The Future Leaders Programme is an investment in excellence in leadership across the creative and cultural industries in Scotland.

The Tip Sheet: Family Friendly Initiatives is my most popular blog post, recieving 719 views last month. With that kind of interest I have complied some more practical help guides, tips and advice which could help you on your way to developing a family friendly initiative, organisation and/or event.

Sometimes the gods are smiling, and sometimes they’re just having a good laugh. Two days travelling through Argyll exposed me to the best and worst of weathers. On Wednesday, driving back north from Inveraray through Glencoe, the sunshine was glorious, and I’ve never seen the Glen looking so lushly green. But just the evening before, […]

  Posters are a controversial issue, different people have different ideas of what works and what does not work. Of course one important factor for an effective Poster is the ‘white space’ left for venue details, dates and ticket availability when touring a production. Equally important is the impression that posters leave on potential audiences, do they […]

Family Friendly Thank you for visiting the Audience Development Blog – this is one of the most popular posts – and I was wondering if I might be able to ask you for a little bit of your time before reading about Family Friendly Policies for Arts Organisations. I am keen to find out if […]

Customer care is what makes your customers want to come back. A quality product can only do so much, in such a competitive environment the quality of customer care can be the deciding factor in determining success or failure. You should really review your Customer Care strategy regularly. In order to do this you first […]

Papermakers from around the world are to visit Caithness this June 2011. As part of the The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists 25th birthday celebrations, Joanne B Kaar is hosting a papermakers gathering at her studio in Caithness.

‘Faces, Places, Spaces’ is the third annual UHI HNC Contemporary Art Practice graduation exhibition, which opens at the Inverness College Midmills building on the 15th June until the 22nd June and then moves on to the Inchmore Gallery, near Inverness from the 25th June to the 9th July 2011.

How do you judge a work of art that you can’t really see? Anyone who’s been tempted to lie flat on their back on the floor of the Sistine Chapel, or who’s waited impatiently for someone with the right change to pay for the light to come on in a gloomy Italian side chapel will […]

Research is imperative!
Most arts promoters and organizations will need to conduct market research at some point. It is better to do this now, then wait until it’s too late!