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networking events

Networking events

Visiting Arts hosts a series of networking events at key international platforms throughout the UK. Covering both the visual and performing arts sectors, these events offer an opportunity for cultural professionals and artists to meet one another around the presentation of international work and/or debates on internationally-relevant discourses.

Platforms that Visiting Arts has recently partnered with to offer networking opportunities include: The Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Art Festival, Manchester International Festival, the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Artes Mundi, deciBel and Origins: Festival of First Nations.

Activity

networking events

18.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Johnathan Mills

Johnathan Mills, Festival Director and Chief Executive, Edinburgh International Festival, opens VA's producers breakfast at the Edinburgh Festival.

networking events

25.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Fabio Santos

Fabio Santos - Phakama Director

networking events

25.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Kyu Choi

Kyu Choi - Founder of Asia Now

networking events

25.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Lemi Pomifasio

Lemi Pomifasio - Founder of MAU

networking events

25.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Robert Palmer

Robert Palmer - Visiting Arts Chairman

networking events

25.08.10

VA Producers' Breakfast - Ismail Mahomed

 

Ismail Mahomed - Director National Arts Festival in Grahamstown

networking events

13.08.10

Edinburgh Producers Breakfast Live Stream

Our Edinburgh Breakfast event was livestreamed to the internet - video clips of the breakfast including the speakers will be put up soon. If you wish to watch the recorded 'livestream' of the event, please visit the following link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/visiting-arts-producers-breakfast-edinburgh-2010 (Note that because of technical problems the first few minutes of the event have a loss of sound)

Speakers

  • Johnathan Mills - Festival Director and Chief Executive, Edinburgh International Festival
  • Yvette Vaughan Jones - Chief Executive, Visiting Arts
  • Robert Palmer - Chairman, Visiting Arts
  • Lemi Ponifasio - Founder MAU
  • Fabio Santos - Phakama Director
  • Ismail Mahommed - Director National Arts Festival in Grahamstown
  • Kyu Choi - Founder Asia Now productions

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13.08.10

MAU Tempest Without a Body; Birds With Skymirrors preview in the Guardian

MAU, a dance troup hailing from New Zealand, led by Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, will perform two works as part of the Edinburgh International Festival: Tempest – Without a Body, and Birds with Skymirrors, both supported by Visiting Arts. They are previewed in todays' Guardian.

networking events

04.08.10

Edinburgh Producers’ Breakfast

This years’ producers’ Breakfast in Edinburgh takes place on Monday 16 August at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, which this year includes an additional seminar on EU Funding for Arts Projects.

networking events

27.07.10

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art networking event

Visiting Arts was pleased to be able to co-host a networking lunch at Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.

This event aimed to bring the art of local and international artists to Glasgow for a two-week burst of exhibitions across the city; the festival ran from 16 April until 3rd May 2010.