East of England Festival and Events Diversity Survey

Introduction

Essex Cultural Diversity Project's mission is to energise diversity in arts and heritage across the East of England. We are interested in the festival and events sector(s) at all levels, and the opportunties to diversify festival/event content as well as audiences. We believe greater diversity will benefit the sector, making it more resilient and relevant.

Please share your thoughts through this short survey and be as honest as you can be about the opportunities you see and the challenges you face.

Essex Cultural Diversity Project is collaborating with the East Anglian Festival Network on this research.

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* 1. What is the name of your event/festival?

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* 2. What area(s) does your festival cover? (Please tick all that apply)

Essex

Suffolk

Norfolk

Cambridgeshire

Hertfordshire

Whole of the East of England

Other areas

If you have ticked 'Other areas' please elaborate.

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* 3. What is the capacity of your event/festival?

1 - 499

500 - 2,499

2,500 - 9999

10,000 - 39,999

40,000 +

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* 4. Who is your intended audience? (For example family, adults, genre specific i.e. music/film)

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* 5. How do you fund your event/festival? (Please tick all that apply)

Public Funding (i.e. Local Authority or Government)

Arts Council England

National Lottery Heritage Fund

National Lottery Community Fund

Sponsorship

Ticket Sales

Donations

Concession Revenue (i.e. Food and Drink)

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Is it important that your programme constantly changes or evolves?

Yes

Don't Know

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Where do the artists/performers that you programme tend to come from? (Please tick all that apply)

Local

Regional

National

International

Please give some examples if you can in the space below.

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* 8. Are there organisations, artists and/or performers from your local area that you would like to work with?

Yes - we already work with many local organisations/artists

We would like to work with local organisations/artists but struggle to engage

We tend not to work with local organisations/artists

Please tell us who you work with at a local level, or if you don't tend to, please explain what the barriers are.

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* 9. Do you currently programme artists from diverse backgrounds? Please tick all that apply.

Culturally/Ethnically diverse

Socio-Economic

LGBTQ+

Disability

Neurodiversity

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Have you ever received funding and/or sponsorship to work with artists from diverse backgrounds?

Yes

Don't know

Please provide any further information or insight below

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* 11. Do you feel you would need support to access public funding (Arts Council or other public/charitable funders for example)?

Yes

Don't know

Any further thoughts please share below

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* 12. Any further comments?

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* 13. If you are happy to be contacted in relation to our research, or if you have any questions for us, please enter your email address here (and leave your question too if you have one).