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Meet the mentors, guest speakers and participants of the Pilot edition Digital (R) Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies Training

21 January 2020

In one day the Pilot edition Digital (R) Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies Training will kick off in Antwerp (BE) from 22-25 January 2020, organised in partnership with deSingel International Arts Campus.

Therefore, we are very pleased to introduce you the mentors and guest speakers who will share their knowledge and experience with the 12 participants with 11 different nationalities. You can meet the experts here and the participants at this link.

During this four-day training programme this international group of experts from the festivals field, the technological world and the civil society will stimulate our participants to critically reflect on the subject of digitalisation and the use of new technologies in the arts and culture world.

The Festival Academy is aiming for diversity on all levels, in its participants (geographically, art disciplines, socially etc.) as well as in its mentors and guest speakers. For this pilot edition we will have Keith Nurse (PhD - Caribbean), Valentina Corona (Australia), Nicolas Klimis and Camilla Colombo (Belgium), Grayson Wambach (USA) as mentors, and as guest speakers Cathrine Helland (Norway), Manon Muti (The Netherlands), Cynthia Schneider (USA), Mike Verledens (Belgium) and Arkadi Zaides (France). DeSingel team will be represented by Jerry Aerts (Belgium) and Katrijn De Wit (Belgium).

If you want to know more about this new training, click on this link and keep an open eye for the news coming in the following days!