The relationship between BAC, artists and their work

This is a description of different ways in which we work with artists in terms of presentation, development or co-producing work. We have put it together after reading Gemma Paintin’s great blog about the relationship between artists and venues - you can find Gemma’s blog HERE >>

Hopefully by sharing the way that we work with artists we will make a small contribution to opening up the debate and the information available to artists, as well as opening up conversations between venues about ways we might work more effectively together and provide a better connected series of opportunities for artists.

Underlying the BAC offer to artists that we describe below are a set of  principles: that relate to our mission to create new theatre; to promote independent artists; to help artists plot and realise their ambitions; to offer audiences a great experience; and to find ways of enabling BAC to improve its support for artists. In other words, the arrangements described below are only one side of the story. Our values are another side of the story. These have led to programmes like The Independents which we have run for the last couple of years. The programme has sought to connect independent practitioners across the UK to establish networks and encourage potentially isolated artists to be stronger together. We are also interested in trying to address what we see as some of the inherent problems of making theatre as an independent artist in London. We are aware of the limitations of what we offer and we’re always looking at ways to improve this, including lobbying the Arts Council to better support independent artists through programmes at BAC and elsewhere.

View our offers / arrangements in terms of presenting and developing work HERE >>