IETM's Summer Reading List
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, here is our short collection of resources for you to enjoy during the summer.
You can find and scroll the full archive of IETM resources here.
- IETM Global Pod (2026) - Across five episodes, we explore collective memory and displacement through performance, how to create art in marginalised contexts, and how to support Indigenous communities and emerging creators. Each episode delivers fresh ideas and conversations between two Global Connectors and one IETM member that help you learn, reflect, and stay inspired. Listen here
- Connecting the Dots: Fair Arts Practice in Contexts (2026) - Explore what ‘fair practice’ really looks like in the lived experiences of artists and cultural workers with case studies from Cambodia, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea. Read & listen here
- Between Rhetoric and Reality: Cultural Rights, Artistic Freedom, and Democratic Resilience (2026) - In this first report published as part of the Performing Arts Coalition, discover grounded insights and policy recommendations on how to protect artistic freedom, cultural participation, and cultural rights in the performing arts in Europe and beyond.Read & listen here
- Cross-Border Collaboration In The Performing Arts (2026) - Deep dive into this second report published as part of the Performing Arts Coalition, and discover key trends and needs in funding and how international collaboration can be reimagined, strengthened, and sustained in these fragile times. Read here
- The New International - Against All Odds (2025) - This paper has been among the most widely read IETM resources in 2025/2026 and it deep dives into our work from the past years and lays a foundation for their vision of the future. Learn about the ‘Six Axes for the New International in the Performing Arts’ and use this publication to reflect and develop your own perspectives on how to reimagine international collaboration in the performing arts. Read & listen here
Look Back:
- Fair Pay in the Arts: The talk of the town or the elephant in the room? (2024) - Learn about successful practices that public funders, artists, unions, resource organisations, and institutions, can undertake in promoting and enacting fair remuneration practices. Read & Listen here
- Climate Justice Publication and Podcasts (2023) - An older but still extremely relevant resource shedding light on how green and fair transition cannot be achieved without addressing systemic inequalities in society and within the performing arts sector. Tap into the various aspects of climate justice and lived experiences and discussions from Southern Africa, Latin America and Asia. Read & listen here
- Performing Identity: Navigating Cultural Identities through the Arts (2023) - Delve into this report from the IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting 2023, where Inuk/Danish performing artist Kuluk Helms explores and discusses some of the gifts and challenges of belonging these dual cultures. Read here
