Pocket Productions Presents Fall of the Roman Umpire

Arts North West ON TOUR  Pocket Productions and Creating Drama Theatre Company are excited to announce the Fall of the Roman Umpire 2017 New England North West tour.   

A one man show written, directed & performed by Dennis Coard, star of ‘Home and Away’, ‘Blue Heelers’, ‘Stingers’ and ‘MDA’ , Fall of the Roman Umpire is a charming and cheeky self-narrated journey through life. Starting with Coard’s childhood emigration from Ireland with his family, the show is an intimate portrait of a journey through life, with the audience there beside him, sharing his joys, hopes and pain.

This is the first tour of the new Arts North West initiative Pocket Productions, offering the smaller communities in our region affordable and professional theatre and musical productions in venues such as community or school hall, school of art building or an undercover showground area.  Pocket Productions is a networked approach and based on the successful Arts North West ON TOUR model.

Fall of the Roman Umpire will be performed in following venues in 2017. Contact the venue for booking information.

Emerald Hill Community Hall Fri 10 March

Walcha Central School Hall Sat 11 March

Maules Creek Community HallThur 16 March

Breeza Community Hall Fri 17 March

Warialda Town Hall matinee Sat 18 March

The Playhouse Hotel Barraba Sat 18 March

Bundarra Community Hall Sun 19 March

Deepwater School of Arts Fri 24 March

Ben Lomond Memorial Hall Sat 25 March

Arts North West ON TOUR is excited to launch Pocket Productions

This is a new initiative by Arts North West to offer small communities in our region a
networked approach to find and fit hand-selected affordable theatre or musical
productions to tour to the smaller regional venues without a dedicated performing arts
venue. These productions will fit into venues like a community or school hall, school of art
building or an undercover showground area. Pocket Productions would be based on the
successful Arts North West ON TOUR model.
Arts North West ON TOUR now in its fifth year is an established network of community,
LGA, and privately managed venues/presenters (between 8-10 in the New England North
West region). Each network member pays an annual service fee for specialised tour
management. This includes the negotiation of a minimum of 2 negotiated professional
performing arts tours per year; itinerary programming; administration; marketing and
audience development, and the coordination of regional network meetings. More
information can be found at http://www.artsnw.com.au/anw-on-tour
Projects Officer, Nicci Parry-Jones explains, “We have been getting such good feedback
about audience satisfaction from the high quality performing arts touring our regional
theatres got us thinking that it would be wonderful if the smaller and sometimes more
remote communities had the same opportunity.”
For a nominal annual fee, the Pocket Productions package will include: sourcing and
managing the tour itinerary of one suitable touring production, assistance to each venue
to ensure the production is well promoted, liaison between the production company and
venue staff, advice on presentation, ticketing and promotion.
 

A New Initiative for Arts North West On Tour

Arts North West ON TOUR’s  Pocket Productions  is a new initiative by Arts North West to offer the smaller communities in our region affordable and professional theatre and musical productions in venues such as community or school hall, school of art building or an undercover showground area. Pocket Productions is a networked approach and will be based on the successful Arts North West ON TOUR model.

Now in its fifth year, Arts North West ON TOUR is an established network of community, council, and privately managed venues/presenters. Each network member pays an annual service fee for specialised tour management. This service fee includes the negotiation of a minimum of 2 professional performing arts tours per year; itinerary programming; administration; marketing and audience development, and the coordination of regional network meetings. Currently there are 8-10 network members in the New England North West. More information can be found at http://www.artsnw.com.au/anw-on-tour 

Projects Officer, Nicci Parry-Jones explains, “We have been getting such good feedback about audience satisfaction from the high quality performing arts touring our regional theatres got us thinking that it would be wonderful if the smaller and sometimes more remote communities had the same opportunity.”

Pocket Productions will inherit aspects of Arts North West ON TOUR and will provide a package that includes: a nominal annual rate, venue sourcing and managing the tour itinerary of one suitable touring production, assistance to each venue to ensure the production is well promoted, liaison between production company and venue staff, advice on presentation, ticketing and promotion.

Regional Arts Fund is Open

The New England North West is a dynamic and creative place to live and work.  Do you have an exciting project that will further contribute to arts and cultural activity in our community? Arts North West is looking for innovative and great projects that will thrill our community!

The Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote Australia and meets the strategic priorities of supporting participation in, and access to, the arts and encouraging greater private sector support for the arts. The Regional Arts Fund is designed to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.

WHAT'S NEW FOR RAF?

Opening dates and closing dates have been moved forward in the year.
 
RAF applications will only be accepted through the Regional Arts Australia secure online grants system, SmartyGrants.
 
Guidelines have been reviewed and simplified.
 
There is a NEW category Small Regional Festival Support.
 
The Residencies and Mentorships category is no longer available.
 
Multi-year funding is only available for two years and projects must be discussed with RANSW staff before applying.
 
You will need to respond to a number of Australian Government questions for statistical collection that are common to all arts grants applicants administered by the Department of Communications and the Arts.

DO NOT FORGET to read the RAF Guidelines carefully and before you submit discuss your project with Caroline Downer, Executive Director of Arts North West on 0428 042 622. Caroline will be able to explain the new process for RAF.

KEY DATES
Applications open: Monday 20 June.
Applications close: 3:00pm AEST Monday 8 August.
No extension to the closing date is possible.