Today we’re pleased to unveil Basker: a new content management and website building platform focused on live events.

Basker is delivered as software-as-a-service, with hosting, ongoing upgrades, and maintenance all included within the monthly fees. It comes pre-integrated with a number of ticketing systems and other platforms, and is highly customizable and extensible. 

It is born out of Made Media, a leading digital agency working with arts and cultural organisations, and builds on Made’s experience of designing and delivering complex websites for the live events and cultural space. We have spent the last 12 months first undertaking deep discovery into the state of content management systems, and then building out this platform to meet the needs of live events creators.

Basker has been designed to be user and developer-friendly, with three different routes to website delivery. You can get up and running with the platform in a matter of hours using Basker’s no-code theme customiser, or engage with developers to leverage Basker’s comprehensive GraphQL and REST APIs to interact with the platform in a headless way. The real power of the Basker platform comes through the use of custom Themes, where Basker remains responsible for hosting and backend configuration, but front end developers gain full control over the look-and-feel of the site via a flexible templating language. Basker welcomes engagement from all developers working in the arts and cultural space who may wish to build websites using the platform.

Séalan Cronin, Managing Director at Basker says, “Basker is purpose-built for organisations in the arts and culture sector. Our mission is to create a digital platform for the people who make live experiences happen, making building and maintaining an events website easier than ever. It’s for all of us, from the lone arts entrepreneur to a large venue with a dedicated digital team and developers; Basker is on your side. I’m excited to share more about what Basker can do as we continue on our product roadmap of features and capabilities.”