creative consultancy

SEGUE works with artists and organisations across the creative industries to create inspiring projects, to develop new audiences for music, dance and theatre and to deliver bespoke services such as fundraising, research, business planning and small-medium scale organisation development. SEGUE's Creative Consultancy Practice is led by Director Fiona Mason.

The range of activities undertaken iincludes:

• artist development and mentoring
• emerging producer development and mentoring
• project management, general management, executive producing
• start-up, small and medium scale organisational development
• management and agency
• tour planning, touring feasibility, tour booking
• funding applications, fundraising planning, fundraising feasibility
• business, strategic & financial planning
• legal structures, company and charity registration
• research

current and past clients

Adriano Adewale info...

Anwesha Company info...
Cambridge Film Festival info...
Cie 13 / Rosa Mei info...

City of London Sinfonia info...

Colchester Arts Centre info...

Dance Digital info...

Dance Producers CPD Group info...

Darren Johnston info...

Dog Kennel Hill Project info...

Ersatz Dance Company info...

Escalator Music info...

Essex County Council info...

f.a.b. - The Detonators info...

Gecko Theatre info...

Harlow Council, Essex County Council and the Essex Arts Officers Group info...

Jacksons Lane info...

James Hewison info...

Jean Abreu info...

Juliet Aster info...

Kate Flatt info...
Maresa von Stockert & Tilted Productions info...

Martin Newell info...

Mercury Theatre info...
Misinterprotato info...
New Wolsey Theatre info...

Nina Rajarani Dance Creations - Srishti info...

Norfolk Dance info...
Retina Dance Company info...

Segue info...
SoundExchange info...
State of Flux DanceFilm Company info...

Tom Dale info...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adriano Adewale (Music)

2007-current: Project and artist development. Artist Management. Successful application to Arts Council England East for Escalator Music. Awarded £12000.

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Anwesha Company (Dance)

2009: Mentoring

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Cambridge Film Festival (Film)

2006-2007: Fundraising Feasibility Study to support development of Cambridge Film Trust.

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Cie 13 / Rosa Mei (Dance)

2006: UK tour feasibilty.

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City of London Sinfonia (Music)

2005: Development of bespoke Membership and Friends Database.

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Colchester Arts Centre (Combined arts)

2005: Feasibility Study into development of St Martin's Church in Colchester as a performance venue.

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DanceDigital (Dance)

2010 - present: Board member of DanceDigital the dance development agency for Essex.

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Dance Producers CPD Group (Dance)

2005: Coordination, Facilitation and Fundraising for Arts Council England's Dance Producers Continuing Professional Development Group.

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Darren Johnston (Dance)

2011: Successful application to Arts Council England East for R&D for Clarity [Cube space project] - part of a new body of work by Array. This captivating work in progress, by award winning choreographer Darren Johnston, explores the idea of surround sound and visual performance. Delve into a digital world where events and images unfold as 3D illusions, evoking a dreamlike state of passing thoughts and memories. Awarded £9,950

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Dog Kennel Hill Project (Dance)

2007: Advice on fundraising and producing for new project The Odd Honesty Code.

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Ersatz Dance Company (Dance)

2005: Fundraising and tour booking for Live Performance and New Technologies Project - (In the) Lap of the Dogs/24 Acts of Arson. Successful application to ACE East to support the project. Awarded £15,000.

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Escalator Music (Music)

2011-present: Panel member Escalator Music, Arts Council England East's regional artist development initiative for music.

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Essex County Council (Combined Arts)

2005: Arts in Essex Grant Assessment panel

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f.a.b - The Detonators (Physical Theatre / Dance)

2006/7: Tour booking for Extraordinary.

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Gecko Theatre (Theatre)

2008: Successful application to Arts Council England East for Organisational Development funding. Awarded £99,640.

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Harlow Council, Essex County Council and the Essex Arts Officers Group (Music)

2005-2006: Consultant for "Resonate" - a mapping exercise to determine the level and type of activity and resources for young people’s music in Essex and creation of a music development plan to address short medium and long term needs identified by the research.

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Jacksons Lane (Venue)

2009-current: Supporting Jacksons Lane with fundraising and business strategy development and mentoring.

