We need your help!

As a member of Young Audiences Scotland we need your help. In order to provide the best theatre going opportunities for children and young people in 2008 and beyond, Young Audiences Scotland would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete our on-line survey. The survey is managed on our behalf by Glasgow Grows Audiences (GGA). GGA is an arts marketing and audience development agency, whose aim is to improve accessibility to arts and cultural events.

Please click on their logo to go directly to the survey. Many thanks.Hx

New Citz Blog

We here at TAG Towers (...ok I mean the Citizens' Learning and TAG department) are well used to blogging now, and are delighted to add a brand new member to the "Blogs We Love" section. The Citizens' Theatre has created a new blog, which you can read here.

This new site will over time form a great news and behind the scenes portal for all things relating to the Citizens' Theatre, whilst we will continue to focus on the work for children and young people.

As a perfect cross-over between TAG and the Citizens', the Citz Christmas Show Peter Pan is featured on the new blog, showing an exclusive design preview.

You can find out about this show and lots more work for children and young people at the brand new website for YOUNG AUDIENCES SCOTLAND. Having only recently launched we have already gathered 217 subscribers to the e-newsletter. To keep up-to-date with lots of work across Scotland, you can sign up here.

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Young Audiences Scotland launched

Within the next hour, the brand new website for YOUNG AUDIENCES SCOTLAND will go live.

“a megaphone for the vibrancy and variety of theatre for children,
young people and families in Scotland”.

Created by the consortium of Catherine Wheels, the Bank of Scotland Children’s International Theatre Festival, Giant, TAG, Visible Fictions and Wee Stories and with funding from the Scottish Arts Council’s National Lottery, the ultimate aim of this pilot project is to increase and develop audiences for children and young people’s theatre across Scotland.

Click on the logo to check it out…and why not sign up to the mailing list to receive information on lots of exciting shows!

Let us know what you think.

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Young Audiences Scotland

Since sometime last year we have been involved in the application process for and implementation of a marketing and audience development project for children and young people's theatre in Scotland.

TAG, Catherine Wheels, Giant, Wee Stories, Visible Fictions and the Bank of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival came together to apply to the Scottish Arts Council for funding to recruit one highly skilled individual to run a pilot project which aims to trial and develop varied marketing schemes that will ultimately benefit the whole of the children and young people's sector.

Sally Wilson, who has worked extensively in Scottish Theatre was recruited, fresh from her post as Chief Executive at Audiences NI. We have been meeting for the last few months and a plan of attack has been formulated. We are very excited about this pilot and are hopeful that it will provide a valuable legacy for the sector.

One of our main objectives is to make it much easier for families, young people, schools and others to easily locate information about shows across the country from lots of companies. Ultimately we want to build on the already strong offerings within Scotland to create an even more vibrant and well supported body of work.

Amusingly one of the most difficult things to pin down has been a name for the project. After many wordy conversations, we went down the abstract route to find a name (to be accompanied by a strapline) but it appears that all the good abstract names are already in use! So it looks like we have settled on "Young Audiences Scotland" (...final confirmation still to come). It does what it says on the tin, which I think is a very sensible way forward.

I'll keep you posted on further news.

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Image by Iain G Farrell