Top 5 Podcast Episodes - The Arts & Everything in Between

The Arts & Everything in Between is a podcast sparks conversations that look at anything and everything that'sLive from  important when working in the creative sector. This week, we're sharing our most popular episodes of the month! 

Live from RECHARGE: Optimising Your Operations 

In this episode, you’ll hear from Peter Ling, Shows and Finance Manager at Ipswich Regent and Corn Exchange. Peter, shared Ipswich’s experiences on the radical changes at Ipswich that the team implemented post-Covid.

Peter’s talk looks at how Ipswich faced dramatic changes in their organisation and how they faced these challenges with creative solutions that balanced their values and ensured a sustainable future.

Price is Not the Problem with Sean Kelly of Vatic 

In this episode, Sean Kelly, founder of dynamic pricing tool Vatic, dispels the myths and lays out the case for dynamic pricing. He explains how, while knee-jerk reactions are understandable, there is a better way to think about pricing that benefits your organisation, but also makes sense to your audiences. 

As Sean says, like it or not, every pound and euro counts in the arts and culture industry. We need to value our offerings correctly and allow the data to help open a pricing conversation with customers. To know what the right price is for each customer – we need to start listening to the hidden conversations our customers are having with us each time they buy a ticket. 

International Women's Day 2023: A Ticketsolve Panel 

In this episode, we have brought our colleagues who identify as women together to celebrate and reflect on International Women’s Day and what it means to be a woman in the workplace. You’ll hear about their backgrounds, how they got into the arts and eventually Ticketsolve. The panel talks candidly about the challenges they have faced in their own careers, breaking stereotypes, and what the future holds for women working not just in the arts but across every industry.

Untangling the Knots Around Accessibility with Catherine Turner 

This episode of The Arts and Everything in Between Podcast features Catherine Turner, trustee for Colchester Arts Centre, a technology accessibility advisor and an enthusiastic patron of many art forms. She’s also a disabled person with a love of swimming and a hatred of bananas. Catherine provides her expertise on website accessibility and what you and your team can be looking at within your organisation to keep accessibility high on your agenda. She shares her own experiences openly and honestly. Hosted by Lucy Costelloe, this session looks at how we can navigate through the complexities of digital accessibility and address key points that everyone needs to consider today.

Using Data to Challenge Organisational Challenges 

In this episode, Lucy Costelloe talks about The Arts & Culture Collective – a Ticketsolve initiative – that explores the main challenges facing arts organisations. She takes us through what they have learnt so far.The initiative looked to understand how the arts and culture industry uses data in times of great uncertainty, and how data helps to inform innovative practices. The aim is to see how these practices can lead to greater sustainability throughout the sector. 

Lucy reveals how challenges such as fundraising, changing tastes, relevance, leadership, diversity and technology have shifted from 2016, through the pandemic to now. And how the Arts and Culture Collective, questioned really questioned their data, their data practices and what they really wanted and needed data for to help make positive organisational changes that stick.