PRESS ROOM
Welcome, members of the media! Please see below for press releases, press kits related to major events at Bluecoats, approved brand assets, and approved photos for your use! With questions, or for press credentials to a Bluecoats-operated event or rehearsal please email press@bluecoats.com.
IN THE NEWS
PRESS RELEASES
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ABOUT BLUECOATS
Bluecoats is a non-profit performing arts organization that brings life-changing experiences to young people through an education in the arts and world-class arts programming. Bluecoats is known around the world for the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps and Bluecoats School of the Arts. Founded in Canton in 1972, Bluecoats will celebrate 50 years of world-class performing arts programs in 2022.
PRESS NOTES
Attending rehearsals of Bluecoats programs
Media coverage of Bluecoats rehearsals is tightly controlled. Media will only be allowed access to rehearsals, including photography and videography, with prior approval of the Bluecoats CEO or CFO/COO. Attendance as a media representative requires proper credentials distributed by the Bluecoats administration. Such credentials are non-transferrable and valid only for the authorized date and location. For rehearsal access permission, please write press@bluecoats.com. We cannot field requests for permission via phone or fax, or from any other email address. If you are on-site at a Bluecoats rehearsal and wish to obtain media access, please visit the administration bus. Any media personnel found on rehearsal property without the proper credential will be asked to leave.
Copyright and licensing of material rehearsed and performed by Bluecoats programs
Most of the material that you will see Bluecoats rehearsing and performing is covered under various expressed copyrights. Bluecoats has obtained the licensing to arrange and perform any third-party works, but such licensing extends only to our public performances, and in some cases, our own uploading and/or streaming. Bluecoats makes no claim of responsibility for media coverage that violates the rights of copyright holders of our work. It is the media’s responsibility to use b-roll, rehearsal footage, performance footage, and imagery responsibly and with the proper licensing and attribution. Furthermore, Bluecoats reserves all rights to its own brand, and to the creative work it owns including its shows and creative content. All coverage using footage and photography owned by Bluecoats requires proper attribution.
NAMING
Always refer to the organization as “Bluecoats,” singular, with no article, ie ‘Bluecoats is a non-profit organization.”
Refer to our drum corps as “the Bluecoats” or “the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps.”
ATTRIBUTION
When using a Bluecoats brand asset always place this at the bottom of the page:
©2021-26 Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc. All rights reserved. Bluecoats and logos of Bluecoats are trademarks of Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc.
When using imagery of a Bluecoats production or program always place this at the bottom of the page:
©2021-26 Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc. All rights reserved.
PRESS KITS & OTHER INFO
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Bluecoats School of the Arts
Learning Programs
Strategic Plan - 2022
BIOGRAPHIES
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APPROVED IMAGES
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The Bluecoats
The Blue Way Educational Events
BRAND ASSETS
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