About us

A team of professionals supporting cultural organisations, institutions and projects.

What we do

BAM! develops innovative paths for museums, festivals, libraries, theatres, cities, regions and networks, with the aim of facilitating and expanding access to culture.

It provides cultural organisations with the expertise of consultants, planners, trainers, communication and marketing experts to help them develop the most effective strategies, focus on objectives, study feasibility and sustainability, monitor results and evaluate the impacts of actions.

Audience development, audience analysis and impact assessment; participatory and co-design paths; communication and identity building services; digital transformation and strategic data usage support: these are the areas where BAM!’s experience can make a difference.

How we do it

We have developed our own vision, which we put into practice in our projects.

We are always striving to:

break down walls and barriers that keep people out of places of culture, bring communities closer to their heritage, develop a sense of pride in community assets and build increasingly open, inclusive and welcoming cultural spaces;
do away with top-down approaches in organisations, convince institutions to let go of some of their power and hybridise their skills, bring in new ideas and encourage a more open-minded attitude towards exploring practices from outside the cultural sector;
boost the quality of communication and cultural marketing, both tools that are still underestimated within our institutions, facilitating their proper usage and bringing an end to comparisons between real and digital;
focus on the public, dialogue and involvement, an awareness of the demand and its needs, while also ensuring that the reasoning is all about the offer, the content and the development of new and increasingly relevant cultural products;
innovate, in a very practical sense: fighting against organisational inertia on a daily basis, making an effort not to do things “in the same way they’ve always been done,” trying to change routines, even if just by a millimetre.

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Team

Federico Borreani

Consultancy and Strategy Manager

Federico is a regular theatregoer, but spends more time looking at the audience than the actors. He also goes to a lot of concerts, but only to sing. Here at BAM! he comes up with, writes out and plans audience development processes for cultural institutions, from audience surveys to engagement activities.

Francesca Lambertini

Audiences and Impacts Manager

Francesca writes and manages plans for BAM!, monitoring resources, budgets, times and impacts. Having a clear idea about what point we’re at helps her to understand what isn’t working. This allows us to adjust our aim, measure our energy levels and maximise our results: a bit like in sport, strictly team sports of course.

Rosanna Spanò

Participation and Co-design Manager

Having studied cultural management and specialised in European planning, she is always guided by her tireless curiosity, burning off her excess energy on long bike rides. Her background as a scout leader makes her a perfect team leader for BAM!’s workshops and training sessions.

Elena Bertelli

Communication and Digital Strategy Manager

Proud of her origins in Copparo and her degree in contemporary art history, Elena has always worked hard to uphold and promote creative talents. Here at BAM! she plans and monitors communcation, digital strategy and cultural marketing processes on a day-by-day basis.

Federico Rasetti

Consultancy and Strategy

Having grown up backstage at concerts (and fed plates of cappelletti), he specialises in the European live music sector and the development of cultural enterprise network projects. He attended a business development course at Bocconi and is a certified sustainability manager.

Simona Canè

Communication and Identity Building

Simona is a through-and-through Bolognese who loves mixing history and design, tradition and technology. With a degree in Communication & Marketing, she has worked for a number of communication agencies and brand design firms. Here at BAM! she plans and supervises the coordinated image and visuals for cultural projects and institutions.

Vanessa Gregorin

Participation and Co-design

Grown up in Friuli, immersed in contemporary dance and youth associations, she gets excited when she has little to do. After studying Public Relations, she moved to Bologna to explore the connections between communication and the performing arts. At BAM! she is especially involved in participation and co-design projects.

Martino Catalani

Consultancy and Strategy

With a past as a bass player, he came to Bologna to study cultural management. In his free time he likes to involve unsuspecting friends in long and tiring treks. Always on the edge of restlessness, always looking for new incentives, he is an all-round support figure for BAM!.

Alice Benassi

Audiences and Impacts

Grown up in the lowlands of Reggio Emilia and having attended art school, she infiltrated the chic circles of Bocconi University to study management for art and culture. Idealistic to the core, she always reads the newspaper in the morning to turn every conversation into a topical debate. At BAM!, she works on cultural planning.

