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NEWSLETTER #9
DECEMBER 2024
CONTENTS

Announcing the 2025 IETM Global Connectors!


IETM Projects and Updates

Members News

EU & Policy News

Sector News
HIGHLIGHTS
MEET THE 2025 IETM GLOBAL CONNECTORS!

We are proud to introduce the 11 professionals selected for IETM Global Connect 2025 and welcome them to our network! They are based in 5 continents and have been chosen for their unique experience of engaging with their local communities, have had interesting professional and personal journeys and occupy valuable roles in the performing arts ecosystem. 

Through the Global Connect programme, they will come together, online and physically, to share their experiences and build relationships within the group and with their fellow IETM members. 

We look forward to the contributions and perspectives they will bring to our large network of members! 
    
MEET THE GLOBAL CONNECTORS 2025 
IETM PROJECTS & UPDATES

Europe Beyond Access Co-productions

Europe Beyond Access (EBA), of which IETM is a proud dissemination partner, has announced the four projects selected from the open call for co-production. To celebrate the occasion, the results were announced on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. All projects are led by artists with disabilities who will have co-production support and the opportunity to present their work at EBA partners’ venues or festivals.

Perform Europe: Leading the Way

Discover how Perform Europe's 42 selected partnerships are leading the way in rethinking the future of performing arts touring. With a focus on inclusion, diversity, and greening, artists and presenters are breaking new ground across 40 countries. From supporting eco-feminist collaborationsto marginalised communities taking centre stage, each project brings a fresh perspective to cross-border touring.

Dive into the key numbers, explore inspiring examples, and read the analysis of the project’s strategies-for-change.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE ➔
Save the date: IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 15 - 17 May 2025

As we work hard behind the scenes to prepare the IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025, save the dates in your agenda and consider planning your travel to Berlin for 15-17 May 2025!

IETM OUT & ABOUT

The IETM team has been busy throughout November and December with several external engagements, collaboration opportunities and exciting initiatives happening within the sector. Read the full low down of what we’ve been up to below.

IETM OUT & ABOUT ➔

It’s your last chance to #MakeTheShift!

If you’re a cultural network or platform organisation based in the EU looking to shift towards the green transition, then consider joining the SHIFT Culture eco-certification for cultural networks. Creative Carbon Scotland, founding partners of the scheme, is actively seeking organisations to join the scheme in 2025. Applications are open until 18 December 2024.

FIND OUT MORE AND APPLY ➔
MEMBERS NEWS
The Work Room: GROUNDWORK Podcast & Manifesto

GROUNDWORK was a project by The Work Room (Scotland, UK) that emerged from ideas and conversations during IETM's Green School (2023) and brought together a working group of six artist members of The Work Room to explore ecological practices within their artistic work. Through the project, they produced two resources, a PODCAST SERIES and a MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE, to consider as part of approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos/ policies and sustainability in light of the climate emergency. Read more and listen to the podcast.

High Fest 23rd International Performing Arts Festival

High Fest International Performing Arts Festival (Armenia) announces the opening of the registrations for their 23rd edition, taking place from 1-8 October 2025 in Yerevan, Armenia. Discover more and register by 15 March 2025.

IN MEMORIAM
Jan Zoet (1958 - 2024)

It is with great sadness that we at IETM have learnt that Jan Zoet, Dutch director and manager of theatre, passed away on Saturday December 14. Jan was a long time IETM member and a highly valued member of IETM’s Board of Directors from 2002 - 2008. 

You can read his full in memoriam and heartfelt messages from IETM here.

EU & POLICY NEWS
2025 Creative Europe call for European cooperation projects

Creative Europe just announced the 2025 open call for small, medium and large cooperation projects. With a budget of around €60 million, the action will support at least 130 cooperation projects between cultural organisations and encourage the development, experimentation, dissemination, and application of new and innovative practices

Read the full call and apply by 13 May 2025.

G20 Commitments to Culture

The G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro was concluded with a Declaration which made some commitments related to culture, which include fostering a global dialogue on artistic freedom, enhancing artists’ working conditions and fair pay, and enhancing global engagement on AI. Read our summary here.

Recovery and resilience scoreboard

How did EU countries allocate the funds disbursed by the EU to support recovery during and after the COVID-19 pandemic? Was culture included in this spending? This report offers insight into how the cultural and creative industries benefited from the Recovery and Resilience Facilityat the level of EU member states. Spoiler alert: only 1.8% of the total expenditure was dedicated to culture.

SECTOR NEWS

IETM has proudly joined the over 200 leading voices from 39 countries, representing 180 major national theatres, operas, festivals and performing arts venues, in advocating for concrete actions to protect culture in its diversity from attacks and bans.

This initiative has been launched in collaboration with Milo Rau and the Vienna Festival(Wiener Festwochen) / Free Republic of Vienna, the network of publicly-funded theatres, European Theatre Convention (ETC), the Prospero – Extended Theatre platformand Opera Europa.

Our voices are vital in this collective effort. 

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