Curating and Producing Events: Concerts, Performances, Screenings

Online course by Node Center with Marie-Pierre Bonniol

Duration: Aug 13 – Sep 3, 2020
Fee: 154€
Max seats: 28
Enroll before: Aug 9, 2020
Dedication: 3 hrs/week

In support of our community and art professionals during the global outbreak of COVID-19, we are offering a 20% discount on all of our courses. Discount code: #stayathome

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Whether staging concerts, booking speakers for talks, organising screenings or hosting readings, this course will help you to curate ambitious public programming by equipping you with the tools to conceptualise, produce and run events successfully.

With a particular focus on the production required for programming music performances, this course will take you through how to secure bookings, develop trusting relationships with artists and their representatives, find information on forthcoming tours and opportunities, flight-sharing and hospitality. Digging into the administrative side, we will cover budgeting including tax matters, as well as co-productions and financial partnerships. We will also explore the technical aspects of staging events, communication strategies and how to shape the audience experience in both a personalised and professional way.

The course will provide practical tools, insights and examples of how to program and produce events, with weekly assignments. At the end of the course, the participants will be able to design a curated program that outlines the production and financial aspects to realise it.

Program

Session 1: Defining the programme

• Introduction to producing events – Defining the identity and values
• Conceptualizing the program of events
• Selecting potential artists
• Approaching places and venues
• Approaching possible partners and artist representatives – Adjusting the concept

Session 2: Budgeting

• Putting in place a budget
• Putting in place a team
• Production follow up processes
• Co-productions, flight-shares and partnerships
• Cashflow and commissioned works
• Securing hospitality and technical needs
• Tax aspects

Session 3: Communicating

• Communication strategies
• Communication tools
• Collecting and presenting materials – Embodying the programme
• Press relations
• Media partnerships
• Guestlist policies

Session 4: Production and development

• Pre-production
• On-site production
• Audience and artists hosting
• Press and public relations
• Documentation
• Developments and implementation – Touring projects