All statistics published in this report are based on a 62% response rate of youth theatre leaders who were invited to complete a post-event evaluation survey.

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TheNational Festival ofYouthTheatre (NFYT)is produced by PromoteYT, the nationaldevelopment body for youth theatre in Scotland,and is the largest open platform for youth theatreperformances and training opportunities anywherein theUK.

This annual festival was established in 2004 and is avibrant celebration ofthe creativity and diversity ofScotland’s youth theatre sector, showcasing bothyouth theatre provision and production.Each yeartheNFYTprogramme features awide range ofperformance, training and social events.Together,these activites create a positive, collaborativeatmosphere and boost young people’s confidence,while fostering strong links between individualparticipants and regional youth theatre groups.

The growing public andmedia profile ofthe event,togetherwith its focus on participation,accessibility and inclusivity strengthens the profileofthe youth theatre sector in Fife and throughoutScotland year on year.

NFYT2012 took place from 13-16Julyat theRothesHalls,Glenrothes andwas the largestfestival to date.

The festival’s performance andworkshopprogramme took placewithin theRothesHalls, andthe event also showcased outdoor performancework,aswell as hosting and participating in theNationalTheatreofScotland’s FiveMinuteTheatrelive online event.

NFYT has literally changed my whole outlook on theatreand what it represents, not only as a career, but as a lifebuilt around passion. Thank you so much. NFYT 2012 Participant

NFYT provides a fantastic nurturing opportunity for bothdirectors and young performers, encouraging them toreflect on what they do and allow them to imagine whatis possible. NFYT 2012 Group Leader

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Partnerships,FundingandSupportNFYT relies heavily on the support of funders and partnerswhoworkwith PromoteYTtomake each event as inspiring,accessible and inclusive as possible. In return for thisinvestmentPromoteYTguarantees excellent representation offunders and supporterson allmarketing print,event programmesandpress releases.

NFYT2012was produced in partnershipwithONatFife andwas core funded throughFifeCouncil’s Strategic Events InvestmentProgramme. The eventwas sponsored byShell UKLtd.

Education,outreach and accessworkwas supported byTheBankofScotlandFoundationand theMacRobertTrust. Creative supportwas provided by theNationalTheatreofScotland.TheKingdomShoppingCentre provided venue andmarketing support in kind.

Additional event incomewas generated through participation fees and box office sales.

38% ONatFife–In kind

15% Shell UKLtd–Sponsorship

10% FifeStrategic Events Investment

9% Grant Funding

47% Generated Income

38% Event Infrastructure*

19% Venue

15% ProjectManagement

11% DeafAccessSupport

6% TemporaryStaffing

6% Marketing/Reporting

5% Outreach/Workshops* Residential,catering,transfer and social event costs

Income: £57,656 Thebreakdownof incomewasas follows

Expenditure: £56,847 Thebreakdownofexpenditurewasas follows:

40% BigTent Festival/FalklandCentre forStewardship

38% FifeCouncil Catering

22% RenniesCoachHire

Cash based expenditure in Fife: £19,972

ACommitment toFifeSince 2010NFYThas been instrumental in promoting Fife as a central hub for youththeatre provision in Scotland, supported byONatFife and the FifeStrategic EventsInvestmentProgramme.

Over this period the festival has engaged young people, audiences and businesses acrossFife. It has brought theatreworkshops to local schools, site-specific performances topublic spaces,access projects to new and diverse audiences and hundreds ofyoungparticipants fromacross Scotland to Fife.

Fife is proud to be the home of the National Festival ofYouth Theatre. This accessible and prestigious event isa highlight in our cultural year and brings a vibrancyto our work. Frank Chinn, Chief Executive, ON at Fife page2

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NFYT teaches young people how to be an audience,vitalfor developing our future theatre audiences in Scotland.NFYT 2012 Group Leader

VenuesTheRothesHall,Glenrothes (operated byON at Fife) has been home toNFYTsince2010.The venue provides two performance spaces aswell as additional break-outrooms and foyer space for artistic workshops and social events.Workshops also tookplace in shop units oftheKingdomShoppingCentre (attached to theRothesHalls)and theGlenrothesYMCA building.

In a newpartnership for 2012,camping accommodationwas provided by theBigTentFestival at FalklandEstate situated 7miles from theRothesHalls.NFYTprovideddaily shuttle buses between the campsite and theRothesHalls aswell as buses to andfrom the local railway station on arrival and departure.

ParticipationEach year,PromoteYTputs participation at the heart oftheNFYTprogramme.NFYT2012hosted 13performancesand42artisticworkshops. Itwasattendedby17youththeatregroupsfrom12differentregionsofScotlandaswellas one international group from the Republic of Ireland. Outreach work took the NFYT experience to two Fifesecondary school pupils and we provided employment to 10 creative artists. In addition, six festival volunteersgained valuable experienceworking as part ofa large-scale arts event.

