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Vânia Rodrigues (1979) worked as an arts manager and consultant for several cultural organizations in Portugal and internationally before transitioning to a research career. Her professional trajectory is associated with various artistic organisations, from national theatres to independent theatre companies. She continues to participate regularly in initiatives in the fields of arts management and production, cultural policies, strategic planning and transnational cultural cooperation. She holds a PhD in Artistic Studies - Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Coimbra (2022) and a Master's degree in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management from the City University of London (2009). She is the author of two books, "AS PRODUTORAS - Produção e Gestão Cultural em Portugal. Trajectos Profissionais" (2020) and "Modus Operandi - Produção e Gestão nas Artes Performativas" (2022), the latter forthcoming in an adapted English version by Routledge. She is currently an Invited Assistant Professor, coordinating the Post-Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and Sustainability. She is an Integrated Researcher at CEIS20 - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra, where she co-coordinates the Research Group "Artistic Practices: Imagination, Materialities and Transitions". She also co-directs the research platform Modes of Production – Performing Arts in Transition and leads the exploratory project GREENARTS (FCT), musing on the intersections between the regimes of production and creation, as well as the discursive and practical transformations of artistic production in the face of growing demands for social and environmental sustainability. -- É autora Gestora Cultural e Investigadora. Doutorada em Estudos Artísticos – Estudos Teatrais e Performativos pela Universidade de Coimbra (2022) e Mestre em Políticas Culturais e Gestão Cultural pela City University of London (2009). Trabalhou como gestora cultural, acompanhando projetos artísticos em Portugal e internacionalmente, antes de se dedicar à investigação. O seu percurso profissional esteve associado a diversas organizações artísticas, de teatros nacionais a companhias de teatro independentes. Continua a participar regularmente em iniciativas nos domínios da gestão e produção cultural, políticas culturais, planeamento estratégico e gestão de projectos de cooperação transnacional. Exerce pontualmente funções como perita independente em concursos nacionais e internacionais de apoio à criação artística, programação e cooperação internacional (Direcção-Geral das Artes/Ministério da Cultura, Archipel, EEAGrants - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Ágora - Empresa Municipal de Cultura do Porto, entre outros). de 3 livros: “AS PRODUTORAS - Produção e Gestão Cultural em Portugal. Trajectos Profissionais” (2020) e “Modus Operandi – Produção e Gestão nas Artes Performativas” (2022) pela Caleidoscópio e "Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts. Modus Operandi", pela Routledge, Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies (2024). Actualmente, é Investigadora Integrada no CEIS20 – Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares | Universidade de Coimbra onde co-coordena o Grupo de Investigação “Práticas Artísticas: Imaginação, Materialidades e Transições”. Fundou a plataforma de I&D ‘Modes of Production – Performing Arts in Transition’, que cruza o campo dos estudos artísticos com a gestão cultural e as políticas culturais. Lidera, como Investigadora Principal, o projecto exploratório GREENARTS (FCT), dedicado à reflexão acerca das transformações discursivas e práticas da produção artística face às crescentes exigências de sustentabilidade social e ambiental. Nesse âmbito, coordenou o Estudo "Práticas Ecológicas e Sustentáveis nas Artes Performativas em Portugal", em parceria com a Direção-Geral das Artes. Concebeu e co-coordena a Pós-Graduação em "Gestão Cultural e Sustentabilidade" na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vânia Maria da Silva Rodrigues

Citation names

  • Rodrigues, Vânia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D41E-E0DC-55AC
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6425-0656

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09 - 2022/03/07
Concluded
Estudos Artísticos [Artistic Studies - Theatre and Performance Studies] (Doutoramento)
Major in Artistic Studies - Theatre and Performance Studies
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"MODUS OPERANDI - Redefining production and management practices in the performing arts " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor
2009
Concluded
Cultural Policy and Management (Mestrado)
City University of London, United Kingdom
