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IETM joins performing arts colleagues and organisations across Europe and beyond in remembering Latvian theatre maker Zane Kreicberga, who passed away after a serious illness on 11 June. Zane was a pioneer. As one of initiators of the Latvian New Theater Institute, curators of the International Festival Homo Novus she brought new artistic work and ...
International Festival "Young Theater Days" invites you Open Call / Selection of participants for creative workshops On August 14-17, international festival "Young Theater Days" (JTD) will be held in Klaipėda. The festival gathers young creators of Lithuanian performing arts, and professionals from various fields with different experiences meet ...
SIRENOS Lithuanian theatre showcase: registration is open Sirenos festival is announcing the programme and open registration for the Lithuanian Theatre Showcase, which is an independently curated look at what has happened on the Lithuanian scene in the past season. This year it features 10 performances of different scale and genre, created by local ...
Panteia and Culture Action Europe have analysed the current situation of artists and cultural professionals in Europe, and the results are, once again, worrying. More than 84% of the 1200 survey respondents reported that they are not fairly remunerated for their work in the cultural sector. Almost half of the respondents reported experiencing poor ...
PROBABILITY OF EXCHANGE - International visitors program Flanders Arts Institute Looking at (inter)national and leading* performing arts programs today, many unfortunately still reflect a dominant (Western and Eurocentric) canon, reproducing and confirming familiar aesthetics and what (who) we see on our stages. In spite of the development of new ...
PROSPER is an international project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU which is exploring the theme of environmentally challenged regions of the Balkans. As part of the project, a one-month residency will be organized at Euboea (Evia) island (Greece). The residency is open to international artists, designers, thinkers, and ...
Ahead of the working session How do we make it work? A panel on working conditions and status of the artist at the IETM Sofia Plenary Meeting 2024, we are excited to release a new publication Fair Pay in the Arts: The talk of the town of the elephant in the room? written by Elena Polivtseva. Through this publication, our aim is to extract insights ...
American conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote that “one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Creatives working on topics of sustainability and ecological literacy constantly grapple with the emotional toil that stems from dealing with accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and other ...
This new study published by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and written by Sara Whyatt and Ole Reitov tackles the global deficiency in knowledge, data, and awareness regarding the challenges to artistic freedom. It delves into the current state of systems that monitor and document violations of artistic freedom, identifies gaps in their ...
To use our senses is to connect with the world. To go out into the living landscape and engage with it in making art is to intensify and transform our connection with the more-than-human world. This is why wildpainter and artist-educator Jan van Boeckel emphasises direct, unmediated bodily experience. We will talk about how such an artistic ...
