True Tickets, a provider of secure digital ticket delivery for the Tessitura Network, has unveiled a strategic partnership with Ballet Austin. Using True Ticket’s digital ticket delivery, Ballet Austin patrons can conveniently access tickets through their mobile devices. Customers will also be able to seamlessly transfer tickets to friends or family members, with Ballet Austin …
Melbourne to welcome new festival with art and music focus
Melbourne is set to welcome a new city-wide festival during the winter months in Australia, with 17 days of art, technology and music. Now or Never will take over the Royal Exhibition Building and will feature performances from local artists and international headliners. The Royal Exhibition Building has been unveiled as one of the festival’s …
Queensland supports the arts through touring fund
The Queensland Government has supported 13 arts tours through an investment of almost A$1.6m (£844,000/€973,000/$1m) via the Touring Queensland Fund, with the aim of engaging regional communities. The funding will go towards 13 touring arts and cultural experiences, including five full-time industry placements. The funding will support a range of arts experiences, from music tours …
True Tickets launches phase two of rules-based ticket sharing feature
True Tickets, secure contactless digital ticketing service, has announced the release of the next version of its rules-based ticket sharing feature. The company launched the rules-based ticket sharing functionality last year. The feature enables event organisers to create and assign rules related to the sharing of digital tickets. The new version allows clients to set …
Nevill Holt Opera scales back 2023 programme due to poor ticket sales
Nevill Holt Opera has been forced to review its 2023 programme due to poor ticket sales. The arts festival, which is held at Nevill Holt Hall (pictured) in Leicestershire in the UK, revealed that its performances of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi will be cancelled. “Due to the extremely challenging circumstances facing …
Adelaide Fringe sells one million tickets in record-breaking year
Adelaide Fringe 2023 has announced a record-breaking year with one million tickets sold. It is also the first festival in Australia to sell one million tickets. Organisers announced that the festival hit the one million ticket mark at 10:01pm on the final night of the event, and that a total of 1,000,916 tickets were sold. …
Creative businesses in Belgium to benefit from additional EU financing options
The European Investment Fund (EIF) is providing investment fund ST’ART with access to the InvestEU guarantee facility. This means that ST’ART will be able to launch new products and offer up to €24m (£21m/$25m) worth of financing to cultural and creative businesses in Wallonia and Brussels, in Belgium, over the next three years. The aim …
Cultural organisations go live with new Indigo Share: Subscription package
Indigo, a consultancy focused on the cultural sector, has announced that the first cultural organisations have gone live with the new Indigo Share: Subscription package. Indigo Share is a collective approach to audience insight and launched in January this year. The package continues efforts led by Indigo since March 2020, including the ‘After the Interval’ …
Creative Scotland launches two new funds
Creative Scotland has launched two new funds, supported by the National Lottery, as part of its efforts to reshape its funding approach. The two funds are the refreshed National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations and the new time-limited National Lottery Extended Programme Fund. Creative Scotland said that these funds have been designed for organisations that …
US arts organisations witness steep decline in subscription sales – study
JCA Arts Marketing, a division of consulting firm Jacob Consulting Applications (JCA), has recently revealed through a study of audience behaviour in the US that subscription sales for arts organisations have fallen sharply. The division aids arts and cultural organisations in utilising data to grow audiences and revenue, and its recent study has shown that …