Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) DRAFT

Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) DRAFT

Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM)
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Tbilisi, 11-14 September 2015
11 September, Friday
Arrival of participants. Checking in at the Urban Boutique Hotel, Gogebashvili street 9, 0108 Tbilisi
19:00 – dinner
12 September, Saturday
Frontline Gallery, 62 Lado Asatiani Street, 0108 Tbilisi
10:00 – Welcome and opening of the Diploma Session of VACuM with representatives of Tbilisi
Municipality, Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, partners and founders, Danuta Glondys and Jean
Pierre Deru
10:30 – Evaluation of cultural cooperation projects, introduction by Milena Dragićević – Šešić, cultural
policy and management professor
12:00 – Presentation of projects by the participants. Feedbacks of experts and pedagogic team
14:00 – lunch
15:00 – Study visits and meetings with local cultural operators, Geo Air, Center of Contemporary Art
20:00 – dinner at Nino Nikoleishvili
13 September, Sunday
Frontline Gallery, 62 Lado Asatiani Street, 0108 Tbilisi
9:30 – Presentation of projects by the participants. Feedbacks of experts and pedagogic team
13:00 – lunch
14:00 - Presentation of projects by the participants. Feedbacks of experts and pedagogic team
15:00 – General feedback by Milena Dragićević – Šešić
15:30 – Summing up the first edition of VACuM by Danuta Glondys and Jean Pierre Deru
Evaluation of the Tbilisi session and the whole programme with Ania Danilewicz and Katarzyna
Renes
16:15 – Diploma Ceremony
16:30 – Study visit to the Betlemi District with Data Chigholashvili
19:00 – Farewell dinner
14 September, Monday
Optional:
Trip to the mountains with Katarzyna Renes and Salome Ugrekhelidze.
Study visits and meetings with local cultural operators
Departure of participants and experts
Pedagogic Team:
Anna Danilewicz – Cultural animator and manager; currently works at Programme Department at
The Ludwik Zamenhof Centre in Bialystok, previously head of Education and Exhibitions Department
in the Army Museum in Białystok and also a coordinator of social and educational actions in Sybir
Memorial Museum (under construction).
Jean Pierre Deru – D rector of the Association Marcel Hicter pour la Démocratie culturelle. Lecturer
at the Open Faculty of Economic and Social Policies (FOPES) of the UCL. Director of the European
Diploma in Cultural Project Management, which is organized by FMH and supported by the Council of
Europe and UNESCO
Experts:
Milena Dragićević-Šešić – Cultural policy and management professor, researcher, author, consultant
and editor. International lecturer on cultural policy and management. Former President of University
of Arts, Belgrade, now Head of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation.
Jean Pierre Deru – Director of the Association Marcel Hicter pour la Démocratie culturelle. Lecturer at
the Open Faculty of Economic and Social Policies (FOPES) of the UCL. Director of the European
Diploma in Cultural Project Management, which is organized by FMH and supported by the Council of
Europe and UNESCO
Danuta Glondys – Director of Villa Decius Association, PhD in humanities, MA in English Philology
and Political Science. Former director of Culture Department of Municipality of Krakow and Regional
Director of USAID programme in Poland. European Commission expert in European Capitals of
Culture programme (2007-2011). Lecturer at Jagiellonian University.
Guests:
Wiesław Nowak – Founder of ZUE Group and President at ZUE S.A., sponsor of VACuM. Graduate of
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics of the University of Science and
Technology in Kraków. In 1991 he established ZUE, a public transport infrastructure construction
company, and since then has implemented most complex and prestigious transport infrastructure
projects in Poland and abroad.
Karolina Żesławska – Head office and PR manager at ZUE S.A., member of the board at The
Foundation for the Disabled in Stróże cofounded by ZUE S.A. Graduate of the Philosophical and
Historical Faculties of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Since 2012 she has been developing the
CSR department of ZUE Group.