PAN News

Web Marketing Roadshow
10 March 2010

Free web marketing workshops for artists and arts and cultural groups who are interested in learning more about the opportunities the web offers for promoting and marketing their activities - organised bySian Jamieson, who's in charge of Hi-Arts' Audience Development.

To book click the External Link below the table, then the big green button marked 'Book Now'. 

Dates, times and places :-

 

Inverness

Tuesday
6 April 2010
 
9.30am –
1.30pm 

HI~Arts,
4th floor, Ballantyne House,
84 Academy Street, Inverness,
IV1 1LU

01463 717 091

Orkney    

Wednesday 14 April 2010

9am – 1pm

Pickaquoy Centre,
Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall,
Orkney, KW15 1LR

01856 879 900

Shetland

Saturday
8 May 2010

10am – 2pm

Islesburgh Community Centre,

King Harald Street, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0EQ
 
01595 745 100

Shetland

Tuesday
11 May 2010

10am – 2pm

Saxa Vord,
Haroldswick, Unst, Shetland, ZE2 9TJ
 
01957 711 711

Western Isles To Be Confirmed  

Ullapool

Tuesday 25 May 2010

9am - 1pm

MacPhail Centre,
Mill Street, Ullapool, IV26 2UN,

01854 613 336

Argyll To Be Confirmed  

Skye

Tuesday 22 June 2010
 
9am – 1pm

Aros Centre,
Viewfield Road
Portree
Isle of Skye IV51 9EU
 
01478 613 649

Free Financial Management Workshops
10 March 2010

Finance for non-finance managers - Classroom based workshop (3 days)
Inverness 28th April, 16th June and 29th Sept 2010

Organised by EDAS (Economic Development Association Scotland), these workshops are designed to help third sector organisations sharpen up their financial planning skills so that they can deal with the increasingly harsh financial and funding climate.

More info and a link to sign up on the External Link below.Or call EDAS on 0141 425 2945.

PAN will reimburse members' reasonable travelling expenses to Inverness.

 

 

AmbITion Roadshow, Inverness
02 March 2010

18th March, Eden Court Theatre

 

The AmbITion Roadshow hits Inverness - PAN members are encouraged to attend as PAN is one of 15 partner organisations in this exciting new development.

Places are filling fast so don't delay  - click the link below to sign up - it's free! And PAN will pay your reasonable travelling expenses (no, not first class flights!).

 

 

Speaker Announced for PAN Spring Forum
25 February 2010

PAN is delighted that Sandra Hogg from SCVO will be joining us at the Spring Forum in Inverness next weekend. Sandra works with the Rural team providing an information service to rural voluntary groups, including fundraising advice including using FunderFinder to search for appropriate grant giving trusts. She also manages the Village Halls website and strongly supports a village hall network. The afternoon discussions will take place from 1 - 3pm featuring other guest speakers as well.

Saturday 6 March - Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Forum Agenda

9am-10am: registration
10am-12pm: touring past and future
12pm-1pm: networking lunch
1pm-3pm: afternoon presentation and discussion
3pm-4pm networking afternoon tea

Sign up to attend the Forum here or email info@panpromoters.co.uk
Please can you let us know by Wednesday 3 March if you are able to attend.

Andrew Dixon to head Creative Scotland
12 February 2010

So the waiting's over - Andrew Dixon is to be the new head of Creative Scotland, arriving from Newcastle, which has a neat sort of symmetry as Jim Tough heads south to head Arts Council North East.

Gigspeak
05 February 2010

Useful especially for newbie promoters, but even old hands may learn a thing or two from this new guide to the language of the touring musician, by Hi-Arts' John Saich (ex-Capercaillie), aided and abetted by producer Robbie Dunsmore and promoter Robert Hicks (Loopallu, Belladrum, Rock Ness).

 

Go to the Hi Arts site to download it, or click the link below.

PAN Board Member Gwilym Gibbons at MMM seminar
18 January 2010

Here's footage of our very own Gwilym Gibbons, PAN board member and director of Shetland Arts, at a MissionsModelsMoney event in Edinburgh in Dec 2009 on "Funding Transition". Click on the link below.

Worth checking out the other videos from the session, too, which you can find here.

Spring Forum 2010
17 January 2010

The Spring Forum will be at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, on Saturday March 6th.

 

More info soon, but put the date in your diary, chalk it on the chalkboard, mark it on the calendar or tie a knot in your hankie now......

Compulsory Music Licences on the way
08 January 2010

Bad news from the SCVO Village Halls News bulletin - until now not for profit organisations have been exempt from paying for PRS/PPL licences to play recorded or live music.

 

But as of APRIL 2010, that's going to change. See the link below for all details, and if you read this before 5pm on 8th Jan, take the Survey here

 

ANOTHER FUNDING DEADLINE IN JANUARY
23 December 2009

PAN Promoters in Highland Council's area can apply to the Highland Culture Programme for funding, both capital and revenue.

There are three rounds a year, with the following deadlines for 2010

22nd January

21st May

17th September

Click the link below for their website, where you can find the guidelines, application form, terms and conditions and everything you need. Before filling in an application, they suggest you discuss your eligibility with Fiona Hampton (who's on holiday till the New Year - as are we all!)

Seasons Greetings!
22 December 2009

SEASONS GREETINGS!
From everyone here at the Promoters Arts Network, we wish you all a very merry Christmas. We'll be back in touch in January with a brand new bulletin packed full of news, events and information, and we'll be sending you a quick survey to complete, the results of which will allow us to serve you better in 2010!

Happy holidays!

AmbITion Funding Success!
22 December 2009

Thanks to board member Adrian Lear's sterling work on preparing the application, PAN's passed the first round of the AmbITion funding process.

One (important) step closer to getting our plans for distributed networking using the full potential of Web 2.0  under way in 2010....watch this space!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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