This survey-based cross-sectional investigation explores the socio-demographic, school and student, extracurricular, and family factors associated with Australian high school-aged adolescents' attendance at live theater, music, and dance events (receptive arts participation) outside of school....

This study proposes an alternative approach to the usual cognitive investigation of cultural venue and event attendance. This approach is based on stochastic preference theory. Specifically, the study utilises two well-known stochastic models of consumer behaviour: the NBD model and NBD-Dirichlet...

Most performing arts organizations offer their customers the choice of either buying event tickets individually or buying a bundle of tickets for two or more events. During the selection of the bundle to be offered, the theatre manager faces several possible combinations of events. In this paper...

Festival tourism has been growing considerably over the years, acquiring a prominent position and with strong popularity in society. Festivals and/or events promote a cultural exchange at international, national and local levels, with the opportunity for cultural sharing, from history and...

This article examines audience response data from a young people's community music-theatre performance in Victoria, Australia in 2013. The performance was created by groups of culturally diverse emerging artists and community members working with professional participatory artists. Using both...

This research note aims to address the lack of research focused on the audiences of amateur theatre and examines how audiences of artistic- (i.e. participating in festivals with high artistic requirements) and social- (i.e. not participating in those festivals with high artistic requirements)...

This article provides an introductory contextualization to dance competition culture's evolution since the early 1980s in relationship to serious leisure. Dance competition culture (which includes the for-profit regional and national competition events focused on jazz, contemporary or lyrical ...

This conceptual paper focuses on the recent introduction of the idea of "sustainability" in a specific segment of enquiry within the tourism and events research, namely the festival sector. It considers "sustainable" music festivals as conceptually different - although quite akin - to "green" ...

The purpose of this study was to identify how leisure-based participation in social circus-arts may impact the health and well-being of children aged between 8 and 14 years in Australia. Research regarding the influence of arts participation has shown positive health outcomes. Performing and visual ...

Statistics show that in 1989 the consumption of non-essential goods in Italy increased. Goods related to recreation, entertainment, education and culture increased quantitatively by 7.9%, the highest increase of all categories. The steadiness of family consumption in a year when the Italian...