Cultart Management Academy

Performing Arts Program #enjoyperforming

City: Ioannina, Greece

LTTA ( Learning Teaching Training Activity) Organisation in Greece: ICSD

Training Period: from 8 to 12 May 2023

Practice with: Municipal Theatre of Ioannina DI.PE.TH.I.

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Case Study: How to develop a social entrepreneurship business plan for the Municipal Regional Theatre of Ioannina as an instrument for social change?

5×5 Training Program in Ioannina . You can follow each day of the 5×5 training program in Ioannina on the News page.

Here you can find the 5 groups’ presentations on the case study, as follows:

Group 1 Marketing & Promotion

Group 2 A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR THEATRE

Group 3 Social change with T(h)EAtre Time and “The Tempest”

Group 4 DI. PE. THE. FOR YOU AND MEDI. PE. THE. FOR YOU AND ME

Learn more about the groups’ solutions to the case study challenges and the Performing Arts Program in depth on pages 95 to 123 in the Cultart Book digital version.

Petkov Lyubomir

Petkov Lyubomir

My wide-range international professionnal experiences are in the fields of cultural diplomacy to projects in the fields of culture and education, co-funded by the European Union Creative Europe and Erasmus+ programmes. I am currently taking the opportunity to enlarge my knowledge in performing arts management and administration within my position at 3 bis f artistic residences contemporary performing arts venue in Aix-en-Provence (FR) I will take in August 2022. Convinced of the role of the cultural and creative sectors, strategic, cross-sectoral international partnerships are the key to face and resolve the sector post-COVID-19 challenges. My main professionnal goal stands behind the opportunity to meet, exchange and share practices with the cultural managers participating in the programme. The Cultart Performing Arts programme is an opportunity to fill the gaps in my study in economics and projects management and profession in the field of performing arts. The modules would outline the needs of the sector in this new post health crisis era. The Case Study Challenge should be an opportunity to action in an intercultural context and face its limits to adapt them for a successful performance.

Stoyanova Svetlomira

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Stoyanova Svetlomira

My experience over the past 5 years is mainly related to the performing arts and cultural policies - my work in the National Culture Fund, Bulgaria as well as participation in project teams, festivals and theater companies, have built in me important skills for working with and for people. The successful combination of theoretical and practical activities - preparation of project proposals, presentations, press releases, textual and visual materials, has helped my professional development and the acquisition of combinability and flexibility. Over the past 2 years I have learned a lot about how to create programs and terms for funding cultural, creative and social products and services, creating and evaluating project proposals, their implementation and reporting, but perhaps most important of all is that communication in its various forms, is the basis of professional relationships. I would like to be part of the Cultural Management Academy in Greece /The Performing Arts Programme/, because to me engaging with people from different cultures is a unique way to evolve and because I highly admire cultural institutes that consider the audience as a mean - not a tool. The Municipal Regional Theatre of Ioannina seems like a place where managerial vision and contemporary aesthetics meet and makes me want to know more about it. After my work experience not only as a young theatre critic, but also as a manager and/or advisor in different independent theatre companies and in a state theatre as well, my experience with high technologies in the Prague Quadrennial and my work as an expert in the National Culture fund in Bulgaria, give me the thirst for knowledge for more international interactions.

Nechkova-Fingarova Venera

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Nechkova-Fingarova Venera

I’m currently working as PR and Marketing Expert at State Puppet Theatre – Plovdiv – an institution with diverse production, including baby theatre, puppet performances for children ages 3 to 12, adolescents and adults. My responsibilities are to communicate with the audience, local and international partners of the theatre, organizing the monthly and weekly program and special events at the theatre, promoting the performances. I also oversee the work of a team of four people with who I cooperate in maintaining and developing the online presence of the theatre on multiple platforms. I’ve previously arranged international tours for participation in professional and students’ festivals in Russia and Poland. I have experience in writing, coordinating, and participating in diverse projects, both for public and non-profit private organizations. My interests and backgrounds are both in the practical and the theoretical aspects of the performing arts, especially of puppetry for children. Next year I will finish my PHD in Theatre arts at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria. The motivation for the research I’m conducting is based on my experience as a puppetry actress, playwright, and assistant professor (Speech Training) at NATFA. I’ve walked through every step of the processes that take place in the creation of a performance - from writing the first letter of a new play to the last letter of the project proposal for its making, through the rehearsals, PR campaign, premiere, and distribution nationwide and abroad. I see many problems along that road and am dedicated to search for a way of solving them in the interest of the audiences, performers and the theatre art itself. The CultArt Academy seems to me as a great way to fill some gaps in my knowledge of cultural management, because being a “Jack-of-all-trades” is both my main asset and my weakness in my current work. I am excited to learn from and meet with people from different backgrounds and cultures that are engaged in the same field. The dynamic and intriguing form of the academy is a challenge that I’d love to participate in! I believe I can contribute to the program and I am eager to be a part of it next year.