"Point to Point Navigation - Managing Changes in Portuguese Cultural Organizations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
71,80 / Distinction
2001
Concluded
Estudos Europeus - Variante Línguas Inglês/Alemão (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
15 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/05/24 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) University of Coimbra - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares (CEIS20), Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/03 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/05/11 - 2022/05/11 Visiting Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
2022/02/10 - 2022/02/10 Visiting Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2022/01/12 - 2022/01/12 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2018 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/05/13 - Current Membro da Comissão de Apreciação [Jury Member] Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
2013/01/02 - 2018/01/31 Arts manager and Artistic Programmer (performing arts) mala voadora - associação cultural, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022 - 2022 Independent Expert acting as Jury Member in Cultural Cooperation and Networking Fund [Archipel.eu] Institut Français, France
2021/03/12 - 2021/06/30 Independent Expert acting as Jury Member in “Connecting Dots – Artistic Mobility and Audience Development” of the EEA GRANTS co-funded Culture Programme, org. Directorate General for the Arts Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
2015/02/02 - 2018/01/31 Strategy Advisor for ARTEMREDE - Teatros Associados (theatre network) ARTEMREDE -TEATROS ASSOCIADOS, Portugal
2014/01/18 - 2015/01/30 Consultant for the Strategic Plan 2015-2020 of ARTEMREDE- Teatros Associados (theatre network) ARTEMREDE -TEATROS ASSOCIADOS, Portugal
2003/05/02 - 2013/06/20 Head of Training Department for the Cultural Sector Setepés - projectos artístico-culturais, lda, Portugal
2012/01/30 - 2013/06/15 Consultant to the Board of EGEAC (Municipal Authority of Theatres and Museums) Consultora em gestão cultural Setepés., Portugal
2010/11/01 - 2011/06/30 Consultant to the Director of CCVF - Centro Cultural Vila Flor, in Guimarães Consultora em gestão cultural Setepés., Portugal
2010/05/02 - 2011/06/06 Consultant to the Board of TNDM (D.Maria II National Theatre) Setepés - projectos artístico-culturais, lda, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - Current Estudo sobre Práticas Ecológicas e Sustentáveis na Produção Artística [Study on Ecological and Sustainable Practices in Artistic Production]
Information not available yet
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Ongoing
2023/03/12 - 2024/09/11 Green Production - Performing Arts in Transition
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/11/01 - 2021/12/15 MODUS OPERANDI – Redefining production and management practices in the performing arts
SFRH/BD/136458/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442530
  2. Rodrigues, Vânia. Modes of Production - Performing Arts in Transition [in print]. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript publishing. 2023.
    Under revision • Editor
  3. Rodrigues, Vânia. Modus Operandi - Produção e Gestão nas Artes Performativas. Portugal: Editora Caleidoscópio. 2022.
    Published
  4. Rodrigues, Vânia. AS PRODUTORAS - Produção e Gestão Cultural em Portugal. Trajectos Profissionais (1990-2019). Caleidoscópio. 2020.
  5. Rodrigues, Vânia. A Cultural Coalition for a Citizens' Europe, ed. A Soul for Europe, Setepés e Fundação Cidade de Guimarães, 2013. Guimarães, Portugal. 2013.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Great Expectations: towards an eco-responsible theatre sector". In “Responsible Consumption and Production in the Cultural & Creative Industries. Actions, policies, and strategies for a sustainable future”. Routledge, 2025.
    Under revision
  2. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Curadoria e Performance nos “Manifestos para Depois do Fim do Mundo”". In Corpo, Manifesto. Portugal: Cassiopeia Plataforma ILC Livros Digitais, 2025.
    Under revision
  3. Rodrigues, Vânia. "“OUR PROBLEM, NOT OUR FAULT”: SEMI-PERIPHERAL PERSPECTIVES ON ‘GREENING’ CULTURAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT". In Subaltern knowledge and practices: Questioning ethics of international collaboration. Belgrade, Serbia: CLIO and University of the Arts Belgrade, 2024.
    Under revision
  4. Vânia Rodrigues. "Artists, producers, and managers". 2024.
    10.4324/9781003442530-3
  5. Vânia Rodrigues. "Conclusion". 2024.
    10.4324/9781003442530-6
  6. Vânia Rodrigues. "IN SEARCH OF COLLECTIVE AUTONOMY: ‘D.I.T’ PRACTICES IN PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION". 2023.
