The CLEACC Turns Eighteen

Eighteen years have passed since the birth of the Bachelor in Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication (CLEACC), an event that has to be celebrated, "to validate the program's growth and stability, to look at the past and, above all, to discuss its possible future developments," says Francesca Beccacece, Director of this undergraduate program. The CLEACC birthday party will be on November 10: the event will open at 2pm with a speech at the aula magna of via Gobbi, by Beccacece herself, the Rector Gianmario Verona, Severino Salvemini (CLEACC Director until 2011), Paola Dubini (CLEACC Director from 2011 to 2016) and as keynote speaker, Eugenia Dubini, a Cleacc graduate and the founder of NN Editore.

Next up, at the Velodromo building, in piazza Sraffa 13, four roundtables open to all Bocconi students – not just CLEACC ones – which will have as speakers different CLEACC graduates who are now working in the fields of art, entertainment and culture: at 3.45pm, in room N02 there will be a talk on storytelling, while in room N03 a talk on live performance, community and citizenship (both held in Italian); at 5.45pm, in room N02 they will discuss the rebirth of media - in English-, while in room N03 the citizenship of art –in Italian. At the end of the day, a speed date to meet some CLEACC alumni who will talk about their personal and professional paths, at 7.15pm in the Foyer of the Aula Magna of via Gobbi, and a dinner, at 8pm at the Velodromo bulding.

"I can't wait to participate, I'm very fond of the CLEACC," says Tommaso Tagliabue, a graduate who is now in his second year of the MSc in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment (ACME). "What's amazing about the CLEACC, besides its value in combining economics with the cultural and artistic fields, is the fact of being constantly stimulated by students, who have many different interests, and by professors: in the first year I wanted to work in the field of museums, in the last one I discovered a passion for cinema and the digital world. Anyway, I'm sure that this program will help me to realize my dreams, whatever they are". This happened to Chiara Bonarrigo, who graduated in 2016 and will be one of the speakers at the roundtable on live performances: "Music has always been my passion and I did not want it to remain a simple pastime, that's why I chose the CLEACC," she explains, "And it worked, as I am now Brand Partnership Account at the Italian offices of Universal Music Group".