Booth #19 & 20 ART IN OUR BACKYARD

Booth Holder 1 – ArtBack NT

Artback NT is a unique organisation. On any given day they might launch a national touring exhibition, provide a development activity on a basketball court in a remote Aboriginal community, stage a gala dinner concert at an iconic location such as Nitmiluk Gorge or support a band to develop new audiences.

Artback NT provides communities with unique opportunities to participate in, experience, discover and engage with a diverse range of arts practice. The organisation delivers quality cultural experiences, which stimulate, challenge and build capacity across both visual and performing arts practice throughout the Northern Territory and nationally.

Booth Holder 2 – arTour

Managed by Circa and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, arTour supports performing artists and producers to tour work through regional Queensland and nationally and assists Queensland presenters to program performance work for their local audiences.

arTour provides support to broker relationships between producers and presenters and offers a curated approach to achieve presenters’ programming objectives. Producers and presenters can get advice and support to access tour funding through the Playing Queensland Fund and other funding opportunities and marketing and touring advice and support. arTour also provides fee for service tour management.

arTour presents the Queensland Touring Showcase, where producers and presenters from around the state meet to discuss touring productions and gather expressions of interest for potentially viable tours.

Booth Holder 3 – Arts on Tour NSW

Arts on Tour (AOT) provides a complete range of services including tour development, coordination, administration, logistics and risk management support to independent and emerging producers and major production companies. AOT is an advocate for the NSW touring sector, providing information and advice, resources, industry analysis and facilitating touring forums.

AOT connects and supports NSW producers and presenters to realise touring projects that provide audiences across Australia with access to entertaining, educational and professional-quality performing arts experiences. Their services are designed to build industry capacity, address sector needs and set the standards of best practice for touring performing arts works of all genres.

AOT has become a primary support option for many NSW producers in developing and managing tours. Independent, small to medium producers and major production companies regularly seek AOT’s services to develop and manage tours.

Booth Holder 4 – Country Arts SA

Country Arts SA is intricately involved in all aspects of art in regional South Australia. We present, produce, fund and facilitate art in order to champion, create and connect people, places and cultures.

Country Arts SA delivers a range of programs and initiatives, ranging from visual arts to community-led arts events, partnership programs with organisations working in diverse fields such as health and the environment and the provision of grant funding to support the creative endeavours of communities and individuals.

We oversee the management of five performing arts venues in Mount Gambier, Renmark, Noarlunga, Port Pirie and Whyalla and an annual program of world-class productions and films that entertain, challenge and stimulate a wide variety of audiences in these venues as well as other regional centres. We also provide tour coordination services for a range of artists building statewide and national tours.

Booth Holder 5 – Country Arts WA

Established in 1994, Country Arts WA is the WA’s peak regional arts body and is highly regarded within the state and nationally as an innovative, high value leader in the arts and in regional and community development. The organisation delivers funding and touring programs to regional communities on behalf of the State and Federal Government under a highly effective devolved structure and support for an extensive arts volunteer network.

The Touring Team delivers tours to regional WA and tours Western Australian productions interstate with a focus on providing regional communities equity of access to professional performing arts and developing presenting capacity in regional towns. 

The touring programs are underpinned by a guarantee against loss program in WA and advice and support for companies touring regional Australia. 

Booth Holder 6 – Critical Stages

Since its formation in 2005, Critical Stages has been successfully touring independent theatre to regional, remote, urban and rural audiences in every state and territory around the country.

Critical Stages champions independent theatre artists and companies around the country and assists them in extending the life of their work. They also support regional communities by giving them access to high quality theatre that they would otherwise not be able to access.

The company’s goal is to make exceptional theatre accessible to audiences everywhere, extending the life of outstanding productions. Scores of artists are engaged on Critical Stages touring productions every year, travelling to perform in hundreds of towns and cities from Mackay to Melbourne, and Bunbury to Broken Hill to tens of thousands of audience members every year.

Booth Holder 7 – National Touring Selector

The National Touring Selector is a networking database for the performing arts industry within Australia and New Zealand with particular emphasis on regional presenters and producers of shows at any stage, from an idea to tour-ready.

The NTS is a tool for streamlining the communications between presenters, creators and tour coordinators as well as the selection of productions that appear at various performing arts markets and managing the stakeholder interest of national and state-wide performing arts touring.

The site welcomes producers, artists, professional and community presenters, tour coordinators, agents and friends to become users. While anyone can view a limited amount of information contained on the site, a much greater level of detail on productions, venues and programming policies is available if you register and create a login on the NTS. With new features being added regularly, this is now a far more sophisticated and efficient tool than its predecessors.

Booth Holder 8 – Performing Lines

Performing Lines makes things happen. They nurture and recognise creativity, provide artists with access to broader audiences, and contribute to the enhancement of a distinctly Australian culture both in Australia and overseas.

Performing Lines is present at every level of the Australian performing arts sector. They work with emerging independent artists to help increase their skills and sector awareness; produce the work of these artists, as well as that of more established artists and companies; connect artists with national and international presenters; and broker and manage the tours that result. 

Performing Lines has producers in Perth and Hobart as well as Sydney, partners and collaborators in every state and territory, and an increasingly rich network of contacts overseas. In addition they manage a number of related but separately funded initiatives.

Booth Holder 9 – Regional Arts Victoria

The Touring Department at Regional Arts Victoria (RAV) coordinates and facilitates the touring of performing arts throughout Australia. Our primary aim is to provide Victorian regional audiences with access to high quality cultural experiences and Victorian artists with opportunities to reach audiences throughout Australia. We work with presenters (managers of performing arts venues and other cultural centres) and producers (companies and individuals who create performance pieces).

RAV supports creative places by providing opportunities and tools for regional and remote communities to host and create meaningful cultural experiences. Touring is a great way to reach new audiences and RAV offers a full range of tour coordination services including development of touring itineraries, touring budgets and tour funding applications on behalf and in partnership with the Producer and Presenters. RAV also assists with delivery of confirmed tours including all logistical and financial issues.

Booth Holder 10 – Tasmania Performs

Tasmania Performs is present at every level of the Tasmanian performing arts sector. We work with emerging independent artists to help increase their skills and sector awareness; produce the work of these artists, as well as that of more established artists and companies; commission new works; connect artists with national and international presenters; and, where appropriate broker and manage the tours that result. We constantly scope developments, trends and needs in the sector, and stay actively engaged in national networks.

We support Tasmanian independent artists and companies in producing their works, identify skill gaps, mentoring opportunities, and project development opportunities for Tasmanian artists, strengthen relationships with presenters to build audiences for Tasmanian performing arts work, represent Tasmania in national and international forums and promote national and international touring opportunities.

Tasmania Performs is an initiative of Arts Tasmania, managed by Performing Lines.