Resources for Touring Promoters

Information and resources for those touring shows or exhibitions to the Central West; and links for groups and venues in the region looking for touring product.

Information on this page:

• Touring your product to the Central West
• Finding touring product (performance, exhibitions)

Bringing touring performances and exhibitions to the Central West

Looking for venues, crew or services? Try our Central West Cultural Directory

Promote your event: List your event with Arts OutWest

Promote your event: Central West Media contacts [pdf]

Planning your tour: Travelling Distances between Central West towns [pdf]

Looking for funding: Check our funding tips

Finding the right date: Check What's On

Filming in the Central West: See FilmCentral

Touring to major performing arts venues: See INAPC (Performing Arts Centres in NSW & the ACT): www.inapac.com.au

Plus Music NSW have compiled some useful resources on touring in Regional NSW

Finding touring product - Performance

Arts On Tour - The key servicing Organisation for performing arts in NSW. Provides resources, tour development, advocacy, advice services, industry analysis, forum opportunities and tour coordination

Cyberpaddock - A forum for major presenting venues across Australia to view product available to tour

Performing Lines - Produces or tours works presented at all levels of the Australian performing arts industry

Kultour tour - A national touring network established by the Australia Council in 2001 to foster an awareness of Australian multicultural arts. Each year Kultour offers a curated program of multicultural works available for touring on the national circuit.

Critical Stages - Organises and manages tours of high quality independent theatre productions in Australia, including to small regional venues

Musica Viva CountryWide - Sends musicians from a vast variety of genres into and around regional and remote Australia.

Playing Australia - National Performing Arts Touring program

Queensland Arts Council Ontour Onstage - QLD based touring program for regional Queensland by major arts companies (some work in NSW).

Available to tour

Regular visitors

• The Song Company
• Co-Opera
• Oz Opera
• Australian Youth Orchestra
• Sydney Youth Orchestra
• Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• Eventions (musical theatre)
• In the Bin (film making workshops & screenings)

Plus others such as Bell Shakespeare, state theatre companies, orchestras, Bangarra Dance Theatre, children's theatre companies and many others regularly touring to the region's major performing arts centres in Bathurst and Orange.

Think local

Finding touring product - Visual Arts

• Visions of Australia - National Exhibitions Touring program
• Museums & Galleries NSW - For information on exhibitions, including listings of upcoming touring exhibitions
• Queensland Arts Council Ontour onexhibition - QLD based exhibition touring program for regional Queensland (and now some parts of NSW)

Available to tour