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Fri, Jun 01 2018

A Culture of Lates,

The National Gallery, England, United Kingdom The National Gallery, England, United Kingdom
One Sponsor Confirmed
National Gellery

  • About the event

    A Culture of Lates: how do museum Lates build audiences & generate income?

    The conference for museum/gallery after-hours events programmers, venue decision-makers and night-time economy people.

    A stellar line-up of speakers has already been confirmed including:

    • Tim Ross, Australian comedian, TV presenter and host of 2017’s ‘Man about the BT Tower’ event, who will explain how he uses comedy to create original heritage interpretation events and Instagram to market them.
    • Abigail Daikin, Events Director at Time Out, the media outlet that supports Lates all over the world
    • Sam Bompas, Experience Designer and Jellymonger from Bompas & Parr, who flooded the ss Great Britain with 55,000 litres of luminous jelly for Museums at Night 2012
    • The Godperson of Lates, we've found the innovator who started Lates in the UK back in 2001 at the V&A
    • Kate Rolfe, Head of Events at the National Gallery, joined by colleagues for a panel discussion
    • Lucy Woodbridge, Head of Visitor Events at the Natural History Museum

    The programme will feature presentations, panel discussions, socials and practical sessions including:

    • Programmers’ Question Time – Is your venue’s Lates programme blighted by lack of funding? Do you have a crop of talented local artists but are unsure how to reap the best out of them? Our panel of Lates event programming experts will grapple with your event challenges and help you create your after-hours Garden of Eden!
    • After-show social & Lates event! - Extend the fun and meet more people at the after-conference social and the National Gallery's comedy show: more details announced soon.

    Museum Lates have been thriving in the UK since the first regular event at the V&A in 2001. The night-time economy is now worth £66bn a year in the UK and A Culture of Lates will explore the contribution museums and galleries can make to grow this increasingly important sector of the UK economy over the next five years.

    Produced and chaired by Culture24, curators of the twice-yearly, UK-wide Museums at Night festival, the Culture of Lates conference will develop themes set out in recently published reports from a three-part study into Lates, A Culture of Lates.

    Why should you sponsor?

    This is an amazing opportunity to be associated with the fast-growing strand of museum events most targeted at a new, young audience and to be mingle and meet with museum leaders from all over the country. The sponsorship opportunity would enable you to benefit from associated pre-event branding opportunities through our extensive email, website and Twitter networks.

    The conference is produced by us at Culture24, the arts charity that manage Museums at Night, and our latest major conference in six years joining previous events in London, Manchester, Brighton and Bristol. We have a fantastic range of speakers and ticket buying delegates confirmed already from; the Natural History Museum, Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums, National Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces, Royal Academy, House of Parliament, Bodelian and museum services from Moscow, Sydney, Hampshire, Glasgow and Northamptonshire.


    Nick Stockman

    Culture24 is an arts charity based in Brighton, which supports arts and heritage organisations to have the confidence, imagination and skills to connect meaningfully with audiences of today. We are a small and dynamic team of writers, thinkers, producers and publishers who love arts and culture, understand digital and believe that cultural organisations have a vital place in a better world.

    We are best known for publishing great websites about culture; producing the successful Museums at Night festival of after-hours openings, and leading Let’s Get Real, the collaborative action research project involving cultural organisations across the UK and Europe. We also aggregate and share data about thousands of cultural events exhibitions and venues with a range of partners including the BBC.

    Culture24 provides platforms, networks and safe, collaborative spaces within which cultural organisations can work together to reach and engage audiences, benchmark, experiment and learn. We broker partnerships and strategic opportunities that it would be near impossible to access as individual organisations.

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  • 251-500 attendees expected


    20% Male Attendees


    80% Female Attendees

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