We create events and experiences that engage new audiences for heritage and nightlife venues. We work closely with curatorial, conservation, marketing and programming teams on innovative formats that belong to the building.
POLYMATHIC began with a cardboard dome at Bath's Fringe Arts Festival, built to project artworks across its interior. It was a project among friends. People stepped inside, and the useful lesson was simple: a cultural space can hold a format it has never tried, if someone can actually deliver it.
That is our work now. Nighttime events for heritage and nightlife venues. We take on the technical production, and often we programme the music. At the Roman Baths, twelve speakers around the site for vinyl in surround sound. At The Holburne, a vinyl selector on a vintage pink milk float in the garden. Different jobs, same offer: a format that venue had not run before.
Venues come to us when they want audiences they are not already reaching, and the building has real constraints. Tours in the same space, a collection to look after, a garden that is not a venue until the equipment is in.
New audiences for heritage and nightlife venues, through event formats designed with the teams who care for the building.
Historic and cultural spaces with innovative nighttime offerings that could only happen there, made with the teams who care for the building and able to reach an audience the venue does not already have.
We design and deliver nighttime formats for heritage sites, museums and nightlife venues, with curatorial, conservation, marketing and programming teams. Sound, visuals and music programming sit inside that work.
The night has to be brilliant, but not impact the building or site. The collection, conservation limits, access, insurance, the neighbours. We stay with those teams until it is.
Curatorial, conservation, marketing, programming. The format comes out of the building, not from a template we arrive with.
The night should feel like it belongs there. DJ's around the Great Roman Bath. Vinyl selectors in the museum garden playing jazz. An experience that uses what the building already is.
Vinyl Selector Sessions. Museum Up Lates. A format that works once should be able to run again, and a one-off made for a single room still has to be deliverable.
We do not pitch a night we cannot execute. Heritage rules, safety, sound in a difficult room. It has to perform on the night.
We work with the venues, artists and promoters already in this scene, and we hire locally as a first priority unless big names are needed.
We run workshops and community nights, and we share how a job was actually delivered with other artists, technicians and venues. The work gets better when the people around us can see how it was done.
We pay artists, technicians and collaborators properly, and we build a business that can still be here in twenty years. Profit is what keeps the community nights, the workshops and the experiments going when a project itself cannot pay for them.
Artists, selectors and technicians, paid, on nights that matter to their practice and enhance their cv.