    10.21747/9789899082298
  7. Rodrigues, Vânia. "O que vejo daqui - Um ensaio sobre modos de produção e modelos organizacionais nas artes performativas a partir do caso do Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte". In Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial. Portugal: Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, 2020.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. "The theatrical institution as an eco-social system: Portuguese public theatres grappling with the climate crisis". Paper presented in EASTAP Annual Conference 2024 Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance, Sitges, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Learning through fictional dilemmas: towards eco-ethical arts management". Paper presented in ENCATC Congress 2024 Culture that matters: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Sustainable Futures, Lecce, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Ecological Emergency And Cultural Policies In Portuguese Performing Arts: Tension And Opportunity". Paper presented in Tension, Trust and Transformation - 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  4. Rodrigues, Vânia. ""To green or not to green: theatre management and the ecological imperative"". Paper presented in Theatre About Science, Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  5. Rodrigues, Vânia. "In search of collective autonomy: ‘D.I.T’ practices in performing arts production.". Paper presented in KISMIF Keep It Simple Make it Fast, Porto, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Our problem, not our fault: semi-peripheral perspectives on greening cultural policy and management". Paper presented in "In from the margins – Sharing footnotes of subaltern knowledge and practices: Questioning North-South relations and ethics of international collaboration", Belgrade, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Rodrigues, Vânia. "The feminine complex: organizational models in the performing arts [accepted for publication - May 2022]". Paper presented in 16th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC), Mexico City, 2022.
    Accepted
  3. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Gestão cultural: um repto pela desobediência civil". Paper presented in Diálogos em Gestão Cultural, Salvador, 2021.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. Políticas Culturais para o Desenvolvimento / Cultural Policies for Development. Portugal: ARTEMREDE. 2015.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. ""Manifestos for After the End of the World": Performing Curatorship at the Edge of the Third Millennium". Performance Research (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Greening our future: cultural policy and the ecological imperative". European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy 14 (2024):
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.3389/ejcmp.2024.12707
  3. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Embracing ambivalence: responsibility discourses around greening the performing arts". Annals of Leisure Research (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2024.2358765.
    Open access • Under revision • https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2024.2358765
  4. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Green’s the Word. Cultural Policies and the Ecological Turn". International Journal of Cultural Policy (2024):
    Under revision
  5. Rodrigues, Vânia. "A colaboração nas artes do ponto de vista da produção e gestão cultural: entre a invisibilidade e o desejo de mudança (". Issue 12 of the Revista de História da Arte – Série W, dedicated to the theme Fields of Collaboration in Contemporary Art Practices, is now online. 1 12 (2023): 53-62. https://institutodehistoriadaarte.com/2023/01/11/n-12-rha-serie-w/.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.34619/a5et-lebl¿
  6. Rodrigues, Vânia. "History Repeating". Outros Futuros: práticas artísticas e sociais, depois de 2020 1 (2021): https://assets.bondlayer.com/nf1zldbhad/_assets/nmdcf0w0exn7cw5nuyljl.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  7. Rodrigues, Vânia Silva. "An artist, a producer and a politician walk into a bar: work models in the performing arts". Revista Estudos do Século XX 20 (2020): 49-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-8622_20_2.
    Open access • Published • 10.14195/1647-8622_20_2
  8. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Pandemia e cultura: (ainda) a urgência de um pensamento lento". Cadernos da Pandemia, Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto 5 (2020): https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=112823.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. "Whoever is Not Lost Does Not Yet Understand", Cultural Mobility Yearbook, 2024, https://on-the-move.org/resources/library/cultural-mobility-yearbook-2024.
Online resource
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia. INTERFERENCE HEARD AS MUSIC. 2022. https://estrutura.pt/publicacaorecurso2021/textos/vaniarodrigues/.
