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With Maria Vlachou

Madani Younis said at the ISPA conference in January 2020 that “Generosity is not justice. And inclusion is not equity.” With this, we realised that, despite the words diversity and inclusion appearing quite frequently in the discourse of cultural organisations and their professionals, we are not fully aware of what they mean, what they represent and the impact they have (or should have) on our work and on our relationship with society.

In this course we will try to explore and better understand the concepts of diversity and inclusion. We will analyse the results of inclusion policies implemented in cultural organisations in other countries. We will learn more about the work and internal processes of organisations that could serve as an example, as well as the criticism made by members of the teams of organisations that considered themselves to be inclusive. This criticism is precisely what made us think: “Are we asking the right questions?”

Target audience

People working in the areas of Cultural Management, Production, Programming, Cultural Mediation, Artistic Direction, Human Resources

Registration fee

Standard: €35
Student/Unemployed: €30
Access Culture member: €25
Payment may be made via bank transfer or PayPal.  For payments via PayPal, a €3 fee is added to the registration fee.

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Maria Vlachou is a Cultural Management and Communications consultant. Founding member and Executive Director of Acesso Cultura | Access Culture, promoting access – physical, social, intellectual – to cultural participation. Author of the bilingual (pt/en) blog Musing on Culture, where she writes about culture, the arts, museums, cultural management and communication, access. She is the manager of the Facebook group Museum texts / Textos em museus and co-manager of the blog Museums and Migration. She participated in the European project RESHAPE – Reflect, Share, Practice, Experiment, having joined the trajectory “Arts and Citizenship”.

In the past, she was Communications Director of São Luiz Municipal Theatre and Head of Communication of Pavilion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva (Lisbon). Board member of ICOM Portugal (2005-2014) and editor of its bulletin. She has collaborated with different programmes of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Fellow of ISPA – International Society for the Performing Arts (2018, 2020); Alumna of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center in Washington (2011-2013); she has a M.A. in Museum Studies (University College London, 1994) and a B.A. in History and Archaeology (University of Ioannina, Greece, 1992).