Lisa Gilardino
Lisa Gilardino is a performing arts curator and creative producer based in Bologna, Italy. After studying contemporary arts history in Italy and France, she has been responsible for promotion and international relations at the Lenz Rifrazioni theatre group and has worked as managing director and artistic advisor at the Natura Dei Teatri Arts Festival from 2001 to 2011 (Parma, Italy). In 2011, after taking part in the year-long training program Festival Lab for festival curators and producers, she was invited to the Festival Baltic Circle (Helsinki, Finland) as a curator-in-residence to develop her research project Dreamcatchers, which mixes anthropology, visual arts, and dreams. Since 2011 she has been working as a freelance creative producer with artists focusing on promotion, development, and advice. She works with Italian artists Motus and Alessandro Sciarroni. Since 2013 she has been giving workshops and one-on-one mentoring sessions on artistic management and creative production in Italy and abroad. She has taught and mentored at Festival Salmon (Barcelona, Estonia) Alkantara Festival (Lisbon, Portugaul), and Università Cattolica (Milano, Italy), among others. In September 2016 she was appointed co-artistic director of Santarcangelo Festival (Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy) with Eva Neklyaeva for the 2017/9 editions. While imagining and delivering an innovative and unexpected multi-arts program of commissions, co-productions, site-specific creations, open air public programming by emerging, groundbreaking, interdisciplinary artists, working with and often melting theatre, dance, music, visual art, activist practices and film, her role is specifically tailored to the dramaturgical follow up of festival productions and constant research and scouting of emerging artists and inspiring projects and new ideas. She is particularly interested in finding sustainable, involved, and pleasurable ways to imagine, produce, and curate art.