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    Andy Brydon

    CURATED PLACE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Andy Brydon is Creative Director and founder of international arts organisation Curated Place. A trained anthropologist specialising in Cultural Placemaking at a city, region and hyperlocal level. He is an established and experienced cultural strategist, festival and major events director as well as a seasoned curator, trainer and arts producer. Leading Creative Europe projects since 2014 he has won multiple national event awards for his work in England and Scotland.

    Andy has over 20 years experience working in a senior strategic role in arts organisations specialising in international collaboration with city development teams, visual & digital artists, performers, composers and musicians to create high-impact exhibitions and experiences that transform places.

    Andy was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2018/19.

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    Agusta Thorarinsdottir

    EINKOFI PRODUCTIONS (Iceland)
    CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Leading Icelandic arts and creative production organisation Einkofi, Ágústa is an experienced creative director and producer who works internationally connecting music, art, design, technology, literature, performance and education. She is an expert in Creative Europe and UK/Nordic Collaboration. She is able to initiate & drive funding, strategy, development and delivery of creative projects and regularly runs training and development for creative organisations and can help you shape and develop arts, heritage, music, performance and festival projects across multiple nations and cultures.

    Ágústa works with the shining lights of the Nordic creative scene to create roads into the more obscure, left-field and risk-taking innovators whilst building brands and creative businesses.

    Alongside her creative practice Ágústa is also an experienced Consul and trained Anthropologist.

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    Fay Jennett

    ASSOCIATE STRATEGIST
    INTERNATIONAL PRODUCER

    Fay Jennett is a strategic consultant, creative producer, and inclusion specialist who helps shape equitable and innovative career pathways in the creative industries.

    With a career spanning opera, music-theatre, inclusion consultancy and artist development, she has led transformative projects that champion equity, innovation, sustainable career pathways and working conditions for everyone working in the arts.

    Passionate about the potential of creative economy, the power of original work and creating the time and space for both to develop while enabling artists to thrive, Fay produces supports both entrepreneurs and projects.

    She brings extensive expertise in business and artist development, sector engagement, and strategic planning, with both a national and international perspective.

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    Alison Brodie

    CURATED PLACE
    PROGRAMME LEAD

    Alison is an experienced creative producer, project manager and artistic programmer with over 15 years’ experience leading complex project for major venues and private clients.

    Her background is in both commercial and funded experimental theatre and performance. She has extensive experience in UK touring, opera, international festivals and participatory practice. Her expertise encompasses all scales, working in traditional arts venues as well as found and public realm spaces.

    She is a core member of the Prague Fringe team working across Europe to bring the best experimental performance together in the Czech capital each year and regularly works with Nordic collaborators.

    Before joining Curated Place she worked with The Marlowe Theatre, Birmingham Opera Company and Curve Theatre.

Transforming ambition, skills and careers

Curated Place’s creative producer training is driven by our experience of delivering step-changing cultural projects across Europe. We know that the real success of cultural programming comes from developing your people and your sector.

Our training ensures that the people in your organisation, community and place have the skills to effectively, efficiently and professionally drive creative projects. We leave you with people authentically representing your place whilst connected to an international network of creatives.

Curated Place’s creative producer courses are led by some of the leading production professionals in the UK to provide best-practice, structure, tools and skills to your creative vision whether you’re looking to take your first steps into production or taking a leap into senior leadership roles.

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