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European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen has announced today (27 November) before the European Parliament that the title of Commissioner-designate Mariya Gabriel has been changed to “Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Education, Culture and Youth”. “Culture and education are what link our history with our future. This is what ...
Last September and October, Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner-designate for Research, Innovation, Education, Culture & Youth, and Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President-designate Promoting the European Way of Life, appeared before the European Parliament to answer questions related to their new portfolios. This week, the written reports of the appointees’ ...
Alongside 89 other cultural organisations, we are urging the European Council to support the European Parliament’s proposal of increasing funding for the Creative Europe programme to €2.8bn.
We support Culture Action Europe's call for proper support to non-profit cultural organisations active on local, regional, national and European level that wish to work in a European context and contribute to building a stronger European Union. Key messages of their statement: Non-profit cultural organisations should be considered important ...
Our Staff Exchange Programme offers our members a unique opportunity to gain a short but valuable international experience by joining the team of another member organisation and hosting a professional from abroad. The duration of an exchange programme may vary from 1 week to 3 months or more, and it will take place between April 2020 and March 2021 ...
IETM Rijeka (24-27 October 2019) brought together over 330 performing arts professionals from all over the world to challenge the most common approaches and biases related to the theme of Audiences and create a space for finding new, truly relevant perspectives. The videos of the keynote speeches of the meeting are now available for on-demand ...
PROXIMAMENTE is a brand new five-day festival celebrating theatre and dance from Latin America, at KVS Brussels from 26 to 30 November 2019. This is an ideal opportunity to see five finished works from Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, as well as lecture performances and workshops by ten lesser-known makers from across the region. The goal of ...
Material usage possibilities are infinite, especially when we consider that matter represents all that is real. Contemporary circus, on the other hand, also challenges what seems humanly intangible. This is (not only) why this second edition is, in every way, a call down to earth. From December 5th to December 8th, in Ílhavo (Portugal), the ...
April 13-18, 2020, international festival Young Theatre Days is returning to Klaipėda, Lithuania, inviting professional theatre creators to try themselves in an unusually fast and dynamic creative process. Gathered actors, directors, stage designers, playwrights and critics will, study the themes prepared by the organizers and work together for two ...
Keðja presents: Stretch 2019 Turku is an international encounter in October, open for dance professionals from Nordic, Baltic and European countries. The focus is on capacity building and acquiring new skills, and new working models for creating a more sustainable dance field.
