Sending People Like Me to UK

Spent much of the day interviewing candidates for an Arts Managers Placements programme. It's been set up to place bright, ambitious Chinese arts managers (fine art curators, festival programmers, theatre managers, cultural bureacrats like me etc) in UK arts instititions for a period of six weeks this autumn - from museums & cultural agencies to theatres & festivals, ad from London to Liverpool. The idea is that they will become our key arts contacts of the future.  From over 100 applications, we're interviewing 42 in a week-long rota of six per day, and in the end, 20 will go. Exhausting. More here: