Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Post

It was great to have Will's insights in the first workshop of our new Let's Get Real programme. Our group will be experimenting around aspects of digital and value over the next few months. There's so much rich thinking around this topic, and so many issues to unpick around expectations, practice, capacity, skills, strategy and more. Our challenge now, is how to focus in on the starting points for each of our wonderful cohort organisations. We'll share learning as we go...

Adelaide Fringe 2024 was a massive season and it took herculean efforts from everyone to get through! Incredible numbers attended, just over 1 million ticket sold and 4.6 million attendances .. (if anyone has questions about the difference between those numbers please ask! It's quite simple, there's lots of ways to attend that doesn't involve a ticketed show) it was fantastic to see so many tourists come to Adelaide for Fringe 2024 - they bought huge numbers of tickets and spent big in local hotels and restaurants. in many ways a big triumph, but of course there is more to the story and one of the scariest elements is the fact that festival presentation costs have gone up by about 30% in the last year or so .. the ticket sales were up by around 4% (1,040,305) and the average ticket price remained the same around $33. So it doesn't take much to look at the sums and realise it is very tough to make it all balance. Lots of festivals have cancelled and closed down in recent months because of these rising costs in the supply chains. We are going to work harder than ever to try raise enough money to shore up the Fringe in future - Adelaide Fringe is a precious jewel of the nation and we need all the help we can get to survive this storm.

Happy Family Day Weekend! You don’t have to break your budget to have fun! Here are some places and festivals hosting free, family fun this weekend: - Kitsilano Community Centre - West Point Grey Community Centre - Vancouver Public Libraries - False Creek Community Centre - Surrey Museum - Richmond Children’s Art Festival - Place des Arts #FamilyDay2024 #FamilyDayVancouver #VancouverFamily #canadafinancial #financialadvisor #financialplanning #canadainsurance #investmentadvisor #wealthmanagement #financialservices #financialadvice #independentadvisor

Composer #Handel was born OTD, in #Halle, Germany. You may wish to visit his museum there, or London's Handel and #Hendrix museum. If that means travelling 'abroad', do buy #travelinsurance Expats also beware! NHS protection in the UK may no longer be your right, so take a look at #EuropesureTravelInsurance protection. #travelinsuranceEU #ExpatTravelInsurance #travelinsuranceEEA #travelinsuranceUK #Europesure

https://lnkd.in/e-swp5Kp This is it! 🎵 I am so thrilled to share with you my last work for orchestra, Shores (working title: "Longing For Belonging"), conducted by Erin Bodnar. I want to thank the Mostly Modern Festival for choosing my work and giving me this tremendous opportunity to make my music happen - it's more rare than you could imagine! The piece has a suffered story. If you want to know more about it, here's an extract of the program notes. "It all started with “The Island” - a long time ago, probably during the pandemic in 2020, as a musical theater piece [...] meant to be based on a dialogue by Cesare Pavese, part of the book “Dialoghi con Leucò”. I remember reading this book and that “The Island” dialogue in particular, and getting so emotionally involved. It was about the story between Odysseus and Calypso, in a sort of alternative ending of the Odyssey where the protagonist decides not to come back home, but stay on the island with Calypso, because - freely paraphrasing her words from the book: It's just an island, what difference does it make where you decide to lie down and rest your head? And even if you eventually manage to come back to Ithaca, will you even be able to recognize your own houses after 20 years? And the people? Some of them will certainly be understanding, but will you ever be able to share what you have seen and done? You will feel more alone than in the sea. At the time, I found it interesting for the implications of the piece: it was full of insights about what it means to be isolated, and what is the meaning of travel and returning home. It was, as I said, during the pandemic, so of course, the theme was also resonating with the current situation in my life where I was in Germany and couldn’t come back home to Italy. It was a tough time in my life, I was scared for my loved ones - I remember having nightmares every single night. Anyway, the project evolved, but I never actually managed to make it an opera: not only because of the lack of funding, but also - to be honest - because the dialogue was so full and rich of intellectual interest that I found it difficult to transpose it into a libretto to be sung and not really “understood”.

With libraries closing and a sharp decline in the uptake of performing arts at GCSE, A-Level, and degree levels, the future of arts education looks uncertain. Will the new government learn from past mistakes and continue to invest in the arts, or will we continue to see cuts upon cuts? It’s time to prioritise creativity and education, not diminish them.

An excellent day, full of insight and new contacts…..recurring theme - omnichannel and dealers really challenging their operational costs…. Jigcar really can deliver on this through optimised logistics and stock management 

Highly recommended- book in advance!

Continuing Education: Daylighting in Museums https://buff.ly/3T4ygwq #onlinelearning #elearning #onlineclass #workfromhome #virtuallearning #edutech

That moment when you go from being the first #Accessibility Consultant on a premises slated to become a first-of-its-kind #Museum to negotiating and signing a contract with said museum as their official Access Advisor! Top of mind are: #AudioDescription and #wayfinding.