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Positive Solutions purpose is to strengthen cultural and social enterprise through targeted consultation and training. Our work informs policy, assists with decision-making and planning, or enhances industry knowledge. Sensitivity to local cultural contexts is a keynote of our approach.

Positive Solutions has successfully completed projects for hundreds of clients in Australia, the UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand including:

- strategic research projects and cultural policy development for federal and state governments

- cultural facilities planning and feasibility studies, particularly for public performing arts facilities, museums and cultural precincts

- business planning for cultural organisations and major cultural facilities

- public art and curatorial strategies for major institutions and cultural precincts

- governance training and organisational development for a large range of not for profit organisations


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Theatre Management for the Non-Theatre Specialist


A Conference Paper is now available based on co-Director David Fishel's Keynote Presentation at the OISTAT Summit Forum on the New Era of Theatre in 2011.

This paper provides an introduction to aspects of current theatre management practice for non specialists – for example, government officers, and artworkers in other disciplines.  The paper was delivered to a conference in Taipei at a time when Taiwan is investing heavily in theatre infrastructure, and was intended to draw attention to some of the management and ‘software’ issues which need to be considered alongside investment in physical infrastructure. 

The paper highlights the expectations placed on theatre venues in relation to their organisational structures, and comments on the skills required to operate theatre venues successfully with reference to possible implications for Taiwan (and other jurisdictions). This paper concludes by considering how changes in the creative, funding and commercial environments will make new demands and provide new opportunities for tomorrow’s theatre leaders.

David has been advising on the management and governance of performing arts venues and cultural precincts for over twenty years, primarily in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Click here to read the paper.

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