October 16 – March 13, 7:30 PM
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art resumes the lecture series focusing on the role of cultural leadership in the contemporary world, this year developed in partnership with the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy.
Following the original lecture series, the new programme features ten important British cultural leaders from various fields who will share their professional experience and detail the internal and external challenges they face in working for their respective organisations. They will also explain how a particular figure or cultural institution can change not only the status quo in their field, but also play a crucial role in the development of a city or a country.
This year’s audiences will encounter creative directors of major UK art venues, heads of leading British museums and galleries and curators of international festival programmes, all of whom will reveal the nuances of their practice and speak about their favorite projects and critical contenporary issues with which they are dealing on a daily basis.
The goal of the programme is to show that the concept of “cultural leadership” allows the generation of new ideas, meanings and products. Today people from completely different backgrounds can become cultural leaders, from statesmen and heads of major institutions to curators and producers, entrepreneurs and independent artists.
The inaugural lecture series was developed by Garage and the British Council in 2017. The second cycle has been developed by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in partnership with the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy.
In Saint-Petersburg the lectures will take place in the Pavilion of the New Holland Island. The lectures will be delivered in English with simultaneous translation into Russian. Free admission. Seats are limited, please, register in advance. This page will be updated.
Schedule
October 16, 7:30 PM
Marcus Davey, Culture 360: Transforming society through the arts
November 14, 7:30 PM
Louise Jeffreys, The Arts Centre of the Future
November 17, 6:30 PM
Shona McCarthy, Culture for All, Peace-Building and Fabulous FestivalsNovember 30, 7:30 PM
Martin Green, Cities. Culture. People
January 18, 7:30 PM
David Pickard, Honoring the past, shaping the future
January 25, 7:30 PM
Jo Verrent, Disability, leadership and the arts
January 30, 7:30 PM
Maria Lisogorskaya, Architectural leadership: Assemble studio cases
February 6, 7:30 PM
Tristram Hunt, V&A: The Civic and the Global
February 27, 7:30 PM
Nick Barley, A New Chapter for Democracy? Why Book Festivals Matter
March 13, 7:30 PM
Sarah Munro, The Grit and the Glamour—ethical leadership and its strategies in twenty-first-century cultural organizations
