Elevate Festival - Production Social

Elevate Festival is hosting a Production Social at Barnfield Theatre on Friday 6 November, from 5pm. It's hosted by Cait Laws, Tom Welch and Sam Parker, and it's aimed at freelance technical, production and backstage professionals living in the South West.

To get why this is happening, it helps to know where it sits. Elevate is the Exeter Northcott Theatre's artist development programme, built on the Futures Programme of previous years and designed to support South West artists in taking their next steps. It's a broad umbrella: the festival commissions new writing from local playwrights through Elevate Shorts, and runs a dedicated strand of support for production and technical professionals, Elevate: Production. There's also a free membership for South West artists that gives access to press nights, social events and discounts.

Beyond that, the programme offers new-work platforms, training and professional development, a literary support strand for writers, and free rehearsal space. There are up to six Associate Company slots and a relaunched Young Creatives group, and an Artist Assembly that gives freelance artists a say in the direction the Northcott is heading. The Production Social is the social side of that Elevate: Production strand, put on for the technical and backstage crew working across the region.

It's a free event, starting at 5pm on Friday 6 November at Barnfield Theatre, part of the Exeter Northcott site in Exeter.