Abdoulaye Sy Profile
Cultural Mediation and Management
Cultural projects I consider myself to be dynamic, competent, motivated, flexible and available. My communication and teamwork skills are excellent. My personal experiences and my various travels have allowed me to develop my qualities of adaptation in a professional environment.
Training
Master 1 in Cultural Management and
Cultural Administration
Higher Institute of Art and Culture (ISAC), Dakar
from September 2023 to date
Information
personal
Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Commercial Actions Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (ESP), Dakar
from September 2008 to August 2011
Baccalaureate
Mbao High School, Dakar
from Oct. 2006 to Jul. 2007
Abdoulaye Sy
Telemarketing, Interview technique, call center
profession
GRC Group, Dakar
Call center training. During this training I strengthened my skills in telemarketing, personal development and interview techniques
from Feb. 2017 to March 2017
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Keur Massar, Dakar-Senegal Professional experiences September 15, 1986
Administration officer, responsible for Cultural
Mediation and communication Théodore Monod
Museum of African Art/Ifan, Dakar
I was recruited in January 2021 as an Administrative Officer by IFAN (Fundamental Institute of Black Africa), but at the Théodore Monod museum I am in charge of cultural mediation. Participates in the management and preventive conservation of the museum's collections. Exposure mediation. I am also in charge of the museum's communication by managing all pages on social networks (Facebook, Instagram etc.), contacting journalists, making press releases, managing the mailing list. I am also responsible for coordinating activities aimed at young audiences.
from Jan 2021 to date
Dakar
male
Senegalese
Bachelor
SKILLS
Cultural Mediation and communication
THEODORE MONOD MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART OF DAKAR/IFAN, Dakar Mediator during the exhibition “Master Lamine Guèye, Pan-African Itinerary”, initiated by the Association for the perpetuation of the thought and work of President Lamine Guèye
Mediator during the PARTCOURS 2018 exhibition which presented the visual artists Kiné Aw and Camara Guèye, coordinator of the “READING MARATHON” organized in partnership with the ARTXALEYI association. Responsible for programming the activities which take place every month in the museum's mediation space. Member of the scenography team for an exhibition on Ceramics and another on Transmission. Coordinator of activities and communication for the 10th Edition of FESMIR
from Oct 2018 to Aug 2019
Assistance in the
conceptualization/the
development and
project management
Manage programs within
Senegal
Assistance in
administrative tasks
Communication
Translated from French to English - www.onlinedoctranslator.com Animation of workshops
artistic and cultural Cultural Mediation and communication THEODORE MONOD MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART OF DAKAR/IFAN, Dakar In this institution, I participated in the health monitoring of exhibition spaces, in the inventory of works located in the Museum's reserves. During the events organized by the museum, I handled handling and actively participated in the organization. I also had the opportunity to be at the heart of the organization of the International Mirror Festival of Dakar-Plateau (FESMIR 9th edition), initiated by the artist Mamadou Ndiaye THIA.
I was also in charge of the museum's communication through social networks
(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), at the same time also during the meeting and exchange days organized by the museum and even during the last international biennial of Dakar 2018, I was in charge of everything that involved taking images
(photos) and then using them as communication content. from Feb. 2018 to July 2018
preventive conservation
Exposure mediation
LANGUAGES
French
English
Pulaar
Wolof
Mediator
Afrika Art, Dakar
I worked with the Afrika Art Culture structure during the DAK'ART 2016 Biennale at the exhibition "Retrospective of the Signe Africain collection" by the artist Mamadou NDIAYE-THIA at the Sokhamone Hotel, as a Mediator. from May 2017 to May 2017
German
Hobbies
Sales manager
COMMUNICATION MARKERS
Within this company I made field trips every day for prospecting, making appointments, sales interviews, taking orders, deliveries, collections and customer relationship management (CRM). ) and managed a team of three (3) salespeople. from Sep 2017 to Oct 2017
Reading
Sport
Mind games
Travel
Commercial
Seck & Co Company, Dakar
In this company, I was prospecting and selling a new toothpaste called SIWAK. Our targets were supermarkets, wholesalers, semi-wholesalers and individuals. from Dec. 2016 to Jan 2017
Music
Educational monitor
AFI- UE Corporate University located in Zone B, Dakar Responsible during these holiday camps for more than 150 children. I organized programs/activities and planned fun and educational excursions. from August 2016 to September 2016
Program Coordinator
ImagiNation Arfika, Dakar
In this structure I participated in the drafting of projects, I developed budgets, I targeted potential partners. I had to obtain and organize meetings with our partners, and approach schools that would participate in our programs. Organize, plan and achieve the objectives of programs in the regions, meet the directors of regional cultural centers to establish a partnership, meet the administrative authorities, manage logistics, animation and facilitation of activities. I can go out into the field to make displays, organize meetings with television and radio stations.
from Oct. 2014 to May 2016
Internships
Commercial Counsellor
Kiréne-Orange, Dakar
Prospecting to target potential customers, sell telephone chips, collect information and report it.
from March 2009 to May 2009
Commercial Counsellor
OSCO, Dakar
OSCO is a service provider company specializing in the field of travel advice and pre-registrations for students. I went down into the field to do prospecting and gathered information.
from Jan. 2012 to Apr. 2012
Scenography, Art object photography and
cultural mediation
RMN Grand Palais France, Paris
I was in Paris as part of an FSPI from the French embassy in Senegal. This project consisted of providing capacity building internship opportunities to agents of the IFAN museums and the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar. The areas in which we received training are art object photography, exhibition scenography and cultural mediation.
from June 2023 to Oct. 2023
Extra-professional activities
Program coordinator
ArtXaleYi, dakar
I am part of a structure called ArtXaléyi/ Nitthéâtre. This association is active for the social protection of children and young people through art. But also strengthen the participation of children and young people in community development through cultural action. Contribute to the education and development of children and young people by implementing alternative training modules in order to broaden the scope of possibilities in the training of children and young people. Create and disseminate artistic projects for the social and professional integration and reintegration of children and young people in vulnerable situations.
from May 2016 to Dec. 2023
Achievements
Travel to Nigeria for a professional visit to the Yemesi Shyllon Museum and to South Africa, as part of the Museum Futures Africa: Rethinking African Museums project.
Participation in an artistic residency at the Galerie le Manège as part of the MÔMA project: In February 2015, the gallery "Le Manège" became a multidisciplinary place of creation dedicated to children and hosted shows, object theater and creation and manufacturing workshops. An exhibition dedicated to puppets was also inaugurated there on February 17, an exhibition which ended on March 31. Video reference: (https://youtu.be/qZUoHMBJLJI?si=Yx0kmbj2PdYQpg1F ) References
Dr. El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
Head of the IFAN Museums Department and curator of the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art/IFAN, Dakar
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Dr. Babacar Mbaye Diop
Director of the Higher Institute of Art and Culture, Dakar