Donna Close
Freelance
Key Expertise: Audience Development, Bid-writing/Fundraising
Donna is a cultural strategist and creative producer working across the public and private sector, higher education, local government, SMEs, community and voluntary sector. A public engagement and audience experience specialist, Donna devises and produces strategic cultural programmes, festivals and policy and advises on strategy at city, region and national levels. As a senior researcher at the University of Brighton, Donna leads on innovation development and cultural value especially relating to immersive tech and live experiences. She also makes immersive film, 360 film and screen based installation work as part of Driftwood.
Donna has raised more than £8million of funding for cultural programmes from national and European cultural funding sources and works closely with businesses on knowledge exchange in the creative economy and cultural society.
Donna is a cultural strategist and creative producer working across the public and private sector, higher education, local government, SMEs, community and voluntary sector. A public engagement and audience experience specialist, Donna devises and produces strategic cultural programmes, festivals and policy and advises on strategy at city, region and national levels. As a senior researcher at the University of Brighton, Donna leads on innovation development and cultural value especially relating to immersive tech and live experiences. She also makes immersive film, 360 film and screen based installation work as part of Driftwood.
Donna has raised more than £8million of funding for cultural programmes from national and European cultural funding sources and works closely with businesses on knowledge exchange in the creative economy and cultural society.