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Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements 2010

As Programme Partner for the Cultural Leadership Programme, Freshwaters Consultancy will be delivering four unique leadership training and development opportunities within creative and cultural organisations in Africa and India. The placements are designed for mid-career cultural and creative industry leaders of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds seeking to broaden their leadership practice and experience.
Placements are for three months and are supported by a bursary of up to £15,000. The placements started in September and will continue to December 2010

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Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements
September to December 2010 – Africa and India

As Programme Partner for the Cultural Leadership Programme, Freshwaters Consultancy will be delivering four unique leadership training and development opportunities within creative and cultural organisations in Africa and India. The placements are designed for mid-career cultural and creative industry leaders of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds seeking to broaden their leadership practice and experience.
Placements are for three months and are supported by a bursary of up to £15,000.

Biennial of Contemporary African Art Senegal, Dakar – Senegal, Africa • Creative Development Associate
A unique opportunity to develop national and transnational networks and collaborations for visual arts and artists of African descent

ADAFEST (Association of Arts Presenters and Festivals of Senegal), Dakar – Senegal, Africa • Business Development Associate
A timely opportunity to investigate a business development model for the arts and cultural sector in Senegal

SEHER (one of India’s most prominent arts and cultural production organisations) – New Delhi, India • Associate Creative Producer
An exclusive opportunity to produce the Commonwealth Cultural Festival part of the Commonwealth Games October

Sanskriti Foundation, promoting and nurturing the finest in arts, culture and the environment – New Delhi, India • Strategic Development Associate
An exciting timely opportunity to explore options for change in the context of emergent Indian and global priorities in the arts and cultural sector Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements will be delivered by CLP Programme Partner Freshwaters Consultancy.

To apply: http://www.culturalleadership.org.uk/pilp

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 31 May 2010

Interviews: week commencing 5 July 2010
For further information on previous PILPs please click here.
To discuss the placements, please contact Maureen Salmon

T/F + 44 (0) 208 291 0491
M + 44 (0) 794 902 9278
E maureen@freshwatersconsultancy.co.uk

Cultural Leadership Programme Women to Watch

Maxine Miller and Delia Barker, past associates of the Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements are among the fifty women on the 2010 W2W list.

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THE WOMEN TO WATCH LIST 2010

Cultural Leadership Programme - Celebrating three years

cultural leadership programme celebrating three years

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CLP involvement in global debates on cultural leadership

Maureen Salmon, Freshwaters Consultancy/PILP Programme Partner and the 2009 PILP Associates: Asif Khan, Carole Morrison, Dawinder Bansal and Delia Barker participate in two key global debates on cultural leadership.

'Leadership and Diversity Encounter'
November 24th, 10.00am-12.30pm (local time)
Centro Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil

'Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity'
November 28th to 3rd December 2009, Bridgetown, Barbados
December 1st - Symposium 4 Cultural Leadership: Global Focus
Live Link: Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity

Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements

Freshwaters Consultancy is the Programme Partner for the Cultural Leadership Programme’s Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements. The placements are for cultural and creative industries mid-career leaders of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds seeking to broaden their leadership practice, experience and intercultural competence. The placements are for up to three months and are supported by a bursary of up to £15,000.

The 2009 placements in Brazil and Barbados were awarded to:

Carole Morrison, International Relations Associate, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carole will be leading on the development of a new three year plan for international partnerships with the Centro Cultural.

Dawinder Bansal, Marketing and Development Associate Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - Sao Paulo, Brazil Dawinder will be leading on the extension of the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil’s cultural programme to other locations around Sao Paulo.

Delia Barker, Business Development Associate, Creative and Cultural Industries
Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, The University of the West Indies, Barbados Delia will be leading on the creation of a strategic plan that will address the dynamics of the emerging creative industries in Barbados.

Asif Khan, Strategic Planning and Development Associate, National Art Gallery Committee, Barbados Asif will be leading on the creation of a strategic plan to establish a new visual art paradigm in Barbados.

The placements started in September 2009.


2010 Placements

The next round of placements will be advertised in May 2010.
www.culturalleadership.org.uk/planner/

Freshwaters Consultancy launch, March 2009, Commonwealth Club, London

Freshwaters Consultancy was launched on 20th March at The Commonwealth Club, London. The event was facilitated by Douglas Russell, with presentations from Hilary Carty, Director Cultural Leadership Programme, Oliver Nyumbu, CEO Caret and Kate Worley, Head of Sales and Lettings East Homes. The audience was a gathering of clients and associates.

Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements, visit to China February 2009

The visit was part of the monitoring and evaluation of the placements of Harpreet Kaur, Associate Producer Beijing Modern Dance Company, and Valerie Chang, Marketing and Development Associate, 501 Art Centre, Chongqinq. It demonstrated the value and mutual benefit of these unique learning and leadership development opportunities to both the leaders and the host organisations.

Powerbrokers International Leadership Placement Opportunities, September to December 2009

Following the successful delivery of ten placements in 2008, the Cultural Leadership Programme has re-commissioned Freshwaters Consultancy as the Powerbrokers International Placements Delivery Partner for 2009 and 2010.

In 2009, the Cultural Leadership Programme will offer four placements in Brazil and Barbados.

The placement opportunities are for up to three months, supported by a bursary of up to £15,000 to cultural and creative industry mid-career leaders of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds seeking to broaden their leadership practice and experience.

PILP 2009 is now closed for applications.

The placements will start in September/October 2009. The next round of applications will be in 2010

For full information on all the placement opportunities, visit: www.culturalleadership.org.uk.

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