We Out Here Festival have announced an open call for aspiring Grassroots Music Promoters. Selecting fifteen individuals to join Future Foundations, the festival provide a new incubator initiative backed by Arts Council England, designed to nurture emerging promoters and address the underrepresentation in the industry.
In light of the challenges confronting the grassroots music sector, We Out Here is introducing Future Foundations to provide support and development opportunities for the next generation of industry leaders.
"Grassroots promoters are at the foundation of the scene: often taking personal and financial risks to platform future talent pipelines, many of which end up on festival stages such as ours. Facing greater economic risks, it’s all the harder for new, diverse talent to break through. We’ve developed this project in consultation with some emerging grassroots promoters we greatly admire, hearing what they need in support to take their brands to the next level. We’re delighted to have secured funding from the Arts Council to make this plan a reality!”
- We Out Here
With over twenty years of experience in promoting gigs, shows, and festivals, We Out Here founders, Gilles Peterson (Worldwide Festival) and Noah Ball (Outlook, Dimensions, Cross the Tracks) collaborated with emerging brands like no_one, Selextorhood, and Brakery to design the program. The focus of the initiative is on cultivating robust brands, offering mentorship and training opportunities such as Accessibility Training with Attitude is Everything and Safer Spaces training with Good Night Out, to ensure more sustainable and inclusive events in the future.
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