ABOUT LAURA H DRANE ASSOCIATES LHDA is lead by Laura Drane, an arts and cultural producer, consultant and project manager, based in Cardiff and working across the UK. Having started her own business in 2002, she has worked on a wide variety of projects across artforms and sectors; contracts have included programme development/ delivery, feasibility, research, consultation and evaluation. The business as it now stands is rooted in Laura’s experience, skills and ethos, and along with various associates (specified for each contract as required). The aim is to help every client and each project to flourish and achieve their potential.  Current and previous clients include: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic www.liverpoolphil.com Arts Council England www.artscouncil.org.uk National Skills Academy (CC Skills) www.nsa-ccskills.co.uk Manchester Science Festival www.manchestersciencefestival.co.uk Manchester City Council www.manchester.gov.uk Voluntary Arts Network www.voluntaryarts.org Specialist Schools and Academies Trust www.ssatrust.org.uk Federation of Music Services www.thefms.org Manchester International Festival www.mif.co.uk Manchester Art Gallery www.manchestergalleries.org National Museums Liverpool www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Whalley Range All Stars www.wras.org.uk Welsh National Opera www.wno.org.uk

ABOUT LAURA H DRANE ASSOCIATES

LHDA is lead by Laura Drane, an arts and cultural producer, consultant and project manager, based in Cardiff and working across the UK. Having started her own business in 2002, she has worked on a wide variety of projects across artforms and sectors; contracts have included programme development/ delivery, feasibility, research, consultation and evaluation.

The business as it now stands is rooted in Laura’s experience, skills and ethos, and along with various associates (specified for each contract as required). The aim is to help every client and each project to flourish and achieve their potential. 

Current and previous clients include:

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KEY SKILLS AND QUALITIES Works flexibility and creatively, especially when under pressure Capacity to both lead, and be part of, teams, with confidence to use own initiative Experienced in building partnerships and working with stakeholders Dedicated, enthusiastic and professional, with excellent communication skills TRAINING Clore Leadership Short Course (summer 2011) So You Wanna Be A Producer? Intensive course - SOLT, TMA and Stage One (2004) Attended numerous conferences, training events and courses covering: communication skills; marketing; tour booking and production; time and deadline management; fundraising; cultural entitlement; child protection; disability, diversity and race equality; sector-specific events (eg engage conference, BA Festival of Science, UnConvention). OTHER INFORMATION £5m public liability cover Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) www.thersa.org Advisory board member for UnConvention www.unconventionhub.org Continue to seek other opportunities to use my skills and experience in a voluntary capacity References and testimonials available on request

KEY SKILLS AND QUALITIES

  • Works flexibility and creatively, especially when under pressure
  • Capacity to both lead, and be part of, teams, with confidence to use own initiative
  • Experienced in building partnerships and working with stakeholders
  • Dedicated, enthusiastic and professional, with excellent communication skills

TRAINING

  • Clore Leadership Short Course (summer 2011)
  • So You Wanna Be A Producer? Intensive course - SOLT, TMA and Stage One (2004)
  • Attended numerous conferences, training events and courses covering: communication skills; marketing; tour booking and production; time and deadline management; fundraising; cultural entitlement; child protection; disability, diversity and race equality; sector-specific events (eg engage conference, BA Festival of Science, UnConvention).

OTHER INFORMATION

  • £5m public liability cover
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) www.thersa.org
  • Advisory board member for UnConvention www.unconventionhub.org
  • Continue to seek other opportunities to use my skills and experience in a voluntary capacity
  • References and testimonials available on request

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SERVICES AND SKILLS We are high level generalists and specialists offering services in: Project development, delivery and management Events and festivals of every scale and size Producing Public engagement Evaluation and research Sector-specifics, including festivals, music, theatre Training Arts administration We work across the arts and cultural sectors, and in all artforms and subsectors (eg creative learning, public engagement, voluntary/ third sector). We have also developed a highly effective and tried-and-tested bid-writing workshop over the last few years, that has been delivered to libraries staff, music educators, voluntary group members and boards of trustees. Previous organisations that have hosted one have included The British Science Association, The RSA, Federation of Music Services, Clore Leadership short course, and MusicLeader. It can be run as a full day session, or reduced down to anything like a ‘masterclass’ of an hour and half, and it comes with a handout/ resource and information sheet. If you, or anyone you know, would like to find out more about availability and costs, please do get in touch.

