Episode 13 - World Theatre Day: Love Your Local Theatre with Jamie Snelgrove
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Release Date: 03/23/2023
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info_outlineOn 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 Costello, Head of Marketing at Ticketsolve, 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, which includes some amazing incentives to get audiences back into theatres.
In this episode, Jamie shared his concerns about the continued challenges facing theatres around audience hesitancy and last minute booking behaviours. He explains how partnership with The National Lottery (who has put £1 million into the campaign), will encourage audiences to start booking again through a free £25 theatre voucher scheme which launches today - 27th of March - in celebration of World Theatre Day.
Jamie and Lucy also discuss Theatre Tokens’ (a non-profit and part of UK Theatre and SOLT) mission of supporting theatres, however possible and the ways that theatres can get the support they need.
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RESOURCES
Want to be a participating theatre in the Love Your Local Theatre Campaign? Visit https://www.theatretokens.com/ for more information or contact us via any of our social channels and we’ll put you in touch with Jaime directly!
Love Your Local Theatre free £25 vouchers: https://loveyourlocaltheatre.com/
UK Theatre: The UK’s leading theatre and performing arts membership organisation. https://uktheatre.org/
Society of London Theatre: Championing theatre and performing arts since 1908. https://solt.co.uk/
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