What can I use Basker for?
Common scenarios where organizations use Basker: productions, festivals, fundraising, blog and editorial, and more
Basker is built around the work that arts, culture, and live-events organizations do. The scenarios below cover the most common reasons organizations choose Basker: what it solves, and which parts of the product handle each case.
Running a season of productions
Basker's event model handles productions with multiple performances, named cast and creative teams, programmed works, and a venue. Create the production once as an event, then add one performance for each date it runs. Basker handles listings, ticketing handoff, and search across all of them.
Group productions into seasons and series and surface them with smart collections. Visitors can find them through your site's navigation and search, and, where applicable, through your ticketing partner's flows.
Programming a festival or sub-program
Festivals and sub-programs do not always fit a single neat season. Basker's series concept handles overlapping programs, such as a festival running across several venues, a recital series spread across multiple weekends, or an outreach sub-program. It does this without forcing the events into a single hierarchy.
A festival is one series. The events in it can also belong to your wider season. The same event can belong to multiple groupings.
Selling tickets through your existing ticketing system
Basker does not sell tickets itself. It can connect to the ticketing platform you already use (Tessitura, Spektrix, Elevent, and others), so your theme can send visitors into the right booking flow.
Capabilities differ by app. Some sync event and performance data, while others provide widgets, templates, credentials, or manual booking links. Check the specific app guide before you decide which system owns each field.
Fundraising and membership
Basker's apps for Spektrix, Elevent, and others provide donation and membership widgets that your theme can add to pages. Combine these with forms for direct inquiries and custom data for sponsor records and giving levels.
Museums and cultural institutions
Museums, science centers, galleries, and cultural institutions use Basker to schedule exhibitions, member events, education programs, and other public-facing activity. 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, such as talks, tours, and family days. Seasons or series group exhibitions and programming streams into the wider program.
Education programs, member events, and lecture series fit the same shape. Create them as events with their own programming, and use smart collections to surface them on the relevant pages.
Editorial and audience-development content
Basker's blog handles editorial publishing: program 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 can run your site in multiple languages. See Languages and translation for details.
Multi-site setups
Groups running several venues, brands, or sub-organizations can run multiple Basker sites that share a content pool while keeping distinct themes, brand identities, and domains. Multi-site availability depends on your plan. Basker support configures it for you.