Generous and progressive or selfish and regressive?
Lorne Campbell, Artistic Director of Northern Stage, examines his business plan and questions whether it truly serves a wider community or simply represents a fight for survival.
I became artistic director of Northern Stage in May 2013. In this first year, the company and I have been through all of the processes you would expect. There's the painstaking examination and discussion of what we do and don't do and the meeting of audiences, artists, participants and stakeholders to try to begin to understand what they want and need. The construction and communication of a new artistic vision, new business plan, new Arts Council NPO application. The implementation of a thousand changes, large and small, to try to serve the legacy of the organisation while breaking vital new ground.
A year on and the cumulative effects of these changes are now starting to become visible to our audiences, artists, partners and participants. It is an exciting and delicate moment, when we begin to discover if the effects of our shifts are what we hoped for, or in fact something very different... Keep reading on The Guardian
I became artistic director of Northern Stage in May 2013. In this first year, the company and I have been through all of the processes you would expect. There's the painstaking examination and discussion of what we do and don't do and the meeting of audiences, artists, participants and stakeholders to try to begin to understand what they want and need. The construction and communication of a new artistic vision, new business plan, new Arts Council NPO application. The implementation of a thousand changes, large and small, to try to serve the legacy of the organisation while breaking vital new ground.
A year on and the cumulative effects of these changes are now starting to become visible to our audiences, artists, partners and participants. It is an exciting and delicate moment, when we begin to discover if the effects of our shifts are what we hoped for, or in fact something very different... Keep reading on The Guardian