What can I use Basker for?
Common scenarios where organisations use Basker — productions, festivals, fundraising, blog and editorial, and more
Basker is built around the work arts, culture, and live-events organisations actually do. The scenarios below cover the most common reasons organisations choose Basker — what it solves, and which parts of the product handle each case.
Running a season of productions
Basker's event model is designed for productions that have multiple performances, named cast and creative teams, programmed works, and a venue. You set up the production once as an event, add as many performances as it has dates for, and Basker handles listings, ticketing handoff, and search across everything underneath.
Group productions into seasons and series, surface them with smart collections, and let visitors find them through the site's navigation, search, and (where applicable) your ticketing partner's flows.
Programming a festival or sub-programme
Festivals and sub-programmes don't always fit the neat one-season structure. Basker's series concept handles overlapping programmes — a festival running across several venues, a recital series spread across multiple weekends, an outreach sub-programme — without forcing the events into a single hierarchy.
A festival is one series; the events in it can also belong to your wider season. Same event, multiple groupings.
Selling tickets through your existing ticketing system
Basker doesn't sell tickets itself. It connects to the ticketing platform you already use — Tessitura, Spektrix, Elevent, and others — so visitors can browse, learn, and book without leaving your site.
The ticketing app syncs your events from the ticketing system into Basker, so editorial content lives in one place and ticket data stays canonical in the system that owns it.
Fundraising and membership
Basker's apps for Spektrix, Elevent, and others expose donation and membership widgets that your theme can embed in pages. Combine these with forms for direct enquiries and custom data for sponsor records and giving levels.
Museums and cultural institutions
Museums, science centres, galleries, and cultural institutions use Basker to programme exhibitions, member events, education programmes, and the calendar of public-facing activity around them. The same event model that handles a production run also handles an exhibition open for six months: the event holds the editorial detail, event instances handle dated programming inside the run (talks, tours, family days), and seasons or series group exhibitions and programming streams into the wider programme.
Education programmes, member events, and lecture series fit the same shape — set them up as events with their own programming and let smart collections surface them on the relevant pages.
Editorial and audience-development content
Basker's blog handles editorial publishing — programme notes, interviews, reviews, behind-the-scenes pieces, and other long-form content. Posts have full SEO, scheduled publishing, multiple authors, and the same custom-theme block system as pages.
Multi-language sites
Basker supports running your site in multiple languages out of the box. See Languages and translation.
Multi-site setups
Groups running several venues, brands, or sub-organisations can run multiple Basker sites that share a content pool while keeping distinct themes, brand identities, and domains. This is an Enterprise feature.