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James Hewison (Dance)

2006 - 2007: Successful application to ACE East for "Artist Time Space Money" research project. Awarded £26,000. Subsequent Organisational Development.

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Jean Abreu (Dance)

2006 - 2007: Project management of DanceEast and New Wolsey Theatre Residency Project to create new works Dialogo and Aequus. Successful application to ACE East to support touring costs of Aequus and Dialogo. Awarded £13,997.

Producing Raizes in the Pulse Festival, Ipswich and at the Purcell Room as part of the Rythm Sticks festival at the South Bank Centre.

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Juliet Aster (Dance)

2005: Mentoring and coaching to support development of new work.

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Kate Flatt (Theatre/Dance)

2007 - current: Producing Soul Play following successful application to ACE East. Awarded £16,540.

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Maresa von Stockert and Tilted Productions (Dance-theatre)

2005 - 2006: Successful application to ACE East and subsequent programme of Organisational Development. Awarded £ 40,000.

2006-2007: Successful application to ACE East for Next Steps - three year funding for Tilted Productions. Awarded £150,000. Successful application to ACE National Touring for "Marjorie's World Unhinged". Awarded £103,000. Tour booking (27 date national tour). General Management of tour and company.

2007-2008: Successful application to ACE National Touring for "Glacier". Awarded £99,948. Successful application to danceWEB europe in partnership with Southbank Centre for "Glacier". Awarded £7,500. Tour booking (16 date national tour) and General Management of tour and company.

2008-current: Tilted awarded Regularly Funded Organisation status by ACE East. Subsequent Strategic Business Planning, interim General Management and interim tour booking in advance of appointment of full-time General Manager.

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Martin Newell (Poetry)

2007: Producer for Spoke 'n' Word II.

2006: Producer for "Spoke n Word" tour - guided cycle-rides and walks in the Essex countryside of the Colne Valley punctuated by poetry readings en-route. This unique project is funded by Insite, the Essex Cultural Tourism Programme.

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Mercury Theatre & Insite (Theatre)

2005: Project Coordination for "Three Heads in the Well" - a devised theatre production which toured to heritage sites in Essex in August and September 2005. Funded by Insite, the Essex Cultural Tourism Programme.

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Misinterprotato (Music)

2008: A Segue Project: booking small UK tour for Australian jazz trio.

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New Wolsey Theatre (Theatre)

2007: Successful application to Arts Council England East for Programming. Awarded £150,000.

2007: Fundraising Feasibility and Action Plan for Pulse Festival.

2008: Fundraising for Pulse Festival.

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Nina Rajarani Dance Creations - Srishti (Dance)

2006: Tour booking feasibility and tour booking for Quiet Please!

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Norfolk Dance (Dance)

2005: Fundraising for Dance Artists Touring Scheme. Successful application to Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Awarded £15,000.

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Retina Dance Company (Dance)

2006: Tour booking feasibility for This is not a Body .

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Segue (Music)

2006 - current: Company development, website and graphic design. Successful application to Jazz Services/PRS Foundation for a Jazz Promoters Award. Awarded £500.

2008: Successful application to Essex County Council Small Arts Grants £1000. Successful application to Arts Council England East Artistic and Organisational Development. Awarded £5000.

2010: Successful application to Arts Council England East for Songs from a Hotel Bedroom. Awarded £95,526.

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SoundExchange (Music)

2010 - current: Director providing strategic & project development for SoundExchange the music development agency for Essex. Successful application to Arts Council England East for Organisational Development. Awarded £9,950.

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State of Flux DanceFilm Company (Dance/Film)

2007: Successful application to ACE East for A Blank Canvas. Awarded £27,736.

2008: Successful application to Ipswich Borough Council for "A Blank Canvas". Awarded £650. Project Support for "A Blank Canvas"

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Tom Dale (Dance)

2006/7: Successful application to ACE East for RISE. Awarded £44,000. Subsequent project management of RISE, including producing 1st RISE tour, up to June 2008.

2006: Successful application to ACE East for Club Research Project. Awarded £18,246.

2006: Successful application to ACE East for Place Prize Commission. Awarded £5,000.

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