CONTRIBUTOR PACK 2015

Contents Overview 3 – About Just Festival Westminster 4 – Vision 4 – What Makes Just Festival Westminster Unique? 5 – Just Festival Audience Breakdown 6 – What Are We Looking For?

Services 8 – Venues, Scheduling And Ticket Splits 10 – Box Office 10 – Festival Publicity, Marketing And PR

Managing Your Show 11 – Insurance 11 – Performance License 11 – Contributor Publicity, Marketing And PR

Registration Process 12 – Registration Form 12 – Key Dates

Appendix 13 – Just Festival 2014 Media Archive

Overview About just festival Westminster

Just Festival Westminster is a curated festival for Westminster, which will provide meeting places for discussions on humanitarian and social justice issues together with a wide range of cultural events and entertainment at St Matthew’s Westminster and St Mary le Strand. It will be held between 10 – 21 June 2015.

Just Festival

Just Festival Westminster is created in partnership with Just festival, a curated programme of around 300 events, across 20 venues taking place each year in August. We aim to celebrate diversity of cultures, faiths, gender-identities, sexualities, philosophies and ideas, challenge inequality and injustice and create a space for communities to engage with each other in productive dialogue.

In our fifteenth year, Just Festival features top-quality speakers, conversations, performances, film, food, exhibitions, family activities, workshops, art and much more. It has an established reputation as a fringe venue that delivers high quality events from all genres.

The Onion of Bigotry: A History of Hatred Black Dingo Productions at just Festival 2014 Programme Launch 3

Vision

just Festival Westminster seeks to develop an understanding of community in the heart of the city through shared events, hospitality and dialogue. It aims to provide achievable and realistic ways for the local community to engage with each other in meaningful ways, inclusive of backgrounds, beliefs, and identities. We provide a central place of meeting to discuss important issues concerning the human experience with an emphasis on social justice. Simultaneously welcoming and going out to members of the surrounding communities, just Festival Westminster will engage significantly with the working and resident populations. It aims to develop strong links with the surrounding business, legal and academic communities to open up the venues to them as places of wisdom and contemplation, inclusive of beliefs and backgrounds. Whether through thoughtful conversation or joyful entertainment our aim is to provide a platform for everyone to flourish, bringing their talents and beliefs to the Festival, its venues and surrounding communities.  

What Makes Just Festival Westminster Unique?

As a not-for-profit organisation our priority is to encourage dialogue, community and personal growth. We want everyone who comes into contact with Just Festival Westminster, not only enjoy an hour’s entertainment but also, take something with them to share throughout the year. Together we build a united multi-national, multi-identity, multi-belief community using the festival as a catalyst for conversation and cultural exchange.

4 An Island Between Heaven and Earth AJL Productions 2014

Just Festival Audience Breakdown

Each year we evaluate each of our events using paper feedback forms so that we know that audience members value our activities and that they take something away with them. By monitoring our evaluations we try to ensure we are reaching audiences from all backgrounds and ages. Our 2014 evaluations also show that just Festival is improving year on year with a diverse, growing audience.

61.6%

40.7%

0.3% 0.6% 0.6%

Audience Gender

Female

Male

Non-Binary

Transgender

Prefer Not to Say

14.3%

16.8%

12.4%

11.7%

20.6%

21.3%

Audience Age

> 16 - 24

25 - 34

35 - 44

45 - 54

55 - 64

65 < 1.8% 0.0% 1.2% 0.0%

10.9%

5.4%

45.9%

28.3%

40.2%

64.1%

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

2013 2014

Audience Rating of just Festival 2013 and 2014

Very Poor

Poor

Satisfactory

Good

Very Good

5

What Are We Looking For?

We are looking for performances, films, talks, workshops, family events and exhibitions which celebrate culture, explore social justice or challenge narratives.

Performance We are looking for performances that showcase cultures from around the world, explore injustice, or pose ethical questions. We include all genres – music, theatre, dance, children's shows, poetry, and storytelling.

