Battersea Arts Centre Collaborative Touring Network

Are you, or is someone you know, a producer or independent organisation that wants to develop a stronger cultural offer in your local area? Battersea Arts Centre are looking for expressions of interest to join the Collaborative Touring Network - read more below.

In 2016-2019, the Collaborative Touring Network (CTN) will give three creative change-makers an opportunity to join an existing network of six partners from across England, for a three-year catalyst project. The central aim of CTN is to develop a stronger and more exciting cultural offer, and build a large, committed audience for arts and performance from across the community. We are interested in forming creative partnerships, to support producers to develop work locally and promote high-quality touring theatre.

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is committed to working with independent artists and producers from across the UK. Our mission is to inspire people to take creative risks to shape the future. Battersea itself was once a place with no significant cultural infrastructure, before a group of artists and producers took over a then empty Town Hall.

In March 2012, BAC launched a national call out seeking partners from across the country interested in developing a new model of touring in England. From this initial call out, and subsequent workshops and conversations, six national partners from Hull, Darlington, Gloucester, Great Yarmouth, Thanet and Torbay formed CTN. For more information, please refer to our website.

Who we are looking to work with:
Over the next 3 years, we want to expand CTN to include 3 new partners working in areas of low cultural engagement in the UK. We are now gathering interest, and would love to hear from you or somebody you know. We are looking to work with someone who is:
• Resourceful, resilient and aspirational, who can play a key role in this network of creative change-makers. You could be someone who identifies as a theatre producer, but could also be a community leader who believes in the potential of creativity to raise aspirations and change the place they live.
• Connected to their community at grass-roots level, who knows and is passionate about the people and the place.
• Interested in and would benefit from the opportunity of working in a UK-wide network.
• Interested in programming theatre and cultural activity in non-theatre spaces already occupied by, and familiar to the community.
• Working at a similar organisational level to our current CTN partners i.e. you have been working with your community for 3-5 years but without regular sustainable funding.
• Not working as part of an Arts Council funded National Portfolio Organisation.
• Working in areas of the UK that this project does not currently reach.

How to apply:
We are currently applying for funding for the next 3 years of this project. If successful, there will be a formal application process launching in January 2016. At the moment, we are looking for expressions of interest. If you or someone you know would be right for this project, please email Rosie Scudder, Project Manager, at rosies@bac.org.uk with no more than a paragraph about your interest in CTN. Please make sure you include your name/organisation, and whereabouts you’re working in the UK.

Please do not hesitate to contact Rosie via email with any questions you may have about the project, or by phone on 020 7326 8262.

For more information visit http://www.bac.org.uk/