Walker International Communications Group, New York City, and Kape Communications, Melbourne, invite you to take a Bite from the Big Apple! New York Arts & Cultural Management Tour, 3 to 7 October, 2011.

New York opens its doors again to arts managers, producers, cultural brokers, arts educators, community arts workers and curators.

Donna Walke-Kuhne, America’s leader in diverse audience development and Australian multicultural arts marketing company, Kape Communications, manage Bite the Big Apple! New York Arts & Cultural Management Tour.

Now in its fourth year, Bite the Big Apple! New York Arts & Cultural Management Tour is one of the most sought out professional development programs in the arts. This unique program is available to 12 people annually and is highly competitive.

In five days arts professionals hear, see and talk about a range of programming approaches, curatorial issues, income generation, the development of community partnerships and diverse audience development by New York arts industry’s finest.

Donna Walker-Kuhne, America’s leading multicultural arts marketer; Will Maitland, Executive Director Arts and Business Council and Donna Williams, Audience Development Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art among others, will intimately discuss their work with Bite the Big Apple! participants. This is a rare opportunity for all arts and cultural workers.

The tour includes visits to New York arts and cultural organisations, such as, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the famous Apollo Theater of Harlem, Public Theater and Joe’s Pub, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Performance Space 122 and Queens Theater.

Bite the Big Apple! New York Arts & Cultural Management Tour allows arts professionals to learn from and develop links with New York City arts leaders while at the same time experiencing the world's most exciting and diverse arts city, New York.