Following the “Make culture central in the EU recovery” open letter we published and endorsed on 30 October 2020 together with 109 other pan-European cultural networks, our group comes together again in a second letter to reiterate our call to the national governments and the European Commission to secure a future for culture and cultural life in Europe.

Our SHIFT Newsletter on Gender & Power Relations tackles the #METOO movement, gender inequality and gender-based violence in the workplace – and the urgency for structural changes in the cultural and creative sectors.

Through Rewiring the Network, the members of IETM took part in a year-long journey to collectively engage in envisioning a transition into a more sustainable future for the performing arts. The report of our work is an accumulation of ideas which now need to be turned into concrete strategies for the coming years.

The joy was indescribable, the day that Leeuwarden was chosen as the European Capital of Culture 2018. But once the bid was won, the problems started. An article by Jeffrey Meulman.

The Covid-19 crisis has proved devastating for the cultural and creative sectors. IETM's Head of Policy and Research Elena Polivtseva connects the impacts of the pandemic to a longer-term failure to adequately address the working conditions of cultural professionals, calling for EU action to help protect the sector’s future.

In this Declaration from the European Theatre Forum 2020 co-written by IETM, we address the current challenges faced by theatre and the performing arts and put forward eight policy recommendations and actions to strengthen these sectors in the years ahead.