Event Management  - We can undertake the role of event managers on a fee-charging basis and have a proven track record of event delivery for clients, including Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton & Hove Arts Commission.

Production - Our high production values and artistic direction can bring vision and excellence to your project.

Fundraising – We can identify funding partners and potential sponsors and help you produce a well-developed proposal for potential investors. We ensure that the aims of your project are realistic and achievable within your budget and relevant time frames.

Budgets and Planning – We can analyse production costs, including performers’ fees, venue/site hire fees, staffing and expenses in order to advise how to lower overheads and negotiate reduced rates. 

Marketing – We have key contacts with marketing professionals and designers, who can advise the production of successful marketing packs and printed materials.

Administration – We can undertake or advise on the management of all administrative aspects of preparing for your event including health & safety, licensing and applications, site management and security.

Examples

CELEBRATING CONNECTING, March 2007
The Basement provided production management, risk assessments and health and safety for the event. This was the culmination of Connecting, a two-year arts initiative involving more than 500 local young people, professional artists, art teachers and youth leaders working with every secondary and special school and targeted youth centres and groups in Brighton. Young people from across the city presented a packed programme of dynamic experimental live performance and film to mark the end of Connecting and the launch of a new children and young people’s art strategy for Brighton & Hove: Express.

FRIEND SHIP FEAST, April 2006 – The Basement co-produced this event involving children from four local schools who took part in a culinary event at City College, Brighton & Hove learning cookery skills and promoting healthy eating. We wanted to encourage children to try a range of food types that are healthy, tasty and fun and to learn new, simple recipes and techniques. Catering Students taught younger children how to prepare simple recipes, kitchen health and safety and basic food hygiene. Over 120 children took part over two days and enjoyed a communal feast as part of the day’s celebrations of friendship. This was part of a UK-wide Friend Ship Project initiated by Liverpool 2008. The overall project aims were to promote understanding between young people living in the cities, to celebrate cultural and social diversity and to use culture as a tool for community and city cohesion.

SAY AAH 2, October 2005 – The Basement was the co-producer and event manager of the second arts and health event which took place in October 2005 at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange to attract partners to take part in The Food Challenge Fund. The food themed event was a great success attracting 250 people from the worlds of art, food, health and social care to eat, meet and create. Delegates were invited to bid for funding towards a project cooked up over a networking communal meal. Speeches and presentations from arts and food professionals from all over the world were animated by a fantastic show from theatre company 3Monkey Productions and surprise interventions from local performers. The meal itself was a fantastic homemade, locally sourced and organically grown four-course feast provided by Meringue Suitcase. The event inspired 47 applications into the Food Challenge Fund.

The Say AaH 2 initiative was funded by Brighton & Hove City Council and was part of the Brighton & Hove Arts Commission’s making a difference initiative funded with lottery money from the Millennium Commission and Arts Council England through the Urban Cultural Programme.