As we head into the summer months, findings from the latest wave of our Cultural Participation Monitor look at how attitudes towards audience safety, home working, local attendance, and the impact of the cost of living crisis are shifting, as the spectre of the pandemic begins to give way to a new normal.
"There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Recent Key Insights
Findings from the Summer 2023 wave of our Cultural Participation Monitor look at a wide variety of factors that affect if and how audiences interact with live cultural event venues, including their social and environmental values, behavioural expectations, cost-of-living concerns, and comfort with online screening options.
Feature | Home Office, Home Crowd?
Has the shift to working from home moved the goal posts for local arts attendance? Oliver Mantell has been considering the evidence of attendance at live arts events.
'Culture in Crisis: Recommendations for Policy Makers' launched in Parliament
12 new policy recommendations, devised to support the creative and cultural sector recover and rebuild in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, presented to senior government and sector policy makers.
DCMS publishes our roadmap for building a better UK cultural economy
The pandemic highlighted an urgent need for better data to describe the cultural sector – Now the government has published solutions identified by The Audience Agency and financial benchmarking specialists MyCake.
Feature | How Dynamic Are You?
What we used to think of as ‘contingency planning’ is now just planning, says Patrick Towell. That is what it means to be ‘dynamic’.
Historic England – Knowing the Heritage Sector
Historic England recently commissioned The Audience Agency and our partners MyCake to start establishing the size of the sector using publicly available data sets.