Register now to build your skills in producing and touring!
Are you a performing arts producer, artist or arts worker interested in touring?
Join the CircuitWest Tour Team alongside four special guest facilitators for the TOUR GOOD Webinars, a professional development series to help build your skills in producing and touring with sessions on marketing, sustainable touring, grant writing and community engagement.
Sessions are $30 each or all four for $100 including GST. Registrations are free for CircuitWest members. Learn more about becoming a member here.
Wednesday 13 May 11am AWST
How To Make Presenters Love You for Your Marketing with Anne Marie-Heath Learn about making marketing that works for producers, presenters and audiences.
Wednesday 20 May 11am AWST
A Beginner’s Guide to Green Touring with Grace Nye-Butler An introduction to creating and touring performing arts work sustainably.
Wednesday 27 May 11am AWST
Grant Writing for Producers with Laura Milke Garner Designed to help you master the basics of grant writing.
Thursday 18 June 11am AWST
A World of Engagement with Annette Carmichael Hear about the possibilities of community engaged practice from a panel of experienced practitioners.
Image: 2025 Playing WA tour of Dreams of a Lonely Planet by Flying Bicycle Collective at Matt Dann Theatre & Cinema. Photo by Charismatic Photography.
Session Details
How To Make Presenters Love You for Your Marketing with Anne Marie-Heath
Wednesday 13 May, 11am AWST
This session runs for 60-minutes.
How can we all work together to get audiences through the door?
How To Make Presenters Love You for Your Marketing is a practical, big‑picture webinar about marketing strategies and collateral that work – for producers, presenters, and the audiences we are all trying to reach.
Hear directly from Anne-Marie Heath (Executive Director, The Art House) who is leading one of Creative Australia’s multi-year national audience development initiatives, and gain valuable insight into where audience-centred marketing is heading.
In this session, you’ll explore:
What really makes audiences respond to your marketing
What presenters are crying out for – and how to give it to them
How to embed marketing into your tour planning from the very beginning
This session is essential for producers and artists touring to outer metro and regional communities who want audiences to come – and who want presenters to love them for their marketing.
About Anne-Marie Heath
Anne-Marie has extensive experience in arts administration and has worked in venue management, festivals and with a diverse range of companies and theatres in both metropolitan and regional locations.
She is currently Executive Director for The Art House on the NSW Central Coast, a brand-new theatre built as part of the region’s cultural urban transformation and established as an independent business model. Her past appointments have included freelancing as an Arts Administrator, General Manager at Merrigong Theatre Company, Chief Executive Officer of City Recital Hall, Angel Place.
Anne-Marie has served on a range of arts organisation boards and committees and held the position of Chair of Performing Arts Connections Australia (previous APACA) for 4 years and is currently a Board Member of Performing Lines and Terrapin Puppet Theatre Company.
A Beginner’s Guide to Green Touring with Grace Nye-Butler
Wednesday 20 May, 11am AWST
This session runs for 60-minutes.
A Beginner’s Guide to Green Touring offers a practical introduction to more sustainable touring
This session is designed for arts workers, producers, and touring teams in the performing arts sector. The session will step through key principles, including how to understand and measure your tour’s footprint, reduce travel and freight impacts, and make considered production choices around materials, energy use, and planning. It will also introduce industry tools and resources such as the Green Touring Toolkit, Arup’s Circulate, and Theatre Green Book Australia, as well as ways to connect with existing sector organisations and support networks. The session is designed to help participants apply these ideas to their own touring practice in realistic, workable ways.
About Grace Nye-Butler
Dr Grace Nye-Butler is a Research Fellow in the Performance and Ecology Research Lab at Griffith University and Co-Director of Theatre Green Book Australia. Her professional background spans stage management and environmental science, bringing together practical arts experience and academic research. She completed her undergraduate training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, going on to work professionally in stage management both nationally and internationally. She later gained a Bachelor of Environmental Science before completing a PhD in Social Ecology at the University of New South Wales.
Grace’s work now balances academic research with industry engagement through applied projects such as Theatre Green Book Australia. In this role, she helps adapt international sustainability frameworks for the Australian context, with a focus on First Nations perspectives, climate action, and sector-wide advocacy. Grace’s sector-based work includes initiatives such as Arts On Tour’s Green Touring Toolkit, The Green Circle, NIDA Green, Bump Out Sydney, and Griffin Theatre Company’s Green Griffin program. Her research is interdisciplinary and applied, combining qualitative methods, fieldwork, and collaborative work with artists, organisations, communities, and ecological systems.
Grant Writing for Producers with Laura Milke Garner
Wednesday 27 May, 11am AWST
This session runs for 90-minutes.
As a producer, securing funding is key to bringing your artist’s vision to life.
The Grant Writing for Producers workshop is designed to help you master the basics of grant writing for artists. From interpreting funding guidelines to crafting a compelling narrative that highlights your artist’s work, this session will equip you with practical tools to write successful grant applications on their behalf.
In this workshop, you will learn:
How to identify the best grants to support your artist’s project.
The essential components of a strong grant application for arts funding.
How to effectively showcase your artist’s vision in a project narrative.
Tips for developing a realistic budget that aligns with funder expectations.
Common mistakes producers make and how to avoid them.
About Laura Milke Garner
Laura Milke Garner is the driving force behind MILKE since 2008, an award-winning producer and mentor based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. With over 29 years of industry experience, Laura has curated exceptional shows and collaborated with hundreds of artists, gracing prestigious stages from the Sydney Opera House to London’s West End. Beyond stellar productions, Laura is dedicated to advancing producer skills and has pioneered mentorship programs, online courses, and workshops for over a decade. Her latest initiative, The Producers Lab, represents a significant leap in producer upskilling and development in our sector.
A World of Engagement with Annette Carmichael
Thursday 18 June, 11am AWST
This session runs for 60-minutes.
A World of Engagement is for producers and artists who want to deepen the way they connect with communities on and off the stage.
Community engaged practice spans a rich spectrum of possibilities – from deep, place-based immersion and co‑created experiences to workshops and skill‑sharing. Through a practice-sharing panel discussion, three leading performance-makers will share how their approach to community engaged practice is having lasting impacts across WA.
In this session you’ll explore:
What community engagement is and what it can look like
Where to begin for producers and self‑producing artists
This is an unmissable conversation for anyone looking to better understand community engaged practice and discover approaches that align with their goals, values and the work they tour.
About Annette Carmichael
Annette is an award-winning choreographer and creative producer who is nationally renowned as a leader of artistic teams that create large-scale performances. With an enduring commitment to the health and vitality of regional communities, Annette’s previous projects have been applauded for their collaborative approach in building strength and resilience. She has created performances that feature dance, theatre, skateboarding, rollerskating, textiles, original music and visual design. Her works have been performed in major theatres, complex outdoor sites, regional halls, basketball courts and one very famous skatepark, The Snake Run.
Most recently, Annette collaborated with ecological organisation, Gondwana Link, First Nation elders, artists and scientists to create The Stars Descend – a dance project that was performed across a 1000km wildlife corridor in southern Western Australia, in March / April 2023.
As an Arts Manager, Annette has worked for West Australian Ballet, Perth Festival, STRUT dance, Ausdance WA, Regional Arts WA, Circuitwest, PAC Australia, STEPS Youth Dance Company and Buzz Dance. Locally she has worked for Denmark Arts and Vancouver Arts Centre. She is a graduate of West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (BA Arts Man. 1996).
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