Report
  1. Rodrigues, Vânia; Oliveira, Fernando Matos de; Ventura, António. Corresponding author: Rodrigues, Vânia. 2023. A Part for the Whole. Sustainable and Ecological Practices on the Performing Arts in Portugal. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/111003.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/24 ‘Future international collaborations: future skills and future standards’ On the Move Cultural Mobility Forum, Caernafon, Wales
(Caernafon, United Kingdom)
2023/10/12 Skills for the green transition in the CCIs: sharing tools and approaches across Europe 31st ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy
ENCATC and UNIARTS Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2023/09/23 A just transition? Southern perspectives on greening the performing arts ESA RN27 Midterm Conference Territories, Communities and Sustainability: views from Southern Europe
European Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/20 "Ecological and Sustainable Practices in the Performing Arts in Portugal" - outline of a research agenda. Seminário: Alterações Climáticas , Património & Artes
EEAGrants Portugal - Programa Cultura; Arts Council Norway; Directorate-General for the Arts; Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/06 From DIY (Do it Yourself) to DIT (Do it Together): collective ways of working in the independent performing arts Biennial Performative Arts Meeting – (Re)union
Rede More (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/01/26 Conference-Workshop 'Flowers, Flags and the Rest' D.Maria II National Theatre, Lisbon. I wrote and delivered the conference 'Flowers, Flags and the Rest', a provocation on feminist arts management practices, by invitation of the TNDMII D.Maria National Theatre in Lisbon, organized by TNDMII and apap - advancing performing arts network, in the framework of the Creative Europe-funded project Feminist Futures Festival. Feminist Futures Festival
D.Maria II National Theatre (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/03/01 Oral intervention intitled 'Gestão Cultural. Um repto pela desobediência civil' ]Arts management: a call for civic disobedience', in the framework of the 7th edition of 'Diálogos sobre Gestão Cultural', co-organized by the Bahia Federal University/UFBA, the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia/UFRB and the Colectivo de Gestão Cultural. Diálogos sobre Gestão Cultural - 7ª edição [Dialogues on Arts Management]
Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil)
2020/01 Lecturer on Cultural management, by invitation of L1 Association, SÍN Culture Center, Katlan Csoport, MU Theater and Workshop Foundation , in Budapest; ‘Add bele magad!’ conference series
L1 Association + SÍN Culture Center + Katlan Csoport + MU Theater + Workshop Foundation (Budapeste, Hungary)
2019/11/20 “Criação e Produção: anatomia de uma relação”, apresentada na Conferência Internacional “Campos de Colaboração”, organizada pelo ICNOVA, IFILNOVA e IHA – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, na Culturgest, a 20 de Novembro de 2019 Campos de Colaboração
ICNOVA, IFILNOVA e IHA – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04 How is this enough? Rethinking cultural management Reshape - Reflect, Share, Practice, Experiment
Lublin Center for Culture (´Lublin, Poland)
2019 Rethinking cultural management: the case for civil disobedience Pearle* Behind the Stage Academy
Pearle Live Performance Europe (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021/09/23 A dimensão social e activista das instituições culturais no século XXI: o papel do Padrão dos Descobrimentos e da Acesso Cultura no panorama museológico nacional / The social and activist dimension of cultural institutions in the 21st century: the case of Padrão dos Descobrimentos and Acesso Cultura in the national museological panorama
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Museologia (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2020/12/05 - Current Curator: International Conference on Internationalization in Dance http://www.cnb.pt/evc-conferencia-encontros-para-o-futuro-iii/ (2020 - 2020)
Conference (Other)
Estúdios Victor Córdon - OPART , Portugal
2021/10/30 - 2021/10/30 Modes of Production: Performing Arts in Transition Modes of Production: Performing Arts in Transition takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and their impact on ways of producing and managing theatre, dance and performance in the context of cultural projects or institutions. (2021/10/30 - 2021/10/30)
Seminar (Member of the Scientific Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - 2024/02/02 Science Outreach Activity - ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS O Espaço do Tempo, in co-production with MARCA ADL, begin 2024 with a proposal for a meeting between artistic and cultural organizations that will happen on February 1st and 2nd, in Montemor-o-Novo. The climate crisis we live in has imposed changes in processes and operations in various sectors of activity, such as the cultural sector.
