17.30-19.00 WELCOME RECEPTION 19.30 CARDIFF FESTIVAL SHOW OPTIONS

Venue: National Assembly for Wales Venue: Various venues in Cardiff

Welcomes: Festival Host: Jo Benjamin, delegates select one:

CEO, Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre A BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre Semi-Final

Welsh Welcome: Rosemary Butler, B Bridgend Youth Theatre - Fiddler on the Roof

Assembly Member and Chair, Culture Committee C Guys and Dolls at the WMC

Music: Welsh Harpist, Claire Jones

9.00-9.45 REGISTRATION 9.00-9.45 REGISTRATION

Arrive, register, coffee, network Arrive, register, coffee, network

Welcomes: Nick Dodds,

BAFA Chair and CEO, Brighton Festival and Dome 9.10-9.40 Informal forum for smaller festivals

WMC Welcome: Fiona Allan,

Director of Programming, WMC

9.45-11.00 KEY NOTE SPEECH 9.45-11.00 KEY NOTE SPEECH

Robyn Archer, Brian McMaster,

Festival Artistic Director and Singer Outgoing Director, Edinburgh International Festival

'Putting the Arts in their Place' '15 Misspent Years'

Previously Artistic Director of Australia's Melbourne Brian, the longest serving director of the

and Adelaide festivals and until recently Artistic EIF, who stands down after this the 60th

Director of the Liverpool Culture Company, Robyn Edinburgh Festival, reflects on his 15 years

reflects on the origins of festivals and how contemporary in the hot seat.

celebrations of the arts shape up in that context. 11.00-11.30 Coffee and network

11.00-11.30 Coffee and network 11.15-11.20 Talk by John Willan, Chair,

11.15-11.20 Talk by Steve Heap, Folk Arts England (FAE) International Arts Management Association (IAMA)

11.30-13.00 SESSION 1 11.30-13.00 SESSION 4 - delegates select two:

'There's A Place For Us - Festivals:Connections' 8 roundtable discussions repeated twice:

Community partnerships and regeneration A 'Keeping on the right side of the Law'.

Chair: Geraint Talfan-Davies, Chair, Welsh National Opera Legal Update

Speakers: Joanne Davies, CEO, Audiences Wales B 'Its not just about the money'.

Peter Finch, CEO, Academi Led by The Institute of Fundraising

Gwyn L Williams, CEO, International Eisteddfod C 'Access for All: meeting the needs of your

and Royal Pavilion, Llangollen deaf and disable patrons'. Led by SHAPE

Irfon Bennett, Deputy Director, Urdd Eisteddfod D 'Working with Local Authorities -

13.00 Buffet lunch and network the does and don'ts'. Led by NALGAO

Music: TESCO Stage: Taina Niemela, pianist E 'Are you Covered? Effective Insurance

14.15-15.30 SESSION 2 - delegates select A or B: for your festival'. Led by La Playa Limited

A 'Heroes or Villains? F 'Non-specific venue event management'.

Arts Leadership for the new Millennium' Led by Wicked Events

Speakers: Sue Hoyle, G 'Artists Managers and Festivals'. Led by IAMA

Deputy Director, Clore Duffield Programme H 'Effective Programme Building'.

Hilary Carty, 1st session: Jo Metcalf,

Director, Cultural Leadership Programme Festival Director, Salisbury Festival

Jonathan Holloway, 2nd session: Jonathan Holloway,

CEO, Norfolk and Norwich Festival CEO, Norfolk and Norwich Festival

B 'They Wont Come if you Don’t Ask Them' 13.00-13.30 Conference Roundup and light lunch

Speaker: Guy Chapman, Director, GCA and marketing Roundup: Nick Dodds,

consultant to Cardiff Musical Theatre Festival BAFA Chair and CEO, Brighton Festival and Dome

15.30-16.00 Tea and network Music: TESCO Stage:

16.00-16.30 SESSION 3 Cor Meibion Mynydd Mawr

'A Welsh Perspective' in association with Ty Cerdd

Speaker: Simon Lovell-Jones,

Regional Director, Arts Council Wales

16.30-17.15 BAFA AGM, + launch of new BAFA identity

17.20-18.00 optional TOUR OF THE WMC

18.00-19.00 Free time

19.00-20.00 DRINKS RECEPTION

Venue: The Tube, Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre

Talk: 'A Sense of Place'

Music: BBC Radio 2 - performers from:

'Voice of Musical Theatre' Competition

followed by brief guided walk to supper venue

20.30-late CONFERENCE SUPPER

Venue: Harry Ramsdens, Cardiff Bay

Music: various Welsh performers including:

FERNHILL: 'Folk music but not as we know it'.

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER

BAFA 2006 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE - WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE (WMC) - CARDIFFTHURSDAY 19 OCTOBER