Macheva Margarita

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Macheva Margarita

My name is Margarita Macheva and I am a theatre director and manager. Since 2018 I am the manager of "Nikola Vaptsarov" Drama Theatre in Blagoevgrad and I am the youngest manager of a government theatre in Bulgaria. I graduated "Theatre Directing" in National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia (BA) and "Theatre Arts" (MA) in the same academy. I am really interested in theatre management and would like to participate in the programe because I don't know much about theatre management in other countries and it will be very useful to meet other profesionalist.

Tabakova Maria

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Tabakova Maria

My experience in cultural management is mainly related to the distribution and implementation of my personal artistic projects in the Bulgarian scene. One of the dance performance in which I was a co-creator, a dancer and coordinator, included the organisation of discussions about art and social work. With the team, I was responsible for connecting with different partners and finding the idealogical and practical link between our project and their organisations. I was working on social media and organising events which included the performance itself, workshops and discussion. I graduated from Sofia University with Italian philology and I had a Master degree in International business and marketing at New Bulgarian university/ University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. I’ve been dancing since I was 7 years old. When I moved to Sofia I became more interested in contemporary dance because of its freedom. I was part of Derrida Dance Port program, 1 year intensive classes of classical, modern and contemporary dances. I participated in Focus Dance Screen program, a program that educate interdisciplinary artist in Dance filming. In 2020 I started to create my own projects. At the moment I am a coordinator, choreographer and a dancer in “Status project” which includes dance performance and movement workshops. I work on my future dance film “Hearts and spades” and I am currently distributing my dance film “Labour”. With developing my own professional path I discovered that I am really interested in creating safe and rich ambient for all art - and specially for performing arts. I am extremely interested in organising art, creating a physical space for contemporary art, connecting different people and finding new innovative paths for the performing arts. I would want to learn how to better combine my two passions- performing arts and management in order to achieve my long term goal: to create a new contemporary space for artist to work, develop and perform

Ingalisa Novicky

Alumna in “Theatre-, Movie- and Mediastudies” with EC in inclusive-education as well as “Public Management” specialized in finance and trained Dance Instructor with main focus on dance education for children. Worked as Dance Instructor, production assistant and assistant director, gaining among other things experience in organizing, planning, and financing as well as supervising artists in cultural- and sociocultural projects in the field of cultural management.

Dorothea Hoffmann

Graduate of the University of Vienna as well as FH Campus Vienna with bachelor’s degrees in Egyptology as well as Public Management and a master’s degree in Historical Research. Member of the Institute of Austrian Historical Research (IFÖG).

Lukas Mayer

26 years old and working in the context of intercultural management for the Upper Austrian Government. Besides that passionate dancer, ambitious sailor voluntary engages for the literary organization Literaturschiff and, most importantly, likes to explore and work with different cultures.

Rosina Krisper

Graduated with the Vienna Boys' Choir and got a taste of the theater world in 2022 at the Hin & Weg Theater Festival in Litschau/Lower Austria. She worked in the production office and was able to experience for the first time how theaters and festivals of this size work. Fascinated with theater, she set up an independent theater collective together and in January 2023 celebrated the first premiere.

Anna Maria Makopoulou

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Anna Maria Makopoulou

Currently working as a psychologist in a center for hosting minor refugees. Attending an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has given me the opportunity to attend multiple different modules referring to general and specialized topics in psychology. After the completion of my undergraduate degree, I decided to join the Master’s Programme of Brunel University London in Psychologic and Psychiatric Anthropology. Moreover, I also finished my second master In Clinical &Health Psychology at Bangor University In Wales. My academic along with my work and volunteer experience, have helped me build a strong cognitive background and develop numerous skills. To illustrate this, my studies have contributed to my personal introspection and development of my potential, the cultivation of teamwork and cooperation. As a psychologist, I have developed my communication skills along with the ability to relate to and deeply understanding those people. Moreover, I consider myself as a person who is polite, patient and able to listen carefully and cope with emotionally demanding situations. Working towards my dissertation helped me develop the ability to collect and analyze data in order to draw a conclusion and propose solutions for change. Overall, it is my firm belief that my particular interest in the field of my studies and my knowledge will to excel are the keys that can bring me closer to the fulfilment of my career aspirations. My passion is :music and painting. Through those as a psychologist I’m trying to be In contact with them. Using the “International languages”(music, painting , theater etc) I’m doing , for example, psychosocial groups which refuges can draw something which thinking or observing and after we can discuss It all together.With this technic children can understand thinks about themselves and others. Speaking out easily about traumatize situations of their life can be a real useful tool for a psychology went I’m doing later on a personal therapy session.

