Layers of Curation with Dipti Rao

Dipti Rao (https://in.linkedin.com/in/dipti-rao-20543324)

Dipti Rao is Deputy General Manager of the Prestige Centre for Performing Arts in Bangalore, where she leads programming and operations for the city's newest cultural venue. She has spent her career working across the arts ecosystem — in venue management, festival production, audience development, and cultural programming. Her earlier work includes managing operations at Jagriti Theatre from its inception, coordinating programmes at the Bangalore International Centre, and helping set up and programme The Courtyard, a multi-arts venue in Bangalore. She has also project managed the launch of the Museum of Art & Photography, tour managed five French productions for the Institut Français de l'Inde, and worked as a freelance project manager across festivals including Spoken, Under 25 Summit, and Dhrupad Utsav.

In Mumbai, Dipti spent nearly five years working with leading organisations in the cultural sector — managing the music programme vertical at the British Council across India, producing a comedy festival and a creative industries conference at OML Entertainment, and leading operations at The Art X Company on projects spanning research, audience development, and capacity building. She holds a Master's degree in Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University, which she attended as a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, and participated in SDA Bocconi's inaugural International Program in Arts Management in India in 2019.

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The sequence of events:

- 10.00 am to 10.30 am: Coffee and icebreaker activity

- 10.30 am to 11.15 am: The talk, supported by slides / demonstration / interaction

- 11.15 am to 12.00 pm: Q&A moderated by the host

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