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British Council Vietnam

Festival Workshop

10-13 June2010

Behind the Scenes

at Festival Hue


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Festival Programming


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Vision

What type of festival is it?

Traditional or contemporary or mixture?

What resources do you have - physical,

financial, cultural?

Who is your audience going to be local orvisiting?

Is it a free festival or charged?

If charged is it high price, or low price?


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More Vision...

Audiences need clear signposts for what

sort of festival its going to be, but...

Make sure name of festival does not

restrict your vision.

Think carefully about the shape of your

festival you may have to live with it for

a long time


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Location

Is the festival in a city, town or

village?

Urban or rural?

On a Greenfield site?

Multi-centred?


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DurationAnnual or bi-annual, one off?

A day, a weekend, a week, ten days,

two weeks, three weeks, a month?Try and choose a shape and build it

up rather than changing all the time

but...Dont stick to a formula just because

it has always been done that way.


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Venues Indoors or outdoors?

Permanent purpose built venues? Temporarily created venues in

special locations?

In the street? Site specific?

Ticketing how dealt with across

multiple venues


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Content

Performing arts, visual arts, both

Single artform, multi-artform? Specialist

or General?

Music, dance, drama, literature, painting,sculpture.....

Contemporary or traditional or a

mixture?


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More Content

Is it Curated or open access? This workshop

we are talking mainly about curated festivals

Is it a presenting or a producing festival or a

mixture?

Will it commissioning of new work

Is the content national or international?

What is the role of local artists?


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Themes

An overriding theme eg classical music or

literature?

Specific themes focusing on the works of

one artist?

Multi-themed within an overall vision

No themes?

Strands and sub programmes venues or

times eg lunchtime concerts


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More Themes

Avoid the over themed festival

Quality of performance mattersabove all.

Only a small number of your

audience will follow you through a

whole thematic journey


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Programme Creation The role of the festival director a single vision

Knowledge of the artform, audience, artists and

repertoire, venues and production

By invitation or approached

Artist led festivals

Duration of tenure how often to change them 1-15years

Programming teams specialists under one single

vision


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Programme Multi events at same time

Try not to duplicate within artforms so a play against

a concert

Multi-events on the same day

Try to see that programme has enough meat in it for

someone making a short visit over say a weekend One event following another

Performance running times - Crucial for audiences

and sponsors!


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More Programming

Plan the festival you want to do, not the one

you can afford.

Uniqueness of artist/location combination is

as important as uniqueness of artist

Configure programme to balance between

surefire successes and high risk premieres orventures.

Make sure programme has 3 or four

unmissable milestones


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Artists/Companies Build relationships with artists by investing time in

personal relationships

Turn up at their important performances: has anamazing effect

Any artist can be seduced

This will save money and give you the best chance ofgetting the artist to bring you their best ideas and

also undertake yours

The best relationship with artists are not financially

based


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More on Artists relationships

The key to good artist relationships is trust

and excellent working circumstances.

Have multi-year relationships. That way you

can take your audience on a journey across

the programme.

Your key artists are also your advocateselsewhere in the artistic community

come to Hue Festival - I have a great time

there every year

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