How are artist and audience development linked?

- Audiences enjoy developing relationships with specific artists and like the 'story' of their development

- How do we develop dialogue between artists and audiences?

- Chef's Table approach - how is work grown from the local community using local ingredients

- Rep as a tool to build relationships between artists and audiences

- Audiences should be offered a range of options

- REGULARITY is vital for audiences

- Develop a local supporters base

- What is the difference between Theatre & Music sectors?

- Make audiences part of development process

- audience involvement in artistic process can influence evolutions in form/content

- are there other ways of creating dialogue with audiences without using social media/press reviews

- 'slow touring' theatre

- audience development is not just about growth

- a 'cultural nation' as well as a 'sporting nation'

- how can people 'pop in' to the theatre on their way back from shopping?

- affordability is key

- what does schools provision look like?

- in Germany it's normal to have theatre at electronic music festivals

- repetition is valuable

- relationship (personal?) is developed at an early age

- 'like tv but far away'

- affordability underpins everything

- more flexibility in existing structures (eg curriculum) than we think

- how is risk encouraged?

- a 'new' model might be a return to the 'old'

- subscription ticket models

- Panto as a platform for artist/audience development

- annualised events (Panto/Mummers), celebratory times of year, Christmas/outdoor summer show

- gifford circus/stroud - tweedy the clown?

- proper local celebrities

AFFORDABILITY, REGULARITY, PROPER LOCAL CELEBRITIES

LOCAL, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP