NRTF
24 Sept 2024
Tuesday 1st October
10am - 11am
What Next? Rural - Press
“PR and Media - raising the profile of rural touring"
The session invites you to explore how artists, schemes, venues and touring companies can get their activities covered in the media.
We will look at opportunities and challenges and give some tips on how to give yourself the best chance of gaining media coverage.
We will talk about nuances of getting rural press as opposed to coverage in media outlets in the big cities. We will also consider the media landscape right now. Is media in rural locations as strong as it once was? Are local newspapers still a go-to for your stories? How can you work with local radio when it seems to be subjected to funding cuts and reduced arts coverage?
What Next? is a free-to-access UK-wide movement for culture. With chapters all over the country, they bring together freelancers, and small and large arts organisations to inform, debate and shape the future of the arts and culture. You can sign up to their mailing list to hear about and join their regular meetings.
Our What Next? Rural sessions are open to non-members too, if you are not a member and wish to join those sessions you just need to email admin@nrtf.org.uk to let us know, all members will receive the link too, or you can sign up for our free newsletter here.
If you are not a member but would like to be, you can join NRTF here.
Speakers:
Dickie Felton. Dickie is National Rural Touring Forum’s new PR and media manager. He has been working in arts PR and communications for more than a decade at places like National Museums Liverpool, National Football Museum and Full of Noises - an experimental music organisation in Cumbria.. He is a former journalist.
Nicola Chester. Nicola is an activist for nature, and has been called an ‘early, female pioneer of the new nature writing’ (Dominic Couzens). She and her family are tenants in an estate workers cottage at the heart of the North Wessex Downs. She is the author of the Award Winning Memoir On Gallows Down; Place, Protest and Belonging (Chelsea Green, 2021). She has written for BBC Wildlife Magazine, Caught By The River, The Clearing, Country Living, Slightly Foxed and The Wildlife Trusts.
Laura Davies. Laura is an award-winning freelance journalist with 20 years experience of feature-writing, Laura specialises in arts and heritage subjects. As Arts Editor on both the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo, she provided extensive coverage of the Merseyside cultural scene in the form of news articles and long-form features for print and online. She has interviewed a long list of prominent artists, actors, authors and musicians including Jonathan Pryce, Kim Cattrall, Peter Blake and Fiona Banner. She has written for a wide range of print and online publications including the BBC, Mirror and Simple Things magazine. She has her own arts and culture online magazine, Stored Honey, which covers the North West of England.