Experience

European Festivals Association

• Belgium
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communication manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  The European Festivals Association (EFA) connects about 100 festivals and festival associations in 40 countries. EFA members are the core element that make the Association an open, influential, international place for any festival that wants to be part of a bigger festival community.The European Festivals Association’s mission is to unite and represent its member festivals across Europe and the world by contributing to the artistic life of Europe. It acts as the most important platform for arts festivals. EFA members take the joint responsibility that the arts are prioritised offering their platforms to bring the arts to the audiences. Access and participation in culture and the arts is a Human Right. By supporting and enabling artistic creation, production and participation, EFA and its members ensure that this right is made a reality for all citizens. Interaction between festivals, with public authorities and the other stakeholders in the arts are central to EFA's work.A Festival is an Art Feast. EFA is a community dedicated to the arts, the artists, and audiences. EFA’s main role in the ever changing world of digitization and globalization is to connect festival makers so to inform, inspire and enrich the festival landscape. In this perspective, EFA is a festivals’ service provider; the oldest cultural network of European festivals! It was established to bridge the distance between organisations and all kinds of stakeholders; and to create connections. All this in function of the enrichment of a festival’s own artistic offer and its organisational opportunities.



asbl AFRICALIA vzw

• Belgium
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communication & Fundraising officer

  • May 2014 - Oct 2019

  Art and culture are essential elements in a sustainable human development process. Africalia, largely supported by the Belgian Development Cooperation, is running result-based programmes conceived in collaboration with its partners in Africa. This philosophy is in line with: the Cotonou Agreement; the UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity; the Millennium Development Goals; and the Paris Declaration on aid efficiency.Culture is intimately linked with creativity; it stimulates intercultural dialogue and increases positive identity awareness. Culture also represents market potential and educational value, so it can play a considerable part in the fight against poverty. Moreover, culture acts on behavioural change. Through its multiannuel programmes, Africalia supports professional organizations and networks in Africa that contribute to the flourishing of artists, that in turn play their social and societal role in strengthening democracies.www.africalia.be



iMAL, center for digital cultures and technology

• Cultural production assistant

  • May 2012 - Apr 2014

  iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), is a non-profit association created in Brussels in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using computer and network technologies as their medium. In 2007, iMAL opened its new venue: a Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology of about 600m2 for the meeting of artistic, scientific and industrial innovations. A space entirely dedicated to contemporary artistic and cultural practices emerging from the fusion of computer, telecommunication, network and media.



zebrastraat

• Belgium
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communication trainee

  • Nov 2011 - Mar 2012

  The Zebrastraat wants people to experience culture and therefore leaves current paths on the left. We rather offer a forum of promising young artists, unusual themes and new art movements.The projects of the Zebrastraat itself focus most of all on experimental digital and interactive art. The first initiative in that direction was the exhibition "Stippels en Pixels". Since 2006 the Zebrastraat organizes a biennial for interactive and digital art, "Update". Since 2008 the Liedts-Meesen Foundation offers the New Technological Art Award to the best of these artists. The next edition will take place in 2012.