Lisa Meyer
Lisa Meyer is the founder and Director of CAPSULE, one of the UK’s most inventive arts organisations and named by the Guardian as ‘maverick’, for over 15 years Lisa has achieved results for clients, stakeholders, artists and audiences garnering extensive media coverage and contributing to the city’s place-making agenda. Outward looking and highly collaborative, turning audience development on its head by placing the audience at the core of the work curated.
Capsule crafts extraordinary cultural events for adventurous audiences, a cultural alchemist: an innovative arts producer initiating, commissioning and producing multi disciplinary work, which includes festivals, events, artist development and partnerships with a range of organisations. Projects have included producing the 4 month opening season for the largest public library in Europe at a high profile moment for the new Library and the City that employed 469 artists and attracted a diverse audience of 1.2 million. Other work has been for the Royal Shakespeare Company, UK Trade and Investment and Dazed. As well as creating and producing their own projects including the groundbreaking heritage project Home Of Metal (delivered across 15 venues and achieving a press value of over £1 million and an estimated economic impact of £2.69 million), shortlisted for a National Lottery Heritage award. Supersonic Festival, one of the leading experimental music events in the UK, now in it’s 11th year which draws audiences, performers and industry from across the globe.
