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How will we develop Scip-Steorra?

1) Appointment of Artistic Director and Project Manager to support development growth, sustainability and resilience.

NLPG-00793036 will enable Anthony Lo-Giudice (Artistic Director) and Morag Deyes OBE (Project Manager) to be employed to deliver our project ambitions. At present Scip-Steorra is a newly established, project based company with no full time staff. This currently means that without strategic investment support, we are unable to build planning opportunities for long-term sustainability and be reactive to our external environment.

The appointment of Anthony and Morag will support Scip-Steorra to identify opportunities, ascertain and mitigate risks, and deploy resources more effectively in order to build a long-term plan to continue delivering ambitious artistic work in line with the Let's Create strategy.

2) Consultations with sector leaders to understand and implement effective Artistic, Management, and Governance Structures.

Alongside the project managerial support from Morag, Anthony will invest in coaching from sector leading NPO's, Programmers, and Directors in order to fully understand and develop the project outcomes of NLPG-00793036. The culmination of this research will result in an organisation that has the skills and knowledge to anticipate and adapt to economic, environmental and social change, whilst also being driven by the development of a long-term plan.

The learning outcomes of our consultation coaching through NLPG-00793036 will also support us to develop:

Artistic Policy and Action Plan
Accessibility Policy and Action Plan
Audience Development Policy and Action Plan
Engagement Policy and Action Plan
Environmental Policy and Action Plan
Diversity Policy and Action Plan
Evaluation Policy and Action Plan
Financial Policy and Action Plan
Recruitment Policy and Action Plan

3) Development of a 5-year business plan.

In consultation with Professor of Practice in Cultural and Creative Economy at Newcastle University, Mo O’Toole, Anthony and Morag will develop a 5-year business plan. This will be a product informed by the outcome from the results of our research through NLPG-00793036.

The process of writing our business plan will enable us to:

Establish long term goals
Identify our strengths and weaknesses
Identify our USP and the earned/contributed income our USP can attract
Establish clear financial goals
Identify and mitigate risks
Develop strategies for sustainability and growth
Define audience trends and how they relate to our work
Set a clear plan for International market growth
Identify how we can develop in our market and create strong marketing plans
Understand where we currently sit within in our industry and how we can develop our artistic growth
Develop clear review markers

4) Creation of an International Exchange Program between Italy and Tees Valley.

As a freelance artist, Anthony has worked with Teatri Assiciati di Napoli, Interno5Danza, Art Garage - Pozzuoli and Corporea Mente - Pompeii for over 10 years (notably on projects: GFTA-00079332, ACPG-00136824 and DYCP-00536120-R15).

He will now consolidate these collaborative partnerships to research an international exchange program plan between Scip-Steorra in Tees Valley and the dance infrastructure of Southern Italy. This will be supported by Antonello Tudisco from Teatri Assiciati di Napoli and Interno5Danza. The outcome of this research will support the development of a stronger international market development strategy (feeding into our 5-year business plan) whilst also allowing us to identify opportunities for further International growth and expansion.

To do this, we will undertake research 2 residences in Naples with the support of Teatri Assiciati di Napoli, Art Garage - Pozzuoli and Corporea Mente - Pompeii. During this time, we will:

Teatri Assiciati di Napoli,

Work with Antonello Tudisco to identify opportunities for the development of an international exchange program, the summary of which will inform part of our 5-year business plan.
Meet the team of Teatri Assiciati di Napoli and get to know more about their business model and objectives.
Host 2 events 'Incontrare L'azienda (meet the Company) to promote Scip-Steorra and our ambitions with NLPG-00793036. Discuss (and collate feedback from) the following questions:

How are artists making work in Campania region?
Is there anything similair to Scip-Steorra's work (and teaching practise) currently being made/delivered here?
What might an ideal international collaboration between Scip-Steorra and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli look/feel like for you as artists?
Is it needed?
Is there anything of particular interest (or not) in our USP, and how does it compare to competitors work currently being made in Italy?

Deliver 2 Artist Jams at Teatro Area Nord for the regional professional dance community of the Campania region. Collate evaluation feedback after the sessions by asking:

How you would describe your session with Scip-Steorra today?
Was there anything during the session that you found interesting?
What would you like to see more/less of?
Did anything feel different with Scip-Steorra than with other dance companies?
How would you describe what we do (or could do) differently?
How was our use of language?
Would you want to connect with us to stay up to date with our work?
What is your opinion of Dance from England, and are there things we are doing differently to practises in the South of Italy?

Deliver 2 creative workshops with Art Garage - Pozzuoli post-graduate students. Collate evaluation feedback after the sessions by asking:

How you would describe your session with Scip-Steorra today?
Was there anything during the session that you found interesting?
What would you like to see more/less of?
Did anything feel different with Scip-Steorra than with other dance companies?
How would you describe what we do (or could do) differently?

