Programme
This seven-day long capacity building programme is addressed to festival curators and emerging festival makers from all over the world, regardless of age, gender and nationality, who are interested in exchanging knowledge and experiences between professionals active in the field of festivals and who wish to improve their management skills, learn from renowned experts and exchange ideas and best practices with other participants.
The Atelier is about the participants!
The Atelier for Young Festival Managers is a tailor-made capacity building programme focused on the needs of the specific group taking part in the programme, based on the analysis of the expectations of the selected participants. The topics and issues raised by the selected participants are further developed during the Atelier: in panel discussions guided by renowned festival leaders and cross-sector experts from across the globe, in small working groups, thematic lunches, cross-discipline round tables and plenary sessions. There is plenty of time and space for official and informal one-to-one talks during the programme and during meals and cultural visits, as the sharing of experiences and networking are key to the Atelier.
Topics explored will be, amongst others:
- Innovative forms of leadership
- Different models of curating, focusing on building audiences/communities
- Digital innovation and new technologies
- The social, environmental and artistic impact of festivals: how festivals are/can be agents for social change and social cohesion
- Fundraising (beyond subventions)
- How and if festivals can contribute to strengthening global identities and values and tackle rising nationalism
- Decolonisation
- Equitey and Fair international collaboration (and trade) including the UNESCO 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
- Festivals and the integration of underrepresnted or fragile communities (people of colour, first nation people, migrant/refugees, LGTBQIA+, disabled people, children and youth, etc.)
- Sustainable festival-making on all levels
- Freedom of expression and the relevance of artistic boycott
- All these food-for-thought and conversations will be developed in close relation with our partners and the context in which the Atelier takes place, serving as a source of inspiration and discussions by meeting local actors.
All these workshops and conversations will be developed in close relation with our partners and the context in which the Atelier takes place, serving as a source of inspiration and discussions by meeting local actors.
You will find the full programme of the Atelier Amman here.