Long Night – Light Night

One of the main objectives of the Liverpool Thrive programme is to help create a more audience and people friendly city centre. As part of this objective, a series of events have taken place that provide an alternative to the pubs and bars, and help to create a sense of greater ownership and enjoyment of the city centre at night amongst people who might otherwise be put off coming into the city centre at that time. The Long Night / Light Night are the first in this series.   The vision is for a range of visual arts venues to be open from the Tate Albert Dock up to Fact on Bold Street, and to provide some animation on the walking routes between venues, including light projections and street performance.   It is also hoped to include live performance within the visual arts venues.   The Long Night proposal is inspired by Long Night of the Museums events that take place in Europe, e.g. in Berlin, Cologne and Amsterdam and also the national Museums at Night  events that take place every spring in Britain.  A Long Night of the Museums event involves visual arts venues only, but the Long Nights/Light Nights go further, with shops, restaurants and a range of cultural venues all opening late. A key aspect of creating a more people friendly city centre is to address the negative impacts of the heavy drinking culture. An event such as the Long Night can make a contribution, by providing an alternative activity that might encourage some people to “slow down” the night, and reduce the amount of alcohol consumed.   The first Long Night took place in 2008 as “The Long Night of the Biennial” and in 2009 was known as the “Long Night of the AND festival”. In 2010 we will have the 14th May as the “Light Night” and the 18th November sees “The Long Night” return for a third year. More information on the Long and Light Nights can be found in the News section. Liverpool Light...

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Dataculture

This is a regional scheme to map audiences across the North West. It aims to provide bespoke intelligence to each participating venue, and to inform collaborative working, audience development and marketing activity. It will also be key to identifying and benchmarking trends, demonstrating impact and informing strategic developments. The majority of performing arts venues in Merseyside have committed to join the scheme. Discussions with each of the visual arts venues are now underway to identify how a consistent system for mapping visual arts audiences can be...

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Family Friendly

In March 2008 the LARC Heads of Marketing group, with additional support from Liverpool Culture Company, contracted Arts About Manchester to set up a listings website for family friendly cultural activities, building on AAM’s successful track record in this area. The audience development team developed local arts organisations’ communication with family audiences via the Family Friendly website which is > www.familyfriendlymerseyside.org.uk and monthly e-newsletters, as well as running stalls at family focused events to build families’ trust in the brand and to build the e newsletter subscriber list.   The organisations signing up to the website now encompass a broader range of organisations beyond the LARC partners, for example Southport Arts Centre and the Empire Theatre. Email:...

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Audience Development

The LARC Marketing group initiated an audience development programme in Spring 2008, to help address some of the strategic gaps that were left on the closure of TEAM in June 2007.   TEAM was previously the audience development agency for Merseyside. Support was given by Arts Council England North West from Grants for the Arts, and the LARC partners have also contributed financially to the programme. Unity Theatre led the project on behalf of LARC, contracting Arts About Manchester to deliver the programme.  This served as an opportunity to pilot a new approach to working with Arts About Manchester, which has now developed into the audience development agency for the North West – All About Audiences .  The LARC audience development programme will continue to be delivered in partnership with the new regional agency. Phase 1 of the programme ran from July 08 to August 09, with a dedicated staff team based in Liverpool. The programme is still in operation, and is being delivered by Arts About Manchester in its new regional role. It includes: Family Friendly Merseyside Open City...

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Continuous professional development (CPD)

Continuous professional development (CPD) LARC is developing a strategic approach to tackling a range of CPD issues across the city’s cultural sector – from programmes at entry level to address the lack of diversity in the workplace to support for emerging leaders and senior management LARC Mentoring Programme Liverpool Arts and Regeneration Consortium (LARC) has recently commissioned Business in the Arts: North West (BIA: NW), to research into the level of interest amongst the cultural sector’s emerging leaders and managers in mentoring as a tool for personal and management development. The research results showed a high level of support for the introduction of a mentoring programme for staff in both the eight LARC organisations and also other cultural organisations in Liverpool. The programme will deliver 40 mentoring relations through to the end of the Liverpool Thrive programme in June 2011.  The programme will be structured to follow excellent quality standards and is designed to support those with management responsibilities, ideally both financial and for staff, freelancers or volunteers. More info… JISC Culture Campus Liverpool Portal Project LARC members are working with the universities and education establishments in the city, Culture Campus Liverpool, SMAC and Liverpool City of Learning, to develop an innovative portal for universities and cultural organisations in Liverpool to display in one place their continuing professional development (CPD) opportunitiesand activities. The CCLiP Portal will provide a central point for drawing-in and capturing many of the activities, events, knowledge and learning opportunities and expertise arising within all organisations involved in the project. This project will create a new form of partnership between cultural organisations and higher education institutions, sharing a common agenda and collaborating in activities designed to ensure that Liverpool is one of the most attractive cities in Europe in which to pursue advanced cultural study and to develop a career in the creative industries More...

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