Members Exclusive
The OAUK Winter Webinar series is available to all OAUK members for FREE! Starting in Feb 2024, this is a bespoke programme of online training for Outdoor Arts professionals covering producing, touring, bookings, sustainability and equality & diversity…
- 8 Feb – Make Your Event Greener: An Introduction to the Donut Toolkit
- 15 Feb – Families on Tour: Tips and Challenges from Artists
- 22 Feb – What is a Producer?: Three Approaches to Producing
- 29 Feb – Perspectives on Tour Booking: An Artist, a Festival and an Agent
- 6 Mar – Members Exclusive: An Introduction to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
OAUK members receive all five webinars for FREE! Including a Members Exclusive: An Introduction to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion with Tonic.
See below how to become a member and benefit.
OAUK Membership
If you’re a member of the outdoor arts community, we’d be very pleased to welcome you to the OutdoorArtsUK Membership. We have a simple tiered membership pricing structure, which aims to be within everyone’s reach.
Our members include performers, producers, festivals, technicians, makers, directors, companies, programmers, agencies, local authorities, commissioning organisations and educational institutions.
Benefits of membership…
- The OAUK Network: you will be part of an extensive Outdoor Arts network of professionals working in the UK, Ireland and beyond.
- The OAUK Members’ Directory: you will have a dedicated page on our website to say who you are and to share your work. Members’ events will feature in the listings highlights.
- Members’ News, Job and Opportunity Listings: Before the information is shared on our public general newsletters, you’ll have access via the Members Dashboard.
- The OAUK Members’ Bulletin: every fortnight, you will receive a thorough round-up of funding, commissioning and employment opportunities from the sector, with the latest news and announcements from the membership. And sometimes a bit of gossip.
- OAUK Online Drop-In: members are invited to attend the fortnightly online Drop-In which offers the chance to connect with other members and the wider sector to share news and opportunities, information and experiences.
- OAUK Members 121s: you will have access to designated 121 advice sessions with members of the OAUK team.
- Reduced Priced Training: OAUK members can book at reduced rates on the excellent Independent Theatre Council training programme.
- Reduced Priced Events: OAUK members can book our paid events at reduced rates.
Our expectations of you…
- You work Outdoors: whatever your practice or expertise, we expect our members to be active participants in the Outdoor Arts sector or with an interest in developing their experience and knowledge of working outdoors and in the public realm.
- A Supportive Network: as a networking organisation, one of OutdoorArtsUK’s key roles is connecting our members to share experience and advice, and to offer each other support, develop opportunities and share skills; we ask our members to be open to offering one another support, advice and guidance.
- Respect and Dignity: we presume a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity in your practice and that you treat other members and colleagues with respect and kindness.
- Identification: we ask that you ‘celebrate’ yourself as an OAUK Member; the online tools are on our website for you to download and include our logo on your website and in printed promotional material alongside your funding and supporters’ information.
Member Opportunities…
- International Subsidy: we offer members the chance to apply for membership-only subsidised places to attend international festivals, conferences and events. Recently OAUK supported six members to attend Festival Spoffin in the Netherlands, ten members to attend the FreshStreet#2 Conference in Ireland and seven members to attend FiraTÃ rrega in Spain.
- Access to OAUK Conferences, Symposiums and Events: members have priority access to our programme and discounts where appropriate; hugely productive, creative and enjoyable events for the sector.
- Pitching places: members can apply for OAUK Member places in our pitching sessions for new show ideas.
- On the Road Meetings: connect with the OAUK team at certain festivals, as well as local programmers and practitioners; learn more about each event and make new contacts.
- Guidance: we will continue to produce guidance and advice materials as appropriate, to support the work and practice of the membership.