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Coffee Klatch
"Coffee Klatch" (/ˈkaf-fee-klach/) connects you with up to 15 delegates for an informal and intimate discussion. Discussion topics were submitted by delegates and conversations will be delegate led as well!
Check which session suits your time zone. Coffee Klatch will occur three times to accommodate global time zones:
Review the topics and see who will be hosting, below. The same topics (with a slight exception) will be discussed each time.
Equipped with your preferred time slot(s) and topic(s), follow the link to sign up!
As space is limited, Coffee Klatch requires advanced sign up.
We have closed Coffee Klatch registration at 5:00 PM EST, Friday, January 8th, 2021. All registrants who signed up will receive a confirmation email on Monday, January 11th, 2021.
Coffee Klatch Topic Listing
Coffee Klatch 1 | Imagine Business and the Arts
For years artists have been grappling with how to successfully monetize their work on digital platforms. This challenge has become increasingly exacerbated in the past year. How do we create a framework that supports artists and arts business and provides appropriate revenue for all concerned?
Round 1 Host: Barbara Frum (Producer, Sharing Spaces Productions, Canada)
Round 2 Host: Tim Brinkman (Chief Executive, Reliance Industries Limited, India)
Round 3 Host: Shona McCarthy (Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, UK)
Coffee Klatch 2 | Imagine Environmental Sustainability in the Arts
How can we re-envision the way our sector operates that ensures an environmentally conscious and sustainable way forward? What concrete actions and commitments can be made individually, organizationally, and collectively?
Round 1 Host: Mhiran Faraday (BISQC Manager, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada))
Round 2 Host: Chris Lorway (Executive Director, Stanford Live, USA)
Round 3 Host: Maria Hansen (Executive Director, ELIA, The Netherlands)
Coffee Klatch 3 | Imagine our Healthy Future
As presenters, artists, and audiences find each other again, there is an unspoken need for trust. How do we move forward to ensure artists are cared for, audiences feel secure and the joy of live performance continues within an environment that protects all of us physically and emotionally?
Round 1 Host: Elizabeth Bradley (Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
Round 2 Host: Jana Posth (Creative Producer, posthprodcution, Germany)
Round 3 Host: LJ Findlay-Walsh (Artistic Director, Take Me Somewhere Festival, UK)
Coffee Klatch 4 | Imagine our Hybrid Future
For many years, artists and organizations have been creating and presenting work for online, conventional, and unconventional spaces. More recently, the pandemic has exponentially propelled many artists and organizations into multiple and more integrated approaches of presentation. What are the strategies for continuing this layered engagement in the future?
Round 1 Host: Ella Baff (Director, For Arts and Culture, USA)
Round 2 Host: Paramita Saha (Director, Artsforward Ideas and Events, India)
Round 3 Host: Tristan Meecham (Artistic Director, All the Queens Men, Australia)
Coffee Klatch 5 | Imagine Inclusivity in the Arts
The arts must center artists and audiences from populations that have traditionally been underserved. How can presenters ensure their venues and their programming support and indeed welcome all communities regardless of disability, cultural background or traditions?
Round 1 Host: Ted Ohl (Principal, Schuler Shook, USA)
Round 2 Host: Dan Graham (Artist, Australia)
Round 3 Host: Mark Ball (Creative Director, Manchester International Festival, UK)
Coffee Klatch 6 | Imagine New Leadership in the Arts
Our sector is facing profound change. What do we need our leaders to embrace so that they can thrive in the new environment? As a generation of leaders pass the mantle, what will be the criteria and characteristics required in the next generation of leaders?
Round 1 Host: Thomas Yaksic (Consultant, Theatre Projects, Chile)
Round 2 Host: Shona McCullagh (Chief Executive, Artistic Director, Arts Laureate, Auckland Arts Festival, New Zealand)
Round 3 Host: Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh (Interdisciplinary Auteur, Scholar and Advisor, UK)
Coffee Klatch 7 | Imagine Organizational Change in the Arts
Our workplaces changed overnight and irrevocably led to transformative changes in production, management, and distribution of cultural work. From organizational entities to leadership structures, team communication and individual work engagement - what needs to change in the ecosystem and in how we work moving forward?
Round 1 Host: Jeanne Lesage (Principal, LeSage Arts Management, Canada)
Round 2 Host: Rashmi Dhanwani (Founder-Director, The Art X Company, India)
Round 3 Host: Govin Ruben (Director, TerryandTheCuz, Malaysia)
Coffee Klatch 8 | Imagine International Collaboration in the Arts
Travel restrictions and sustainability considerations have forever changed the way we work locally and internationally. We need to find new ways to connect with artists all over the world. Collaboration and the exchange of information is indispensable. What does it mean now to be an international festival, presenter, or manager?
Round 1 Host: Mary Lou Aleskie (Director, Hopkins Center for the Arts, USA)
Coffee Klatch 9 | Imagine Equity in the Arts
In the midst of a pandemic, how do we continue to support our entire ecosystem with funding to best retain personnel, serve stakeholders, and support our community? Small organizations are nimble but struggle to survive these times, while large institutions are resourceful but have nevertheless faced reductions in staff, programs, and operating funds. How can we be equitable and survive as individuals, small organizations, and institutions, together?
Round 2 Host: Mengtong Guan (Executive and Creative Director, Ping Pong Productions, China)
Coffee Klatch 10 | Imagine India and South Asia
Working internationally with India and South Asia is a challenge in the absence of local arts infrastructure, support, and systems. Yet, things do happen. Join us to understand the context and challenges we work within and in spite of, propose collaborations, and forge imaginative models of working together with a culturally rich, diverse and unique region of the world.
Round 3 Co-Hosts: Vikram Iyengar (Founder, Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, India) and Paramita Saha (Director, Artsforward Ideas and Events Pvt Ltd, India)