Dimitra Tsoumani

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Dimitra Tsoumani

My name is Dimitra Tsoumani and I come from Ioannina, Greece. I am a graduate of the Philology department of the University of Ioannina. Τhe occupation with my specialization in Classic Philology and Greek history and it was thanks to my profession that, for the first time, I interacted with art. As many historical and philological texts prove, art has many forms. Sometimes it is about music and dance; sometimes it has the form of both material and intellectual works of art. All those kinds of art were and still are in all the aspects of our lives. What am I interested in, as an educator, is art in education or creative ways to achieve education through art. This cultural art trip in Skopje would be a chance for me to make disquisition on how we can incorporate art in educational curricula. If an educator uses all related kinds of art properly, they can allow children to develop their own free expression of what they are and how they feel. Moreover, students who are involved in intellectual works of art perform better in academics and have a higher thinking potential. I would also like to add, as a scholar, that people of all abilities, color and gender can relate to artwork. Art is blind to the caste, creed, religion and even boundaries of states, nations and languages. A nation may have its own material and intellectual works of art but, according to many historical and classical texts, nations affect each other, despite the fact that they have different languages and religions. So, learning about other countries’ cultural art can make as capable of managing our Greek culture properly, as scholars or as future culture managers. These are the two reasons why this Culart Management Academy Training would be a big opportunity for me. As a future scholar, it would be nice to know how to manage cultural art but, for the present, it is also vital to realize ways on how to integrate cultural art in school curricula, in order to make our students more interested in our lessons and to get involved in easier in philological and historical lessons more eagerly. Finally, it would be a nice idea to unite students from all over the word using educational art.

Erdem Aydin

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Erdem Aydin

Hi, this is Erdem AYDIN from Turkey. I'm Electrical and Electronics Engineer. I was a member of IEEE student club when i was in University. I also played basketball at u12,u13,u14 leagues and i won a streetball tournement. Now i like to cooking, reading, walking, and meet new people.

Kaan Sariaslan

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Kaan Sariaslan

Hello, I'm Kaan, I'm a Social Work and Anthropology student, I'm a professional American football player, I represent my country in the national team. I am into music in my spare time. I have a rock band that I am the guitarist of, I perform at various festivals.

Foteini Siopi

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Foteini Siopi

'Throughout my course of education and professional career I have been dedicated to the idea of international cooperation and European Integration. My personal experience and knowledge achieved over the past several years are my strengths and it is always a pleasure to work with people from various professional and cultural backgrounds drawn from all over Europe. This exposure enhances both my professional and personal development and makes me feel more like a citizen of the world!'

Alessia Anna Mazzeo

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Alessia Anna Mazzeo

my name is Alessia, I am a 5th year high school student. I decided to apply for the Cultart project as I expect to be able to enhance my school skills and I consider myself a curious person with a great desire to learn about new cultures. From this experience I expect to improve my ability to work in a team, develop and implement language as well as communication and interaction with others. I am also confident that I will be able to acquire new skills giving me the opportunity for a better understanding of the world we live in.

Annachiara Rigillo

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Annachiara Rigillo

My name is Annachiara Rigillo and I am 29 years old. I am very fond of art, culture, literature and nature. I have a classical high school diploma, a bachelor degree in Modern Languages and Cultures in Roma Tre University, a master degree in Teaching Italian to foreign people in Università per stranieri di Perugia, and I am currently attending a second master degree in Didactics and translation of modern languages in Roma Tre University. I am currently working in the Fori Imperiali museum (Mercati di Traiano) in Roma for a civil service project in the field of art and didactics applied to social aims. Our mission is to spread ancient Roman history and art to the disadvantaged social classes, in particular we have classes in psychiatric centers, the jail of Rebibbia, family homes for orphans, old people centers and elementary schools. I have already participated in the Erasmus programme during my university studies, in University College of Dublin and Université de Lorraine de Nancy. Thanks to these two experiences, I had the chance to improve my language skills, to get to know lots of international friends and to learn new academic methods which have helped me to open my future perspective of career. My main professional goal is to teach Italian to foreign people, help them to integrate in our society, while spreading the beauty of the Italian culture, language and art. I am interested in participating in the Cultart Academy project in Ioannina because I find it really stimulating. It is a new way to test my skills and knowledge in a field which I am very interested in, the theatre and performing arts. I expect to know other curious people like me and to have a nice work atmosphere together in Greece.

