Paul Bogen

Paul Bogen

Consultant, project manager, researcher, fundraiser, writer and trainer

Paul Bogen has thirty years experience in arts/culture management and since 2001 he has worked as a consultant, project manager, researcher, fundraiser, writer and trainer. In 2008 he established Olivearte Culture Agency with a colleague from Ireland. Work areas include visioning and change management, business and strategic planning, finance, fundraising, feasibility studies, building projects, research, audience development, market appraisals, programming, regional strategies and creating and managing projects. Paul’s specialities and main interests are finance, buildings, strategy and alternative business models to public funding. Clients have included Cambridge University, The EC Culture programme, The Arts Council of England, The Marcel Hicter Foundation, The Asia Europe Foundation, Culture Action Europe, Melkweg, Amsterdam and Trans Europe Halles, Sweden. Currently Paul is the project manager for Engine Room Europe, a three-year, €2 million, budget project on independent culture in Europe and The Business of Art, a capacity building project in St.Petersburg. He is also editor of the fundraising and finance section of the European Culture Foundations new web resource, ECFLabs. From 1989 to 2006 Paul was the Artistic and Executive Director of The Junction in Cambridge, the first ’Youth Culture’ music, theatre and media arts venue in the UK with an international programme and a strategy of successfully combining commercial with subsidised cultural and educational activities. 80% of The Junction’s income was self-generated, it had a budget of €4 and employed 150 staff. During his 17 years at The Junction, Paul created the organisation and delivered its vision that resulted in it being a nationally and internationally recognised arts organisation. This was achieved through developing successful artistic, capital and commercial strategies including fundraising for, leading, managing and delivering an €10 million expansion and development project that included constructing the first new theatre/concert hall in Cambridge for seventy years. In the early part of his career Paul managed three theatre companies, a London theatre and was a commercial theatre producer, a DJ, an actor, a theatre director and a stand-up comedian. He has also lived and worked in Israel and Poland. Paul was President of Trans Europe Halles (The European network of independent cultural centres) from 1999-2007, is a board member of UK based, Hoipolloi Theatre and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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