Theatre BC

In mid November the Executive met in North Vancouver for a planning session.  Participating were Glen, Randy, Penny, Richard, Vance and Cara (the last 3 by Skype, which worked quite well and helped keep our costs down) - Ray was in rehearsals and was not able to attend. This is part of the rebuilding process as we look to increasing our self sufficiency through increased Mainstage revenue, and as we have seen some restorations of grant funding.On the agenda was a discussion about the vision for the next three years and how to achieve that, a review of our financials (which thankfully as noted above is looking better), potential ticketing solutions, and the website plans currently underway as well as the future of the websites.We also discussed our value proposition - what we offer to clubs and to members.   We discussed our festivals, including the idea about making Mainstage into more of a destination festival.  Another topic of discussion was our communications and what we can learn by partnering with other groups such as Theatre Alberta.It was a good session and good prep for our upcoming Board camp in January.   Vance and Amy are working on arrangements for that as we speak (well not Saturday morning when I am writing this but like next week)