NEWS

Emerging Arts Entrepreneurs

It was a sunny day last May when Andrew Hetherington from Business 2 Arts met with us over luncheon to suggest we apply for the David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards. The process, we were told, would be as rewarding as a positive outcome.

So we spent the next couple of months responding to and refining a series of questions that eventually would become something like a strategic document, a manifesto and a promotional pack rolled into one. Definitely a challenge. Andrew, Rowena and Stuart from Business 2 Arts kept us focused and our designers Pony Ltd made it look beautiful using Fiona Morgan's super shots of our productions and events.

We were shortlisted in October and recently informed we had sucessfully beaten off stiff competition to become the 2009 David Manley Arts Entrepreneurs.

The process was extremely helpful and the positive outcome was pretty darn nice too. Particular thanks to Mark O'Halloran for presenting on our behalf at the awards ceremony.