The Arts & Everything in Between

April 17, 2023 | Duration: 29 mins

Live from RECHARGE! Data Spark: Using Data to Tackle Organisational Challenges

Get Recharged! In this episode, Lucy Costelloe talks about The Arts & Culture Collective - a Ticketsolve initiative - that explores the main challenges facing arts organisations.

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March 27, 2023 | Duration: 33 mins

LIVE FROM RECHARGE! OPTIMISING OPERATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE VENUES WITH PETER LING FROM IPSWICH REGENT AND CORN EXCHANGE

In this episode we are taking you to RECHARGE, Ticketsolve’s recent arts and culture forums. You’ll hear from Peter Ling, Shows & Finance Manager at Ipswich Theatres, who shared experiences of radical changes at his venues.

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March 22, 2023 | Duration: 39 mins

WORLD THEATRE DAY: LOVE YOUR LOCAL THEATRE

On this episode of the Arts & Everything in Between Podcast, we are celebrating World Theatre Day with the exciting launch of Theatre Token’s Love Your Local Theatre 2023 campaign! Lucy Costelloe sat down with Head of Theatre Tokens - and long time arts management professional - Jamie Snelgrove, to get a sneak peek into this year’s Love Your Local Theatre campaign.

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March 9, 2023 | Duration: 40 mins

CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AT TICKETSOLVE

In this episode, we have brought our colleagues who identify as women together to celebrate and reflect on International Women’s Day and what it means to be a woman in the workplace. You’ll hear about their backgrounds, how they got into the arts and eventually Ticketsolve. The panel talks candidly about the challenges they have faced in their own careers, breaking stereotypes, and what the future holds for women working not just in the arts but across every industry.

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March 7, 2023 | Duration: 41 mins

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023: LEANING IN WITH GILLIAN HENNESSY

On this episode of the Arts & Everything in Between Podcast, we celebrate International Women’s Day. In celebrating this year’s theme of Equity, we are joined by special guest, Gillian Hennessey, Head of Marketing Development and Box Office at Triskel Arts Centre. She reflects on what it means to move out of your comfort zone and lean into others, how to build a network and why the people you surround yourself with are a key component to your success.

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December 13, 2022 | Duration: 57 mins

UNTANGLING THE KNOTS AROUND ACCESSIBILITY WITH CATHERINE TURNER

This episode of The Arts and Everything in Between Podcast features Catherine Turner, trustee for Colchester Arts Centre, a technology accessibility advisor and an enthusiastic patron of many art forms. She’s also a disabled person with a love of swimming and a hatred of bananas. Catherine provides her expertise on website accessibility and what you and your team can be looking at within your organisation to keep accessibility high on your agenda.

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November 8, 2022 | Duration: 52 mins

THE HIDDEN TALENT: IN CONVERSATION WITH CREATIVE YOUTH

This episode of The Arts & Everything in Between is hosted by Lucy Costelloe who is joined by special guest, Daniel Cartlidge General Manager of Creative Youth. Creative Youth is the biggest youth arts festival in the UK. In this episode, we borrow from Daniel’s insights from working with the youth artists’ council and what the main concerns are for young talent within the sector currently navigating through the uncertainties as presented in the news headlines.

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February 4, 2022 | Duration: 20 mins

AUGMENTING DECISION-MAKING: THE ROLE OF DATA HAS CHANGED

This episode of The Arts & Everything in Between is hosted by Lucy Costelloe and provides an insight into a new project which Ticketsolve is focusing on for the next three years. In collaboration with the Irish Research Council, this project will identify resilient methods and agile practices around decision-making in times of crisis and in the re-opening of the arts sector in the UK and Ireland, to inform business models across the sector.

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September 15, 2021 | Duration: 50 mins

HOW TO EXCEED EXPECTATIONS BY ADOPTING COMMERCIAL EXCELLENCE

Hosted by Lucy Costelloe, this episode welcomes George McLean, Senior Account Manager at Complete Works. Founded in 2012 as part of Boo Productions Ltd, their initial work began with the London Olympic Venues. Today their mission looks at redefining the 3 key elements of success: visitors, organisation and team. George speaks all about redefining your visitor’s experience to boost your commercial success.

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September 9, 2021 | Duration: 34 mins

FOCUS ON COMMUNITY: FUNDRAISING AND YOUR MISSION

In this episode, Nick is joined by Farnham Maltings’ Director, Gavin Stride and Communications and Marketing Manager Niki Hanmer. Gav and Niki explain how community is at the heart of their overall organisational mission and how they use this mantra to weave community collaboration and engagement into everything that they do. They also talk through their hugely successful Spring Forward fundraising campaign and give practical tips and tricks on how to do a similar project.

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About Our Guest

Nick Stevenson

Featured Guest

Nick Stevenson

Nick Stevenson

Head of Sales and Marketing, Ticketsolve

Nick has worked extensively in the arts and held a wide variety of roles, most notably with Theatrau Sir Gar as head of marketing. Within Ticketsolve, Nick works closely with UK customers to show them how to get the most from Ticketsolve. Keenly interested on the business side of the arts, Nick creates practical and useful arts industry content for the sector and enjoys working closely with industry organisations and others that are influencers.