Discussion with Anne-Mathilde Di Tomaso (Avignon Festival), Maia Sert (On The Move), Sergio Chianca (Burokultur), Karen Nielsen (Deputy Director of Culture - Région Sud), Geoliane Arab (ONDA) and other speakers to be confirmed.

This session will be live-streamed on Théatre de la Massue's Facebook page.

This physical session in Château de Saint Chamand will be held in French and live-streamed on Facebook as part of IETM Multi-location in Avignon. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Frédéric Poty at frederic.poty@ezequiel-garcia-romeu.com.

A simple get together to kick off the meeting’s activities.

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This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Hong Kong. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Stéphane Noël at ietm@materialise.io.

PLAN B cycle is a Slovenian initiative dedicated to the cultural policies of European cities in the context of the on-going crisis. This session will focus on the relation between culture and space. In order to bring culture back to people, what's the future of public spaces?

We look at public spaces vs cultural infrastructure, physical vs virtual spaces, outdoor vs indoor spaces. How to manage meaningful, exciting and economically viable spaces in safe manner? The debate organised by MOTOVILA Institute in cooperation with the City of Ljubljana will host representatives of municipalities and cultural practitioners from different European cities, and will be moderated by a renowned international expert on cultural policies and the development of creative cities, Ragnar Siil.

Note that this online session requires an additional external registration, which you can access by clicking the button below.

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This session will be held online as part of IETM Multi-location in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Barbara Poček at info@glej.si.

A regional conversation in two parts:

1. How did we deal with Covid in terms of emergency response?
2. How will it impact our industry, particularly in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region? How will we get back on our feet? What will have to change? How will we adapt on the longer run?

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This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Hong Kong. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Stéphane Noël at ietm@materialise.io.

This online session is dedicated to the launch of two Creative Europe projects:

Tele-Encounters: Beyond the Human 

Tele-encouters: Beyond the Human (Teatrul "George Ciprian" Buzău - RO, UCAM - ES, and Industria Scenica - IT) will explore the impact of the Internet, robots, and AI on human relationships, as well as the meaningful integration of these technologies in the arts. 

Thematically, we will look at the emergence of social robots as companions for the elderly in relation to migration and loneliness. Our project seeks to extend the notion of what it means to be human and to understand how theatre practice can change as a result. The project will be framed by researcher Constantin Vică's presentation, "Roboethics for Posthumans".

Festival of Love

Festival of Love (RO partner: Centrul Replika) is an interdisciplinary project involving activities within the fields of music, theatre and dance, linked by the theme of “love”. The music-centred activities will explore a selection of  songs and musical pieces about love in Polish traditions (e.g. Midsummer Night). The theatre activities will focus on Romanian amorous legends, dramas and folk stories. The choreographic performance will explore the Spanish understanding of love – solidarity and unity symbolized in the Sardana dance.

As part of the session, Bianca Floarea from the Romanian Creative Europe Desk will give a presentation on the future of the programme.

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Note that this session will be live-streamed on Facebook (speaker view only), so if you do not want to be seen, please switch off your camera before entering the session.

Participants: Teatrul “George Ciprian” (RO), the Creative Europe Desk (RO), Centrul Replika (RO).

This session will be held online in English on Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Buzău, Romania. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Marina Hanganu at marina.hanganu@gmail.com.

The CAMP roundtable is a set format, created to secure an open, honest and timely conversation based on six specific questions. 

Here, we use a 360-degree perspective, and we investigate the role of the agent, manager and producer as a vital facilitator for development and stability. CAMP allows colleagues to express, share and listen to the challenges and opportunities at hand. 

At previous CAMPS, we have even managed to motivate new sharings, which includes an up-to-date understanding of what the active producers bring to the industry and society. 

At this Danish edition of CAMP, we even reach across generations in a new initiative, meeting arts students from the Department of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University. We do this to motivate critical thinking within possible future Danish producers.

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Maximum capacity of the session: 30 participants

This session will be held online as part of both the 4th edition of CAMP and the online IETM Multi-location in Aarhus. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lene Bang Henningsen at direct@lenebang.org.

The first half of the hour will be a conversation between Irish performing arts programmers and producers on their view of adaptability.

The second half of the hour will be breakout groups for you to discuss some of the issues raised, your own thoughts, and get to meet up with your IETM counterparts. We will leave the Zoom open for informal chat after the end of the session. Bring a cup of tea.

