Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

For IETM Advisory Committee members only.

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

This session will be the first opportunity for the Global Connectors 2024 to meet in person after six months of online exchanges. 

The first hour of this session (10:00-11:00) is open to all Global Connectors 2024 and Associate Members attending the Plenary. 

The second hour (11:00-12:00) will be attended by the Global Connectors 2024 and the programme alumni attending the Plenary to exchange and dialogue on their priorities and experiences.

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

For IETM Associate members only.

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The AREA network has been focussing on different methods of artists working in rural areas. In this working group, they will start sharing what ‘burning in’ means to rural communities, understanding the subjects that are important for the community, creating your own work space and building trust as part of a creation process. The circumstances we work in, cultural funds that have ‘urban’ conditions, missing infrastructure for artists and how to talk about climate change where populists have a majority in municipal government are all contributing factors for a good, deep, professional Burn Out.

This meeting aims to give support to artists to carry out their advocacy better, smarter and with more fun. We do that by analysing our questions, sharing experiences and learning from each other - an active working group session with a result.

The moderators are active members of the AREA network.

Moderators

Catherine Paskell, DIRTY PROTEST, United Kingdom
Hannah Lad, DIRTY PROTEST, United Kingdom
Henk Keizer, Creator, Denmark

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

This interactive session facilitated by the PIC group aims to think in practical terms about what it means to develop, present and tour an immersive and/or participatory art experience with sustainability and environmental consciousness in mind. Best practices will be exchanged and case studies will be looked at in order to share practical solutions to concrete problems.

The Participatory and Immersive Creation group (PIC) aims to provide a space for IETM members to tackle central issues we have in creating, presenting and producing this genre of work, through open discussions, experience sharing and creative exchanges.

Moderators

Isadora Bigazzi, Effetto Larsen, Italy
Hannah Angely, Kaimera Productions, France & USA

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

This Producer Working Group gathering is co-hosted by members of international producer networks who are collaborating to foster dialogue and solidarity amongst producers of contemporary live arts. 

It is open to everyone who identifies as a producer, independent and/or associated with a company or institution, working at all scales and in all live art forms. 

The working group is an opportunity for participants to explore together how producers can support each other on questions of advocacy, information exchange, producer development and the creation & circulation of new works. 

Moderators

Fanny Martin, CIPA, Croatia
Jenny Vila, CIPA + Xarxa de Productores, Spain
Tammo Walter, produktionsbande, Germany
Sepehr Sharifzadeh, PADA, Belgium
Jo Crowley, 1927, United Kingdom

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The IETM Environmental Working Group aims to work towards a more sustainable and green future for the performing arts and make the arts sector a leading force in environmental processes.

This session will act as a space for sharing best practices and practical solutions for making the performing arts sector more environmentally friendly at every level.

Moderators

Pippa Bailey, Producer/Director, Australia

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Initiated at the Belgrade Plenary in 2022, the Artists Working Group is a network of IETM members who work primarily as artists. It is a space for meeting, exchanging and discussing artistic topics and building concrete networks of support and artistic exchange beyond project-based collaborations.

It aims to focus on freelance artists’ perspectives and realities within IETM, increasing our visibility and effecting structural change. Artists Working Group aims to centralise the artist’s perspective and invites deeper dialogue on all issues with members, working groups and the IETM Board.

The group adopts intercultural, horizontal and inclusivity values and procedures.

You can reach the group by writing to artistswg@gmail.com.

WHAT’S YOUR UTOPIA?

Join the Artists Working Group for a collective creation. Dream, develop and define your utopia.

In groups, participants will dream big, focus on what’s important and develop possible creative solutions to current challenges using generative, optimistic prompts grounded in reality.

These utopias will serve as research that will be presented to IETM for future advocacy.

This two hour session will include fake crying, big dreams and hope for the future.

Moderators

Dalia Kiaupaite, Freelance artist, Lithuania
Meagan O’Shea, Freelance artist, Canada/Germany
Silvia Ribero, BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective, Italy

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The General Assembly is the key moment of the year to discuss, discover and dispute IETM's decisions, celebrate its achievements and contribute to its future developments. This is also the moment where IETM members have the opportunity to come together and vote on new members for the Board of Directors and Advisory Committee.

Take an active part in the decisions surrounding your network! 

Non-members are welcome to participate, but only members can vote.

Hosted by the members of the IETM Board.

This session will have live captions in English

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

An interactive discussion where IETM members have an opportunity to share their feedback about the meeting and express their views on the role of art in society and the strategies that will help our sector survive and thrive. We will meet in Hall 1 at Toplocentrala and split off into individual rooms.

Moderated by the members of the IETM Advisory Committee.