IETM Multi-location in Ireland (online)

Given current travel and gathering restrictions, the local Plenary meeting in Ireland will be hosted entirely online by our members Irish Theatre Institute, Lian Bell, the Theatre Forum and Tom Creed. Please find below the introduction by the local hosts, as well as the local programme and practical information of the local meeting.

Introduction by the local hosts

New restrictions have recently been introduced for the Dublin area as we brace ourselves for a second wave of Covid-19. These new restrictions immediately put all of Dublin Theatre Festival and some of the last days of Dublin Fringe Festival in jeopardy, and saw the closure of arts venues and cultural spaces across the city.

We are taking the question ‘What Matters Now?’ to heart. We are asking Irish artists and arts leaders to begin conversations that we can all join in with. In the face of ongoing uncertainty, valiant struggles and creeping exhaustion; in the face of restrictions on our movements and on the things that give our lives meaning; in the absence of touch, the fear of proximity, the sense of isolation. While we can only see each other on screen, it is vital that we continue to connect and share our thoughts, our hopes, and our plans for the future.

Irish Theatre Institute/Lian Bell and Theatre Forum, with the input of director Tom Creed, offer IETM members, the Irish performing arts community and our international colleagues an opportunity to meet, discuss and learn from each other.

Irish Theatre Institute also invites IETM members to register to watch the pitching sessions of International Theatre eXchange (ITX), created in partnership with Culture Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival. For the 27th consecutive year, ITX offers a platform for Irish theatre artists and companies, programmed during Dublin Theatre Festival, to present their work and exchange ideas and models of working particularly around international touring and collaboration. 

Have connection and exchange ever been more important than now?

Register now

Note that some of the sessions in the programme below require an additional external registration.

Programme

The following online programme of the local meeting in Ireland prepared by the local hosts is complementary to the online participation in the main IETM online programme (marked as working sessions on the page), to which all the locations of the Multi-location Plenary will simultaneously connect on 1 and 2 October.

To connect to the online sessions below, please click on the title of the session and you'll be redirected to the session page, where the link to connect is displayed.

CEST: Central European Summer Time / IST: Irish Standard Time (local time in Ireland) 

For any questions regarding the programme of the online local meeting in Ireland, please contact Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

Accessibility

It is our aim to make IETM meetings as accessible as possible. However, it may not be possible to offer services at every location and, therefore, we recommend that you check the accessibility conditions of the location of your interest.

In order to meet the needs as much as possible, we collect your access requirements when you create your account and register for the meeting. Regarding speech-to-text captioning, we can only guarantee captions for the main IETM online programme (marked as working sessions on the page).

If you have any questions regarding the overall accessibility of the online local meeting in Ireland, you are welcome to write to our Production Officer at francisca.salgueiro@ietm.org.

Contact

For any questions regarding the online local meeting in Ireland, please contact Lian bell at lian@irishtheatreinstitute.ie or Irma McLoughlin at manager@theatreforum.ie.

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