Workshop
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
O Espaço do Tempo, Portugal
2024/01/31 - 2024/01/31 Science Outreach Activity - Culture and Sustainability Shared Practices are not only open to all local performance professionals, but artists and enthusiasts from other disciplines and places. In each shared practice, the participants are invited to dive, experiment, discuss, research, wonder and inquire in _an exercise of possibilities. This new concept, instigates an expanded vision of training that ranges from dance and theatre practices, to somatic approaches, to voice and fighting techniques, potentiating knowledge, method, and discourse.
Workshop
Culture and (Un)Sustainability
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2024/01/08 - 2024/01/08 Science Outreach Activities - Workshop to the Culture Department of the City of Loulé, in "Environmental Sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals in Cultural Work"
Workshop
Environmental Sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals in Cultural Work
Department of Culture of the Municipality of Loulé, Portugal
2023/04/05 - 2023/04/13 PLANT - Performing Life Akademia Network is a series of conversations reflecting on how art production can be more socially and environmentally responsible while revealing Contextual Art Practices as approaches that are simultaneously rooted in territory and that can be replicated anywhere. By bringing together artists and curators who will share their practical experiences, we hope to broaden and enrich this dialogue, activating a wider national and international engagement and drawing new synergies for potential collaborations.
Round table
PLANT - Performing Life Akademia Network
European Commission Creative Europe, Belgium
2022/10/17 - 2022/10/19 Participation in the 30th ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy held in Brussels and in Antwerp on 17-19 October 2022. This intense interactive three-day programme included keynotes, panels, study visits, workshops and lively discussions led by experts in the field to of the creative and cultural sectors. The Congress invited researchers, educators, policy makers, cultural managers, and artists to join a global conversation about internationalization in the contemporary world.
Congress
30th ENCATC Congress “Internationalization in focus: theoretical, strategic, and management perspectives in education, research, policy and practice”
European Network of Cultural Policy and Management, Belgium
2022/04/19 - 2022/04/19 Chair and Rapporteur of the Working Group on 'Artistic creation and Programming', in the framework of the Funding for Culture 2030 Conference organized by Theatro Circo, Braga.
Conference
Financiamento para a Cultura 2030
Theatro Circo de Braga, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/01 Invited Speaker (Concluding remarks) at the Seminar 'Towards fairer international cultural cooperation: visions from the peripheries', organized by the University of Barcelona - Cultural Management Programme in the framework of the Creative Europe funded project Stronger Peripheries, Barcelona, 2022.
Seminar
Towards fairer international cultural cooperation: visions from the peripheries
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Spain
2021/04/24 - 2021/04/24 Speaker at ONLINE TALK #1 PRODUCTIVITY & PROCRASTINATION: BODIES IN A STATE OF SIEGE Oradora na CONVERSA #1 - PRODUTIVIDADE & PROCRASTINAÇÃO: CORPOS EM ESTADO DE SÍTIO
Round table
Festival DDD - Dias da Dança
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2020/11/21 - 2020/11/21 Chair of the session "co-production in good times and bad times", org. by Alkantara Festival and Polo Cultural das Gaivotas / Boavista Condução da sessão: “A co-produção nos bons e nos maus momentos”, Sessão organizada pelo Festival Alkantara e pelo Polo Cultural das Gaivotas Boavista, realizada a 21 de Novembro de 2020.
Round table
Festival Alkantara, Portugal
2020/10/12 - 2020/10/12 Chair of the session "In the world" in the framework of "Cultural programming - angels and demons", Acesso Cultura Annual Conference . Programação cultural: anjos e demónios”, Conferência Anual da Acesso Cultura, moderação do painel internacional ‘Pelo Mundo’, realizada a 12 de Outubro 2020.
Acesso Cultura, Portugal
2019/10/23 - 2019/10/23 World Cities Culture Summit 2019, Lisbon / It's not what you know, it's who you know
Conference
World Cities Culture Forum
2018/04/26 - 2018/04/29 IETM Plenary Meeting - Other Centres. Paths, Perspectives, Practices. Invited Co-Moderator of the Session "Connected Centres", dealing with experiences and issues arising from conducting artistic projects and programming in the peripheries or in different centres
Conference
IETM Other Centres. Paths, Perspectives, Practices.
IETM International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, Belgium
2016 - 2016 Participação em Painel dedicado ao tema "Desígnios da cultura em Portugal", org. Theatro Circo de Braga, 2016, a convite de Andreia Garcia, Paulo Brandão e Cláudia Leite.
