culture and the big crunch alternatively resourced val millington plymouth, 6 april 2011
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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
