chrissie

chrissie tiller works as a facilitator, a trainer, a coach, a teacher, a chairperson, a listener, a speaker, an advocate, a problem solver, an enabler, a performer, a mentor, a provoker and a shaper - in the arts, in higher education, in cultural policy and in business

chrissie works in the UK and internationally: she is currently working as the lead consultant on the Creative Collaboration programme in SE Europe for the British Council.  Other work in the past six months this has included consultancy and projects in Japan, Russia, Germany, Latvia, USA and Portugal

chrissie tiller associates is a group of like-skilled and like-minded people who work with her

Profile

Chrissie has lead a number of highly respected strategic programmes in Central & Eastern Europe, the EU, the UK and Japan, giving her a unique international profile as an advocate for the role of the arts and culture in social, political and economic change. These include:

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  • Founding Director - Transmission - trans-national partnership focused on training and employment of visual and performing artists.
  • Joint Creative Director - Art of Regeneration. National Theatre arts and culture led regeneration programme, based at Albany Deptford, focusing on partnership between a large cultural institution and the local community.
  • Programme Director - Seeding a Network. Establishing strategic network of change leaders in performing arts in Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova.

  • Programme Director - Branching Out. Job-shadowing, exchange programme for teachers/artists working with young people in C & E Europe, leading to introduction of Drama in the Curriculum in partner countries.

And:

  • Arts & Culture Advisor Improving Inter-ethnic Relations in C & E Europe for King Baudouin Foundation. training of cultural leaders and project development in Baltics and South-East Europe.

  • Senior Associate/Advisor Art for Social Change - for the European Cultural Foundation. Programme for artists working with young people confronted by violence in Baltics and the Balkans post 1995.

Consultancy and freelance includes:

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  • Arts and cultural policy consultant for clients including the British Council - Japan and Poland, EFAH, Setagaya Public Theatre, Kunstenaars&Co, KulturKontakt, European Cultural Foundation, Theatre Day Productions/PNA (Palestine), Council of Europe and in UK NESTA, ACE, Creative Partnerships, Head Teacher’s Institute, NW Arts, DCMS.
  • Arts based trainer leading courses in Leadership, Personal Impact, Creative Thinking, Networking and Influencing for - Theatreworks, Theatre4Business and CTA. Clients include Investec, Mars, PWC, Barclays, BUPA, NHS, BBC, Smith & Williamson, McKinsey, Vivendi, Morgans Hotel Group and MBAs.
  • Trainer of trainers running practice based workshops in Japan, Palestine, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands UK and 15 countries in C & E Europe: currently developing accredited programme with Setagaya Public Theatre, Japan.
  • Keynote speaker, chair and facilitator including EFAH, Inter-cultural Dialogue, ELIA Biennial Ghent, European Council of Artists, Amsterdam; Artworks, Graz, Arts & Regeneration, East Midlands Arts, Arts across Borders, N Ireland, Almost Real (Art & Society), Utrecht, Artists Training, LEAP London, Drama in Education, Palestine, Belgrade, Paris, Maastricht, Artists in Society, Warsaw, Arts in Intercultural Education, Graz and Warsaw. A Visible Profession? - CPD for artists, London.
  • Creative producer and founder V Day UK- including V Day at the Vic and the Albert Hall, fund-raising performances of Vagina Monologues and nation-wide campaign programme focusing on charities supporting women & children confronted by violence including advocacy at a national level.
  • Theatre director/ writer/producer in Theatre in Education: including two award-winning theatre pieces and published practical guidelines to process and performance in arts with young people.
  • Board member: Eunetart (President), Writernet (Chair), Art for Social Change, Sphinx Theatre, Head for Business, STEP, Jackson's Lane (Chair)