Read these interviews: you might find useful tips for your startup venture in the arts: how to find financing, how to manage your first steps in the arts business, what are the lessons learned and success factors! Many thanks to EU-Eastern Partnership Culture&Creativity Programme for arranging these interviews in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Moldova! My partners in Tajikistan, Spain, Lithuania and Bulgaria also deserve special appreciation for their kind invitation to participate in educational and other projects related to cultural management education and beyond, and to express publicly my viewpoint via diverse media!

• Bridges of Public Activity Project Website, Ukraine, Interview with Lidia Varbanova: “Workshop on Cultural and Creative Industries: How, What and What are the Results: Tips from a Famous Business Coach” (March, 2017: In English)

• IGCAT Publications: “Regional Support System for Arts  Entrepreneurship”,  By Lidia Varbanova (March, 2017: In English) 

• Culture Matters online journal, Ukraine: “Lidia Varbanova About Sustainable Development of Cultural Projects” (Dec, 2016: In Russian)

• Azerbaijan News: “How to Make a Cultural Organisation Financially Stable?”, Interview with
  Lidia Varbanova (Nov, 2016: In Russian)

• CIVILNET, Armenia : “Lidia Varbanova: The Essence of Going beyond Borders” (November 2016: In English)

• Diez, Moldova: “Young People do not Accept NO as an Answer When They Start Business” Interview with Lidia Varbanova (October, 2016: In Romanian)

• Open Society Institute, Tajikistan: “The Unique MA Program in Arts Management in Tajikistan: Trends and Challenges in Development of Arts Management Education and Practice in the Country”, by Lidia Varbanova (September, 2016: In English)

• EU Eastern Partnership Culture & Creativity Programme, Kyiv, Ukraine: “Why Entrepreneurship is Related to Innovation in the Cultural Field?” Short Interview with Lidia Varbanova (September, 2016, in Russian)

• Bulgarian National Television, Channel 2: Interview with Lidia Varbanova, Guest Professor at Plovdiv State University, MA Program in Cultural Management (June, 2016: In Bulgarian)

• Klaipeda University, Lithuania: Interview with Lidia Varbanova, Guest Professor (June, 2016: In English and Lithuanian)