The OAUK Winter Webinar Training Programme is a bespoke programme of online training for Outdoor Arts professionals…
Upcoming Webinars
Our Winter Webinar programme is back with a brand-new series of bespoke webinars tailored to support your professional growth. This time we’ll be covering some key themes, including resilience, anti-racism, environmental action and making ambitious work. Each webinar is designed around the Arts Council’s investment principles respectively: Dynamism, Inclusivity & Relevance, Environmental Responsibility and Ambition & Quality.
Winter Webinar’s are FREE for OAUK members, except the Anti-Racist Training & Reflection where we’re charging a small fee to guarantee attendance. They’re a great opportunity if you’ve got training targets to hit – especially for NPOs.
£10 for freelance non-members and £20 for non-member organisations.
Thu 21 Nov
Keeping Going: Case Study Reflection with 18 hours
Event Director Dr Mandy Curtis explains how 18 hours has kept events going in the face of reduced resources.
Mandy Curtis
Event Director, 18 Hours
Mandy has over twenty years experience in events, education and research with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and community. She holds several strategic cultural roles across Hastings and Rother. Mandy is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law, at the University of Brighton.
Aretha George-Tooley
Board Chair, 18 Hours
Aretha has worked in the Arts, Heritage and Culture sectors for over 25 years. During this time she has worked for national funders including National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England, working on strategies to identify and remove barriers which prevent wider participation and engagement from diverse communities. Aretha is currently Acting Head of Culture for London Borough of Hounslow creating a cultural offer for the borough, including supporting outdoor arts performance and production, in partnership with delivery organisations, artists and communities. She is Chair of 18 Hours Board and St. Leonards’ Festival in her home town of St Leonard’s on Sea.
Aretha is a certified coach working with clients both in the UK and internationally using a person centred approach to support their personal and career development goals.
Thu 28 Nov
Anti-Racist Training & Reflection
Jenny Williams BEM shares knowledge and understanding of what anti-racist practice is in the cultural sector.
Jenny Williams BEM
Director of Take the Space
Jenny is founding Director of Take the Space, an inclusive consultancy that works with community, statutory and cultural organisation within the arts and heritage sectors. Take the Space has a specific focus on race inclusion, equitable engagement practice, new audiences and inclusive approaches that break down real and perceived barriers.
Prior to this Jenny held numerous senior positions in the cultural sector including CEO & Creative Director for Revoluton Arts; Head of Diversity and Cultural Diversity Officer for Arts Council England and lead Cultural Development roles for 2 Local Authorities.
Thu 5 Dec
Environmental Action: Green Riders & Artist Donut Toolkit
Artist Lorna Rees talks Green Riders, Andrew Lansley discusses the OAUK Donut Toolkit & Paul Birtwistle explains implementation.
Lorna Rees
Artistic Director of Gobbledegook Theatre and OAUK Co-Chair
Lorna Rees is the Artistic Director of Gobbledegook Theatre, a multidisciplinary art practice that makes innovative, national, and international touring work for the outdoors. She collaborates with a variety of talented artists, musicians and scientists with work frequently inspired by Earth Sciences. Lorna is also an activist, making interventions under the title of ‘Disruption and Joy’. Lorna is Co-Chair of OutdoorArtsUK, Associate Artist for Inside Out Dorset, and Artist Ambassador for Change Festival.
Andrew Lansley
Innovation Manager for Cheltenham Festivals
Andrew is Senior Academic at the University of Gloucestershire, Innovation Manager for Cheltenham Festivals, and coordinator for the Cheltenham Culture Board. He has worked for almost 30 years in cross sector roles including: events; academia; politics; broadcast and innovation. Leading on research and project delivery within creative ecosystems, event sustainability, artist accessibility, mental health, and the future of cultural placemaking, he now runs a neurodivergent consultancy that specialises in intersectional, regenerative projects around the UK and beyond. He is also a trustee for Youth Music and Global Local and in his spare time performs as double bassist with Thrill Collins.
Paula Birtwistle
Green Champion at Super Culture
Paula has worked in the live events industry for over 25 years. Following years of work in sound engineering and lighting design she now combines her technical and logistical knowledge as a creative producer and production manager.
A more recent journey with activism and social justice led to finding ways to bring these two passions together and move into sustainable production management in more meaningful sectors, especially in outdoor arts and community settings.
She now produces her own light art work and lighting festival GLOW which has sustainability at its heart.
She currently works as Green Champion for Super Culture and has previously worked with Diverse City, she was the 2023 WW artist sustainability advisor and sits on the Without Walls Environmental Responsibility Action Group.
Thu 12 Dec
Making Ambitious Work: Reflections on 2024
101 Outdoor Arts and Jeanefer Jean-Charles reflect on what its been like making and touring work in 2024.
Danielle Corbishley
Head of 101 Outdoor Arts & Outdoor Programmes
Danielle is a creative producer, director and performer with a track record of creating ambitious and wide-reaching outdoor performance projects across a range of settings and scales. Her passion for contemporary performance, education and training runs through every aspect of her work, cultivated by her time as Head of Performing Arts at Reading College, Artistic Director of Beautiful Creatures Theatre and Producer for Dance Reading. This is now crystalised in her post as Head of 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space in Newbury, where she manages the operations and activities for this multifaceted national centre for the development of outdoor arts and work for public spaces, supporting artists to do what they do best!
Simon Chatterton
Strategic Lead, 101 Outdoor Arts
Simon Chatterton oversees and curates the programme at 101 and the Corn Exchange Outdoor Arts Programme. Simon has worked for over 25 years as a festival director and producer creating outdoor and site-specific arts events in the UK and internationally. His work has brought performances to audiences of over a half a million people in locations as diverse as town squares and city streets, iron age hill forts, disused railway arches and public parks and gardens.
Jeanefer Jean-Charles MBE
Creative Director & Choreographer
Jeanefer Jean-Charles – Creative Director, Mass Movement specialist & Choreographer is a globally renowned artist. Since starting her journey as Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Bullies Ballerinas’ Jazz Dance Company (1990-2000), her work has taken her to over 21 countries.
As Artistic Director of Big Dance, she gained recognition by the Guinness Book of Records choreographing and coordinating 800 dancers in Trafalgar Square in 2006. As Creative Director of Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates, her unique methods centre around her role as the creator, drawing together the right team to most effectively engage and enrich the community. Her creative process aims to bring to life the talents, strengths and shared stories of local communities and artists in inspiring and unforgettable ways.
Previous Webinars
The OAUK Winter Webinar Training Programme in Jan/Feb 2024 covered producing, touring, bookings, sustainability and equality & diversity. Click on the links below to watch the recordings of the webinars…
Winter Webinar Video: Tour Booking
Watch this video on ‘Tour Booking: An Artist, a Festival and a Tour Booker’, a recording from the Winter Webinar which took place on Thur 15 Feb 2024. We heard three perspectives onRead More >
Winter Webinar Video: What is a Producer?
Watch this video on ‘What is a Producer: Three Perspectives on Producing’, a recording from the Winter Webinar which took place on Thur 29 Feb 2024. We heard three different producers' perspectives onRead More >
Winter Webinar Video: Families on Tour
Watch this video on 'Families On Tour: Tips & Challenges from Artists', a recording from the Winter Webinar which took place on Thur 15 Feb 2024. We heard three different artists' perspectives onRead More >
Winter Webinar Video: How to Make Your Event Greener (Donut Toolkit)
Watch this video on ‘How to Make Your Event Greener: Intro to the Donut Toolkit’ with Andrew Lansley, to learn how to use the Donut Toolkit. In this OAUK Winter Webinar, Andrew introducedRead More >
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