Management of Performing Arts Program is a 4 year BA program in the Faculty of Communication at Istanbul Bilgi University.

This program aims at training future cultural managers capable of developing and managing sophisticated sustainable artistic and cultural institutions and projects. Students are trained in managerial skills, and are encouraged to blend an analytical and critical approach to culture and arts with creativity. The program emphasizes analysis, creation, and planning of cultural events. In addition, students participate in the production of such events in cooperation with professionals and academics. 

Students have the opportunity to deepen their studies in one of the cultural and artistic fields and combine this with managerial skills by becoming familiar with diverse institutions that make up the complex field of the culture industry. This includes public and private sectors as well as voluntary and other non-profit organizations. 

The Management of Performing Arts program will have a central role at all levels of management of SANTRAL ?STANBUL which is a project of Istanbul Bilgi University for transforming Ottoman Empire’s first power station into a museum of contemporary arts and a cultural and educational centre. Creating an interface for interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue through residency and exchange programmes in the fields of culture, arts and new media is among the project’s principal objectives. Both students and graduates of Management of Performing Arts will be working in various departments and projects of SANTRAL ISTANBUL