Audiences Europe e-Brochure 2012

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AUDIENCES AND ART

What We Do Conferences and Seminars

Masterclasses and Training Expert Witnesses and Guest Speakers Professional Networking Online community (+ Linked In, Twitter and Facebook) Resources and Intelligence

THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT The best thinkers, the most effective strategists, the most inspiring pioneers – AEN is creating a European platform for senior cultural professionals to talk about all the things that motivate cultural audiences to attend – and enjoy creative experiences. Our events and resources offer an insight into the way things are done locally, set against the backdrop of our shared European cultural agenda.

It’s energising to visit a foreign town North or South - and realising that we all talk the same language, that we’re working to the same end…

POROUS BORDERS

All it takes is to turn up. AEN is a European movement, a group of professional enthusiasts, people who want to learn and share, who value the power of ideas. We’re here to understand more about audiences and how to grow them.

There’s no membership fee.

Your only commitment is to make your own positive contribution, to tell your story and to listen to others.

‘AEN’ IS DIFFERENT

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AUDIENCES AND ART MAKING CONNECTIONS Cultural tourism, marketing intelligence, digital communication, tackling exclusion, building audience relationships… AEN has partners and friends all round Europe who have, since 2001, been putting on brilliant, inspiring learning events, colliding ideas, debating the way forward. Tenerife, Milan, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Belfast, Bergen, Brussels, Rotterdam… and more.

AEN brings people together and creates a vital space for cultural conversation about the public.

Our mission is to 'promote the sharing of knowledge and best practice between different European partners who each draw on diverse cultural, linguistic and social backgrounds'.

Diversity and the recognition of difference lie at the heart of our partnership.

We believe that it’s in the discovery of alternative perspectives that creativity flourishes, horizons are widened and practice is enriched.

WHO WE ARE Core Partners include:

www.dcai.dk

(Danish Centre for Arts and Interculture - Audiences Denmark)

www.cccb.org

(Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona, Catalunya)

www.eccom.it

(European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management, Italy)

www.norskpublikumsutvikling.no (Audiences Norway)

www.rotterdamfestivals.nl (Netherlands)

www.cultuurnet.be

(Flanders-Belgium)

THE PACE OF CHANGE What are the big ideas coming out of Manchester or Madrid? The latest technologies? Policy and politics that are changing our space? Just like art, the way we engage with our audiences and the things they value, are restlessly in change. AEN is all about capturing that momentum: by sharing knowledge, new ideas, making professional friends.

In person, or on-line, you can link up with hundreds of like minds, and be part of the adventure.

REGISTER AT www.AudiencesEurope.net and join the conversation.

Audiences Europe Network.

Connecting Up Cultural Professionals Around Audiences.

ALL IT TAKES IS TO TURN UP www.audienceseurope.co.uk

Rich Hadley, AEN Development Coordinator (+44) 7973 401860

Johan Moerman, Director, Rotterdam Festivals, Chair of AEN (+31) 10 433 2511

Peter Bary, Directeur Marketing CultuurNet Vlaanderen, Brussels (+32) 2 551 18 67