Summer School in Finland and Sweden May 12 -- May 19.
Theme: Beyond Bergman and Nobel: Scandinavian cultural policy and performing arts.

We will be holding our annual summer school in Åbo/Turku Finland, and Stockholm Sweden in conjunction with NUROPE
Arrive in Åbo/Turku during the weekend maps of ÅBO & STOCKHOLM
SUNDAY 11 MAY 2008 |
17:00 Discussion about Nomadic Projects(for early arrivals)
at (Gallery Titanik)
19:00 Informal welcome party in HANNA VARIS' Studio
MONDAY 12 MAY 2008 |
09:00 Seminar at FC / Arken
10:30 THE BALTIC TABLE
Introduction, Presentation & Nomadic Reflections Bengt Kristensson Uggla
12:15 Lunch at Café Arken
13:15 SIBELIUS, ART AND BUSINESS
Johannes Brusila, Research Director, Musicology at Åbo Akademi University and Alarik Repo, AlarikRepo Management at SibeliusMuseum
14:30 THE DIRTY, THE CLEAN, THE IMPURE, AND THE PURE.
PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON SWEDEN AND FINLAND Olli Lagerspetz, Professor in Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University
16:30 Music by Jean Sibelius, Ture Rangstrom and Christian Holmqvist
(Premiere Performance) Marika Kivinen (song) Laura Heikkilä (piano)
19:00 Dinner at Restaurant Teini
TUESDAY 13 MAY 2008 |
09:00 Departure from Åbo/Turku Cathedral by Bus from Åbo Cathedral
Workshop on Creative Industry and Experience Economy withTomi Lohikoski, CEO, Moomin World Saara Taalas, Professor, Turku School of Economics Moderator: Nina Kivinen
12:30 Lunch in Moominworld Click here for history
13:30 Bus Transport Back to Åbo/Turku
14:00 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MANAGEMENT
Tisa Ho, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival and former General Manager of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in conversation with Professor Ruth Bereson, Director Arts Management Program, University at Buffalo at FC / Arken
15.30 A Masters of Business Art?
Booklaunch UB Arts Management Occasional Paper Series #3 in conjunction with NUROPE
16:30 "LIFE ON A LEAF" Project
Workshop with Jan-Erik Andersson at Jan-Erik's House
20.00 VIKING TERMINAL, Åbo/Turku Harbour
21.00 Departure Dinner and Dance Party on Boat Baltic Sea
WEDNESDAY14 MAY 2008 |
06:30 In Stockholm, STADSGÅRDEN Bus Transport to Hotel
07:00 Breakfast at SCANDIC SERGEL PLAZA
08:30- INTERRUPTED HISTORY: SWEDEN - FINLAND
Krister Wahlbäck, Former Professor and Diplomat at Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
13.00 Lunch - Check into Hotel/Hostel
14.00 MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE Guided Tours in Groups
16.00 Panels until 21.00
- RE-THINKING CULTURAL POLICY AND CULTURAL ECONOMY
Public Programme at Stockholm Concert Hall in Cooperation with the Committee of Inquiry on Cultural Policy in Sweden Introduction: Eva Swartz, Head of Committee of Inquiry on Cultural Policy in Sweden and Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Head of Nurope
- FINANCING CULTURE
Moderator: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, SchwungProfessor of Nurope with Stefan Forsberg, CEO Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation, Emma Stenström, Stockholm School of Economics, Sture Carlsson CEO of Swedish Performing Arts and David Neuman Director of Magasin 3 Stockholm contemprary art-space
- DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS - NEW BUSINESS MODELS
Intellectual Property Rights in Arts and Culture, Moderator: David Karlsson with Stefan Forsberg, CEO Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation, Roger Wallis, Professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Professor at Uppsala University, Alf Rehn, Professor at Royal Institute of Technology / Åbo Akademi University
- CULTURAL POLICY - INTER AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Ruth Bereson, Director UB Arts Management Program, US, Keith Wijkander, Executive Secretary, Committee of Inquiry on Cultural Policy in Sweden, Krister Ståhlberg, CEO, Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland
20:00 Dinner, Mingle, Dialogue
THURSDAY 15 MAY 2008 |
09:00 Nurope Think Tank, Workshop, Case Study:
ROYAL STOCKHOLM SYMPHONIC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Presentation - Challenges - Problematisation - Solutions Stefan Forsberg, CEO Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation Moderator: Mats Agurén Stockholm Concert Hall
13:00 Lunch
15:00 IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE
Continuing Process. Ann-Sofie Köping, Assistant Professor, Södertörns University University College, Lotta Bjelkeborn, marketing director, Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, SchwungProfessor of Nurope
17:30 Dinner at Teaterbaren House of Culture
19:30 CONCERT Royal Stockholm Symphonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo,
Conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Dafgård, J Veils rev; Lindberg, M Violin concert; Rimskij-Korsakov, N Scheherazade op 35. in Stockholm Concert Hall
| FRIDAY 16 MAY 2008 |
09:00 Nomadic Laboratory at Stockholm Concert Hall
12:00 Yacht to Drottningholm 18th century Drottningholm Slottsteater
The Kings Residence Typical Swedish Yacht lunch, Visit to the Kings Gardens
16.00 Back to Modernity
Audience Building in the Royal Theatre.
