Key Data
During the Conference you will discover:
- Unusual career paths within the artistic sector and new professional horizons.
- Inspiring proposals from diverse disciplines and projects.
- Other artists with concerns about professional growth in the current context.
May 30, 2024, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
In-person event at the Sony Auditorium | Reina Sofía School of Music
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How to develop an artistic career in the current context? In this meeting of young artists from all disciplines, we will discuss different topics that will help us answer this question.
- Prelude to the Session: Exploring Artistic Personality – Workshop for students with limited places (request your place on the registration form)
Programme
4:30 PM – Introduction to the conference
- Welcome and presentation: Òscar Colomina, Dean of the Reina Sofía School of Music
4:40 PM – Development of artistic personality: how it evolves, how it is built, how it is found
- Starting point: Esther Viñuela, Coordinator of the Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Program, Reina Sofía School of Music
- Panel discussion, moderated by Antonio Agustín García, professor in the sociology department, Complutense University of Madrid:
- Lucía Loren, artist and professor at the University of Nebrija
- Muriel Romero, dancer and choreographer at Instituto Stocos
- Belén de Santiago, actress and assistant director at The Cross border Project
- Pablo Cáceres, musician in the duo Emilia y Pablo
- Performative interlude, performance by the duo Emilia y Pablo
5:35 PM – How does the artist negotiate with their context?
- Interview: Daniel Canogar in conversation with Sonia Mulero, director of the Banco Sabadell Foundation
- Break – Coffee.
6:15 PM – Employment and entrepreneurship: where and how to make a living as an artist
- Reconnection: Laura Vázquez, Coordinator of the Alumni and Professional Guidance Program, Reina Sofía School of Music
- Address: Jordi Martí Grau, Secretary of State for Culture
- Panel discussion, moderated by Charo Izquierdo, journalist, writer, speaker, business consultant:
- Jordi Martí Grau, Secretary of State for Culture
- Sean Gregory, Director of Innovation and Engagement at Guildhall School Music and Drama
- Fátima Anllo, Director of the Observatory of Independent Creation
- Lucas Vidal, composer
- Performative interlude, performance by the Stocos Institute: Muriel Romero (dance) and Pablo Palacio (composition and interactive sonification)
7:20 PM – Closing of the conference
- Conclusions and end of the day: Julia Sánchez, CEO of the Reina Sofía School of Music