The Festival Team

A seasoned cultural manager with years of work in France and Italy, Anouk Aspisi (Montpellier, 1968) read Political Sciences at the University of Montpellier and then went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Communication and Media from the Audiencia Business School in Nantes. Her twenty-five years of work featured collaborations with prestigious public administrations and private entities. Aspisi has created numerous projects, focusing on conversations with the public and audience development. She has collaborated with the Romaeuropa Festival advising them on international relations (2000-2004), with the François Pinault Foundation in Venice (2008-2010), with the Institut français Italia as cultural attaché (2012-2017) – where she created the multidisciplinary La Francia in Scena –, as the General Secretary of the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati (2013-2018), as the Head of Communication at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (2017-2018) and as the General Secretary of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon (2018-2022). She was also a consultant for artistic creation between 2022 and 2024 to French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, on matters such as live performances, festivals, music, and the visual arts.