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Come join 'Future Foundation meets'

Come join ‘Future Foundation meets’

Since its inception, Future Foundation, the mentoring programme within FutureScreens NI has run a series of lunchtime hour-long online talks. Each one is an informal conversation with an individual who has shown a particular set of skills or expertise relevant to our programme. We talk about their learning, the challenges they encountered and what lessons they are taking from their experiences.…

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Out of Touch

Following the Arts & Business Awards NI awards, the script of the speech given by the Chair of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland was circulated. Today’s Belfast Telegraph carries a story about calls for his resignation. As the piece online does not provide his full text or the full statement I gave when contacted, I’m publishing them here (the highlighting is my own).

Mr Edmund’s speech…

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Interested in writing and sharing knowledge?

Sharing practice & research at a recent CPOI event, Belfast

This year I have been delighted to join the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy.  Online and open access, it was set up in 2013 and has just revised its editorial policy with a new call for submissions by 19 January 2018. There are a number of different areas in the journal and details of all the…

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Independent Theatre Artists – join me in Scotland!

Independent Theatre Artists – join me in Scotland!

Me listening intently

Are you working in the UK as a director, actor, playwright or theatremaker? Are you an independent producer or running a theatre company without core funding? Would you like to share your thoughts and experiences to help with research?

Yes? Contact me now to attend one of these discussions. Email: afitzgibbon01@qub.ac.uk

My journey continues in researching the role of…

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Artists in theatre! Lend me your thoughts

Artists in theatre! Lend me your thoughts

Are you an independent artist working in the UK as a director, actor, playwright or theatremaker?

Are you an independent producer or running a theatre company without core funding?

Would you like to share your thoughts and experiences to help with research?

If you answered Yes, then get in touch.

As part of PhD research exploring the role of independent artists in policymaking and leadership in…

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Conference Update

With one week left to the All-Island Performing Arts Conference, see the full schedule here. With Andrew Eaton, Michael Keegan Dolan, Shona McCarthy, Tania Canas and Richard De Domenici all delivering addresses, it is a packed programme. Also delighted to see such a range of contributors on the stage from all scales and types of work – Brokentalkers, Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Junk Ensemble, Ba…

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Globally speaking in Belfast

Globally speaking in Belfast

Just prior to the All-Island Performing Arts Conference in Cork, there will be a special free lunchtime event in Belfast on Monday 19 June with one of its speakers, Tania Cañas. Possible with the help of colleagues at Terra Nova Productions, and the Brokering Cultural Exchange Research network.

For those not familiar with her point of view she has been writing and working in Australia for some…

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All Island Conference 21-22 June 2017

All Island Conference 21-22 June 2017

Booking is now open for the 2017 conference with Theatre Forum and TheatreNI. As guest curator for 2017 it’s been a really interesting experience as guest curator to listen to and explore current conversations and topics, what people are worried or excited about, how we move forward when things seem so uncertain. The conference theme #TwistorStick is about making choices and decisions. Do…

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Brokers or gatekeepers online If you are interested and couldn't make it the audio recording and PPTs of the talk on the role of arts and cultural leaders in managing Intercultural Exchange is now…

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Brokers or gatekeepers

In advance of next week’s event, I’ve written a short article for Slugger O’Toole about why I think this conversation is important. There are still some tickets left for the free talk on Thursday 6 April at 6.30pm. Hope to see you there.

(The photo has nothing to do with the talk or the article).

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Speaking a different language

Speaking a different language

Next up in my calendar in April 2017, I’ll be part of the Broken Crow residency at the Everyman Palace in Cork. I’m delivering a workshop for artists and creative practitioners on how business concepts can help rather than hinder creative thinking.

There are a limited number of spaces so early booking is recommended. Follow this link

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Opening up the conversation

Opening up the conversation

Harty Room

I’m delighted to be coordinating and chairing this public talk ‘Brokers and Gatekeepers: Arts & Cultural Leaders in promoting intercultural exchange’ in the Harty Room at Queen’s University Belfast  on 6 April 2017. Tickets (free) are available now by following the link.

It should be an interesting and exciting event drawing on the insights of some top figures in arts management…

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A Fair Trade model for theatre?

A Fair Trade model for theatre?

Always hard to blow your own trumpet but here’s a thing I wrote for The Stage in response to something that said the business model of theatre in Edinburgh was broken.

Click here to read the full article.

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Setting a standard

Warning: There are no pictures here just a  boring table but please read on as it’s important

Much space is given over to discussing appropriate standards of remuneration in the non-profit and public sector. One of the things I have considered over time is the degree to which the boards of non-profits struggle to find and retain good committed board members. As both a former head of a number of…

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Mind the gap

On hearing the extensive coverage of this week’s releaseby the IFS showing the ongoing and shocking disparity between male and female earnings, many people  and particularly women, met the news with a shrug – ‘Tell us something we didn’t know’. Even with that, many were also shocked by how much the gap widens for mothers in particular. Genuinely shocked. Like something you had always suspected…

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The triple bottom-line or how a cake shop began to mill flour

The triple bottom-line or how a cake shop began to mill flour

This is a neatened up version of my talk at Theatre 2016 in May of this year. It was part of a break-out session titled “Who should pay for the value of theatre?” The conference report should be out shortly.  Check their website.

 I’m delighted to be here this Friday afternoon to discuss the boring topic of social enterprise. But I’m not going to show you a bar chart or any kind of Venn diagram.…

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Say anything

Like John Cusack standing, his stereo held aloft in Say Anything, the cultural sector can feel left in the cold.  Rejected, with no one listening and, worse, no one returning our affections.  The result – apathy. The next result – further isolation.

Does standing still, our hands aloft in supplication, get us anywhere when governments are ransacking the miniscule culture and heritage coffers and…