Just Festival 2014 brought together a phenomenal programme of performances showcasing talent and knowledge on a local, national and global scale; from exploring the Sounds of Freedom with Edinburgh Brass Band, coming of age in rural Ireland in My Name is Saoirse discovering the new voices of Soweto with Soweto Melodic Voices and Simply Soweto Encha, to the enchanting Tibetan Dance and Music by Tashi Lhunpo Monks. These events celebrated the richness of global culture, confronted unacceptable behaviour and challenged audiences to reflect on their views, beliefs and actions.

Kitchen Porters K3’14 Theatre Company

Sounds of Freedom Edinburgh Brass Band

Nzinga – Warrior Queen Toto Tales

Fashion Show Weaving Destinations

Warrior Black Dingo Productions

Simply Soweto Encha Simply Soweto Encha 6

Films, Talks, Workshops and Exhibitions

We partner with a host of local charities and organisations to create an astounding array of activities for people to broaden their knowledge and skills. We want to bring communities together to make new connections, showcase their expertise and discover new talents.

Just Festival partnered with Simply Soweto Encha to produce Songs From Soweto, a fascinating documentary charting the remarkable journey of five a cappella singers from one of South Africa’s most notorious townships. Mercy Corps gave a talk about the efforts being made in Lebanon to ensure peace between Syrian refugees and their neighbouring communities. The Art Shed created an interactive experience for passers-by with everything from a pop-up miniature village to the Idea shop.

Songs from Soweto Simply Soweto Encha

Films on Women’s Rights Beyond The Veil

Tango Negro Africa In Motion

Building Peace in Lebanon Mercy Corps

Flights of Fantasy Bach to Baby

Punjabi Cookery Class Punjabi Junction

Way of Tea Mio Shapley & Co.

Table of Submissions The Art Shed 7

Services Venues, Scheduling and Ticket Splits

St Matthew’s Westminster

Located on Great Peter Street, St Matthew’s Westminster is in the heart of London, close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Church House. The Church was built in 1849 to the design of Sir George Gilbert Scott, greatly enriched by the addition of fittings and glass by C F Bodley, C E Kemp, Martin Travers and others. The Lady Chapel is one of Sir Ninian Comper’s finest early works.

The Church seats 70 people and is best suited to traditional and classical music, although we can accommodate every kind of music. Performers always relish performing in the Church due to its beautiful natural acoustics. The acoustics also make the Church suitable for drama, dance, and spoken word events.

It is wonderfully adaptable to suit daytime workshops to nighttime, intimate concerts. The seating can be set up cabaret style, tradition theatre style or even completely removed and stored to the side. There is a kitchen attached which can be used for refreshments if desired. St Matthew’s has a wheelchair accessible WC and hearing loop.

St Matthew’s Westminster Great Peters Street, London, SW1P 2BU 8

St Mary le Stand

St Mary le Strand is a Church of England church at the eastern end of the Strand in the City of Westminster, London. The church stands on what is now a traffic island to the north of Somerset House, King's College London's Strand campus building and The Temple, and south of Bush House. It is the official church of the Women's Royal Naval Service, and has a book of remembrance for members who have died in service.  The Church seats 150 people and is suited to any kind of performance and talks. It would suit a range of events from daytime conversations to evening concerts. St Mary le Strand has a wheelchair accessible WC and hearing loop.

Scheduling

We traditionally cater for events slots of 60 minutes starting at set times: 7pm on weekdays and 11am, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm on weekends. If your show runs longer than 60 minutes then we can negotiate time slots. 30 minutes set up and take down are included between the slots. Our sites have very limited to no storage space, so any set or props must be minimal.

Ticket Split

As a non-profit organisation we are not charging contributors venue hiring fees or deposits but offering a 60%/40% ticket split. So the contributor receives 60% of the ticket sales and Just Festival Westminster retains 40%. Therefore both Just Festival Westminster and the contributor benefit from our shared success.  

9 St Mary le Strand Strand, London WC2R 1ES

Nzinga – Warrior Queen Toto Tales at just Festival 2014 Programme Launch 10

Box Office We provide and manage ticketing for all events: free and paid. Audiences can buy or reserve tickets online all year round. During June we have our own on-site Box Office with dedicated Box Office and Front of House staff for audience members to buy tickets on the door. The cost for bookings online are passed on the audience meaning there are not deductions from contributor ticket splits.  We coordinate all ticket sales income through our Box Offices. We will provide you with a sales invoice and payout by 14th July 2015.  