Performance; Swan Lake at The Royal Swedish Opera
| SATURDAY 17 MAY 2008 |
08.00 Early walk through Swedish History
09:30 visit Junibacken themepark based on children story writer
Astrid Lindgren (or meeting the swedish mumins) Managing Events- presentation
11:00 Wasamuseum - cashing in on a big mistake
14.00 Royal college of Art and Design
Design global and Swedish- a debate attend the Konstfack Forum on Creativity 2008. Does Creativity Beat Strategy or Strategy Beat the Creative Industry? An open panel discussion moderated by Ms. Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for International Herald Tribune. Ms.Rawsthorn will address Forum 2008 questions of interest to the design industry leaders. Panelists include: Ingrid Baron, Design Leader, IDEO International, Anders Byriel, CEO, Kvadrat Ilse Crawford, Designer and Creative Director, Studioilse, Henrik Otto, Senior VP Global Design, Electrolux Masaki Yokokawa, CEO, Cibone, Dean & DeLuca Japan Stockholm Royal College of Art and Design
18.00 Free evening to discover Stockholm
| SUNDAY 18 MAY 2008 |
11.30 Gallery hopping Underground music and drinks Krut AB
14:00 Stockholm University School of Business;
panel on art and economy. School of Business Stockholm University
19.30 Final Dinner
MONDAY 19 MAY 2008 |
Summer School in Gattières
Theme: Aspects of French Local, Regional and National Cultural Policy and Visual Arts
Schedule -- Summer 2007 (for additional photographs please click here: choose a day and click on slideshow)
Tuesday July 3

Afternoon Activities
- Walking Tour of Gattières with Dr. Carl Wahren former Head of the Aid Management Division of the OECD
- Welcome toast in his candlelit medieval cellar.
Evening Activities
Georges Rasse’s family-owned winery in Saint Jeannet; where we tasted local produce and were given a local history of the region by M. Rasse.
- Discussion with M. Rasse's son who works in Peru and France as an artist, who sells from the winery and whose work is used on the labels..
- Guest lecturer: Dr. Patrick Griolet.
Author of numerous works on Cajun and Creole culture
- Film: Homage to Chagall on Chagall’s life and work
Wednesday July 4

Morning Activities
- Visit Chagall National Museum in Nice
- and Musee d’art moderne et d ’art contemporain in Nice where Gilbert Perlein (the director) – gave a tour of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s retrospective exhibition and engaged in discussion on Arts Management in Europe.
- Visit to artist Sosno and his Studio. Sosno is from the Ecole de Nice and is an artist of international renown. Sosno discussed his work and how he managed his career as an artist.
Afternoon Activities
- Classes in Gattières with Professor Guillet de Monthoux and Dr Bereson. Presentation of group projects
Evening Activities
- Evening dinner in the village of Gattières chez Roger with Professor Romain Laufer.
- Film: A Model for Matisse: The Story of the Vence Chapel"
on Sister Jacques-Marie and Matisse’s Rosary Chapel
Thursday July 5
Morning Activities
Excursions
- Malongo Coffee manufacturers tour by public relations officer (Paula) on Fair Trade Practices and Arts and Management at Malongo Coffee
- Rosary Chapel designed by Matisse in Vence
The Fondation Maeght, St Paul de Vence - Walking tour of St Paul de Vence
Afternoon Activities
- Guest lecturer: Professor Romain Laufer Chair of Marketing HEC, Paris on Art and Marketing: Aesthetics Performance and Uncertainty: Celebrating the French Revolution: 1789-1889-1989
Evening Activities
- Dinner in village restaurant
- Film: Jean Cocteau
Friday July 6
All day visit to Fondation Hartung-Bergman in Antibes.
