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As a continuation of IETM's work on fairness and in preparation of our 2026 Fair Arts School, we call on all IETM members and the global performing arts community to share your stories via a survey to help us understand what fairness means in different contexts from all corners of the globe. IETM is collaborating with edgeandstory, headed by ...
The European cultural sector has come together to call on the European Commission, European Parliament and Member States to reinforce the Creative Europe programme in the next EU long-term budget (MFF). The open letter has been endorsed by 70+ European associations, collectively representing close to 20.000 organisations active across the ...
The Antonin Artaud Fellowship has published a catalogue featuring 23 performative works created by independent artists in Ukraine over the past three years. The catalogue is printed in English and Ukrainian and is available for online viewing. You can also request a printed copy through the link. Founded in 2022 by proto produkciia and Opera aperta ...
SIRENOS Festival (Lithuania): Visitors Programme registration open Artistic directors, programmers, curators, scholars, cultural journalists, critics and other theatre professionals are invited to take part in SIRENOS Lithuanian showcase: a queer gaze on the Lithuanian theatre, as observed by its curator, young stage director Naubertas Jasinskas ...
1-7.07.2025 FESTIVAL IN BERLIN! WORKSHOPS, WORKS IN PROGRESS, PERFORMATIVE PITCHES, WEBINARS, CABARET/APERITIF & THREE TRIPLE BILLS! Pitch & Perform is a week-long, multi-venue festival produced and curated by Apricot Productions, taking place on 1–7 July 2025, in Berlin. Blending workshops, webinars, performative pitches, cabaret, and ...
The European Commission’s has just released a special Eurobarometer on Europeans´attitudes towards culture. It brings a very welcomed assurance of the value of culture for us who work in the sector and goes against the enforced renewed tendency for instrumentalisation of culture, in the name of competitiveness and security. 87% of respondents agree ...
The European Union is currently conducting several online consultations with the arts and culture sector in preparation for the next Multi Financial Framework (MFF budget) starting in 2028, as well as about the new EU policy framework for culture entitled the Culture Compass. We encourage our members to take part in the still open consultations ...
We Want More! is inviting theatre artists, with or without disabilities, from the European Union, Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia), Turkey and Ukraine, to join the international workshop "Capacity Building for Inclusion of Theatre Artists", taking place from 12 to 16 September 2025 ...
Thinking like a Beaver: An Artistic Guide to Mountain Forests — with Anna Siekierska 22 May, 2025 18:00 CET - online What connects the mountains with the lowlands? Rivers. Their tangle is like a circulatory and excretory system. It nourishes what is barren, irrigates what has dried up, flushes out accumulated deposits, dissolves pollutants, dilutes ...
OPEN CALL for young artists, educators, youth workers, facilitators, community organisers and activists for a two-week long training in Vác, Metropolitan Area of Budapest, Hungary Academy for Actors of Social Change – focusing on ARTIVISM DATE: 07-22. July 2025 Are you working/studying in the social, educational or the artistic field? Are you ...
