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When facing arts subsidy cut and budget deficit, Lieven Bertels optimistically believes that challenges and difficulties do come along with opportunities. He said in the interview that "it's going to be a challenge but also an opportunity because you come in unbiased and can ask all the wrong questions with an open mind.'' As an expert on innovative and artistic programming, he successfully re-established Holland Festival as a famous festival in the world.
Mr Bertels is the Director of the Sydney Festival, Australia’s largest and most important international arts festival. Before moving to Australia, he was the Artistic Coordinator for the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), overlooking the music programme and its dramaturgy. Mr Bertels helped to re-establish the Holland Festival's rich programme mix for which this now 65-year old festival is famous, often developing novel ways of presenting the arts to the ever more discerning public of today. [link_to | http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/eye-for-innovation-and-unusual-venues-scans-sydney-20110703-1gxc3.html | Full Text of Interview]
To know more about his experience on innovative and artistic programming, please do come to the summit.
This is another interesting interview of our summit speaker Mr Lieven Bertels. Mr Bertels has studied Musicology at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and received an MA in Composition at the University of Durham (UK). His strong musical and artistic background may help him to feel for the artists and know how to respect them. In the interview he said “I was on my knees with presents in the backstage area of the theatre to convince this 72-year-old grand master of Bunraku puppetry to come to Amsterdam.” It may be an extraordinary case, but it is to remind us that one of the qualities good arts administrators should have is to respect artists and arts work they are going to present.[link_to | http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/stage/interview-lieven-bertels-20120216-1t9tj.html | Full Text of interview]
A successful festival or arts organization can bring a sense of collective ownership to their audiences. Sydney Festival has successfully brought this sense of belongings to their audiences, not just by offering a great variety of programmes, which ranges from light entertainment to high art, but also offering FREE Domain concerts at the first night of the Festival, which has attracted more than 200,000 people to the city. To have at a glance of this exciting festival, please have a look at the video-- Festival First Night Wrap 2012.
Festival TV: Festival First Night Wrap 2012
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[link_to | http://hkaaa.org.hk/?a=group&id=all_activities&doc_id=1004 | 2012 Cultural Leadership Summit]