Festival publicity, marketing, and PR Programme entry entitles each contributor to:

- Entry in our printed programme - Programme entry on www.justfestivalwestminster.org.uk - Social media posts - Promotion to our mailing lists and in our newsletters - Listing your event on listing websites with web sales links - Promotional opportunities – such as street performance - Opportunity to take part in just festival launch, opening and

closing events We will also issue guidelines for performance publicity material, such as posters and fliers, that will ensure all the booking information is correct and easy to follow.

Managing Your Event Insurance Contributors are responsible for ensuring they have the right level of insurance – public liability, employer’s liability, and damage and loss insurance. Just Festival Westminster already has our own insurance arrangements but our insurance will only cover the venue’s activities and structures and not what happens during your event. You will be responsible for your own insurance and we may insist on seeing proof of adequate cover before they allow you to contribute in our and partner venues to the public. Two insurance providers are:

Rees Astley - www.insurance4performingarts.co.uk/buy-online/index.asp Wrightsure Insurance Group - http://wrightsure.com/performers.php

Please note that these contacts are not endorsed by Just Festival Westminster but provided to help your enquires.

Performance Licenses and Copyrights If you are performing any material not written by your company you are required to ensure they obtain performing rights licenses and permissions from copyright holders. These include grand right works, PRS for music, PPL. We will send detailed information relevant to your show when you have registered with Just Festival Westminster 2015.

Contributor publicity, marketing, and PR Contributor publicity is the key to a successful event. With so many events competing for audiences across London it is important that contributors are out there spreading the word. There are a huge amount of tools and resources to promote your show. We will send a guide to promoting your event once you have registered. It is crucial to the success of your show that you have a strategy in place for promoting your event.

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Registration Form

Please fill in the registration form at http://ow.ly/IYhYr. We will send email confirmation that we have received your registration. You will also need to agree to the terms and conditions found at http://ow.ly/J1nh1. The deadline for registration is 20th March 2015. All registration will be confirmed by 25th March 2015 at the latest. We may phone or ask to meet you to learn more about your event. If you have any questions about this pack, the venues or the registration process please email Festival Director, Katherine Newbigging at katherine@justfestivalwestminster.org.uk.

Key dates

20th March 2015 – deadline for registration 25th March 2015 – registration details confirmed

27th March 2015 – deadline for printed programme text and art work

5th May 2015 – Just Festival Westminster printed programme launch

10th June 2015 – first day of Just Festival Westminster

21st June 2015 – Just Festival closing event and last day of Festival

14th July 2014 – ticket sales statements sent and confirmed

    12 Tibetan Monks Dance and Music

Tashi Lhunpo Monks

Registration Process

Appendix 2014 Media Archive and Credits

To get an idea of what a Just Festival looks like explore our 2014 media archive. You will be able to see our vision come to life and won’t be able to resist becoming part of this exciting, vibrant festival. For more information on Just Festival visit www.justjust.org or email info@justjust.co.uk

Photo Credits: Fraser Cameron - FC Event Photography, Sandrine Cazalet, just Festival Media and Communications Intern, Lukas Powroziewicz, just Festival Volunteer, Syrian Refugee by Cassandra Nelson for Mercy Corps, just Festival logo and brand colours by a visual agency and Sophie Dyer.

JIAFF Programme http://ow.ly/ERlLF

JFFF Programme http://ow.ly/ERllD

just Festival ‘14 Programme http://ow.ly/ERkgc

’14 Festival Highlights http://ow.ly/ERkxc

The Onion of Bigotry http://ow.ly/ERkGi

Soweto Melodic Voices http://ow.ly/ERkNC

Songs from Soweto http://ow.ly/ERkYC 13

   

katherine@justfestivalwestminster.org.uk www.justfestivalwestminster.org.uk

All information subject to change. St Matthew’s Westminster under license from Just Festival A company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No: 399201

Scottish Registered Charity SC042638