Photo Emily TraceyThe Collective
• You don't have to 'join' or become a member of Hidden Door. Instead, it operates as a network you are connected to, and you get involved by contributing to, participating in, and/or helping out with events.
• To connect to the network all you have to do is go to the Hidden Door Collective Group on Facebook and join. From there you will be able to find out about upcoming projects, submission dates for proposals and other opportunities to get involved.
• If you are not on Facebook, simply email hiddendoorcollective@gmail.com and you will be included on the Collective mailing list.
• In time, Hidden Door hopes to be able to develop this website as a way of representing the network visually, with profiles and links to all the associated artists, bands and creative practitioners.
Contributing to Events
• Submitting a Proposal for a Contribution
Hidden Door will issue a Call for Proposals as an event is being developed. You can then submit a basic proposal, idea, or note of interest in the first instance. The proposal will be judged on how well it fits with the aims set out in our mission statement, and the particular criteria detailed in the Call for Proposals Statement.
In general, we are looking for exciting ideas that will help create a fantastic, unique and high-quality audience-experience at the event.
• Being Invited to Contribute
Hidden Door will invite specific artists, musicians etc who may not already be associated with the collective, to contribute to events with specific work, or take part in collaborative projects, or submit a proposal.
• Helping Out
For the events to be as exciting, as audience-inspiring, and as artistically ambitious as our vision calls us to be, we rely on volunteers and contributors helping each other out.
For every event, but especially for something the size of Here Not Now, we need volunteers to help set up the venue, assist the artists, build sets, stages and transform the venue... and help take it all down afterwards. Hidden Door is definitely a great opportunity to hone your D.I.Y skills and learn some new ones!
We also need volunteers to help steward the event, and work as part of a front-of-house and floor team to help create the right atmosphere for everyone there.
• Planning
If you would like to be involved in helping to organise one or any of the events or projects, then please email, and we'll see if we can get you on one of the planning teams.
• Ethos
The ethos of contributors and volunteers all working together and helping out to create something extraordinary is something hat makes Hidden Door special and different, and as a Not-For-Profit organisation, we totally depend on this to make a difference.
How it Works
• Projects
Every Hidden Door event is organised into projects, such as exhibitions, installations, performances, environments, publications, publicity campaigns etc.
Some projects will come from proposals, others from the planning teams, and if you are involved in Hidden Door, you will be part of a project. This can still involve you doing your own thing, but as part of a larger group, or programme, or environment, or it could be you collaborating on a more integrated creation.
Each project will be distinct, but part of the whole, and each team will take responsibility for delivering their project.
Money
• Every project needs money and resources. however, as much as Hidden Door would love to be able to pay for everything, as a Not-For-Profit organisation it can't necessarily do this.
• Hidden Door's aim is to create an effective platform for bringing creative talent together in Scotland, and to create a fantastic audience experience for the public encountering that talent. Hidden Door will use its funds to bring about these two aims at the discretion of the Directors team.
• Please note; Hidden Door is not a source for funding for artists.
• Each Project will have its own budget, and take responsibility for its own budget. Hidden Door funds will be used to contribute as much as possible to each project, but the priority for the use of funds will always be to create the best possible platform, before funding individual projects.
• This means when a project is agreed, a budget will need to be submitted, with an amount required from Hidden Door funds. Hidden Door will then decide how much of that amount can be funded. Project contributors may then have to find ways to make up any shortfall.
Hidden Door fund
Hidden Door will raise money through sponsorship, arts funding, peer-investment and ticket-sales.
Any Profit after an event will be re-distributed proportionally to all the projects not able to be fully funded at the outset, unless other arts-funding had been found.