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| There’s a lot to share this month: from family engagement to the truth about late bookers and demographic blind spots, we’ve gathered everything in one place for you, right here. |
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Book Your Place: thrive x Imagine Festival |
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| Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics has launched its 2026 programme, and we’re dead pleased to be hosting a session as part of this year’s festival. Prefer Not To Say: Who’s Missing From Demographic Data? is a relaxed panel discussion exploring the role demographic data plays in shaping arts and culture policy. Are things working as they are? And if not, what might an alternative look like? These are conversations we often have internally and with partners - now, we’re opening them up in the spirit of Imagine as a festival of ideas. When: Thursday 26th March, 6.10 - 8pm
Where: University of Atypical, 109-113 Royal Ave, Belfast BT1 1FF Cost: Free |
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New Toolkit: Welcoming Family Audiences |
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Last month, during our Chats for Change session with trusted sector colleagues, one theme dominated: family audiences, and how we truly engage with them. Our updated Welcoming Family Audiences Toolkit grew directly from those conversations, and is ready to download now. It’s designed to help you move from ambition to practical decisions, with prompts, checklists and examples that support planning, reporting and everyday delivery. If you’re trying to strengthen family engagement in a way that’s measurable and meaningful, this is built to be used. |
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New Report: Understanding Late Bookers |
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Everyone notices the spike in last–minute bookings. Fewer people talk about what it actually tells us about audience behaviour and organisational planning. Our new report Taking a Closer Look at Late Bookers at Festival Forum unpacks patterns in late booking, what they reveal about how people make decisions, and how you might rethink timing, marketing, pricing and capacity planning in light of that. |
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Download & Keep: Arts Professional Articles from thrive |
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Our recent articles in Arts Professional have tackled some of the sector’s trickier questions: the gap between pricing intent and impact, what audience data can’t tell us, and how decisions travel through organisations. You can now download and keep the full set together. Practical reading for strategy discussions, reporting and forward planning. |
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| Borrow an iPadThanks to funding from Arts Council of Northern Ireland, we are offering iPads for free use by anyone who wants to run their own surveys on-site. |
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| Visit our Knowledge HubWe create reports, case studies and everything in between, all created for the local arts sector |
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| Free Advice SessionsWhat are our free advice sessions all about? Spoiler: if you're feeling a bit stuck, that's actually a perfectly satisfactory starting point. |
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Follow us on social media to stay up to date with our latest work. thrive | Crescent Arts Centre | 2-4 University Road | Belfast | BT7 1NH |
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