Edinburgh
Learning Week – Grow Audience & Sustainability
The Learning Week series is an opportunity to open up to fresh ways of thinking from global audience development expert Matt Lehrman.
Equality, Diversity and Access
At September’s #1stWed, Jodie Wilkinson, drew from her experience as Glasgow Film’s Public Engagement Coordinator and shed some light on how to pro-actively overcome equality, diversity and access challenges in the arts and culture in Scotland. Here are some of the key points from her talk. What is equality? Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals […]
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.
Archived: September First Wednesday
Jodie Wilkinson, Public Engagement Coordinator at Glasgow Film, joins us for this First Wednesday session looking at how a clear focus on equality and diversity produces exciting and challenging results.
Archived: July First Wednesday
How can arts organisations make connections between their audience, their work and climate change? How can they invite their audiences – and the artists they work with – to join them on the journey to a more sustainable future? Ben Twist from Creative Carbon Scotland will discuss this and the practical steps arts organisations can take to raise awareness and promote actions towards carbon reduction and sustainability.
What’s the plan Stan? 2016 marketing calendars to plan your work
At the start of the year, tactical marketers will be looking for opportunities and inspiration to liven up the year’s marketing plan. Look no further as these resources will bring you a bit of both.
How to REALLY use Google Analytics
At our second Marketers’ Masterclass we were joined by Brian Tait, Founder and Director of Aillum Limited. This practical, hands-on session provided an overview of some of the more advanced, and often under used, features and tools available within Google Analytics.
Archived: Unlocking Twitter Success – with Stephanie Lindsay
A practical, hands-on session from expert trainer Stephanie Lindsay designed for anyone who runs a Twitter stream or contributes to a content strategy. It will give you the skills and confidence to make sure that every tweet you write is on-target, on-message, and part of a measureable drive to build your profile in the places that matter to you.
A Masterclass in Digital Engagement
At our Marketers’ Masterclass we were joined by Jasper Visser, who shared how arts organisations can refine their approach to digital engagement and make their online efforts work better.
Email marketing: what we learnt at November’s First Wednesday
November’s First Wednesday for Culture Republic partners was all about email marketing. Stephanie Lindsay of Dog Digital explained how creative and well planned email campaigns can produce significant results and be a complimentary channel for your marketing mix.
Celebrating partnership with Creative Lives
At the latest Creative Lives meeting, participants came together to share community focused practice. The examples highlighted some of the inspirational partnership work taking place across Edinburgh today.
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.
Creative Change September’s First Wednesday
Creativity is increasingly recognised as an essential higher order skill for learning, life and work. For September’s First Wednesday we were joined by Stephen Bullock from Education Scotland, exploring the ways in which arts and cultural organisations can engage creatively with the new Scottish Education system.
Introducing the Culture Republic Conference: ACCESS ALL AREAS
Access All Areas is a one-day conference from Culture Republic, bringing speakers from across the UK to show that when cultural leaders, artists and entrepreneurs act in the interests of everyone, creative inspiration and engagement grows.
Edinburgh | 29 October | #CRConf15 | #OneAudience
Innovative approaches to accessibility in the arts sector
This July we attended an AMA network meeting looking at accessibility in the arts. The session highlighted some of the creative ways Scottish organisations are responding to the challenges of serving a diverse audience.
UX Matters: key learnings from July’s First Wednesday
Designing products and services based on what your users need has a huge impact on customer engagement and satisfaction. For July’s First Wednesday we invited Wojtek Kutyla and Jason Kennedy of Storm ID to talk about the philosophy behind user-centred design and its potential business value to arts & cultural organisations
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.
Arts & Business Development Forum (Edinburgh)
Culture Republic is pleased to be speaking at the upcoming Arts & Business Scotland Development Forum in Edinburgh. Join us Thursday 11 June 2015 at Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh.
Mapping Leith’s cultural resources and creative industries
Leith Creative is a cultural mapping research project being co-delivered by LeithLate and Citizen Curator, looking at cultural resources and creative industries within the Leith area.
Shaping the future with Creative Lives
On 14 January 2015 Culture Republic hosted a session with the Creative Lives participants, inviting them to feed back on their experience of the project and to take an active role in shaping the vision for Creative Lives’ future development as we head into 2015.
Family Arts Network Briefing Events
We’re partnering with the Family Arts Campaign to bring two briefing sessions on family engagement to Scotland.
New Mosaic For The New Scotland – February’s First Wednesday
If you want to understand your audience, you need to understand the population that your audience is drawn from. February’s First Wednesday event for Culture Republic partners explored the new Mosaic classifications, revealing how getting to know the new groups and types can help you design your programming and activity to meet and match the needs of specific population groups around you.
Location, Location, Location
The Collective Gallery’s move has transformed their audience profile, drawing in brand new audience segments and driving a vast increase in the overall visitor numbers.
The Centre for the Moving Image’s Understanding Cinema Programme
Understanding Cinema is a creative learning project from the Centre for the Moving Image in Edinburgh. The project worked with almost 500 young people between the ages of 9 – 19 in eight Scottish local authorities.
Arts Engagement Thrives in Edinburgh Schools
Research from Culture Republic shows that every City of Edinburgh Council-funded primary and secondary school took part in some form of arts engagement activity in the academic year 2013-14.