Alessandra Gariboldi is senior researcher and consultant in the fields of visitor studies and cultural project evaluation, with a primary focus on audience development and participatory approaches. She’s Head of Trasnational Projects of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and collaborates with the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont, Italy.

She’s been involved as researcher and trainer in several EU funded projects focused on cultural participation, as ADESTE (Audience Developer Skills and Training in Europe), CONNECT (Connecting Audiences) and Be SpectActive, and she is now project coordinator of ADESTE+. She developed the two years capacity building programme in AD for the European Capital of Culture Rijeka2020.

23 september

• Opening Lecture: “Placing audiences at the centre”
  By Alessandra Gariboldi, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Anne Torregiani, The Audience Agency.
• “Placing audiences at the centre – 3 case studies”
  By Alessandra Gariboldi, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Anne Torregiani, The Audience Agency.
• Wrap up: “Placing audiences at the centre”
  By Alessandra Gariboldi, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Anne Torregiani, The Audience Agency.

25 september
“Welcome from The Gulbenkian Foundation and ADESTE + Project”
By Susana Gomes da Silva and Alessandra Gariboldi.

27 september
“Where are we? What Next? – questions for the future”
By Alessandra Gariboldi, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Anne Torregiani, The Audience Agency.