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About NC Presenters Consortium
Who We Are
North Carolina Presenters Consortium, Inc. is a not-for-profit membership association comprised of professional performing arts presenting organizations throughout North Carolina and industry professionals from NC and beyond who share the mission of bringing artists and audiences together.
NCPC is a member-based resource network, forged in a spirit of non-competitive cooperation and dedicated to enhancing the availability, quality, variety and affordability of professional touring arts and entertainment attractions presented throughout the state. NCPC members include representatives of numerous organizations large and small, urban and rural.
NCPC normally meets three times annually at varying locations throughout North Carolina. Members also gather during regional professional conferences including Performing Arts Exchange and the yearly meeting of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York.
Annual dues and member benefits vary for NC presenting members, out-of-state presenter members, agents, managers, performing artists, service organizations and industry-associated vendors. NCPC is supported by member dues, program fees, revenue from OnStageinNC.com and through grant subsidy from the North Carolina Arts Council. Additional in-kind support is provided by our NC statewide project partner, OUR STATE Magazine.
HISTORICAL CAPSULE
NC Presenters Consortium was begun in 1991 with a membership of 8 presenters. By spring 1998, membership had increased to 40. NCPC published the first hard copy edition of ON STAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA in the fall of 1998. Provisions were made by the end of that year to accommodate associate and professional memberships. NCPC was incorporated in 1999, with parttime contract administration added that same year. The NCPC website and member listservs were launched. 501(c)(3) status was received in 2000, and a five-year strategic planning process completed during 2000. In 2000, NCPC and North Carolina Arts Council began co-sponsoring the reconstituted ArtsMarket performing arts showcase conference. Since FY 1999 thru the current season, NCPC has received in excess of $175,000 in funding support for its initiatives from the North Carolina Arts Council, (with a total of $140,000 from previous corporate sponsor TIAA CREF in support of the publication ON STAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA.) NCPC’s strategic plan was updated/revised in June 2006, at the same time as NCPC launched its new statewide event calendar website OnStageinNC.com and ceased publication of the hard copy directory. A statewide marketing campaign via public radio was conducted during 2010-11 to promote awareness of OnStageinNC.com. In 2011, NCPC relocated the biennial ArtsMarket conference to Durham and hosted the most successful conference event in its history.NCPC is regarded by many as one of the premier presenting networks in the U.S. and has frequently been used as a prototype by other states in establishing presenter network organizations. Current NCPC membership stands at approximately 200 organizations including presenters, agency/managements, performing artists, industry vendors and presenter-related service organizations.
NC Presenter Consortium presidents: 1992-1994/Joe Jeffcoat, Spirit Square, Charlotte; 1994-1996/Bill Wilson, CoMMA, Morganton; 1996-1998/Steve Davis, Stevens Center, Winston-Salem; 1998-2000/Sharon Moore, NCSU, Raleigh; 2000-2002/Lyman Collins, Town of Cary, Cary; 2002-2004/Perry Mixter, ASU, Boone; 2004-2006/John Ellis, Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville; 2006-2008/Louisa Hart, High Point Theatre,, High Point; 2008-2010/Russell Wicker, Isothermal Community College, Spindale; 2010-2012/Ray Jordan, Sampson CenterStage, Clinton; 2012-2014/William Lewis, PineCone, Raleigh.
NCPC MEETING SCHEDULE
Two-day NCPC membership meetings which focus on collaborative booking are hosted by member presenter organizations each November and February. The booking forums are open to presenter-category members only. The February meeting location varies each year. The November event is now consistently hosted in Durham, NC, alternating with the biennial ArtsMarket conference. The November meeting occurring on non-ArtsMarket years also features a “Bull Chat” component which permits agent and artist members to actively engage on an informal basis with the presenter organization representatives in attendance, similar to NCPC’s previous “Beach Blanket Consultation” rotations at Atlantic Beach. NCPC’s Annual Meeting, also open to all membership categories, now rotates between mountain and coastal locations and includes significant professional development opportunities relevant to the industry. See http://www.ncpresenters.org/meetings_annual.shtml for meeting schedule details and registration information.NCPC GOVERNANCE; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The NCPC organization is governed by an elected 11-member Executive Committee comprised of officers and at-large members. Executive Committee members are elected for two-year terms, with officers’ terms alternating with terms by at-large members. NCPC administration is contracted to goingbarefoot•inc. in Durham, NC with Stephen Barefoot serving as administrator for the organization. See http://www.ncpresenters.org/about_board.shtml for board member contact information.
