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To me, the basic definition of touring is when you are able to leave, step outside your home base, to another town, or city within your regional scope or province, or into a national level or even overseas in pursuit of sharing your creative art work and visions at another place. | To me, the basic definition of touring is when you are able to leave, step outside your home base, to another town, or city within your regional scope or province, or into a national level or even overseas in pursuit of sharing your creative art work and visions at another place. | ||
(a note that in some grant application, it is indicated how much distance /or kilometers that is considered touring outside your home base to be eligible and funded for such a grant) | (a note that in some grant application, it is indicated how much distance /or kilometers that is considered touring outside your home base to be eligible and funded for such a grant) | ||
=What can tour?= | =What can tour?= | ||
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Artists, companies, artistic works are responding to these needs, changes, and trends to re-evaluate the presence of art in society. | Artists, companies, artistic works are responding to these needs, changes, and trends to re-evaluate the presence of art in society. | ||
A few examples of festivals and events that have taken place in Canada: | |||
• Asian Heritage Month festivals in May | • Asian Heritage Month festivals in May | ||
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Touring Perspective | =Touring Perspective= | ||
-Vision and your work, | -Vision and your work, | ||
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=Planning:= | =Planning:= | ||
Starting from who you may contact within your home-base/region to present your work to, figuring out and expanding your networks and connections at to national and international level and leading intuitive and inquisitive research into following and understanding their elemental ways of presenting and partnering to Festivals, marketing/showcase events or specific venues. | |||
Timing, and assessing the best way to approach, market or solicit your contact, being ready to have a press kit, a portfolio, website or having ready simply an invitation to see your live show. | Timing, and assessing the best way to approach, market or solicit your contact, being ready to have a press kit, a portfolio, website or having ready simply an invitation to see your live show. | ||
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Active connectivity and fast communication is a tool and asset in keeping track of your network, maintaining awareness and pursuing a line of possible activities for a tour! | Active connectivity and fast communication is a tool and asset in keeping track of your network, maintaining awareness and pursuing a line of possible activities for a tour! | ||
From preparing at home and being ready to take your work on the road to making sure that your touring engagements are in synch between different cities, times, dates and modes of transportation, technical requirements or the distance of travel that you are undertaking is manageable for economical purposes as well as the environmental and health conditions of yourself and your group on tour. | |||
Planning is an essential component that takes time, but will guarantee a proper understanding of your tour while on the road, to be prepared prior, while on tour, and after. | Planning is an essential component that takes time, but will guarantee a proper understanding of your tour while on the road, to be prepared prior, while on tour, and after. | ||
Who will fund the tour/expenses prior and during, what and where are the resources from? | |||
The basic expenses I have covered in touring in different scenarios are: | The basic expenses I have covered in touring in different scenarios are: | ||
(Pre-tour expenses, Artist salary fees, transportations, accommodations, freight, per-diem, insurance etc). | |||
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At times you simply have to be resourceful, be prepared and ready to adapt quickly in a given situation. | At times you simply have to be resourceful, be prepared and ready to adapt quickly in a given situation. | ||
I have had experiences and situations arriving in a venue where it is different from the proposed invitation and sudden changes occur due to technical issues or simply lack of organization, but have certainly adapted to venues that are both challenging and groomed. | |||
Providing and hiring proper touring technical directors or crew that can pre-plan and understand a touring venue to go to is highly recommended. It can achieve the requirements and needs of the creative work, to attain and meet a stress free engagement and to let the work breathe properly to the state and stage that it ought to be. | Providing and hiring proper touring technical directors or crew that can pre-plan and understand a touring venue to go to is highly recommended. It can achieve the requirements and needs of the creative work, to attain and meet a stress free engagement and to let the work breathe properly to the state and stage that it ought to be. | ||