Producing Events: Concerts, Performances, Screenings

Online course by Node Center with Marie-Pierre Bonniol

Duration: Jan 13 – Feb 10, 2021
Fee: 172€
Max seats: 30
Enroll before: Jan 9, 2021
Dedication: 3 hrs/week

*December Special: 15% off all our courses. Discount code: BYE2020


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

With a particular focus on event design for 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 event management side, we will cover budgeting including tax matters, as well as co-productions and financial partnerships. We will also explore the technical aspects of event planning, communication strategies and how to shape audience engagement in both a personalised and professional way.

The course will provide practical tools, insights and examples of event production and programming. With weekly assignments and feedback, participants will be able to design a comprehensive culture and arts events program.

Marie-Pierre Bonniol is the founder of Julie Tippex, an agency which is developing projects at the crossroads of music, visual arts, writing and film since 2007. The agency worked with several world class art institutions that include Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Paris’ Philarmonie, the Louvre Museum, the Barbican Centre and the British Film Institute.

As curator, Marie-Pierre Bonniol manages the programme of BBmix festival near Paris for more than 15 years, and have been behind programmes and exhibitions presented at Palace St-Gallen, MUDAM Luxembourg, Lieu Unique in Nantes, L’Espace d’en bas in Paris, Futuresonic in Manchester and the National library of Argentina in Buenos Aires. She’s member of CEA, the association of french curators, and the Association of German art historians.

Program

Week 1. Introduction
Introduction to the program and course overview.
This is a one hour only welcome session. The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Week 2: 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

Week 3: 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

Week 4: Communicating
Communication strategies
Communication tools
Collecting and presenting materials – Embodying the programme
Press relations
Media partnerships
Guestlist policies

Week 5: Production and development
Pre-production
On-site production
Audience and artists hosting
Press and public relations
Documentation
Developments and implementation – Touring projects

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