Elevate Festival - Artist Social

Elevate Festival is back at Barnfield Theatre this autumn, and one of the social side-events is the Artist Social on Tuesday 3 November, starting at 5.30pm. It's a gathering for Elevate members to meet other creatives and the artist development teams from two different theatres: Exeter Northcott and The Hall For Cornwall, who are co-hosting the evening. If you're a working artist or just starting out, it's a good way to put faces to names and chat with the people who run the development programmes at both venues.

To get the full picture, it helps to know what Elevate is. It's Exeter Northcott's annual celebration of South-West artists and their work, staged at the Barnfield Theatre. The festival brings together local artists and audiences through performances, workshops and meet-ups, and it runs as part of the theatre's free Elevate membership. That membership also gets you access to press nights, social events and discounts throughout the year.

There's a commissioning side to it too: the festival has put new writing from local playwrights on stage through Elevate Shorts, and it runs in partnership with Exeter Phoenix. The Artist Social fits into that broader pattern of bringing together the creative community in the city rather than just putting on a show and calling it a day.

Because the social is open to Elevate members only, you'll need to be signed up for the membership first—which, as mentioned, is free. Once you're in, the evening itself costs nothing. It kicks off at 5.30pm on Tuesday 3 November at the Barnfield Theatre in Exeter.