Arts and Culture in a Post Pandemic World
From the Super Bowl to Broadway’s biggest hits, Damian Bazadona has joined the front lines of some of the world’s leading brands. His digital agency, Situation Interactive, has worked with many notable brands including , The Metropolitan Opera, HBO, Major League Soccer, and Wicked. His agency has been honored with numerous workplace awards from Crain’s, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune. Cynopsis also honored Damian with the Social Good Leader of the Year and HR Visionary of the Year awards. He has spoken at Advertising Week, Google, Clio Entertainment Creative Fest, the Rubin Museum of Art, BroadwayCon Industry Day, Trending Broadway, Columbia University, and NYU. Damian is also a co-founder of TEDxBroadway, the longest-running TEDx event in the country.
Overview
Through the impact of COVID-19, a lightswitch has been turned off on our collective ability to attend arts and cultural experiences in person across the globe. This disruptive moment in our lives is also creating a disruptive moment in how arts, theatre and cultural organizations will think about delivering experiences as we ultimately move to a post-pandemic world. In this talk, Damian will speak of the expected changes on the horizon for how patrons engage and consume arts, theatre and cultural experiences and how the relationship with the concept of “connection” will need to evolve in a post-pandemic world.