Deliver 2 creative workshops with Art Garage - Pozzuoli post-graduate students. Collate evaluation feedback after the sessions by asking:

How you would describe your session with Scip-Steorra today?
Was there anything during the session that you found interesting?
What would you like to see more/less of?
Did anything feel different with Scip-Steorra than with other dance companies?
How would you describe what we do (or could do) differently?

Evaluate the end of each residency with Antonello Tudisco through reviewing:

What worked well during our residency? What did we learn from this?
What did not work well? What did we learn from this?
What could be developed?
What was the feedback collated from 'Incontrare L'azienda' (meet the Company), the Artist Jams at Teatro Area Nord, and the creative workshops at Art Garage - Pozzuoli and Corporea Mente - Pompeii that took place during this residency?
Is the international exchange plan relevant? If yes/no, why?
How are our findings going to support the development of a future international exchange plan?
What is next? AOB?

Antonello Tudisco will then come to the UK to strengthen international exchange program between Scip-Steorra and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli.

During this time, Antonello will:

Support Anthony and Morag during a residency at Middlesbrough Town Hall to re-stage ROMA for International markets.
Deliver 1 repertoire workshop of PIETAS (https://vimeo.com/884081974) to professional artists based in the North of England at Exchange 1856, North Shields. This will be followed by an Artist's Social event called 'Pescare and Chips', where cultural freelances in the region will be able to find out more about Antonello and his work with Interno5Danza and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli.
Deliver 1 repertoire workshop of PIETAS for Tees Valley Artists as part of Tees Dance Pro, facilitated with the support of Tees Dance.This will be followed by an Artist's Social event called 'Pizza and Parmo's', where cultural freelances in the region will be able to find out more about Antonello and his work with Interno5Danza and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli.
Work with Anthony, Morag, Middlesbrough Town Hall and Tees Dance to evaluate feedback and discuss plans to build upon NLPG-00793036 for the next stages of the international exchange program.

During the Artists Social events, we will ask attendee's:

How would you evaluate your time spent with Scip-Steorra and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli this evening?
What is the impact of having Antonello connecting with cultural workers in the North of England? Is there value in bringing international artists to the region?
Is there anything similair to Antonello's work (and teaching practise) currently being made/delivered here?
What might an ideal international collaboration between Scip-Steorra and Teatri Assiciati di Napoli look/feel like for you as artists?
How would you benefit from this international exchange program being accessible to you, and what might that accessibility look like?

The feedback generated from the residencies will support Anthony to work with Morag and asses the impact of the creative exchange between Tees Valley and Campania. From this, they will also seek to identify further opportunities to build connected between the two regions. They will then work with Mo O'Toole to review how this can sit within the Scip-Steorra 5-year business plan.

5) Re-staging of ROMA for International touring.

key themes of the production:

• Queer Identity/ Religious and cultural friction

• Family

• Memories

• Duel Heritage

6) Data collection on audience impact.

The support of Cheryl Gavin/Helix Arts, Liv Lorent MBE, Tees Valley XXX, Mo O'Toole .

Our data collection will also allow us to determine and eliminate potential barriers to our work for audiences, collaborators, investors and staff. We will determine the potential barriers of Scip-Steorra, whether in a performance setting, within recruitment, how our audiences feedback to us, our online activity or in accessing resources. We will address all physical, geographical, economical and neurological barriers to the very best of our ability through rigorous policy development, development of accessible online resources with excellent usability for ageing and disabled internet users and developing strategies to ensure our work is affordable for all.

The measures of success for our project will be determined by evaluating:
Are we meeting our investor’s expectations and exceeding them?
Are we strengthening the sector?
How have we strengthened ourselves as an attractive investment for further funding opportunities?
Are our policies demonstrating the best practise?
Are our internal aims and objectives being met and exceeded?
Are we operating in an ethical manner?
Are we exemplar in championing and contributing to the Lets Create Strategy?

7) How will we gather feedback to inform our learning?

Focus groups
Impact and Insight Toolkit
Peer review
Post-event forum
Surveys (online or in-person)
Bespoke evaluation framework

8) How communities have informed the journey so far.

9) Proposed Outcomes.

Scip-Steorra will have made comprehensive and sustainable plans towards securing an ambitious and achievable 5 year plan. The learning outcomes from NLPG-00793036 will support us to develop a successful dance company based in the Tees Valley that will contribute to the Lets Create strategy with more strategic objectives. Equality from a solid foundation. We will have raised the profile of the company on a regional, and international level through our developmental and creative activity.

If relevant to our journey, the aims and objectives achieved through NLPG-00793036 will support us to consider a future application to NPO.