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Mr Simon Brown

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Humanities and Performing Arts

Address: Â鶹ƵµÀ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 366 4739

E: simon.brown@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Arts & Festivals Management, with over 20 years’ experience working within the cultural sector. He was Senior Festivals and Events Officer at Leicester City Council directly managing and supporting on a variety of events including Leicester’s Diwali celebrations, Riverside Festival, City Festival, Leicester City’s Premiership victory event and Ceremonies Director for the Special Olympics in Leicester. During this time he also spent a year in a strategic role as Cultural Programme Coordinator, working with the leaders of local arts organisations on the City Mayors Culture Advisory Panel. He joined Leicester based cultural development charity ArtReach in 2017 as Head of Events and later took over as Managing Director. While at ArtReach Simon led the organisation through a period of transition as an Arts Council national portfolio organisation, gaining charity status, and overseeing multiple events and projects including a large scale Creative Europe project with 12 partners from 10 different European countries. 

Publications and outputs

  • Brown S (2016) "Leicester, Festival City, or a City with Festivals" in Focus on World Festivals, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
  • Brown S (2019) Contributor to Principles of Festival Management, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

Research interests/expertise

  • Event and Festivals Management
  • Events and Placemaking
  • Outdoor Arts

Areas of teaching

  • Running and Promoting a Venue
  • Programming and Planning Festivals
  • Research Methods (Placement)
  • International Research and Cultural Policy
  • Event and Festival Management
  • Arts Management Studio
  • Festivals and Events Practice (Post Grad)

Qualifications

MSc Cultural Events Management

Courses taught

Arts and Festivals Management BA (Hons),  Global Arts Management, and Cultural Events Management MSc

Consultancy work

  • Made with Many, Corby, working on development of Corby Mardi Gras 2017 (through ArtReach)
  • Milton Keynes Islamic Arts Heritage and Culture, working on development of Art in the Park 2017-2020 (through ArtReach)
Simon Brown