Question 1

How do I book TebuSpace for something?

Accepted Answer

Send an enquiry through any form on the site, or email contact@tebuspace.com directly. Include what you have in mind, your rough dates and, if you can, your budget range. You will get a reply within two working days with an honest read on fit, and either a proposal or a recommendation of someone better suited.

Question 2

How far in advance should I enquire?

Accepted Answer

For a performance or a talk on a fixed date, as early as you can. Good dates go months ahead. For workshops and masterclasses, a few weeks is usually enough. Late enquiries are always worth making: cancellations happen, and a straight no costs you nothing.

Question 3

What do you need from me in a first enquiry?

Accepted Answer

Who you are, what you would like to happen, roughly when, and roughly what you can spend. Anything else can be worked out in conversation. If you are not yet sure what you are asking for, say that instead. Half-formed ideas are welcome and often become the better project.

Question 4

Will I get a written quote?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Nothing proceeds on a verbal understanding. Every booking is confirmed in writing with the scope, the fee, the dates, what is included and what is not.

Question 5

Why are there no prices on the site?

Accepted Answer

Because the honest figure depends on things a price list cannot capture, how many players, how far the travel, how much preparation, what rights you need, how long the series runs. A published number would be either misleadingly low or needlessly high for most enquiries.

Question 6

Our budget is small. Is it worth asking?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Schools, community organisations and small charities should ask regardless. Budget is taken into account rather than treated as a fixed barrier, and it is often possible to change the shape of a project so it fits what you have. What will not happen is a quiet reduction in quality to hit a number.

Question 7

Do you help with funding applications?

Accepted Answer

Yes, within reason. TebuSpace can supply the artistic detail, biography, costings and letters of support a funding application needs, and can be named as a delivery partner on a bid. Writing the whole application is not part of the service.

Question 8

How and when do you invoice?

Accepted Answer

Invoices are issued on agreed milestones, commonly a deposit to confirm the date and the balance on delivery for events, or staged payments across a production. Standard terms are 30 days unless we agree otherwise in writing.

Question 9

Where are you based, and where do you work?

Accepted Answer

TebuSpace is based in Manchester. Work is delivered across Greater Manchester and the North West as standard, UK-wide regularly, and internationally by arrangement. A good proportion of production and teaching work also happens online.

Question 10

How is travel charged?

Accepted Answer

Travel and, where needed, accommodation are quoted transparently as part of the fee rather than added afterwards. Local work within Greater Manchester generally carries no separate travel charge.

Question 11

What does our venue need to provide?

Accepted Answer

For a performance, a technical rider, stage plan and input list are sent as soon as the booking is confirmed, sized for the line-up you have booked. For a workshop, a room where a group can sit or stand in a circle is usually all that is required. Instruments are brought in.

Question 12

Can everything happen online?

Accepted Answer

Masterclasses, talks and much of the production work translate well online. Participatory workshops largely do not: the effect depends on people being in a room together, and it is better to say so than to sell a diminished version of it.

Question 13

Can you work with SEND groups and additional needs?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and this is regular work. Tell us about access and communication needs, sensory considerations, staffing and group size at the planning stage, and the session will be built around them rather than adapted on the day.

Question 14

Do participants need to be able to read music?

Accepted Answer

No. Nothing in the workshop or community work depends on notation. The material is taught by ear and by imitation, which is how it is taught in the traditions it comes from. Notation is available for masterclass students who want it.

Question 15

Is there an age limit?

Accepted Answer

No. Sessions run from early primary through to older adults, including intergenerational groups. The material stays broadly the same; the framing and the pacing change considerably.

Question 16

What safeguarding and insurance paperwork can you provide?

Accepted Answer

Whatever your setting needs to approve a booking, DBS certification, public liability insurance and risk assessments are all part of the booking pack. Tell us what your safeguarding or procurement team requires and it will be supplied with the session plan.

Question 17

Who owns music you write for us?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the project, and it is always agreed in writing before work starts. Sync and brand commissions are usually licensed or bought out; artist projects normally leave the writer share with whoever wrote it. Nothing is left ambiguous until the end.

Question 18

Can we film or record a session?

Accepted Answer

Usually yes, with permission agreed in advance so that everyone in the room, participants included, knows what is being captured and where it will appear. Consent for participants is your responsibility as the host, and we will tell you what we need.

Question 19

Will our project appear on the TebuSpace website?

Accepted Answer

Only with your agreement. Nothing involving young people, patients or vulnerable adults is published without explicit, informed consent, and any organisation can ask to remain unnamed.

Question 20

Do you use AI to generate music?

Accepted Answer

No. The composition, arrangement and performance are done by people, which is rather the point of the practice. Ordinary studio tools are used for editing and production, as on any modern record.

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