- Guest lecturer: Director and artist François Hers.
- The morning session was devoted to the collection and management of the Fondation Hartung-Bergman.
- In the afternoon Francois Hers discussed his project Les nouveaux commanditaires: (The New Patrons) “to shape the relationships between society, its artists and their works in a contemporary way to shape a new arts scene”
- encountered Professor Serge Guilbaut author of How New York Stole the idea of Modern Art
- Lectures on bus by Professor Guillet de Monthoux on The Art Firm and the importance of philosophy in art and business
Early evening
- Lecture by Professor Graeme Sullivan, TC Columbia University on the Venice Biennale, 2007
- Film: First of the Trilogy Marius, Fanny, Cesar
Saturday July 7
Morning Activities
Panel Discussion: “A Debate between the Past and the Future”
- Visiting speakers: Dr. Carl Wahren, Dominique Landucci (Artist), Raphael (Malongo), the Mayor of du Broc, M. Emile Tornatore, and Moϊse Duhamelle (Member of the Nice National Orchestra and Municipal Counsellor), Cristiana Bottigella (Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto Biella Italy) Topics included: the alliance between Gattières, Le Broc and Carros and the cultural and political benefits of the alliance, cultural policy in the region and the structure of French associations (the French equivalent of the American 501 (c)(3))
Afternoon Activities
- Visit artists' studios and local area
- A walking tour through the village of Carros which featured a stop at the Association d’Artistes Plasticiens and the Centre international d’art contemporain where Director Frédéric Brandi gave a tour of the space. Artist Dominique Landucci’s studio
- Visit to artist Daniel Fillod’s studio and to the Salle Ecovie: Espace Convivial du Vivre Ensemble where he was commissioned to paint the ceilings of a variety of spaces.
Early Evening
- Presentation by artist Mary Sullivan on her recent exhibition Wood meets paper
Evening
Gala Dinner at Hotel
- Music by Dominique Landucci’s band
Summer 2007
Tuesday 3 July - Sunday 8 July 2007
Summer Workshop. Gattières, France
This summer school is designed to provide participants with a knowledge of international aspects of arts management. Located near Nice in the South of France, Gattières is a commune comprising 4,000 inhabitants, 800 of whom live in the old village. The church of Saint Blaise protects the village and this saint is celebrated annually by a festival held on February 4. There is an opera festival, and the recently opened ECAM contemporary Art Space 'Le Jardin' was inaugurated by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 2004. The village is located near thriving artistic centres such as St Paul de Vence, Nice and the Fondation Maeght. This area is close to important international summer arts exhibition and festival sites such as the Avignon Theatre Festival, Aix en Provence Opera Festival, the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel Germany .
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The academic program combines formal classes, site specific excursions which use the regional arts centres as fieldwork, and seminar style discussions. Participants will undertake an intensive course of study starting daily at 9am with formal classes with leading professionals and academics in the field. The afternoon sessions are field work and the evening sessions are analytical seminars. The format is intensive and inter-disciplinary and participants will develop lateral skills in the field as they learn to apply the theory developed in the morning classes to analysis of the institutions which they visit in the afternoons and in the evenings lecturers will be invited to join the program participants over dinner for lively seminar style discussions about the day's classes and activities. As Gattières is situated in one of the most densely populated regions for galleries in Europe, classes will be complemented by field excursions to the galleries, museums and performing arts venues which comprise the Fondation Maeght near St Paul de Vence, the Chagall, Dufy, Matisse, Pop Art museums in Nice which is also the home of Arman, Ben, Yves Klein, Nivese, Sosno and Ceasar.
THE FACULTY
The workshop is organized and hosted by Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar to the UB Arts Management Program and Dr Ruth Bereson, Director UB Arts Management Program. The preliminary program includes Professor Romain Laufer, Professor of Marketing at HEC, Paris and Professor Alladi Venkatesh Graduate School of Management University of California, Irvine as well as Arts Managers from the region.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Participants may also choose to attend academic conferences in the fields of arts and management and aesthetics which occur in Europe in summer. This year they may wish to attend Documenta in Kassel and participate in the Nomadic University's program which offers postgraduate students, researchers and leaders within culture and economy a platform to develop and reflect on questions concerning the synergies between art and economy from a global and European perspective.