SERVICES AND SKILLS

We are high level generalists and specialists offering services in:

  • Project development, delivery and management
  • Events and festivals of every scale and size
  • Producing
  • Public engagement
  • Evaluation and research
  • Sector-specifics, including festivals, music, theatre
  • Training
  • Arts administration

We work across the arts and cultural sectors, and in all artforms and subsectors (eg creative learning, public engagement, voluntary/ third sector).

We have also developed a highly effective and tried-and-tested bid-writing workshop over the last few years, that has been delivered to libraries staff, music educators, voluntary group members and boards of trustees. Previous organisations that have hosted one have included The British Science Association, The RSA, Federation of Music Services, Clore Leadership short course, and MusicLeader. It can be run as a full day session, or reduced down to anything like a ‘masterclass’ of an hour and half, and it comes with a handout/ resource and information sheet. If you, or anyone you know, would like to find out more about availability and costs, please do get in touch.

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CURRENTLY WORKING ON: An EU Culture Fund bid for five partners spread across the UK, France, Netherlands, and Australia (value: 400,00E) Producing for Volcano Theatre Orchestral Consortium of partners based in and around Cardiff including Royal Welsh College, Wales Millennium Centre, WNO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, St David’s Hal and Sinfonia Cymru. Welsh National Opera, creating and delivering a three year evaluation framework for a community project in Wrexham Several of our own production ideas, including a teen opera, an interactive art installation, and a flyposting project Laura has also recently had an article published in Arts Professional about the value of using freelancers as cost-effective and flexible options for arts and cultural organisations - http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/view.cfm?issue=239&id=5766 We have also developed a highly effective and tried-and-tested bid-writing workshop over the last few years, that has been delivered to libraries staff, music educators, voluntary group members and boards of trustees. Previous organisations that have hosted one have included The British Science Association, The RSA, Federation of Music Services, Clore Leadership short course, and MusicLeader. It can be run as a full day session, or reduced down to anything like a ‘masterclass’ of an hour and half, and it comes with a handout/ resource and information sheet. If you, or anyone you know, would like to find out more about availability and costs, please do get in touch.

CURRENTLY WORKING ON:

  • An EU Culture Fund bid for five partners spread across the UK, France, Netherlands, and Australia (value: 400,00E)
  • Producing for Volcano Theatre
  • Orchestral Consortium of partners based in and around Cardiff including Royal Welsh College, Wales Millennium Centre, WNO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, St David’s Hal and Sinfonia Cymru.
  • Welsh National Opera, creating and delivering a three year evaluation framework for a community project in Wrexham
  • Several of our own production ideas, including a teen opera, an interactive art installation, and a flyposting project

Laura has also recently had an article published in Arts Professional about the value of using freelancers as cost-effective and flexible options for arts and cultural organisations - http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/view.cfm?issue=239&id=5766

We have also developed a highly effective and tried-and-tested bid-writing workshop over the last few years, that has been delivered to libraries staff, music educators, voluntary group members and boards of trustees. Previous organisations that have hosted one have included The British Science Association, The RSA, Federation of Music Services, Clore Leadership short course, and MusicLeader. It can be run as a full day session, or reduced down to anything like a ‘masterclass’ of an hour and half, and it comes with a handout/ resource and information sheet. If you, or anyone you know, would like to find out more about availability and costs, please do get in touch.

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OUR OWN PRODUCTIONS In addition to working on projects and programmes for clients and collaborators, we also think we have the odd viable idea ourselves for artistic interventions and creations. As such, we work to develop ideas that grab us, that exist in the public sphere, and that connects us to audiences. Current and recent productions that are in development or have been delivered include: Reclaiming advertising space with Micah Purnell - this is an ongoing relationship to support Micah’s burgeoning body of work; in the past, has undertaken a Cornerhouse microcommission grant to reclaim advertising space for free thinking and creativity World Book Night giveaways in 2011, 2012 and 2013 - including: Life of Pi by Yann Martel at a promo event at Nexus Art Cafe alongside the start of a new book group; and, Rose Tremain’s The Road Home, parcelled up as airmal packages and distributed in Cardiff Bay A teen opera based on a Greek myth, with a biomedical slant A stage/screen interaction production An interactive art installation and trail based on concepts of hunger and thirst

OUR OWN PRODUCTIONS

In addition to working on projects and programmes for clients and collaborators, we also think we have the odd viable idea ourselves for artistic interventions and creations. As such, we work to develop ideas that grab us, that exist in the public sphere, and that connects us to audiences.