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Password: 877084

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Ireland. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

The idea of de-growth has emerged over the last 15 years dealing with the question whether infinite growth in a finite world is desirable or even possible. It tries to understand the convergence of today’s crises, argues that energetic, environmental, political and existential, economic and social crises are interconnected. It aims at exploring alternative and coherent solutions on different levels.

In the workshop led by Vincent Liegey, a Budapest-based French researcher, we first learn about the basic idea of degrowth, then think together about its implications and opportunities in our arts world.

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This physical session in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Budapest, Hungary. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Luca Kövécs at kovecs@sinarts.org.

Bring your glass of wine/beer/fizzy juice and canape and we will attempt to recreate the reception online as a place to meet your fellow Scottish IETM members, catch up with old pals and meet some folk you might not have met before.

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This session will be held online as part of IETM Multi-location in Scotland, UK. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Anita Clark at anita@theworkroom.org.uk.

Following the digital Multi-location Plenary Meeting of IETM, interested parties have the opportunity to inform themselves about Berlin’s structures within the independent performing arts. Representatives of LAFT Berlin and its two projects, the Performing Arts Festival and the Performing Arts Program, will provide insight into their work and the Berlin community over the course of brief presentations.

In the second part of the event, the participants have the opportunity to get to know each other in breakout rooms and discuss.

To receive the link of this session, please contact directly Nora Wagner at nora.wagner@pap-berlin.de.

This session will be held as part of both the 8th Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry and IETM Multi-location in Berlin.

For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly the Berlin Performing Arts Program on +49 30 / 33 84 54 51 or at branchentreff2020@pap-berlin.de.

Covid-19 has been an opportunity to connect even more Europe and Latin America in a virtual way. 

Now it is time to reflect on how to take advantage of this new connection to create links in more sustainable ways (environmentally and economically) and to maintain this contact between continents.

Agenda
 

1. Exchanging knowledge between Latin America and Europe

Speakers: Rodrigo Zarricueta (Teatro Puerto), Antonio Altamirano (Cielos del Infinito), Francisca Peró (Teatro del Biobío) and David Marin (Nau Ivanow).

2. Sharing the experience: RIEE (Red Iberoamericana de Espacios Escénicos - Ibero-American Performing Arts Centres Network)

Speakers: Veronia Tapia Courbis, Mariano Stolkiner, Miguel A.Lozano, Samuel Sosa and Jacobo Pallarés.

3. Presentation of Iberescena

Speaker: Carlos La Rosa (Iberescena).

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Meeting ID: 865 6187 6564

This session will be held in Spanish but a simultaneous live translation service into English will be offered.

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Barcelona, Spain. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Aina Juanet at aina@nauivanow.com.

On this evening, with the Industry Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Community, the decentralised IETM network meeting as well as the PRALIN cultural exchange, we are opening three of the largest networking events within the independent performing arts on multiple stages simultaneously - the cinema of Centre Français de Berlin as well as via a live radio stream to listeners at home as well as those out and about. 

All of this is enough reason to celebrate glamorously and put on wild (but of course in line with the regulations) media performance – at least, that’s what Gob Squad and Tina Pfurr think, and they have made an artistically inspiring framework for us for this hybrid gala. Together, they will create a live event at the end of which everyone will wish they had stayed at home but will still have managed a three part opening!

This session will be live-streamed on Performing Arts Programm Berlin's website:

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Speakers
Dr. Klaus Lederer (Senator for Culture and Europe, Berlin)
Ása Richardsdóttir (IETM Secretary General)
Florian Fangmann (Centre Français de Berlin)
Simone Willeit (Uferstudios Berlin)
Janina Benduski (Berlin Performing Arts Program)
Chang Nai Wen (LAFT Berlin)
Lucia Kasiarova (Studio ALTA)

Moderators
Tina Pfurr (Ballhaus Ost, LAFT Berlin)
Sebastian Bark (Gob Squad)
Sean Patten (Gob Squad)
Simon Will (Gob Squad)

This session will be held as part of both the 8th Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry and IETM Multi-location in Berlin.

For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly the Berlin Performing Arts Program on +49 30 / 33 84 54 51 or at branchentreff2020@pap-berlin.de.

This speech will be live-streamed on the Facebook event of the local meeting in Montreal.

