Welcome to Art in June 2025!  Now you are all signed up, we felt we should put together some more detailed information for you.

 

You have joined a vibrant and very successful group of artists and makers who open their studios to an enthusiastic public, annually.

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What does Art in June do for you?

 

We provide:

 

Banners, bunting and signs

You will be able to collect these a few weeks before the event. These are for your studio and anywhere local to you where you can place a sign or banner.

 

The guide

This all-important guide is our main promotional tool. The local public start looking

out for it eagerly in May!

 

We provide as many copies as you need for your studio and for you to distribute.

 

The Art in June website

Here the public can view the brochure and artist details, find out how to contact you

and how to find your studio. You will have your own page, where information about you and your practice will be displayed.

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Group show at Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks

We encourage all artists to take part, as it's a great opportunity to be part of a group show showing off all our artists in the same place. Visitors can get a taste of what to expect and to start to plan their visits. You will be invited to exhibit.

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This year the show 'Dialogues and Connections' is from 21 May to 31 May 2025

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SAVE THE DATE

Private view: TBC

Install Tuesday: 20th May 2025. (drop off your work between 10 am and 12 noon) 

Open Wednesday: 21st May 2025

Close Saturday: 31st May

Take down: Monday 2nd June. (pick up your work between 10 am and 2 pm) ​

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There will also be a couple of free workshops to accompany this show, part of our commitment to engage with the public and raise our profile. 

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Social media

We have active Facebook and Instagram accounts, which we use to share details of your work and the wider event. Most of us use Instagram or Facebook to market ourselves. If you do, please include a tag for @artinjunekent. We can collaborate with you to make the most of your post. If you don’t know how to do this:-

• When you start a post you need to look out for a button called 'tag people' this is on the third screen you come to.

• Click 'tag people' and then click on 'invite collaborators'.

• In the search bar type in @artinjunekent and select it when it appears. 

• Click on ‘done’ or the tick at the top of the page.

• Then continue to post as you normally would.​

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Our Social Media Officer, Dan, will be happy to help you if you need it. 

 

Publicity

Includes:

• Adverts in a range of publications

• Coordination of local promotional activities (more about that below)

• Distribution of Guide events in Sevenoaks

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What do we expect you to do?

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Read and answer emails please!

We communicate with you by email. It is the quickest and most effective

way to organise. So please, the quicker you respond, the less time and effort it is for everybody.​​

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The guide and Art In June website

You will receive a link to an online form for you to complete with details of you and your work. You will subsequently need to proof-read your section prior to publication.

This is probably your most important job!

 

Elitta and Marcus take on the task of putting your studio details and photographs in the guide.

While Sally and Elitta content manage the website and your dedicated page. 

 

Guide distribution

Artists are very effective at getting the brochures into various venues. We will suggest places where these can be delivered and ask you to confirm so we can ensure a full coverage. You may need to keep these topped up. 

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Bikes

Our yellow bikes have caught on and become a feature of the two weeks in June. The public know that a yellow bike means you are close to a studio, even on a winding, country back lane.

 

We ask you to obtain an old bike and spray it yellow – make sure it is unusable as we have had a couple stolen. You can decorate it as the fancy takes you!

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Social media

We all know the value of social media these days. So in addition to the work Dan does to promote us, we ask you to submit content when requested, and when you have something you would like to tell us about.

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Exhibiting

You will need to manage your own studio. Make sure you can cover the opening times you advertise. Providing tea and coffee can be a useful way of making clients feel welcome. Make sure your insurance cover is in place.

 

Daily visitor tally

This can be a bind but it is such an important measure of visitor numbers year on

year. Just make a tick for every person who enters and add it up at the end of the

day. Sometimes it is surprising how busy a day was when you thought it was rather

slow!

 

Connect with nearby studios

Visitors like to see more than one studio if possible. If you connect with a couple of nearby studios, you will have a mini-trail. Each studio can show visitors how they can take in another venue or two in the same area.

 

Collaborating on signage can also be helpful. If you are putting a piece in your parish magazine, you can also promote each other.

 

You could also co-ordinate private views – if you choose to have them.

 

Private view

That we leave for each studio to decide.

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After the event

If you have been good enough to put a banner up, please take it down immediately after the final Sunday.

 

Keep your signage and publicity materials safe. That may save on ordering next year and free up funds for other uses.​

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Volunteer help that is much needed and would be very welcome

Please contact us to see how you can help. 

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Local free advertising
Cathy is the committee member who will be co-ordinating this.
There are many sources of free advertising locally and even further afield.

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• Your parish magazine will take an ad or an article - you just have to get it into the May issue by submitting in March/April - we can generate ads and articles for this, but please reach out to us early to allow time to produce. 

 

• Local social media groups - there are several for each town and some villages – you just join the group and post. 

 

• Free Online Local News Publications will often do an article.

 

• Council News - they love our cycling trails!

 

• Cycling Clubs - remember we had three cycle routes that cover the whole area last year –
  we plan to do the same this year. Reach out to your local cycling club.

 

• Rambling and Walking Clubs - we have one walk already and plan more this year. 

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Putting up banners and signs

Each artist/group of artists will be given banners, posters and signs to put up. Please think about locations in your local village/area where you can put up a banner – you might need permission from your Town Council. So organising and getting permission for this early is a good idea.  

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Stag Theatre guide distribution

We normally have two days of guide distribution outside the Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks and at Sevenoaks railway station. We need volunteers to come and do a shift because we hand out a large number of guides on these occasions.

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Local radio and TV

We would love someone to come forward and volunteer to approach Radio Kent and

the local BBC, to promote the event.

 

That's it folks!

This is a small group of fantastic artists and craft makers! You're all very

creative and we would look forward to your involvement!

 

We hope that this Welcome Pack has been helpful to you. Any feedback or suggestions would be welcome. It’s going to be another fabulous Art in June year!​​​

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