Are you a community group in Wales that would like to put on a professional show in your local area?

on your doorstepGreat shows

Night Out helps you do this by takingaway the headache of financial risk. It is simple and easy to use and canprovide funding and tickets, togetherwith practical help and advice, as wellas lots of recommendations on greatcompanies suitable for your local hall.

Bash Street Theatre (photo: Hazel Hannant)

Night Out has worked

with hundreds of

community venues

throughout Wales,

enabling them to

promote over 9,000

performances of all

types – from theatre

and music to circus,

dance and puppetry –

to over 600,000 people.

Siyaya Arts (photo: Hazel Hannant)Front Page: Night Out Audience (photo: Hazel Hannant)

Tel: 029 2044 1340enquiry@nightout.org.ukwww.nightout.org.ukNight Out, Arts Council of Wales, Bute Place, Cardiff CF10 5AL

How it works – simplified:

Get in touch with the performer,pencil in a date.

Apply to Night Out either online or fill out the simple 3-pagebooking form, applying at least four weeks before the event butpreferably much earlier.

If successful, Night Out will pay the performer fee and you get theperformer at a reduced rate whichcan be guaranteed by your localauthority, so taking away thefinancial risk.

You put on the event, apply for local licences, put up posters andpromote it to your local community,have a great time and then reportback after the event – paying backthe ticket income made (up to amaximum of the performer fee).

Night Out is a member of theNational Rural Touring Forum

Night Out is part of the Arts Council of Wales and works inpartnership with local authorities. It aims to encourage, enable andsupport:

High quality professionalperformances in communitiesthroughout Wales, many of whomhave little access to arts events.

Encouraging the arts economy –providing a platform for performersfrom Wales and further afield toreach local communities.

Encouraging communitydevelopment, volunteeringand the local economy andcontributing to the use of villagehalls and community venues asviable hubs for local organisations.

Promoter groups with advice, ideas and recommendations.

Bangladesh Women’s Association(photo: Wales News and Pictures)

The scheme has had a real impact on our small,rural, village community. The very specialcombination of affordable, quality, professionalentertainment in a very local environment, hashelped to generate a stronger feeling of communityand friendship, providing, for some, the onlyopportunity to experience a live theatrical production.Hilary Denison, Promoter, Flintshire

The Night Out scheme has

allowed us to bring some of the

highest quality theatre events

to Blaengarw. It is a really

easy process … the staff are

very helpful and really share

our vision for making these

kinds of events accessible for

local people. Without Night

Out, sadly some just wouldn't

be viable and the community

would really miss out on

consistently wonderful

experiences.

Steve Honeywill, Creation Development Trust

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“ Night Out is a great safety net.”Siobhan McGovern, Promoter, Pembrokeshire

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Wolf Tales, Pickled Image(photo: Karl Baker)