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Proto produkciia foundation, in partnership with the Ukrainian-Danish Youth House in Mykolaiv, with support of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is opening applications for a five-day residency in Moldova for early- and mid-career performing arts professionals from Ukraine (Mykolaiv region), Moldova, and Sakartvelo. In contexts that can no ...
Dear international colleagues, please join Perform Ukraine 2026 in Kyiv on 16–17 September, followed by the Tanzplan Ukraine Forum on 18 September. Organised for the fourth consecutive year by Creative Europe Desk Ukraine in collaboration with Impulse Transformation Platform , Perform Ukraine 2026 brings together Ukrainian and international ...
The freedom of art has its price. Despite the financial crisis, Divadelná Nitra Theatre Festival will open its 35th edition with Macbeth from Kyiv torn by war The festival that has been shaping Central Europe's cultural landscape for the past 35 years will launch its jubilee edition with no state grant support. For the first time in Slovak Arts ...
"Women bring the same Power, Discipline, and Artistry to the Performing Arts as anyone else" Led by Association InDance International, Skill Up and Bruiser we present our 2 year project funded by European Union on Equality in the Performing Arts Dance, Media and Theatre. Project ID: 2024-1-ES01-KA210-VET-000248043 Description: For women working in ...
Divadelná Nitra is inviting young theatre critics to join its V4@Theatre Critics Residency during the Festival's 35th, jubilee edition. The residency brings emerging critics from across Central and Eastern Europe to Nitra to follow the Festival's main programme under the guidance of international lecturers. It combines analytical seminars, a ...
Some of you may recall our earlier post about the funding crisis facing Divadelná Nitra this year — for the first time in its 35-year history, the Slovak Arts Council granted the Festival zero support for its jubilee edition. We're glad to share some good news since then. Thanks to a rescue fund on the StartLab platform, supported by 165 donors so ...
The amendments to the AgoraEU draft report have now been submitted by the members of the European Parliament, marking an important milestone in the negotiations. While this is not yet the final stage of the process, the overall picture is encouraging: the performing arts are now far more visible in the text than they were in the original proposal ...
On Friday, 3 July, IETM Secretary General Ása Richardsdóttir took part in a panel discussion entitled ' From Funding to Decisions: How culture becomes strategy ' which was held as part of the international outdoor theatre festival Deventer Op Stelten. The panel explored ways for arts and culture to enter the circles of structural decision making ...
Did you miss out on one or more IETM publications? Always planned to read or listen but never had the time? Then our summer reading list is for you! From our brand new Global Connect's podcasts, latest research on artistic freedom, fair pay and climate justice to our visionary publication on how to collaborate internationally, Against All Odds ...
OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMANCES SPAM Studios invites artists and theatre companies from both Bulgaria and abroad to apply for the seventh edition of the Festival of Authorial Theatre (FAT), taking place from 27–29 November 2026 in Sofia, Bulgaria. For us, authorial theatre is not defined by genre or method. We understand it as a theatrical practice that ...
