Gerald Lidstone, Director of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, gave an opening speech at the event celebrating the launch of the book positioning ICCE once again as one of the most referential communities in the field of arts management and creative industries internationally.
Professor William J. Byrnes, Professor Emeritus of Arts Administration at Southern Utah University, USA and Dr Aleksandar Brkić, Arts Management and Cultural Policy Lecturer at ICCE, Goldsmiths, engaged in a complex task of co-editing The Routledge Companion to Arts Management, published after almost 3 years of intensive work. The Routledge Companion to Arts Management has 29 chapters, 37 great contributors and 475 pages, featuring perspectives from international scholars, educators, consultants, and practitioners sharing opinions, exploring important questions, and raising concerns about the field. The goal of the book is to stimulate conversations, foster curiosity, and open pathways to different cultural, philosophical, ideological, political, national, and generational insights. It builds a comprehensive understanding of what arts management can mean in an international context creating an essential resource for students, scholars and reflective practitioners involved at the intersection of business and the arts.
Terry Clague, Senior Publisher at Routledge presented the Routledge Companions series, while the editors, Professor Bill Byrnes (via Skype) and Dr Aleksandar Brkić, talked about the framework of the book, and how it is specific in comparison to some other books in the field. Dr Oonagh Murphy, Arts Management Lecturer at ICCE, shared her views on the important timing of a book like this and reflected on the Chapter she wrote for the book, titled “By not for: engagement strategies in digital age”. Farooq Chaudhry OBE, Producer of Akram Khan Company, talked about the need to bridge the worlds of academia and practice in the field of arts management, and reflected on some of the key points of his contribution to the book, a Chapter titled “More than sum of its parts: dance, creative management and enterprise in collaboration”. Dr Nigel Morpeth, Research Fellow at the University of Hull gave an overview of his contribution to the book, titled “The role of volunteers in fostering social inclusion in the UK City of Culture: expressing new narratives of the visual arts in the city”, focusing his attention on the importance of the culture of volunteering in the arts.
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