Inadditiontothesectoral andparticipatory focusofNFYT,apublicaudienceof172attendedperformancesoverthethree days,aswell as a significant online audience for the FiveMinuteTheatre online broadcast.

A total of815 people actively took part in NFYT2012.

Participating groupswere:

The individualskills being nurturedand developed bythe National Festivalof Youth Theatreare a credit to all thepeople involved. Welook forward to beingable to assist NFYTin 2013.Robert Winter,Centre Manager,The Kingdom Centre,Glenrothes

AberdeenPerformingArtsYouthTheatre AberdeenBadenochandStrathspeyYouthTheatre Badenoch andStrathspeyCaithnessYoungCompany CaithnessCarnegieCollegeStageSchool FifeCreativeElectric EdinburghCumbernauldYouthTheatre CumbernauldDeafYouthTheatre GlasgowEastwoodParkYouthTheatre East RenfrewshireEdenCourtYoungCompany InvernessFireflyArts West LothianKildareYouthTheatre Kildare, IrelandKineticYouthTheatre FifeLyceumYouthTheatre EdinburghNorthLanarkshireYouthTheatre North LanarkshirePerthYouthTheatre PerthRE:LOCATIONScottishCompany NationwideStrangeTown EdinburghTheScrapHappyTheatreCompany PerthshireToonspeakYoungPeople’sTheatre Glasgow

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PressNFYT2012 generated a significant increase in press andmedia coverage from2011.Most notably this included afeature article in theGlasgowHeraldwritten by prominent Scottish arts commentatorMaryBrennan,whichfocused on theRE:LOCATIONScottish Company and their residency at NFYT.The event enjoyed extensive local andregional press coverage across Scotland highlighting participating groups.Publicationswhich covered the eventinclude theEastFifeMail,FifeCourier,GlasgowHerald,GlenrothesGazette, InverurieAdvertiser,JohnO’GroatJournal,PerthshireAdvertiserandWestLothianCourier.

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All the shows were spectacular as usual, and the workshopswere fantastic. A big thank you to all the staff who madethis event possible. NFYT 2012 Participant

NFYT provides an affordable platform for a wide variety ofScotland’s youth theatres to share their work, celebrate theirsuccesses and be inspired by their peers. NFYT 2012 Participant

PerformanceProgrammeEach year theNFYTperformance programmeaims to showcase and celebrate the diversity ofScottishculturewith a broad representation ofwork produced by youth theatres fromacross Scotland. In addition, theprogrammepresents guest performances fromoutwith Scotland to encourage creative international exchange.

TheNFYT2012 performance programme included performances featuring devised,new-writing, contemporary,interactive andmusical theatre.

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It was great for the National Theatre of Scotland to team up withPromote YT during the National Festival of Youth Theatre. They werethe perfect partner for Five Minute Theatre and together we producedan incredible online and live theatrical event.Marianne Maxwell, Audience Development Manager, National Theatre of Scotland

I found it enjoyable and fun and it also made me properly think aboutwhether I wanted to do drama as a future career and if so what areato go in. Thanks for the most amazing experience ever!NFYT 2012 Participant

Investing inCreativeFuturesIt is an on-going aim ofNFYT to host an ambitious participatory programmewhich offers young people access topositive, creative, skills-development opportunities facilitated by industry professionals.

TheNFYT2012 education programme comprised the following strands:

A FifeSecondarySchoolsOutreachProject

B ArtisticWorkshops*

C TheNationalTheatreofScotland’s FiveMinuteTheatre

AFifeSecondarySchoolsOutreachProjectBuilding on a pilot project in 2011, the NFYTFife Secondary Schools Outreach Project offered a unique youththeatre experience to local young peoplewith the aim ofpromoting regional awareness ofthe festival andraising the profile of local youth theatre opportunities.

SponsoredbyShell UKLtd the outreach project delivered free in-school youth theatreworkshops to 74 inadvance ofthe festival weekend.Every participating school pupil was given a complimentary ticket to see anNFYTperformance oftheir choice.

Participating Secondary Schools were:

• BeathAcademy

• InverkeithingHighSchool

BArtisticWorkshops*NFYT2012 hosted 42 artistic workshopswhich engaged all NFYTparticipants in skills-development opportunities.Thesewere delivered by six leading organisations and freelance artistic practitioners,and offered high-qualitytraining in a diverse range ofskills including: workingwith text, verbatim theatre,dance and actingmasterclasses.

C TheNationalTheatreofScotland’s FiveMinuteTheatreNFYT2012 proudly hosted theNational Theatre ofScotland’s award-winning project FiveMinuteTheatre.

FiveMinuteTheatre is a unique theatrical endeavourwhich really doesmake all theworld a stage.NFYTparticipantswere offered the unique opportunity towork in small groupswith a theatre practitioner to createa short piece oftheatre on the theme of‘youth’.This piecewas then performed in the FiveMinuteTheatre hub–an empty shop unit in the KingdomShopping Centre transformed into a fully functioning studio theatre–andtransmitted live online across theworld.

