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After a decade of national Ticketing Professionals Conferences, event owner the Northern Australian Regional Performing Arts Centres Association (NARPACA) is to scale back the 2015 event “to its origins” by once again becoming a regional event held exclusively throughout Queensland.

Affected by a loss of funding from the Queensland Government and the death of conference organiser Tim Roberts in early April, NARPACA explained in a statement that “the Ticketing Professionals Conference will ...  once again become a regional event held exclusively throughout Queensland in February of each year.

“The event will be rebranded BOMnet - Box Office and Marketing Network - QLD/NT and will be organised by a committee made up of Box Office and Marketing staff from the NARPACA membership.

“This realignment from a national to a state based focus comes as a result of NARPACA facing unprecedented changes over the last 12 months.“

NARPACA President Destry Puia added "over the last 12 months NARPACA has faced numerous challenges resulting from a change in political priorities.

“The most dramatic being a discontinuation of NARPACA organisational funding from the Queensland Government in June 2013. Our members are also finding it increasingly difficult to attend interstate based events as local Councils clamp down on travel requests”.

“In response to this NARPACA has had to rationalise its resources in order to remain financially sustainable whilst continuing to deliver valued services to our members.

“This has included a review of the industry based conferences that NARPACA delivers including the NARPACA Ticketing Professionals Conference." 

Puia also paid homage and respect Tim Roberts, concluding "earlier this year NARPACA had to come to terms with losing a great colleague and friend.

“The success of the NARPACA Ticketing Professionals Conference is directly attributed to the leadership and strategic direction of Tim Roberts who, along with the national organising committee, highlighted the important role the box office plays in all facets of the performing arts.

“I thank Tim and the committee for their incredible support over a great many years and I look forward to supporting BOMnet QLD/NT in this next exciting chapter." 

BOMnet QLD/NT will take place over two days in February 2015 with further details to be announced later in the year.

NARPACA is the peak industry body for professionally managed performing arts centres within Queensland and the Northern Territory. NARPACA currently has more than 35 members servicing communities that stretch from the Gold Coast in the South to Mount Isa in the West, Townsville and Cairns in the North to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.  

Click here to visit the NARPACA website.

NARPACA members include:

1. Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2. Artsworx, Toowoomba
3. Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
4. Brolga Theatre, Maryborough
5. Burdekin Cultural Complex, Ayr
6. Cairns Civic Theatre, Cairns
7. Capella Cultural Centre, Capella
8. Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
9. Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre, Gladstone
10. Ipswich Civic Theatre, Ipswich
11. Johnstone Shire Hall, Innisfail
12. Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane
13. La Boite at the Roundhouse Theatre, Brisbane
14. Lake Kawana Community Centre, Sunshine Coast
15. Logan Entertainment Centre, Logan
16. Mackay Entertainment Convention Centre, Mackay
17. Mount Isa Civic Centre, Mount Isa 
18. Nambour Civic Centre, Sunshine Coast
19. Proserpine Entertainment Centre Whitsundays, Proserpine
20. Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
21. QUT Gardens Theatre, Brisbane
22. Redcliffe Cultural Centre, Redcliffe
23. Redland Performing Arts Centre, Cleveland
24. Rockhampton Venues and Events, Rockhampton
25. School of Arts Theatre, Townsville
26. The Arts Centre Gold Coast, Bundall
27. The Centre Beaudesert, Beaudesert
28. The Events Centre Caloundra, Sunshine Coast 
29. The World Theatre, Charters Towers
30. Townsville Civic Theatre, Townsville
31. Venue 1 - Blackwater Civic Centre, Blackwater
32. Diggers Entertainment Centre, Hughenden
33. Flinders Performance Centre, Buderim
34. Moncrieff Entertainment Centre, Bundaberg
35. Creative Regions, Bundaberg
36. Endless Entertainment International, Cairns
37. Australian Performing Arts Centres Association (APACA)

17th April 2014 - VALE: TIM ROBERTS, RESPECTED ARTS ADMINISTRATOR

12th February 2014 - TICKETING PROFESSIONALS CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS TRANSFORMING BEHAVIOUR THROUGH REAL-TIME ANALYTICS 

15th February 2013 - CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS AUSTRALIA UNVEILED, CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

23rd May 2012 - DYNAMIC PRICING IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ARTS AND ORIGIN II

17th February 2011 - ONE WEEK COUNTDOWN TO NARPACA TICKETING PROFESSIONALS CONFERENCE  

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