season 3, episode 1 | Violeta Simjanovska
Global club nights is a networking and informative club series in collaboration with Caisa Cultural centre, Helsinki Open waves web radio and the Global music Department of Sibelius Academy, that aims to bring together all parties involved with music. With live music, seminars and workshops the events attempt to create bridges between musicians, event producers, agents, venues, and music lovers, bringing down barriers and creating a safe and creative environment of free expression. In a celebration of diversity, using the tools of intercultural collaboration and specialized knowledge, we provide the possibility of a neutral and safe space for sharing and exchange of knowledge, information, wishes and insights on the music industry in Finland, both on the part of the musician and from the business side while most importantly, sharing it with the community.
We welcome you to the first episode of Global club nights season 3! We are exploring the possibilities of foreign-born musicians in Finland in the wonderful company of Violeta Simjanovska.
The multiplicity of a musician’s role is highlighted throughout our series. In this episode, we try to map the entrepreneurial side of artists with the head of the arts management department of Sibelius Academy.
Dr. Violeta Simjanovska has more than 25 years of academic and working experience gained in the field of arts management and cultural policy in Europe and worldwide. Starting as an electrical engineer, then music festival manager, also as a general manager of a Performing Arts Research Center, leading many international projects, and working also as an expert, lecturer, professor, and researcher in the past 20 years, that was the way of her transformation that took place in her personal interests and work focus.
At the moment, she is working as a head of the arts management department and lecturer in arts management at Sibelius Academy, University of Arts Helsinki. She is also teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Arts in Belgrade and Goldsmith University in London. In addition, she is working as a consultant and cultural expert on few international programmes, such as UNESCO, Creative Europe, and the British Council. She has published more than 50 articles, books, and research reports in the fields of cultural policy, cultural management, and creative industries.
Credits
Producers and hosts: Chico Matada and Vasileios Katopodis
Guest: Violeta Simjanovska
Sound recording, editing and live streaming: Bailey Polkinghorne
* The audio piece was recorded and edited at the Helsinki Open Waves performance & recording room located at Caisa.
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