Current and recent productions that are in development or have been delivered include:

  • Reclaiming advertising space with Micah Purnell - this is an ongoing relationship to support Micah’s burgeoning body of work; in the past, has undertaken a Cornerhouse microcommission grant to reclaim advertising space for free thinking and creativity
  • World Book Night giveaways in 2011, 2012 and 2013 - including: Life of Pi by Yann Martel at a promo event at Nexus Art Cafe alongside the start of a new book group; and, Rose Tremain’s The Road Home, parcelled up as airmal packages and distributed in Cardiff Bay
  • A teen opera based on a Greek myth, with a biomedical slant
  • A stage/screen interaction production
  • An interactive art installation and trail based on concepts of hunger and thirst

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THE ASSOCIATES Each and every project and client is different; being the way we are, we are able to tailor our offer to your needs. Associates are tried and trusted people whose skills and experience as specialists and high-level generalists means they deliver every time. Expertise required might include marketing, branding, project or event support, arts admin, evaluation, research, as well as artform/ sector specialist knowledge and experience (eg music or education). Associates we have worked with regularly in the past and will do again in the future include, but aren’t limited to: Sally Fort www.sallyfort.com Sara Teiger www.stpr.co.uk Tekin Suleyman www.tekin.co.uk Nadine Andrews www.cultureprobe.co.uk Helen and Andrew Palmer www.palmersquared.co.uk Bruce Stanley (who did our current brand identity) www.embody.co.uk Emma Cunliffe Fiona Goh

THE ASSOCIATES

Each and every project and client is different; being the way we are, we are able to tailor our offer to your needs. Associates are tried and trusted people whose skills and experience as specialists and high-level generalists means they deliver every time.

Expertise required might include marketing, branding, project or event support, arts admin, evaluation, research, as well as artform/ sector specialist knowledge and experience (eg music or education).

Associates we have worked with regularly in the past and will do again in the future include, but aren’t limited to:

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Producer/ director

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

Cornerhouse Microcommission - working with a fly poster artist (Jan 11)

Unknown Pleasures festival – feasibility, and subsequent programming (July 09 – Aug 10)

Walking With Robots – festival director for UK’s first robotics festival (May – Nov 09)

Manchester Science Festival 2007 and 2008 – Director of large-scale, high-profile festival promoting science, engineering and technology across the Greater Manchester city-region (Jan 07 – Feb 09)

www.GetIntoTheatre.org for Arts Council England – developing an information, advice and guidance website for young people interested in backstage theatre careers; now hosted by National Skills Academy/ CC Skills (Feb 07 – Dec 09)

Step Up for The Bridgewater Hall Community Education Trust, 2003-06 – Festival Director – co-ordinating and managing this annual NW-regional, mixed-artform, multi-venue schools arts festival (Jan 03 – Aug 06)

Lost Voices – Producer – tour of new play by Fraser Grace (Feb – June 03)

All My Sons by Arthur Miller – Producer - Bedlam Theatre and NSDF/ NSTC (1999)

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Consultant

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

National Museums Liverpool – work with the Education, Communities and Visitors department (Oct 10 – present)

Manchester Histories Festival – scoping and feasibility work on the 2012 event (Dec 10 – Mar 11)

Voluntary Arts Network – consultancy work for CEO (Jan 10); and proposal writing relating to Our Creative Talent research report (Jan - Feb 09)

Manchester City Council – pilot cultural entitlement project in North Manchester (Feb – Jan 10)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – consultation on adult voluntary music-making (Jan – Feb 09)

GMMAZ – consultancy work supporting the organisation’s fundraising (May – Nov 08)

National Singing Programme – wrote tender submission for consortium of partners including Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Federation of Music Services, Music for Youth, and others (June 07)

DF Concerts – writing a feasibility study and funding pitch for one of Scotland’s leading live music promoters for the brand new Connect Festival at Inveraray (July 06)

Manchester International Festival/ Step Up – consultancy/ development work – creating a strategy for potentially linking both festivals in 2007 (Apr - May 06)

Arts Council England, North West young people’s strategy consultation – planning and delivering consultation session with arts and youth sectors across the NW, and subsequent report (Jan – Mar 06)

The Bridgewater Hall Community Education Trust Statement of Scope and Activity – researching and writing a statement of scope and activity for the Hall’s CET (Sept 04 – Oct 05)

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Project and event manager

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

Chester Mystery Plays - devising and delivering a public engagement programme for an HLF-funded project (Mar 11 - present)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – delivery of support for community choirs (Sept 09 – Dec 10)

Voluntary Arts England – three month cover for England Co-ordinator role (Oct – Dec 09)

