Experience & skills
The wider track record.
Everything behind the three case studies — festivals run on the ground, EU and community work, the operations roles that taught me how organisations actually function, and what I can do with them.
Festivals & live events
Coordination & production, Greece
TAF — Thessaloniki Animation Festival
2016 / 2017 / 2019
Volunteer coordinator for Northern Greece's only animation festival (~3,000 film submissions and 2,500+ visitors a year in the years I worked on it) — ran the full volunteer cycle: recruiting, interviewing and matching people to roles, a training manual with per-role job descriptions, shift schedules across stations, participation tracking, and reporting to funders.
Festival site
Select Respect Festival
Nov 2019
Volunteer coordination across a four-day human-rights film festival with 3,000+ competition entries, run by a nine-member NGO network coordinated by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
Heinrich Böll Stiftung — 2019 programme
GreenWave Festival
2016 / 2019
Volunteer coordination across a four-day eco-festival with 50+ organisations and an eco-bazaar of 100+ producers.
Festival site
International concerts · Παλιό FIX / Old FIX
2015
Ran the parallel programme and catering around Dub Inc, Parov Stelar Band, and Thievery Corporation.
Parallaxi — Parov Stelar at the venue, June 2015
Rockwave Festival
2015
Volunteer management at one of Greece's biggest festivals — Terra Vibe Park, Malakasa.
Πενία Τέχνας / Penia Technas
2011 – 2016
Multi-role support, performer, and sound assistant at a recurring municipal festival.
EU & community
Funding, solidarity & service
Empowerment Foundation — Funding & Partnerships
2023 – 2024
Started the foundation's funding work from scratch — a role that didn't exist before. Researched EU and private funding calls, developed partner relationships, and did the groundwork for a monthly job fair in Leiden.
Foundation site
FOOD-Y — Erasmus+ cooperation project (support)
2024
Supported Fix In Art's part in FOOD-Y, an EU-funded Erasmus+ cooperation partnership led by partners in Sweden and Italy. I helped where the Greek side needed it — translating materials into Greek and preparing the documents for the local workshop in Epanomi.
Erasmus+ project record
TEH #98 Camp Meeting — assisting (Trans Europe Halles)
Oct 2024
Helped behind the scenes when Fix In Art hosted this international gathering of European cultural centres (10–13 October 2024, Epanomi). I prepared some of the texts and did small administrative work on the database documents, supporting the team wherever they needed an extra hand.
Trans Europe Halles — event page
Μπορούμε / Boroume — food rescue
2018 – 2023
Coordinated food and supply distribution through Fix In Art's partnership with Greece's leading food-rescue NPO — a fixed weekly pickup from two donor branches to a community kitchen, sustained for years because the pickup always happened. Partnerships survive on reliability.
Boroume
Black Canvas — Erasmus+ youth exchange
2019
Coordinator and participant on an Erasmus+ youth exchange in Latvia (18–26 May 2019) — a week of art workshops (ceramics, painting) closing with a public exhibition of the participants' work.
ΚΕΑΤ / KEAT — theatre with blind children
2019
Coordinated an inclusive summer-school theatre performance at Greece's only public institution for the visually impaired.
Operations & content
The systems behind the scenes
Live sound & technical operations
2014 – 2024
The layer underneath every event — AV inventory, production liaison, and setup and teardown across the Old FIX Brewery (est. 1888), a multi-space venue of theatre, exhibition halls, library and workshop rooms. Engineered live sound from intimate bars to HELEXPO's 27,000 m² Asterokosmos park — for Greek artists including Βαγγέλης Γερμανός and Κατερίνα Στικούδη, and on the parallel programme around international acts such as Dub Inc, Parov Stelar Band and Thievery Corporation.
Trans Europe Halles — member venue
Recruiter & HR coordinator · Fix In Art
2022 – 2024
Built the recruitment function a growing non-profit never had — the whole pipeline, from sourcing internationally (interns.org, Youth for Europe, LinkedIn) through screening, interviewing and selection, into onboarding and mentorship. Wrote the organisation's first procedure book of email templates, workflow manuals and standardised processes; it was still in use after I left.
EU Youth Portal — accredited Hosting & Supporting organisation
Arts Administrator & Operations Coordinator
2015 – 2017
Ran budgeting, scheduling, logistics, and day-to-day office operations for theatre productions at the Fix In Art venues.
With Elli — creator & facilitator
2025 – present
My current independent practice — a registered trade name (KVK), publishing guides in three languages (English, Dutch, Greek) and facilitating workshops online and in person in Leiden. withelli.com
Floating Orb Productions — Ops Assistant
2022
Built and ran the Notion backbone — content calendars, advertiser database, invoicing, and outreach — for an independent media channel.
Volunteer to board member · Fix In Art
2015 – 2024
Grew from volunteer to a seat on the board of this non-profit promoting education and human rights through art — staying nearly a decade, across nearly every department.
European Youth Portal — organisation record
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Skills, languages & learning
What I do
Project & programme coordinationEU programmes (Erasmus+, ESC)Funding research & applicationsEvent productionVolunteer coordinationRecruitment & onboardingBudget trackingLogistics & schedulingPartner & stakeholder communicationReporting & documentationLive sound & technical ops
Tools
NotionTrelloNextcloudMicrosoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)Google WorkspaceGTD methodSocial media management
Languages
GreekNative
EnglishFluent · professional
DutchActively learning · I publish written guides in Dutch
Education
Music & Optoacoustic Technologies — coursework
Hellenic Mediterranean University · 2016–2021
Performing Arts & Drama
Vassilis Diamantopoulos Drama School · 2012–2014
Music Technology — certification
I.E.K Delta (Institute of Vocational Training) · 2014–2016
Learning & certification
Project Management Principles & Practices
Coursera / UC Irvine — Specialisation · 2023
Project Management Foundations
LinkedIn Learning — 7-course series · 2023
Advan+AGE — Intergenerational Work
SGRIM e.V. · 2023
Sexual Education & Psychology of Young Relationships
K.E.DI.VI.M — Panteios University · 2021
Get in touch
Let's talk about your next programme or event.
If you're a cultural or mission-driven organisation looking for someone to coordinate the work and make the room run — I'd love to hear from you.
© 2026 Elli Zafeiridou Georgiadou · Project & Programme Coordinator · Design with thanks to George Zafeiridis