Meeting
Theatro Circo de Braga, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Participation in summit about "Conditions for Artistic Mobility", organized by Roberto Cimmetta Foundation and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Meeting of Independent Funds for Artistic and Cultural Mobility in the Mediterranean and Central America Participação em encontro dedicado ao tema "Condições para a Mobilidade dos Artistas Portugueses", org. Fundação Roberto Cimmetta e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Reunião de Fundos Independentes para a Mobilidade Artística e Cultural no Mediterrâneo e na América Central, 2015
Meeting
Meeting of Independent Funds for Artistic and Cultural Mobility in the Mediterranean and Central America
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/10/27 A programação cultural em territórios periféricos: o caso da programação cultural no CAE de Sever do Vouga / Cultural programming in peripheral territories: the case of cultural programming at CAE de Sever do Vouga
(Thesis) Main arguer
Brígida Maria Pereira Alves (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/10/01 - Current ENCATC - European Network on Cultural Management and Policy Member
2015 - 2018 A Soul for Europe Strategy Group Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2023/02/23 - Current Coordination of Research Group 4 at CEIS20. "Artistic Pratices: Imagination, Materialities and Transitions" directs its research towards contemporary occurrences in the field of the arts, monitors conceptual and political transformations in culture, analyses transnational exchange networks of artistic currents and intellectual movements, and studies major contemporary mutations. It also promotes reflection on modes of intervention in the fields of production, arts management and artistic programming.
Coordinator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
2019 - Current Member of the Advisory Board of ARTEMREDE / Membro do Conselho Consultivo da ARTEMREDE
Member
ARTEMREDE -TEATROS ASSOCIADOS, Portugal
2017/10 - 2020/02 Membro do Conselho Municipal de Cultura da Cidade do Porto / Member of the Municipal Council for Culture of the City of Porto (by invitation of the Mayor)
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/11/01 - Current Modes of Production - Performing Arts and the Ecological Transition University of Coimbra Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
2024/03 - 2024/09 “Culture for the Planet: issues and challenges for research and education in the cultural management and policy field” ENCATC - The European Network for Cultural Policy and Management
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22 Weaving Communities: Paths of the Arts in Social Intervention, Education and Citizenship Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais do Politécnico de Leiria and CEIS20-University of Coimbrambra
2023/07/06 - 2023/07/07 Young Researchers Meeting Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS20

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/03 - 2021/06 Curator at the Creative Europe 2021-2027 Launch Conference, June Curator and Moderator of the Panel “Mobility and sustainability: challenges ahead for the performing arts”, part of the Creative Europe 2021-2027 Launch Conference, held in June in Lisbon and online, as part of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union; Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Cultura, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/06 Curator: Mobility and sustainability: challenges ahead for the performing arts, Creative Europe Launch Conference in the framework of PPUE Portuguese Presidency of the EU Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
2015 - 2018 During 4 years I was Strategy Advisor for the theatre network. In that capacity I advised the Executive Director in terms of future planning and strategy; supervised the writing of various national and international funding application (Creative Europe, Regional EU funds, etc); conducted the draft of the strategic planning cycle 2015-2020, via a large participatory decision-making process involving 17 cities; coordinated an international conference and the following book under the theme “Cultural Policies for Local Development”. ARTEMREDE -TEATROS ASSOCIADOS, Portugal
2013 - 2018 From 2013 until 2018 I was in charge of the overall strategy of a well-known experimental theatre company – mala voadora. In addition to Portugal, its shows were presented in more than 10 European countries, as well as in the USA and Africa. Apart from the general management of the company, and their international touring activities, I led a special project that consisted of kick-starting and programming their independent arts venue in the centre of Porto, a shared responsibility with the artistic direction. mala voadora - associação cultural, Portugal
