About NC Presenters Consortium
Who We Are
Who We Are
North Carolina Presenters Consortium, Inc. is a not-for-profit membership association comprised of professional performing arts presenting organizations throughout North Carolina and industry professionals from NC and beyond who share the mission of bringing artists and audiences together.
NCPC is a member-based resource network, forged in a spirit of non-competitive cooperation and dedicated to enhancing the availability, quality, variety and affordability of professional touring arts and entertainment attractions presented throughout the state. NCPC members include representatives of numerous organizations large and small, urban and rural.
NCPC normally meets three times annually at varying locations throughout North Carolina. Members also gather during regional professional conferences including Performing Arts Exchange and the yearly meeting of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York.
Annual dues and member benefits vary for NC presenting members, out-of-state presenter members, agents, managers, performing artists, service organizations and industry-associated vendors. NCPC is supported by member dues, program fees, revenue from OnStageinNC.com and through grant subsidy from the North Carolina Arts Council. Additional in-kind support is provided by our NC statewide project partner, OUR STATE Magazine.
HISTORICAL CAPSULE
NC Presenters Consortium was begun in 1991 with a membership of 8 presenters. By spring 1998, membership had increased to 40. The first edition of ON STAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA was published in the fall of 1998. Provisions were made by the end of that year to accommodate associate and professional memberships. NCPC was incorporated in 1999, with parttime contract administration added that same year. 501(c)(3) status was received in 2000, and a five-year strategic planning process completed during 2000, and revised/updated in 2006. In 2000, NCPC and NCAC began co-sponsoring the reconstituted ArtsMarket conference. Since FY 1999 thru the 06-07 season, NCPC has received a total of $129,500 in funding support for its initiatives (including ON STAGE IN NC and ArtsMarket) from the North Carolina Arts Council, and a total of $140,000 from previous corporate sponsor TIAA CREF in support of the publication ON STAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA. NCPC’s strategic plan was updated/revised in June 2006, at the same time as NCPC launched its new statewide event calendar website OnStageinNC.com and ceased publication of the hard copy directory. NCPC is regarded as one of the premier presenting networks in the U.S. and has frequently been used as a prototype by other states in presenter network organization.NCPC MEETING SCHEDULE
Two-day cooperative booking meetings are hosted by member presenters at varying locations each fall and winter, open to presenter-category membership only. NCPC’s annual summer beach meeting, open to all membership categories, is held at Atlantic Beach each June and features our Beach Blanket Consultations for artists, managers and agents.NCPC GOVERNANCE; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The NCPC organization is governed by an elected Executive Committee comprised of officers and at-large members. Executive Committee members are elected for two-year terms. NCPC administration is contracted to goingbarefoot•inc. in Durham, NC with Stephen Barefoot serving as administrator for the organization.
WWW.ONSTAGEINNC.COM
NCPC’s former hard copy statewide calendar guide to professional touring performing arts events in NC, published since 1998, ceased publication with the 2005-06 guide and was adapted into a more comprehensive online resource. OnStageinNC.com, the new statewide performing arts web calendar initiative was launched by NCPC in June 2006, with site construction and maintenance by WordwrightWeb of Wilmington in partnership with NCPC.The exciting new site is designed to serve all performing arts producers, promoters and presenters throughout NC (not limited to NCPC member venues as was the hard copy publication.) Visitors can search the site by artist, date, city, region and genre, as well as subscribe for regular notification of event announcements of their choosing. Designed to include events ranging from community theatre to symphony, PAC to amphitheatre and stadium events, OnStageinNC.com is the state’s first comprehensive arts event site available to all event presenters. Event-listing costs are less than half what they were in the hard copy booklet, with discounts available to all not-for-profit organizations, and additional discounts applicable to NCPC members. Customized banner advertising is also available on the site, which can be purchased regionally as well as full-site.
The site is promoted in the monthly ad in OUR STATE magazine, and has been endorsed by NC Theatre Conference. NCPC has received grand funding from NC Arts Council in support of the OnStageinNC initiative.
ARTSMARKET
NC’s biennial ArtsMarket, co-produced by NC Arts Council & NCPC, is a regional performing arts showcase conference for presenters, arts educators, artists, managers and agents from throughout the country. Hosted in High Point on alternating years, the next ArtsMarket is scheduled for Nov. 5-7, 2007, with host sites including High Point Theatre, Radisson High Point, JH Adams Inn, and the impressive international home furnishings exposition center Showplace. Our ArtsMarket07 exhibit hall will accommodate 140 exhibitors, with 35-40 professional showcases presented as well as professional development sessions and other events.LISTSERVS & WEBSITE
www.ncpresenters.org is the organization’s member service website which includes the full member contact roster, membership application information, conference information, data regarding statewide block booking projects and tours, meeting schedules, agenda and other relevant news. NCPC operates two monitored listservs, one for presenter-members only, and a second for the total membership, including all membership categories. The ease of a member’s being able to contact the entire membership with one email has been an extremely important tool in our organization’s growth and effectiveness, and is a prime member benefit.
OUR STAGE MAGAZINE PARTNERSHIP
The NCPC/OUR STATE project is a reciprocal partnership with defined criteria for participation, which provides twelve full pages of color advertising space annually to NCPC for promoting monthly events. To date, since its inception in 2000, the dollar value on NCPC ads appearing in OUR STATE exceed $250,000. Members must meet participation criteria to participate, including ad trade space for the magazine within their programs and playbills. All events are pulled from OnStageinNC.com and must be listed on the website calendar a minimum of three months in advance to be eligible for inclusion in the magazine ad. Presenter members must officially sign up through the NCPC office and the magazine to participate in the partnership.OUR PHILOSOPHY
Having grown into a national model for presenting networks, NCPC functions as a noncompetitive alliance of colleagues who trust, support and uplift each other, knowing that building one’s own audience for the performing arts builds our state’s audience for the arts.NCPC engages its membership in an open sharing of vision, advice, resources, opportunities, successes, difficulties, creativity and progress. And in so doing, we strengthen relationships between artists and audiences across our great state.
It is NCPC’s shared belief that the arts have both the power and the responsibility to educate, entertain, enlighten, engage, provoke, challenge, motivate, liberate, enlarge and inspire the human spirit. The sharing of the arts experience creates an opportunity for dialogue and question, resolution and response. Through active participation, each of us shapes the record of what matters. We remind you that your voice counts.