Martin Faucher was the director of the company Daniel Léveillé Danse from 1994 to 2014. President of the Conseil québécois du théâtre from 2005 to 2009, he worked on the Seconds États généraux du théâtre professionnel québécois, which took place in 2007. He has also contributed his time and skills to the Fondation Gratien-Gélinas, the Centre des auteurs dramatiques and Théâtre Bouches Décousues. Since 2017 he has been a regular guest commentator on the radio show Médium Large, broadcast by Radio-Canada’s ICI Première. An active promoter of theatre and dance, he campaigns for recognition of the work of artists, and ensures that the FTA offers them the best ethical and artistic conditions for the presentation of their works.

Martin Faucher arrived at the FTA in 2006 as an artistic consultant. He worked for eight years with Marie-Hélène Falcon before being named artistic director and co-executive director in 2014. Like his predecessor, his artistic programming reflects an insatiable curiosity for theatre and dance from all over the world, and he is constantly scouting for exciting new works. With a passion for history and driven by a desire to pass on know-how, Martin Faucher is a communicator and a pedagogue much appreciated by many generations of artists. He teaches on a regular basis at the National Theatre School of Canada, which gave him its Gascon Thomas Award in 2018.

This session will be held online as part of IETM Multi-location in Montreal, Canada. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Geoffroy Faribault at diffusion@nadereartsvivants.com.

TPAM Fringe is an open-call program of TPAM (Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama) that introduces over 50 artists/groups to professional participants of TPAM and the local audience.

This panel discussion invites past participants of TPAM Fringe to explore possibilities of this program in the future with TPAM's director, Hiromi Maruoka.

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passcode: 040571

This physical session in BankART Temporary will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Yokohama. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Yukio Nitta (PARC) at nitta@tpam.or.jp.

A quick tour of European presenters, each focusing about a particular aspect of their work. The idea is to share different European methodologies to Asian artists and presenters alike.

Moderator
Faith Tan, Dance House Helsinki, Finland

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This physical session will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Hong Kong. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Stéphane Noël at ietm@materialise.io.

In our corner of Australia we are in lockdown. We’re missing each other, and we’re missing you. So we’re inviting you to Common Ingredients - A digital dinner party with the world!

We’re talking about Zoom-time in the kitchen and the dining room on Friday 2 October from 19:00 to 21:00 AEST, sharing food and creativity with peers and colleagues far and wide, and having conversations about where we are, how we’re traveling and where we might like to go next. 

All participants are requested to organise some common ingredients from which you can prepare your own meal during the meeting (see the list below).

Across the evening we will facilitate small-group interaction to stimulate connections between members, during which we will situate, cook our meals, and eat together. Interspersed (of course!) with some short creative interventions from local members. 

This is a gathering not just for a local South-Eastern corner of Australia, but for us and beyond, well beyond. Maintaining and deepening our links.

Yes this is dinner time in Melbourne. But also an early dinner in Hong Kong, Taipei or Tokyo? Late lunch in Ekaterinburg? Lunch or brunch across Europe? A very early breakfast in São Paulo or a midnight sack in LA? Wherever you are in the world, if you’re awake and hungry, please join us!

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Max capacity:  100 participants

Things to prepare
 

The culinary connector for Common Ingredients is PESTO. 

What’s your thing when it comes to pesto? Pasta or salad? Toast or Eggs? Pecorino or Reggiano? Rocket?

Each of us will be preparing our own own pesto-driven meal. Simple evening pesto pasta? Pesto scrambled eggs for breakfast? Lunchtime vegetable-pesto panini or pesto chicken salad? And of course we all have our own variants on what makes for the perfect pesto. Go your own way and be prepared to share your secrets over the digital dinner table.

Shopping list

• Jar of pesto (make your own? what’s your variant? regional take?)
• Serve of pasta (or equivalent)
• Parmesan cheese (or equivalent)
• Olive oil (or equivalent)
• Salt, pepper etc
• Bottle of wine (or equivalent) *recommended, really!
• Other items as your heart and tastebuds desire

Common Ingredients starts at 11:00 CEST/19:00 AEST and we will be eating by 12:20 CEST/20:20 AEST, so plenty of time for everyone to cook/prepare their version of the pesto festa in their own kitchen over conversations with your international friends.

Yes we’ll all be cooking while we meet, so clear the bench and check the kitchen WiFi!

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Melbourne, Australia. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Xan Colman at xan@aisforatlas.org.au.