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The National Festival of Youth Theatre is setting an example andraising awareness to other theatre festivals around the country tostep up and make theatre accessible to deaf people and not justfor a one-off. Jen Bates, DYT Coordinator, Deaf Youth Theatre

AccessBuilding upon the success ofthe pioneering NFYT2011 DeafAccess Project,NFYT2012 sawPromoteYTcontinue itswork in partnershipwith Solar Bear Theatre Company to ensure that NFYT2012was accessible to deafaudiencesofall ages and young deaffestival participants.

The following deafaccess infrastructurewas successfully put in place:

> British Sign Language interpretation ofall performances,workshops and events.

> The provision ofcommunication supportworkers

> Deaf-awareness training for all members oftheNFYTstaffteam

This aspect ofthe festival is central to PromoteYT’s aim ofmaking youth theatre opportunities accessible to everyyoung person in Scotland.The legacy oftheNFYT2012DeafAccess Projectwill equip Scotland’s youth theatresectorwith the understanding and confidence to open up regional youth theatre activity to all young deafpeople.

RE:LOCATION2012Scotlandwas privileged to be one ofonly six nations invited to take part in RE:LOCATION 2012,a pioneeringinternational youth theatre project held in Stavanger,Norway and designed to celebrate excellence in youth theatre.To represent Scotland at this unique event,PromoteYT teamed upwith theNational Theatre ofScotland,VisibleFictions and youth theatres across Scotland to create a bespoke national company.The resulting RE:LOCATION2012Scottish Company consisted ofeight exceptional young theatre-makers fromacross Scotland.The companyworked in residence at NFYT2012 to devise a newpiece ofwork and perform it in front ofan audience ofhundredsofyoung people,peers and project partners.

This prestigious projectwaswell suited to the supportive,hardworking and inspiring environment ofNFYTand theresulting piecewas a highlight ofthe 2012 performance programme.NFYTprovided the perfect opportunity fortheRE:LOCATION 2012Scottish Company to prepare to represent Scotland on the international stage.

RE:LOCATION 2012 is a fantastic opportunity for theeight talented young people to collaborate with theirpeers from other nations and a great introduction to aprofessional career in theatre and the performing arts.David McDonald, Youth Arts Manager, Creative Scotland

The NFYT brings talented young people, both local and international together inFife. Supporting projects local to our operations is very important for Shell, andthis festival is a great platform to nurture the future artists and the audiencesof Scotland John Raine, Social Performance Advisor, Shell

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CEO /Director: Colin Bradie

Participation &TrainingManager: Caroline Donald

CommunicationsManager: Iain Findlay-Walsh

DevelopmentOfficer: Helen Bain

NFYTProductionManager: Paul Rodger

British Sign Language Interpreters: Catherine King,YvonneStrain

NFYTWorkshopDelivery Team: Gillian Gourlay and Philippa Tomlin–National Theatre ofScotlandLouise Brodie–Freelance PractitionerClaire Bloomfield andVikkiWilson - Fishbowl Theatre Co.Ali de Souza–Royal Conservatoire ofScotlandBrianJames–Freelance PractitionerChristie O’Carroll–LyceumYouthTheatreKimDonohoe and Pete Lannon–Royal Conservatoire ofScotland (undergraduates)AbbyWarrilow–Freelance PractitionerKirstenMcCrossan–LoveDramaDeborahRennickMcArthur–Freelance Practitioner

NFYTCreativeAssistants: DawnTaylor,Elaine Fechlie,KimDonohoe,Pete Lannon

NFYTFestival Volunteers: Hector Brown,Francesca Lacey,Jo Rush,KevinMitchell, Konstantina Fili, SophieMcCabe

NFYTPhotographer: LJ Findlay-Walsh

ContactdetailsPromote YT (Scotland)Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny StreetEdinburgh EH6 8RG0131 5380591info@promoteyt.co.ukwww.promoteyt.co.uk

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NetworkingTo celebrate the sense ofcommunity which youth theatre affords and to foster a spirit ofcamaraderie among festival participants,NFYT2012 also hosted a series ofteam-buildingworkshops and social events.

Colour-codedworkshopsweremade up ofyoung people ofa similar age fromeach oftheyouth theatres taking part in the festival.Theseworkshopswere facilitated by youththeatre professionals and encouraged young participants tomake new friends and learnabout each otherwith the aim ofbuilding bridges between youth theatre groups.

In addition,an open-mic session followed by anNFYTWrapParty closed the festival in style.

The social aspect of the weekend was really great andeveryone was really lovely. There was no bad feeling orbad attitudes between different youth theatres which Ithought was amazing and I have made plenty of newfriends since taking part in NFYT. NFYT 2012 Participant

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