Programming for young people at TIFF Next Wave

“Impact and attendance are parameters to measure our success”

What is the most debated question at European youth film festivals? How to get teenagers to our event? Seminars are held in which young people are questioned about it. But TIFF Next Wave in Toronto just does it. Searching for the magical spell, we approach Ikoro Sekai. May we call him the programmer of Next Wave? No, that is what the young people do themselves. With Ikoro as coordinator and manager.

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Volodymyr Ksenzytskii about the Ukrainian Agugugu Children’s Channel

“Children understand that a war is going on, but they have plenty of children’s issues on their minds”

Is there a demand for children’s programmes on television and theatre shows while a war is going on out there? Under such circumstances, how do you keep a focus on your work and your social mission? We asked director and producer Volodymyr Ksenzytskii, head of the Ukrainian Agugugu Children’s Educational and Entertainment Channel.

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Interview with the Ukrainian Veselka Children’s TV Studio

Dina Ibrahimova, Head of the Children’s TV Studio Veselka (“Rainbow”) is a well-known personality in the Ukrainian children’s television industry. Cheerful, optimistic and always in for friendly advice. Educated as a teacher, she founded the project in 2005. In 2014, the studio was forced to leave the tumultuous East-Ukrainian city of Luhansk and relocate to Kyiv. It took time and effort for Veselka to shine again in all its colours. But sometimes history repeats itself. Like on the morning of 24 February 2022… 

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Alain Bergala: “I like it, I don’t like it, I’m bored”

Film critic, essayist, editor of publications and exhibitions, screenwriter, director and heretical rapporteur on film education in schools. Alain Bergala, who served the Cahiers du Cinéma for decades as editor and editor-in-chief, is one of those film theorists who are practically active on various levels, including politics.

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Inspiring Tools for Evaluation and Measuring Impact

How often do we measure and evaluate the effect of our work on our audiences and do we know how to structure an appropriate methodology and include all important aspects in the process? When implementing audience development plans, evaluation and impact activities are usually the weak points of most cultural organizations. That’s why we decided to share two inspiring examples and supporting tools with you:

These principles are a collaboratively-produced articulation of values that cultural evaluators, organisations, practitioners and funders agree should guide evaluation. A Work-Group defined 12 principles under 4 headings: beneficial, robust, people-centered and connected. Each principle is connected to, and enables, the others. The publication also provides examples of each principle in practice.

Evaluation Principles overview:

  • beneficial – committed to learning and/or change, ethical, applicable
  • robust – rigorous, open-minded, proportionate
  • people-centered – empathetic, many-voiced, socially-engaged
  • connected – transparent, aware, shared

Center for Cultural Value is a national research center based at the University of Leeds. Their core partners are The Audience Agency, The University of Liverpool, The University of Sheffield and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Center is funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

The Europeana Impact Playbook is a step by step approach in 4 phases to help you design, measure and narrate your impact. Some of the resources developed are very useful and can be downloaded in pdf: empathy map (deeper insight into your stakeholders), change and build pathway (method for connected the activities and outputs with outcomes experienced by the stakeholders, to document them and identifies associated measurements), strategic perspectives (and its measurements), data collection workshop sheet, narrative builder canvas, mapping your stakeholders, dissemination plan worksheet.

Europeana empowers cultural heritage institutions to connect with existing and new audiences online, developing expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.

The Europeana website provides access to 58 million digital objects from 4,000 institutions around Europe – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools, and many themed collections, exhibitions, galleries and blogs. They work to share and promote this heritage so that it can be used and enjoyed by educators and researchers, creatives and culture lovers across the world.

 

Let’s go to the Opera!

The selected example comes from an artistic form, which seems pretty far from everyday interest of a young audience and difficult to comprehend – the world of opera.
The structure of tailor-made formats for different target groups including innovative and inclusive didactic methodology, strong community support but also national coverage, inclusion of audience in participative opera and the work of musical preparation – all these elements makes the work of AsLiCo team from Como one of the most inspiring examples of audience development work!

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Audience Development

Although there are a number of tools and guides on how to build an audience development plan, this Guide represents the most comprehensive set of tips. Based on field examples, it takes into account the fact that each cultural organization can find its own path of including the audience at the heart of their activity and its own balance between audience and artistic objectives. Proposed steps in necessary organizational changes that embrace the audience within the organization’s mission, are clearly described, feasible and represent a game changing element for those organizations who are open to this shift.  

Study on Audience Development: How to place audiences at the centre of cultural organisations

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