When planning a tour, will financial sustainability always win over environmental considerations? Or can we work on making these 2 aspects meet, or at least getting closer to each other?

These questions are becoming even more burning with the exacerbation of the climate crisis and the Covid-19 situation. Bringing (a part of) our work as artists, curators, producers, even theatre technicians to the digital sphere often seems to promise an ultimate solution – what pros and contras can be mentioned for the digitalisation of artistic creation and dissemination?

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Meeting ID: 953 0770 6206

This session was conceived and will be hosted by Placcc Festival and Hodworks.

This physical session in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Budapest, Hungary. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Luca Kövécs at kovecs@sinarts.org.

In times of uncertainty and change, it is essential to discuss the ways to build a culture of resilience and emphasize the significance of solidarity. Due to the pandemic, the performing arts organizations in Turkey and the rest of the world have come to a standstill. Perhaps, it is the perfect time to ask: “What Matters Now?”

This webinar aims to focus on the best practices in relation to resilience in Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European countries, which are in similar situations to Turkey. We will discuss the resilience of performing arts organizations, theatre managers, and the healing effect of performing arts on society during a post-traumatic period.

The programme will be in English but there will be simultaneous interpretation in Turkish.

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Passcode: 588500

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Istanbul, Turkey. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Ayşe Devecioğlu at ayse.devecioglu@tiyatrokooperatifi.org.

This hour, in unprecedented circumstances, Dublin Theatre Festival artists will talk about the work they made for this year’s festival.

Irish Theatre Institute, in partnership with Culture Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival, hosts their annual gathering for Irish theatre artists to pitch their productions to international presenters, and we invite IETM members to sit in and listen. 

For the 27th consecutive year, ITX offers a platform for Irish theatre artists and companies to present their work and exchange ideas and models of working particularly around international touring and collaboration.

To register for this session, please write directly to info@irishtheatreinstitute.ie to book your spot.

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Ireland. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

A tour through Asia-Pacific (APAC) contemporary creations following topical threads, possibly with calls to collaboration.

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This physical session will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Hong Kong. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Stéphane Noël at ietm@materialise.io.

As a co-host of the programme 2020 RAUMFAHRT – Expeditions into the Performing Arts Community, Ulrike Seybold (NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, North Rhine-Westphalia’s State Office for the Independent Performing Arts) will meet Adriana Světlíková (Prague) who coordinates the Prague end of the exchange project PRALIN as program director in the independent performing arts network Nová Sít‘.

Together, they will discuss current challenges facing exchange programs in the arts.

This session will be live-streamed on Performing Arts Programm Berlin's website:

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This session will be held as part of both the 8th Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry and IETM Multi-location in Berlin.

For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly the Berlin Performing Arts Program on +49 30 / 33 84 54 51 or at branchentreff2020@pap-berlin.de.

We aim at stepping out from our performing art frame and tackle the question: how to establish (mutually beneficiary strategic) partnership between artists, producers and environmental organisations, to explore our relationship with landscapes, the science and the heritage, through the medium of art while taking account of major environmental issues?

What can be the benefits of such cross-sectorial collaborations for the environmental organisations and for us (artists and producers)?

Speakers
Thomas Lamers, Collectief Walden, the Netherlands
Diána Berecz, PAD #szabadonbalaton, Hungary
Gergő Halmos, director of Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society, Hungary

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Meeting ID: 953 0424 4906

This session was conceived and will be hosted by Placcc Festival and Pro Progressione.

This physical session in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Budapest, Hungary. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Luca Kövécs at kovecs@sinarts.org.

The industry-related meeting calls upon an active global performing arts community. We invite you to join this community building online session to meet peer to peer and address specific questions, starting from the point “What matters now?”.

The gathering will take off with a provocation rooted in a case addressing the producers' role in society. After this speech, we will explore the matter further in smaller breakout rooms and a feedback session.

In the last 30 minutes of the call, we will invest in socialising and raise a toast to the future! 

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This session will be held online as part of both the 4th edition of CAMP and the online IETM Multi-location in Aarhus. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lene Bang Henningsen at direct@lenebang.org.

Our discussion will start from the premise that every public statement already holds a political stand. And so does theatre. We wish to address the horizons of such political notions. 

