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The European Commission has unveiled its new strategic framework for culture - the Culture Compass. IETM welcomes this significant policy milestone and notes important shifts, both in discourse and focus, including priorities related to artists’ working conditions, artistic freedom, and cultural participation. We also fully endorse the proposal for ...
IETM, along with more than 200 stakeholders from the EU’s and the UK’s Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) – often referred to in the UK as ‘ creative industries’ – have published joint Policy Recommendations developed at the inaugural Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations, held on 20 October 2025 in Brussels. Around 40 CCS representatives from ...
The second iCoDaCo conference, “Body Politics in Contemporary Dance”, will take place online on Monday, 8 December 2025 from 16:00 to 18:00 CET. An online event organised by FACE, held in collaboration with Europe Beyond Access and HowlRound. Live Captioning in English: The National Captioning Institute. How to register Registration for the ...
When we step outside, what place are we looking for? proposes artistic creation as a tool to reimagine the urban context and to restore a political and participatory dimension to public space. In a time marked by persistent territorial inequalities, accelerating ecological crises, and the erosion of traditional forms of civic participation, art in ...
PIT launches its new website with an inspiring line-up of creators. Discover who’s part of this exciting journey. Coordinated by Bozar, “Perform Inform Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums” (PIT) is an EU-funded initiative that brings together 6 leading art institutions until 2027 to support new forms of performance, foster artistic ...
Connect & Create is the Sub-Saharan Africa component of the European Union-funded Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture program. This ambitious project, led by the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France, in partnership with the Institut français, aims to renew and strengthen cultural ties between sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union in a spirit ...
We Want More! is inviting theatre operators and managers, with or without disabilities, from all over the European Union, Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia), Turkey, and Ukraine, to join the International Capacity building on accessibility management for theatre operators – Improving ...
Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) is Japan’s longest-running platform where professionals engaged in contemporary performing arts from around the world gather to exchange ideas, gain inspiration, share knowledge, and build networks. Since its inception in 1995 in Tokyo as the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) and following its ...
WTF Happened goes behind-the-scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre, 2015–16. This award-winning year-long campaign transformed the Irish theatre landscape – and reverberated far beyond. The untold story is revealed by Sarah Durcan, one of the core organisers of the campaign, with ...
Artistic Director - Apply here! Carte Blanche – Norwegian National Dance Company Carte Blanche – Norwegian National Dance Company – was established in Bergen in 1989. The organisation has 33 employees, including 14 dancers and a technical and administrative team. The company produces two to three new performances annually in collaboration with ...
