Make the project possible
Build a festival budget. Present a proposal to those who might fund it. Organise a production or run a venue. Much of the work happens behind the scenes; it, too, allows the curtain to rise.
A school of cultural and arts management in Paris
AEMC.
Where art meets its audience.
AEMC, the Agence Européenne du Management Culturel, prepares adults to give works of art the means to reach their audience. A school founded in Paris in 2001, with one conviction: helping others’ art come to life is a profession you can learn.
It began on
rue de l’Aqueduc.
In 2001, in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, between the Gare de l’Est and the Canal Saint-Martin. Culture was everywhere: in rehearsals, conversations and projects still taking shape. People were creating, experimenting, dreaming out loud.
Yet behind every work of art, the same question returned: who would open the way to its audience? AEMC grew out of that question, and the desire to educate the people who could answer it.
That purpose has stayed with us: to give artistic work the means to exist and to travel.
One school. One art.
Our field is cultural and arts management. It embraces many professions, connected by a shared purpose: understanding an artistic project, bringing people and resources together, and reaching its audiences.
Begin with your story
Our programmes are for adults: professionals ready to go further, career changers and people developing their own projects. You arrive with experience, a personal journey and questions. Together, we build on that foundation to clarify an ambition, deepen a practice or find the role you want to play.
Learn through practical situations
An idea takes shape through a budget, a schedule and a conversation with a team. In the atelier, we work on these aspects together. You learn to make choices and explain them, while keeping sight of what gives the project its purpose.
Think across Europe
A company, a festival, an idea: each seeks a meeting with others. Our European outlook encourages work across borders, an understanding of different contexts, and the circulation of artistic work, from Paris to Berlin and Lisbon to Brussels.
On stage and behind the scenes.
At AEMC, management and creativity work hand in hand. Like the stage and its wings, or the light and the person who brings it into focus.
More than twenty years on, we still believe this: behind every work of art that moves someone, there is someone who helped make it possible.
AEMC in Paris.
A starting point for your project.
Our campus address is 15 Rue Martel, 75010 Paris. Thinking about further study, a change of career or the next stage in your working life? Write to us to discuss your project and arrange a conversation before visiting.
Find your field
Exhibitions, live performance, music or the development of a venue: explore our cultural management programmes and the projects that run through them.
Let us get to know you
A few lines about your experience and what matters to you are enough to begin. aemc@aemc-culture.com
Your story.
A next chapter to shape.
A project in mind, a practice to deepen, a new direction to explore: discover how we work in the atelier.
Step into the atelier