PAN Bulletin

March 2009

SPRING FORUM

Less than a month to go until the Spring Forum - in Ballachulish, April 18th, 10am - 3pm

Thanks to all the earlybirds who've already sent back their registration info - if you want to be there but haven't booked, please can you do it as soon as possible?

Thanks also to Lara McDonald who has been helping Catherine to arrange this Forum.

MEMBERSHIP FEES

To simplify administration, we're changing the system. From now on, fees will be paid by direct debit. A month into the new Programming Year (i.e. on May 1st) the password to enter the Members Only area of the PAN website will change, and only paid up Members will be sent the new password.

If this causes you or your organisation problems, contact the Administrator as soon as possible!

NEW PATRON FOR PAN

We are very pleased to confirm that Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, has agreed to be one of our Patrons, joining Gerry Mulgrew and John Murphy. NTS already uses many of our members' venues and we hope to see more of them in the coming years.

The Tailor of Inverness

Dogstar Productions' acclaimed show is returning to the Highlands in May, due to a late cancellation of their Irish tour (another casualty of the credit crunch, allegedly). The PAN board has agreed to underwrite fees for a couple of our members, who'd already committed all their funding but wanted to book it. We did this because we believe this is an important play and a small amount of money was going to make a big difference to the viability of the tour.

We appreciate it might seem a bit unfair on those who had already booked this show at the full fee - so let's talk about it at the Forum. Would you like PAN to support more tours? Do we want to move to something nearer the NEAT model? The times they are a-changin'......and PAN probably has to adapt in order to survive.

New Website update

We told you that there would be a new website before the Autumn Forum.....so we're not going to tell you there will be one in time for the Spring Forum. But we're hoping there will be!