Centre Stage: free online course
Centre Stage Online is a free online course for practitioners in the performing arts and music sectors who wish to develop their self-promotion and artistic leadership skills. Experienced course leaders guide participants through the training, consisting of thirteen video lectures with associated practical exercises.
During the course, participants take a closer look at power structures and prevailing norms, all from a gender perspective. Participants also hear from representatives of the performing arts industry, both practitioners and clients. It is an opportunity to reflect on their own development and how they can take control of and communicate their professional self. The goal is that after taking the course, artists have the tools to further develop a professional and successful artistic career. The course is free of charge and available in several European languages at centrestageonline.org.
Centre Stage Short Film
The Centre Stage site also includes a short film reflecting on diversity within the performing arts. Centre Stage - Gender equality reflections in the performing arts is available for download with subtitles in five languages – English, Swedish, Spanish, French and German.
The film has 5 chapters which can each be viewed separately:
- Gender stereotypes
- Access to decision-making and leadership roles
- Access to resources and the gender pay gap
- Access to the arts labour market
- Sexual harassment.
The film is produced within the Centre Stage Project, aiming to promote equal opportunities in the performing arts. It is produced by Yolaperdono and written and directed by Manuel Jiménez Núñez.
About the Centre Stage project
Centre Stage is a European collaborative project for professional women artists in the performing arts and music and aims to contribute to positive change at both individual and structural levels. Centre Stage Online is part of a larger European collaborative project developed by Administration for Cultural Development, the Region Västra Götaland (Sweden), Theatre Forum (Ireland) and Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Spain), and co-funded by the EU Creative Europe programme.