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 :-

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.

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!).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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......

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

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!
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!

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!