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President, Kennedy
Centre, Michael M. Kaiser, will be in Lagos on February 7 as part of a
five-country African tour to lead arts management seminars on behalf of
DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Centre.

The event will hold
at the public affairs section of the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos and
will be open to arts, civic and educational leaders. Strategic and
artistic planning, programmatic and institutional marketing,
fundraising, and matters pertaining to building and maintaining
performing arts organisations, will be discussed.

Arts administrators,
Patrick Jude Oteh and Adedoyin Owobamirin, will host the session. The
duo have participated in Kennedy Centre’s Summer International
Fellowship programme, which trains more than 40 arts managers from
approximately 30 countries over three consecutive summers.

The five-country
tour is a continuation of the Kennedy Centre’s international arts
management training. Kaiser has been president of the John F. Kennedy
Centre for the Performing Arts, located in Washington DC, since 2001.

He has expanded the
educational and artistic programming for the nation’s centre for the
Performing Arts. He has also overseen a major renovation effort of most
of the Centre’s theatres and numerous institutions. Some of them
include: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Royal Opera House, London,
American Ballet Theatre, and the Kansas City Ballet.

An expert in arts
management, Kaiser has travelled to Argentina, China, Croatia, Hungary,
Mexico, South Africa, and other countries to train art leaders.

DeVos Institute of
Arts management, formerly the Kennedy Centre Arts Management Institute,
was founded by Kaiser in 2001 and offers practical training to art
managers and board members at all stages of professional development in
the United States and around the world.