2006 - 2012 Head of the Training Department, specializing in professional training for the arts and culture, having coordinated more than 20 CPD courses for active professionals in the fields of performing arts; Advisor to the Senior Management of the National Theatre (TNDMII), EGEAC in Lisbon or CCVF in Guimarães; trainer and facilitator for various professionals’ meetings and courses, namely in the context of Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012. Setepés - projectos artístico-culturais, lda, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/03 - Current Eco-ethics and project management Post Graduate Diploma in Cultural Management and Sustainability (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/03 - Current Laboratory Post Graduate Diploma in Cultural Management and Sustainability (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023 - Current Cultural Policies and Social and Environmental Sustainability Post-Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and Sustainability (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/01/08 - 2024/01/08 Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals and Cultural Work. (Outros) Department of Culture of the Municipality of Loulé, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/11 Lecturer at RECURSO, independent advanced training programme for theatre practitioners, a joint initative with Estrutura and José Maria Vieira Mendes, with structural support of the Directorate-General for the Arts; RECURSO (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Estrutura - Associação Cultural, Portugal
2021/08 - 2021/09 Lecturer at FSCH NOVA School of Business Lisbon, Lecturer for the Summer School on “Cultural Management : challenges and changes”, with scientific supervision of Prof. Cláudia Madeira. Arts Management - Challenges and Changes (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/08 - 2021/09 Gestão Cultural: Mutações e Desafios | Cultural management: challenges and changes (Lecturer) - FSCH ¿ NOVA University of Lisbon Summer School (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Lecturing and Mentoring at CORIOLIS – Companhia Instável* , teaching project management, creative production, organizational models in the arts, ethics and governance, strategic planning; (Outros) Companhia Instável - Associação Cultural, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Masterclass "Produção e Gestão Cultural" no Mestrado em Artes Cénicas - 1º Semestre Masterclass in "Arts management and Production" in the Performing Arts MA @ESMAE Mestrado em Artes Cénicas (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Lecturer at ESMAE - Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, Porto (IPP) School of Music and Performing Arts, Porto, teaching ‘Production and Management’ in the Graduate BA in Stage Direction and in the Master in Performing Arts (Mestrado)

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/01/06 - 2023/05/31 Member of the Evaluation Committee of "Criatório - an annual competition to support artistic creation and programming in Porto that covers the following areas: Visual arts and curating; Performing arts; Composition, programming and musical performance; Literature and critical thinking. This funding programme's main goals are to contribute to the consolidation of the activity of artists and cultural agents from multiple artistic disciplines, and that in Porto may find a favourable context for the development of their professional practice.
Evaluator
Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, E.M., Portugal
2023/03/01 - 2023/05/25 Member of the Evaluation Comittee for "Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva - Open Call Artistic Residencies" CAMPUS PCS is a space for the practice and research of converging disciplines and artistic development, where artists can feel welcomed and at home. Located in Porto's city center, this is a place that promotes artistic community bonds through sharing time and space.
Evaluator
Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, E.M., Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/12/31 Membro convidado / Especialista Externo da Comissão de Apreciação do Concurso de Apoio Sustentado da Direção-Geral das Artes - Programação (Artes Performativas). Invited Jury Member/External Specialist of the Evaluation Committee of the Directorate-General for the Arts. Structural Funding Grants in the field of Cultural Programming (Performing Arts)
Specialist
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
2021/03 - 2021/05 Independent Expert in the Jury for “Connecting Dots – Artistic Mobility and Audience Development” co-funded by the Culture Programme of EEA Grants.
Evaluator
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal EEA Grants

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2020/12/01 Entrevista a propósito da curadoria da conferência "Navegar é preciso? Sentidos para a Internacionalização da Dança". Interview about curating the Conference "Is sailing necessary? Meanings for the internationalization of dance" Coffeepaste

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/01/01 - 2018/12/31 Independent Expert / Jury Member of SHUTTLE - Programa de Apoio à Internacionalização Artística, promovido pelo Pelouro da Cultura da Câmara Municipal do Porto. / Support for Artistic Mobility Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Teatro Municipal do Porto : Jury Member - Campo de Batalha Support programme for Emergent Artists / Membro do Júri do Concurso ‘Campo de Batalha’ – apoio à criação artística Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Best Research Paper "Greening our Future: cultural policy and the ecological imperative" to be published in 2024 by the European Journal of Cultural Policy and Management.
ENCATC European Network for Cultural Management and Policy, Belgium