Resources
Intelligence and insight from Culture Republic.
Audience Engagement Trends video
Culture Republic was invited to head up a session at The Space Day on Understanding Audiences. Watch Board Member Colan Mehaffey’s talk in our video from the day.
Postcode Infographic
Postcodes are powerful tools. Learn how they work and why they matter to you in our new infographic. If you work in marketing, fundraising or learning there is a lot of insight you can get from a postcode!
Research training videos for front of house museum and gallery staff
As part of the Visual Art Scotland Pilot Project, Culture Republic are piloting an audience survey. It will allow participating organisations to compare their audiences with peers in Scotland and across the UK at the touch of a button. Because surveys will be administered by each organisations’ own Front of House staff or volunteers Culture Republic have produced this series of training videos for all participants on collection methodology and sampling.
Families Population Profiles: The Essentials
There are over six hundred thousand families with children living in Scotland and many of them are looking for positive, enriching family experiences that they can share.
Culture Republic Podcasts
The Culture Republic podcast brings you the voices of the learning and engagement professionals, marketers and artistic directors who are building meaningful connections with audiences across the country.
Racial and ethnic diversity in Scotland’s arts audiences
March’s Culture Republic podcast looks at how the arts are connecting with Scotland’s racially and ethnically diverse communities. In this episode we speak with Barrowland Ballet, Glasgow Women’s Library and Bemis.
Podcast – Building Youth Participation in Scotland’s Arts
This month the Culture Republic podcast is looking at how Scotland’s arts organisations are connecting with young people. Ageing is something we all do, so it cuts right across other kinds of categories like race or ethnicity, income levels or geography. Working with young people means reaching out to people who are growing up and becoming more independent along with their family, teachers and carers.
Older People Population Profiles: The Essentials
In 2011 there were one million people of pensionable age in Scotland, and that number is growing. Our Population Profile on older audiences provides facts, figures and case studies to support arts organisations working to engage Scotland’s older population.
Podcast – Reaching Out to Scottish Audiences with Disabilities
January’s podcast looks at how Scottish arts organisations are serving audiences with disabilities and what you can learn from some of the great practice that’s taking place across the country.
Deprivation Population Profile: The Essentials
Deprivation happens when people or places face a series of problems including unemployment, poor education, low income, poor housing, high crime or ill health. These PDF fact files are designed to help you understand and connect with socially excluded audiences in Scotland.
Mapping Scotland’s Audiences
We’ve combined data from the Scottish Household Survey, Scotland Census and TGI Surveys to create an interactive map that reveals at a glance the differences in demography and cultural engagement across Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas.
Podcast – increasing access for socially excluded audiences
The December Culture Republic podcast looks at audiences who are experiencing social exclusion in Scotland and the arts organisations that are working to serve them. This episode features interviews with Rob Gallagher of Impact Arts and Kate Wimpress of North Edinburgh Arts.
Podcast – Scotland’s Ageing Audiences
In November, Culture Republic looks at how Scotland’s artists and arts organisations are engaging with older audiences in Scotland. This episode features interviews with Martha Pollard from the Scottish Poetry Library on the Living Voices project and Emma Young from Dance House on the Still Dancing performance group.
Disability Population Profile: The Essentials
On average, 1 in 5 of the Scottish population has a long-term activity limiting health issue or disability. If they can’t be counted amongst YOUR audience, then you’re missing out – and so are they. Download our PDF fact files to make sure that you have the facts at your fingertips in your work with disabled audiences.
Population Profiles
Culture Republic Population Profiles are a series of six practical fact files, designed for anyone involved in marketing, programming or producing work for Scottish audiences.
Transcript – Access All Areas
Electronic notes taken at the Access All Areas conference 29 October 2015 – this transcript is an encapsulation of the day but not a verbatim transcript.
Access All Areas
Video from the Access All Areas conference is now available for delegates to revisit and for those who weren’t able to attend to benefit from the archived content.
Podcast – Reaching Family Audiences in Scotland
This episode looks at families across Scotland and explores the value, which is not simply monetary, of engaging widely with families as arts participants and attendees.
Introducing the Culture Republic Podcast
An introduction to Culture Republic’s podcast, all about how the arts community in Scotland is reaching out to different sections of the population.
Flashcard for Visual Arts Scotland Pilot Survey
As part of the Visual Art Scotland Pilot Project, Culture Republic are piloting a short, in-venue audience survey that will explore visitor profiles and motivations in partnership with the Audience Agency. It will allow participating organisations to compare their audiences with peers in Scotland and across the UK at the touch of a button. Some questions in the core […]
Thinking Out of the Box event videos
Five videos summarising the content from Thinking Out of the Box, Culture Republic’s CRM and ticketing masterclass with Andrew Thomas of The Ticketing Institute.
Creative Lives Briefing Paper
The Creative Lives Briefing Paper gives an overview of the nature, provision and value of creative learning and participation activity in Edinburgh, and the people who benefitted from it.