Culture / Art development and management

Complex management
Cultural / Art project and Program management can be quite complex. It deals with highly creative processes, draws on innovation in many new areas, involves many stakeholders and it calls for management, a team and key people with strong experience, a variety of skills, tools and a good and active network.

An excellent concept and a great vision, mission and goals need to be formulated and written. A powerful coalition with a steering committee needs to be establised, a great team has to be formulated and kickstarted and key stakeholders should be identified, analyzed and approached.

Then the funding starts. Funding cultural projects and programs can be a big challenge, and the team need to understand how to open doors, look and apply for funding, establish strong relationships with commercial companies and make a lot with little.

It is also very important to have a network that can be utilized, to get volunteers, and a media strategy has to be formulated and put in to action. You then also need to know how to handle and manage Media and Press to get maximum coverage for your cultural events.

Wadden Sea Festival 2010 – “Any Questions?”
Copyright: Wadden Sea Festival 2010

10 + years experience in Project, Program and Unit Management
Jesper Moller has several years experience in running large projects, programs and Business Units – in Culture, City Development, Humanitarian organizations as well as in IT.

In 2009 – 2010 Jesper was the overall Festival manager for a large cross cultural festival – the Wadden Sea Festival.

Waden Sea Festival 2010 presented 8 unique and cutting edge cultural projects. It became a great cultural festival presenting new forms of artistic expression in the areas of literature, music, performing arts and cross-cultural expression with focus on innovative contemporary art in interaction with the Wadden Sea area’s nature and cultural history. The festival got great media coverage and had participants from several countries including Germany, Italy, netherlands, Israel and more.

In 2014 Jesper was Project Manager for an EU funded City development project in Denmark – “City Manager Vordingborg” involving cultural, retail tourism, and civic institutions. Focus was professional and civic networks, to create synergy and pave the way for culture, retail, tourism, museums and civic institutions to collaborate in new and exciting ways and lift the whole area as a prosperous area to live in, visit and do business in.

 Waiting for Her Royal Princess Marie to open the Wadden Sea Festival, Rømø Sep. 4th. 2010
Photo: Jesper Moller

AGILEMONDO can help with the follwing:
– Conceptualize, and write a strong vision, mision, strategy and roadmap for a cultural festival, project and program
– Help build the communication strategy
– Establish a powerful coalition and setup a steering comittee, board and anchor the organisation
– Form a Dream team to build, run and evaluate the events

 

– build funding and network strategy and get it on rails
– Kick off workshops and facilitate the events
– Coach, mentor, lead and manage the roadmap depending on your needs
– build PR and Media strategy and manage and handle Media
– Build evaluation and monitor the progress and output
– Fomulate the next steps – a Vision 2.0 after the events are completed.

Wadden Sea Festival 2010 – “Cycle”
Photo Copyright: Lee Edwards and Wadden Sea Festival

“CityManager Vordingborg”
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