Ariela Lera

Ariela Lera

I am Ariela, having reached the end of my fifth year at the high school professional secondary school "A. De Pace" in Lecce. I wish to participate in this Erasmus experience in Ioannina to discover, visit and learn new things. I am a curious person who likes to travel, I want to expand my both linguistic and cultural knowledge in a country different from my own, with totally different traditions and totally different customs. I will have the opportunity to meet new people from different parts of the world, being able to compare myself with them. I can adapt easily with other people. I am convinced that I am a person who is reliable and serious, I have a great desire to grow and learn through new experiences. In Erasmus, I would like to grow personally. With an eye to the future, I am convinced that a study experience in Greece, is a requisite indispensable to expand my horizons and continue with ardor and passion in my career as a student and in future work.

Chiara Candida

I am Chiara Candida I am 27 years old; I was born in Brindisi on 03/09/1995 and I currently live in the small town of Oria (Br). After graduating from high school in 2014, I worked for two years as a saleswoman in a children's clothing shop. A lover of fashion, I decided to attend a fashion academy in Lecce for two years from which I acquired a diploma for fashion designer and a diploma for 3D modeler. Other passions of mine are art and literature, which is why in 2019, at the age of 24, I decided to enrol at the University of Parma to attend the faculty of Communication and Contemporary Media for Creative Industries in which I was able to study the basics of cinema, music, curatorial practices, and media aesthetics. Enrolling at university allowed me to do my internship at the 72024 cultural association in my town, which aims to promote the cultural, historical and gastronomic heritage of Oria, the town where I live. I am currently working on the drafting of my Bachelor's thesis and if I had to imagine a working future for myself, I would like to work in the world of culture and communication in roles such as event planner, journalism, publishing, editorial staff.

Thomas Colombini

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Thomas Colombini

I've always thought that in order to have a broader view of what happens to us, we must first be able to embrace art. Art is not intended as a mere performative economic tool, but as a means to be safeguarded and at the same time renewed, managing to adapt and propose it in different ways according to the needs and the interlocutor. Precisely for this reason I chose to undertake a specific course of study in Economics for the Arts, Culture and Communication at Bocconi University, where I also learned the technical managerial and organizational skills to be able to manage this sector in the practical part. In addition to studies, I work alongside a profession and volunteer activities that allow me to be in contact with the territory and people, to empathize with them and be aware and recognize what surrounds me, making it become a resource. An environment in which opportunities can be used without necessarily exploiting them, but accompanying choices, creating independence and analytical and critical decision-making capacity. I still don't know where my path and my decisions will take me, certainly in a situation that can give me and those around me the right spaces and the right times. With different capacities and possibility that collaborate to create an action, an action that serves to empower us. I am passionate about oenology, cinematography and concerts. I believe that this experience can enrich me both in the technical knowledge of management, to start having a direct approach with the performative world, and as a physical person of improvement in team and collaborative work, using the word as a center and means of communication.

Fabiana Candida

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Fabiana Candida

I am Fabiana Candida, I am 25 years old and currently a PhD student at the Department of “Pianificazione, design e tecnologia dell’architettura”(PDTA) of the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' where I also obtained my Master's degree in “Design, Visual and Multimedia Communication”. I find particular interest in studying the history of graphic design, in particular movable type typography. I believe that in order to become a good graphic designer, one cannot first be ignorant of the history that determined the current profession. In the community I am able to express myself best. Positive values and emotional ties guide my choices in everyday life and cultural, historical and social themes are decisive in design and work. A pen and pencil accompany me through my days, discovering 'things not yet known'. I am interested in participating in the Cultart Academy project in Ioannina because I find it really stimulating as an intercultural exchange where I can learn new approaches, new personal experiences, open to sharing my ideas and my professional and personal background. I expect to have a nice work atmosphere together in Greece.