Culture and the Big Crunch Alternatively resourced

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Culture and the Big CrunchAlternatively
resourced

• Val Millington
• Plymouth, 6 April 2011

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Alternatively resourced

• Some ideas
• Crowdfunding
• Exploiting your assets
• Join the pop-up movement
• Alternative trading systems
• New delivery models
• Outsourcing / sharing services

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Crowdfunding

• Private individuals buy shares or units in
  new art work, commissions or projects
• Donors/investors gain rewards in return for
  seeing the work or project completed

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• As a Sound Investor you will
• be invited to rehearsals and a special reception
  at the premiere
• have the chance to meet the composer and
  performers
• have the opportunity to receive a full score of
  the piece signed for you by the composer
• be kept up to date with the progress of your
  chosen work before and after its premiere
• have access to a special section of the BCMG
  website
• be thanked for your support in the score of the
  piece, concert programme and on the BCMG website

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• Exploiting your assets
• Turner Contemporary Apple Regional Training
  Centre enhancing teaching and learning
• www.turnercontemporary.org
• Proboscis - a non profit artist-led studio
  focused on creative innovation and research,
  socially engaged art practices and cross-sector
  collaboration merchandising
• www.proboscis.org.uk
• Smeatons Tower and Plymouth Museum and Art
  Gallery hosting civil ceremonies, civil
  partnership registrations and naming ceremonies

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Join the pop up movement

• Temporary community and learning projects,
  museums, art galleries and studios, markets,
  cafes and tea-rooms
• Empty Shops Network
• www.artistsandmakers.com
• Meanwhile Space
• www.meanwhilespace.com

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Our place, Your place Taunton

• Museum closed for renovation
• New heritage centre in development
• Temporary museum in empty shop
• Professional displays
• Wide range of events, talks, drop-in sessions
  exploring archives and heritage
• Legacy of booklet of photos and DVD

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Alternative trading systems

• The Stroud Pound 60 participating traders and
  businesses who accept the Stroud Pound -
  strengthening the local economy, building new
  relationships
• www.stroudpound.org.uk
• Plymouth LETS (local exchange trading scheme)
  based on use of local currency only used by
  members
• www.plymouthlets.org.uk
• www.landshare.net

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New delivery models

• For example social enterprises
• Real Food Exeter social enterprise shop and
  cafe, set up with 150K capital investment from
  local community
• Museum of East Anglian Life - runs  a social
  enterprise retail operation specialising in the
  production and sale of hanging baskets, plants, 
  fruit and vegetables
• Bow Arts Trust East London affordable work/live
  space for artists in short-life 1, 2 3 bedroom
  flats, plus arts events and projects in the
  community

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Shared services / collaborations

• For example
• HR, payroll and bookkeeping functions
• Catering operations
• Facilities management
• Training
• IT support
• Marketing and audience development

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Thank you

• Val Millington
• val.millington_at_lineone.net