WWW.ONSTAGEINNC.COM
OnStageinNC.com, the statewide performing arts calendar web
initiative launched by NCPC in June 2006, (site construction and
maintenance by WordwrightWeb of Wilmington, NC) replaced NCPC’s hard
copy booklet On Stage in North Carolina, published from 1998 thru
2006. The statewide site is designed to serve all event and
performing arts producers, promoters and presenters throughout NC.
Visitors can search the site by artist, date, city, region and
genre. Event postings, offered free or as enhanced listings provided
at a nominal cost to the listser, include event descriptions, venue
and ticketing links. Paid listings receive up to an 18-month
presence on the site. Designed to include events ranging from
community theatre to symphony, PAC to amphitheatre and stadium
events, OnStageinNC.com was the state’s first comprehensive arts
event site available to all event presenters. Banner advertising is
available on the site, purchased regionally as well as full-site.The site is regularly promoted in NCPC’s monthly ad in OUR STATE magazine and on social media. For questions and more information about OnStageinNC.com, contact NCPC OnStage marketing representative Cindy Campbell at cindy@onstageinnc.com.
ARTSMARKET
ArtsMarket, co-produced on a biennial basis by NC Arts Council & NCPC, is a regional performing arts showcase conference for presenters, arts educators, artists, managers and agents from throughout the country. Originally hosted in Wilmington, NC, then relocated to High Point, NC for a number of years, ArtsMarket is now located in Durham, NC, hosted by the historic Carolina Theatre and the Durham Convention Center. The 2011 event welcomed more than 600 attendees during the course of the three-day conference featuring 40 juried performance showcases and 150 agents and self-represented artists as exhibitors in the exhibit hall. ArtsMarket2013 is scheduled for Nov. 4-6, 2013. For further updates, visit http://www.ncpresenters.org/artsmarket.shtmlLISTSERVS & WEBSITE
www.ncpresenters.org is the organization’s member service website which provides the membership contact roster, membership application information, meeting schedules and registration, job postings and other relevant news. NCPC operates three monitored member listservs, NCPC also currently operates & monitors three membership listservs -- 1) presenter-to-presenter member; 2) agent/artist/vendor to presenter member; and 3) an all-member listserv.The ease of a member’s being able to contact the entire membership with one email has been an extremely important tool in our organization’s growth and effectiveness, and is a prime member benefit. The NCPC organization’swebsite is managed & maintained as a contracted service by NCPC member Serena Ebhardt of EbzB Productions. It enables all membership applications & renewals online, as well as event registration and member database management. To contact NCPC’s webmaster, email to ncpresen@ncpresenters.org.
OUR STATE MAGAZINE PARTNERSHIP
The NCPC/OUR STATE Partnership project is a reciprocal advertising/marketing endeavor with defined criteria for participation, which provides twelve full pages of color advertising space annually to NCPC for promoting performance events at NCPC member venues. To date, since its inception in 2000, the dollar value on NCPC ads appearing in OUR STATE exceed $450,000. Members must meet participation criteria to participate, including ad trade space for the magazine within their programs and playbills. All events are pulled from www.OnStageinNC.com and must be listed on the website calendar a minimum of three months in advance to be eligible for inclusion in the magazine ad. Presenter members must officially sign up through the NCPC office and the magazine to participate in the partnership. Approximately 40-45 NCPC presenter member organizations participate in this annual partnership.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Having grown into a national model for presenting networks, NCPC functions as a noncompetitive alliance of colleagues who trust, support and uplift each other, knowing that building one’s own audience for the performing arts builds our state’s audience for the arts.NCPC engages its membership in an open sharing of vision, advice, resources, opportunities, successes, difficulties, creativity and progress. And in so doing, we strengthen relationships between artists and audiences across our great state.
It is NCPC’s shared belief that the arts have both the power and the responsibility to educate, entertain, enlighten, engage, provoke, challenge, motivate, liberate, enlarge and inspire the human spirit. The sharing of the arts experience creates an opportunity for dialogue and question, resolution and response. Through active participation, each of us shapes the record of what matters. We remind you that your voice counts.