Mesh: CPD for heritage professionals – as part of the Northern Edge programme, with The University of Hull, devising and creating a bespoke training programme (Nov 07 – Apr 08)

Making Music – range of projects and events for voluntary and amateur music groups across NW England (Aug 02 – Apr 07)

Catalyst: EU “Cultural Entitlement” Policy Conference 2005 – Facilities management and resources researching, for major European policy conference, for Arts Council England, NW (Aug 03 – Oct 05)

Chorlton Arts Festival 2004 and 2005 – Arts admin and operational support (Jan 04 – June 05)

Rupert Griffiths/ futuresonic04 – funding application/ project management (Feb 04)

Rupert Griffiths/ Whitworth Art Gallery – funding applications and project management for installation of public artwork through transport-provider GMPTE (Feb 03 – Apr 04)

Arts About Manchester – managed launch event for “What in the World?” comic (Nov 02)

New Breed Theatre Company - The Irish Giant - admin and production support for a NW regional tour of a new work by award-winning disabled people’s theatre company (Aug - Dec 02)

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Researcher and evaluator

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

Manchester Art Gallery – review of English Corner project (Sep 10 – Jan 11); evaluation for the Reading Voyager library bus (Feb – May 08); evaluation of three community projects/ Kylie show (May – Sept 07)

BBC Philharmonic/ Jodrell Bank/ Salford University – evaluation of “Wonder” (Oct – Dec 09)

Find Your Talent Liverpool – pilot project research/ evaluation (Jan – Aug 09)

Chethams’ Early Years Music – creation and delivery of evaluation strategy (Nov 08 – May 09)

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival’s Education Programme Evaluation 2003-2005 – Evaluation and report-writing for hcmf’s education programme (Oct 03– Aug 06)

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Facilitator

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

Artsnet – network meeting facilitation (Sep 10)

Sefton Music Services – organisational staff meeting facilitation (May – Dec 09; Apr 11)

Sound Sense – board and business advisers meeting facilitation (Mar 09)

Voluntary Arts Network – internal staff meeting facilitation plus reporting (Feb 08 - Feb 09)

Trained with Rivca Rubin

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Misc - trainer, bidwriter, etc

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF CONTRACTS

Federation of Music Services - developing and delivering seven UK-wide training sessions on bid writing (Apr - Aug 11)

UnConvention – ACE Grants for the Arts application (Dec 10)

Manchester Metropolitan University seminar as part of the ‘Contemporary Arts and Cultural Enterprise’ MA course – session on funding and fundraising (May 06)

Target Training – panel member for cultural and creative industries sessions (occasional)

Arts Council England North West Positive Action Trainee programme – How To Be A Freelancer – information/ training session for PAT trainees about being a freelancer (May 05)

DF Concerts - writing a feasibility study for Scotland’s leading promoter, for the new Connect festival at Inveraray (July 06)

Misc. fundraising contracts - 24:7 Theatre Festival, Cultural Fusion/ LYAP, artsplayground, Performing Arts Academy, and others

Projects I’ve directed/ produced have all included bid-writing and fundraising, everything from £500 to £100,000

We have also developed a highly effective and tried-and-tested bid-writing workshop over the last few years, that has been delivered to libraries staff, music educators, voluntary group members and boards of trustees. Previous organisations that have hosted one have included The British Science Association, Federation of Music Services, Clore Leadership short course, and MusicLeader. It can be run as a full day session, or reduced down to anything like a ‘masterclass’ of an hour and half, and it comes with a handout/ resource and information sheet. If you, or anyone you know, would like to find out more about availability and costs, please do get in touch.

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Get Into Theatre - a project we developed and delivered

A unique site we built for Arts Council England (now in its third iteration and operated by CCSkills/ NSA) which offers information, advice and guidance to young people aged 14-24 about back-stage and off-stage careers in theatre.

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Legalese

Laura H Drane Associates Limited is registered in England as Company No. 7568755, c/o Beever & Struthers, St George’s House, 125 Chester Road, Manchester, M15 4JE

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Please be in touch if you would like to explore collaborating or contracting us to work with you. You can also find Laura on Twitter.

Please be in touch if you would like to explore collaborating or contracting us to work with you.

You can also find Laura on Twitter.

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About Laura H Drane Associates
Skills
Services
Currently Working On...
Our Own Productions
The Associates
Producer/ director
Consultant
Project and event manager
Researcher and evaluator
Facilitator
Misc - trainer, bidwriter, etc
Get Into Theatre - a project we developed and delivered
Legalese
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