Artistic programming is built on memory.
What’s been performed before. What resonated. What feels overdone. Which artists, works, and themes are part of your venue’s identity — and which ones are still waiting to be explored.
Yet in many organizations, that memory lives in scattered spreadsheets, Word documents, email threads, or individual heads. Over time, it becomes harder to answer even simple questions:
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When did we last present this work?
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How often have we programmed this composer, director, or artist?
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What patterns are emerging across seasons?
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How do we share accurate artistic programming information with marketing and stakeholders?
Artistic Programming in Artifax is designed to change that.
From static records to a living artistic archive
Artistic Programming gives you a central place to record what happens on stage, screen, or platform — not just as events, but as works with artistic context.
Instead of re-creating information every time a piece returns, you build an evolving archive that includes:
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Works and productions
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Artists, roles, and creative teams
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Durations, structures, and intervals
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Relationships between performances, seasons, and series
Over time, this becomes more than a record. It becomes a tool for thinking, planning, and reflection.
Planning future seasons with confidence
When artistic information is centralized, programming becomes clearer and more intentional.
You can quickly see:
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How frequently a work has been performed over a given period
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Where repetition or gaps exist in your repertoire
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How themes, art forms, or contributors have evolved
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What balance you’ve achieved across genres, creators, or demographics
This context supports better conversations — within programming teams, and with leadership, funders, and trustees — grounded in evidence rather than instinct alone.
Making collaboration easier across teams
Artistic information doesn’t just belong to programmers.
Marketing teams need accurate artistic program details for brochures and websites. Operations teams rely on timings and structures. Front of House and Box Office need clarity about what audiences will experience.
By maintaining a single source of truth, Artistic Programming reduces duplication and errors — such as inconsistent naming or outdated information — while making collaboration smoother across the organization.
Everyone works from the same understanding of the work.
Supporting education, participation, and creative development
For organizations working with students, resident artists, or creative partners, the archive also becomes a record of artistic involvement.
You can track:
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Which productions individuals have participated in
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Roles performed across seasons
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Contributions made as part of training or education programs
This makes it easier to evidence artistic development, support accreditation, or demonstrate impact — without reconstructing histories from scratch.
Flexible enough for different art forms and approaches
Artistic Programming is designed to support different disciplines and working styles.
A work might be a play, a concert, a film, or a dance piece. It might include movements, roles, buffers, or intervals. It might sit within a season, a series, or both.
Rather than forcing everything into one rigid structure, Artifax lets you model artistic reality as it actually exists — while keeping information consistent and reusable.
A foundation that grows over time
You don’t need to capture everything at once.
Many organizations start by recording core works and productions. Over time, they add more detail — roles, contributors, structures, relationships — as the archive becomes more valuable.
Because the system is designed for long-term use, the effort you invest today continues to pay off season after season.
Artistic memory as a strategic asset
Artistic Programming in Artifax isn’t about administration for its own sake. It’s about protecting institutional memory, supporting thoughtful decision-making, and giving artistic teams the confidence to plan boldly — without losing sight of where they’ve been.
When your artistic history is visible, searchable, and shared, it stops being a burden to manage — and becomes a resource you can actively use.