Arts on Tour’s sector development program leads on best practice in touring, connects artists, companies and presenters, extends audience reach, and builds touring capacity to support a sustainable arts sector. Arts on Tour's current initiatives are:
AOT started the Green Touring Initiative in 2020 with the aim of providing tools and strategies to minimise emissions and work towards carbon neutral touring, so that the positive impacts of our touring activity at a community level don’t cost the planet. The outcomes of this Initiative, The Green Touring Toolkit and accompanying resources, and Arup's emissions calculator Circulate, were launched in 2022.
The Backroads Initiative was launched in 2022 to support the touring of professional work to non-professional venues, with the aim of extending our audience reach and activating alternative venues in smaller towns across NSW.
Tour Well is Arts on Tour's mental health initiative, aimed at providing best practice touring practices in relation to mental health on the road. Working in collaboration with the Arts Wellbeing Collective we developed the resource Tour Well for Tour Managers and host regular Mental Health First Aid Training courses for NSW-based companies.
GREEN TOURING
'How to' webinars
Dates to be announced soon
Register your interest here
SYDNEY SALON
Tuesday 26 July 2022
The Rebel Theatre 2pm - 5pm
Book here!
REGIONAL SALON
Our regional SALON takes place later in the year. Watch this space!
INTERESTED?
Join our mailing list and Facebook page to keep up to date as we announce future SALONS. For more information email Kate Gaul
TOURING LAB
We're done for 2022! Thanks for attending.
Stay tuned for dates in 2023.
The Tour Lab covers practical advice on how to get your work on the road, including budgeting and a venue perspective on programming and audience engagement. There's lots of opportunity to ask questions from experienced teams and venue managers and much more!
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING
Are you interested in becoming a qualified Mental Health First aider? Great for stage managers, arts administrators, company managers and anyone in the arts interested in wellness.
Arts on Tour is based in Redfern NSW and we respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the unceded land on which we work.
As we tour artists and productions across these vast lands, we pay our respect to all First Nations Elders, past, present and future.
We celebrate their continuing connection and contribution to culture, country and community, and thank all First Nations peoples for their wisdom in caring for the land, the sky, the rivers and the sea.