Kape Communications, headed by Fotis Kapetopoulos, specialises in culturally diverse research, marketing, communications and training in cultural diversity and leadership.
Kape Communications runs the Multicultural Arts Professional Development (MAPD) program, a national leadership program within the MBA Executive at RMIT University. Mr Kapetopoulos was commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts to write Who Goes There? Multicultural Arts Marketing Case Studies, and Adjust Your View: A Multicultural Arts Marketing Toolkit.
Mr Kapetopoulos has spoken at various conferences and symposia on multicultural communications such as; the American Business and Arts Foundation, National Arts Marketing Conference, Chicago IL, Pacific Edge Regional Arts Council Conference and Australian Performing Arts Centres Association and LaSalle College for the Arts, Singapore.
Kape Communications also hosts international speaking tours such as Donna Walker-Kuhne, America's leading multicultural marketing specialist in the arts; Dr Richard Kurin, Director of National Programs from the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC; Jerry Yoshitomi a US expert on cultural and arts participation; Ruud Breteler ex-Artistic Director of Theater Zuidplein, a Rotterdam-based multicultural arts centre; and Donna Williams the multicultural marketing director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Mr Kapetopoulos was the Director of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) from 1992 to 2001, where he also initiated international exchanges with Athens, Mumbai, Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, and Singapore.
Fotis Kapetopoulos was the Senior Policy Advisor for the Italian Community Assistance Association COASIT (2001 – 2002), where he designed a state-wide communications campaign on Alzheimer's and Diabetes Type 2, Una Vita Migliore (A Beautiful Life) targeting seniors in the Italian community.
Kape Communications has developed multicultural focus groups, and advised on communications campaigns for Farmers Union; Merc and Dohne; Victorian Department for Health and Community Services; the Australian Ballet and the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Mr Kapetopoulos was the inaugural Arts Victoria Leadership recipient, and has received internship with the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, as well as an Asialink Arts Management Residency at the National Arts Council of Singapore.
In Singapore, he initiated a Memorandum of Understanding between the Victorian Government and the National Arts Council. He has been the arts representative on the Australian Multicultural Foundation's delegation to the People's Republic of China, hosted by the Ethnic Minorities Commission.
He was a member of the Australia Council for the Arts Multicultural Advisory Committee (2006 – 2008), and the Arts Victoria Victorian Premier and Cabinet International Panel (2204 – 2008).
Fotis is the editor for Neos Kosmos English Edition, a supplement to Australia's leading Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos. |
