Culture and the Big Crunch Alternatively resourced Val Millington Plymouth, 6 April 2011.

Culture and the Big CrunchAlternatively resourced

Val MillingtonPlymouth, 6 April 2011

Alternatively resourced

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

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

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

Exploiting your assetsTurner Contemporary – Apple Regional Training Centre – enhancing teaching and learningwww.turnercontemporary.org

Proboscis - a non profit artist-led studio focused on creative innovation and research, socially engaged art practices and cross-sector collaboration – merchandisingwww.proboscis.org.uk

Smeaton’s Tower and Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery – hosting civil ceremonies, civil partnership registrations and naming ceremonies

Join the pop up movement

Temporary community and learning projects, museums, art galleries and studios, markets, cafes and tea-rooms

•Empty Shops Networkwww.artistsandmakers.com

•Meanwhile Spacewww.meanwhilespace.com

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

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 memberswww.plymouthlets.org.uk

• www.landshare.net

New delivery modelsFor 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

Shared services / collaborations

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

Thank you

Val [email protected]