How does contemporary theatre reflect the reality around us? Is it enough to merely represent political topics on the stage, or has the time come to fundamentally change the conditions of production and challenge power relations within the creative processes? On which grounds do we create relations with our audiences? Should our reflection on conditions of production already include a vision about involving audiences in the process and thus offer them a platform for the emancipation of their own position? How can we go beyond the notion of us and them, of us performing and then passively receiving in order to come closer to a more equal and community based process? Where is the space for democracy in theatre, especially if wish to overcome the economic transitions of some paying to watch and others being paid to perform? 

How can we deepen the perspectives and reflections of our work? How can we change the world with theatre?

Panelists, all longtime theatre workers, will offer their interesting insight into the perspectives and limitations of politics in theatre.

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This session will be held in English and we will arrange simultaneous translation in Slovene.

This physical discussion in Gledalisce Glej will be live-streamed as part of IETM Multi-location in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Barbara Poček at info@glej.si.

We really have to speak quite urgently about how we work in harmony with nature and how we can and want to continue doing so. The artistic-scientific practice of Gosie Vervloessem from Brussels meets the apocalyptic impulse of Max Gadow (Virtuellestheater).

This session will be live-streamed on Performing Arts Programm Berlin's website:

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This session will be held as part of both the 8th Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry and IETM Multi-location in Berlin.

For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly the Berlin Performing Arts Program on +49 30 / 33 84 54 51 or at branchentreff2020@pap-berlin.de.

Pitching Initiative is a curated session which is an opportunity to hear from five Irish-based theatre companies and artists with work that has received both audience and critical praise and is ready to tour when restrictions allow.

Irish Theatre Institute, in partnership with Culture Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival, hosts their annual gathering for Irish theatre artists to pitch their productions to international presenters, and we invite IETM members to sit in and listen. 

For the 27th consecutive year, ITX offers a platform for Irish theatre artists and companies to present their work and exchange ideas and models of working particularly around international touring and collaboration.

To register for this session, please write directly to info@irishtheatreinstitute.ie to book your spot.

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Ireland. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

The first half of the hour will be a conversation between Irish contemporary performing arts makers with an international outlook. The second half of the hour will be breakout groups for you to discuss some of the issues raised, your own thoughts, and get to meet up with your IETM counterparts. We will leave the Zoom open for informal chat after the end of the session. Bring a drink.

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 Passcode: 934259

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Ireland. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

What if aging was not a problem anymore? What if researchers found “the cure” for this process? What would humanity look like? Part game, part lecture, this participatory performance will let you step into the shoes of a futurist.
 
You can be part of the game by selecting your role:

Futurist (max 6 people)
By selecting the role of Futurist, you agree to participate directly in the development of the action via live written opinions (in English). You need to keep your webcam on at all times and, if you like, you can wear a face filter (you will receive all instructions via email).

Worldbuilder (max 80 people)
By selecting the role of Worldbuilder, you agree to keep your camera and microphone turned off throughout the performance. Your participation will involve voting via Zoom.

Note that in case there are not enough registered participants for each category, the game may be cancelled. Also note that in case too many participants are registered as Futurists, we may reassign some roles as Worldbuilders.

The link to connect to the game was already sent via email to all those who registered already. However, all people who have not registered via the form can join as Worldbuilders, with camera and microphone turned off. All participants will be required to vote via Zoom.

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Duration: approx. 1 h.

This session will be held online in English as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Buzău, Romania. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Marina Hanganu at marina.hanganu@gmail.com.

6 international and national presenters and 5 local artists share their news about what drives them, their projects, their questioning, their way of seeing and approaching the current reality of creation, production and dissemination, as well as its impact on their practice.

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Companies/artists from Canada
Kim-Sanh Chau, dance video, choreographer
Nina Segalowitz, throat singing, musician
Maxime D-Pomerleau, performer, dancer
Ilya Krouglikov, performative installation
Elena Stoodley, songwriter

Presenters
Évoé Sotelo, Director, Danza UNAM, Mexico City)
Diego Aramburo, Artistic Advisor, International Theatre Festival, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Ariane Cuminale, Diretora, Vuela Produção e Criação, Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires
Martin Faucher, Artistic Director, Festival TransAmériques, Montreal
Angela Fumarola, Artistic Director, Festival Inequilibrio, Rosignano Marittimo
Ahmed El-Attar, Festival D-CAF, Le Caire

This session will be held online as part of IETM Multi-location in Montreal, Canada. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Geoffroy Faribault at diffusion@nadereartsvivants.com.