Giuditta Vegro

Consultancy and Design

From literature to design, contemporary art to opera, there is nothing that doesn’t capture her interest. Always ready to explore new horizons and take on creative challenges, here at BAM! Giuditta comes up with dynamic projects and plans pathways alongside partners and clients.

Benedetto Puccia

Communication and Digital Strategy

He moved from Castelbuono to Bologna to study Art Education and Communication to start with, before going on to study Cultural Management. Benedetto loves music, pasta with pesto and the stupidest jokes possible. He primarily deals with communication for BAM!

Chiara Gramaccioni

Communication and Digital Strategy

Originally from Le Marche, like the best footwear, she arrived in Bologna after a master’s degree in cultural management. She mainly deals with communication projects for BAM!, jumping from one editorial plan to another.
She spends her free time reading comics, exploring museums and attending concerts – strictly heavy metal!

Matilde Sproccati

Communication and design

Born and raised in Bologna, in her free time she loves to run and organise her next trip. After graduating in the Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities in Venice, she became involved with UNESCO heritage. At BAM! she is mainly involved in communication and digital strategy projects and in devising new paths for clients.

Marta Multinu

Participation and Co-design

Born and raised in Sardinia, she has lived in Bologna since 2017. Here, after graduating in Arts, Music and Entertainment, she attended the Postgraduate Course for Cultural Innovators. Keenly interested in the connections between regions, culture and communities, she mainly deals with participation and co-design for BAM!

Benedetta D’argenzio

Audiences and Impacts

She comes from Milan originally but her heart is divided between Venice and Bologna. She has a degree in the Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities and spends her free time writing articles and listening to black music. She works on the analysis and impact assessment of cultural projects and organisations for BAM!

Pietro Mantovani

Communication and Marketing Strategy

A somewhat unlikely fan of the most outspoken hip hop music, Pietro has a degree in philosophy and specialises in Digital Strategy and Cultural Project Management. He lives in Ancona, a city that he loves, leaving it on a regular basis purely to enjoy his return home. Here at BAM! he looks after Social Media Management.

Alessandro Scorsino

Administration and Management control

A political scientist and economist, he is in charge of administration and accounting at BAM!
As an aspiring theatre actor, he believes that art and culture will save the world. A lover of nature and hiking, he loses himself in long reflections in search of a way to leave the planet better than he found it.

Since 2009, the following people have also worked with, assisted and advised BAM!:

Sara Garagnani, Gianluca Montebuglio, Sara Pes, Michelangelo Greco, Susanna Lupi, Luca Scandurra, Sabrina Cascino, Anna Albieri, Francesco Tonelli, Greta Ortalli, Massimo Finistrella, Silvia Basso, Gaia Paruto, Federica Scalera, Alice Merenda Somma, Nicola Manzoni, Davide Baruzzi, Davide Barbarello, Tommaso Sorichetti, Rossella Napolitano, Paolo Spagnoletti, Alina Gasperini, Alessio Chiappi, Lucia Baruzzi, Francesco Paolo Rolfo, Miriam Calabrese, Sofia Calzavara, Francesca Pedone, Giulia Albanese, Angela Donati, Danilo Politi, Giulia Couzzi, Lucia Giannini, Alice Balerna, Giovanna Dell’Aqua, Davide Marchiori, Noemi Tarantini, Dario Matassa, Lorenzo Vercelli, Maddalena Meneghetti, Stefani Cognata, Eleonora Fraternali, Chiara Sagramola, Marta Moretto, Giulia Taurino, Davide Blasig, Chiara Bernasconi, Margherita Gagliardi, Pietro Passarelli, Alice Brignani, Damiana Senette, Giulia Dal Pont, Andrea Berna, Martina Lodi, Sandro Pasqual, Enzo Bevar, Elisa Paluan, Federica Onofri, Sara Bonini Baraldi, Simone Napolitano.