The Culture Accelerator is a focused, comprehensive framework for training cultural entrepreneurs. It is aimed at achieving the broad vision of flourishing, sustainable, high-quality local culture in the Negev region by helping enterprises build their foundations when they are just getting started out.
The first round of the program was launched in May 2020 in collaboration with the Rothschild Cube and with the funding and support of the Mack Ness Fund.
A diverse group of 14 cultural entrepreneurs from all over the Negev took part in the first round, receiving six months of personal guidance and tools to help them realize their initiatives, including training in various areas such as creating a budget, mobilizing resources, branding, marketing, and more.
Learn more about the initiatives that took part in the first round.
Steering Committee
Odelia Karutchi - Director, Mack Ness Fund, ISRAEL
Oren Amit - Culture and Arts Manager in Arad Culture Center
Yair Nagid - Head of the Municipality Cultural Administration and General Director of the Performing Art Center, Kivunim - Be'er Sheva
Adi Wolfson - Poet, Professor of Chemical Engineering, active in cultural NGOs
Einat Doron - Attentive Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Training Development
Keren Dayan Shwartz - Social business consultant
Reshef Benisti - Entrepreneur and producer of cultural events, Spark Marketing Israel
CEO, Spark Marketing
Shira Lapidot - Director of MA Program, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Cultural Studies, Creativity and Production, Sapir Academic College
