SA Cultural Media Dancehouse Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation Ltd Darwin Entertainment Centre 4 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR Design Centre Tasmania Drum Theatre Electronic Music Conference (EMC) Empire Theatres Pty Ltd Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne Feast Queer Arts and Cultural Festival Footscray Community Arts Centre Forge Theatre and Arts Hub FORM building a state of creativity Frankston Arts Centre Fremantle Press Inc Geelong Arts Centre Geelong Gallery Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre Goldfields Arts Centre Hayes Theatre Co History Trust of South Australia HOTA, Home of the Arts HotHouse Theatre Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne Information + Cultural Exchange Ipswich Civic Centre La Boite Theatre Company Lighthouse Theatre Warrnambool Linden New Art Inc Lismore Regional Gallery Logan Entertainment Centre - Logan City Council Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre Malthouse Theatre Melbourne Fringe Melbourne International Comedy Festival Melbourne International Jazz Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Theatre Company Merrigong Theatre Company Mildura Arts Centre Multicultural Arts Victoria Museums Victoria Music Victoria National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) National Museum of Australia 5 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR National Portrait Gallery Nexus Arts No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability Opera Australia Opera Queensland Orange Civic Theatre Penrith Performing & Visual Arts Perth Festival Perth Theatre Trust Perth Theatre Trust - Albany Entertainment Centre Platform Youth Arts Powerhouse Museum Propel Youth Arts WA Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Queensland Museum Network Queensland Music Festival Queensland Performing Arts Centre Queensland Symphony Orchestra Queensland Theatre Real Film Festival Red Chair Pty Ltd Royal Historical Society of Victoria SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival Screenworks Scribblers Festival Smith's Alternative South Australian Museum Spare Parts Puppet Theatre State Library of Queensland State Library Victoria State Opera South Australia State Theatre Company South Australia SWELL Sculpture Festival Sydney Dance Company Sydney Opera House Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney Theatre Company Sydney Writers' Festival Ltd Synergy & Taikoz Ltd The Australian Ballet The Cube Wodonga The Events Centre, Caloundra The Glasshouse 6 AUDIENCE OUTLOOK MONITOR The Sydney Fringe Inc The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra The Unconformity The Wheeler Centre Theatre North Inc Theatre Works TOPOLOGY Townsville City Council Townsville City Council Galleries Tura New Music Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts Victorian Music Development Office Victorian Opera Vitalstatistix Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre West Australian Ballet West Australian Opera West Australian Symphony Orchestra Western Australian Museum Womadelaide foundation Ltd Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company 7 Web: www.thepatternmakers.com.au Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9188 7926 .