September Member Meetings

Tues 3rd September

9:30am - 10am

Member Drop In

This is open to all our members, you will have the opportunity to meet other NRTF members and share your experiences, tell us what you are up to or planning, and ask any questions. 

This meeting is hosted by our membership manager Hattie, also joining this meeting will be our new Press and Media manager, Dickie Felton, who is looking forward to meeting you and finding out how we can help.

We will share a zoom link nearer the time in our members newsletter.

Weds 11th September

10.15am - 11.45am

Programmers Coffee Morning, in partnership with Arts Alive

This virtual networking event invites Programmers from across the Rural Touring network to share success stories with their peers, perhaps you have seen something great recently at Edinburgh or any other festival, well this is the meeting for you to tell us all about it.

Come prepared with 2-3 examples of successful shows/events you've programmed. Learn from others, share knowledge and build relationships within the network.

Sign up via this Eventbrite link to join the next meeting for free.

Wednesday 18th September

1.30 - 2.30pm

Open Space - Schemes

This is  a meeting for Rural Touring Scheme members hosted by Holly. Discussions based around funding, future planning and asks in light of upcoming NPO rounds, local authority funding and government agendas. 

Thurs 19th  September

10am - 11am

Open Space - Promoters

These sessions are specifically for Promoters to come along, meet and share with others working hard to bring brilliant artists to their local village hall, library or event. 

Most Rural Touring promoters are voluntary, and we understand your time is really valuable. This is a great opportunity for you to share your experiences and challenges with others, and hopefully share your amazing tips and tricks for making sure the shows can go on!

If you are on our mailing list, the link will be emailed directly to you, or you can ask your Scheme to send you the information and the link to join. We usually send this out just a few days before the meeting.

Please note: Although we love to hear from everyone involved in Rural Touring, this meeting is for Promoters, rather than artists. Artist members are encouraged to join our Member Drop-In sessions or What Next? Rural meetings.

Tues 1st October

10am - 11am

What Next? Rural - Press

What Next? is a free-to-access UK-wide movement for culture. With chapters all over the country, they bring together freelancers, and small and large arts organisations to inform, debate and shape the future of the arts and culture. You can sign up to their mailing list to hear about and join their regular meetings here: 

https://www.whatnextculture.co.uk/mailing-list/ 

What Next? Rural is our own chapter, which focuses specifically on Rural Touring, addressing questions and subjects from the perspective of our shared experience here at NRTF. Our September meeting will look at Press & Media relations for Rural Touring, and we will be joined by our new Press and Media Manager, Dickie Felton.

(Open to non Members also, let us know you want to attend by signing up to our free mailing list here).

We will share a zoom link nearer the time in our members newsletter and our free newsletter.