Pitchorama provides an opportunity for professionals working in the performing arts sector to present a project and to look for partners who may be interested in collaborating with them.
When government agencies establish well-structured frameworks for environmental action, they enable the arts and culture sector to function as a central, active contributor to addressing the climate emergency and ecological crisis. Iphigenia Taxopoulou discusses the growing trend in these cultural policy collaborations paving the way for a sustainable transition.
Faced with the climate crisis, global inequalities, and geopolitical tensions in today’s society, the modus operandi of international work needs an overhaul. In Den Bosch, IETM in collaboration with Verkadefabriek celebrates our collective learnings from the past three years and sets the course for the years to come.
Theatrical translation demands cross-cultural collaboration. Henning Bochert traces these collaborative vectors by illuminating the scope and funding structures of a number of projects, reaching from German theatres to European Union cultural initiatives and beyond.
In the summertime, the city of Berlin is alight with artistic festivals of all kinds. German theatre scholar Thomas Schmidt reflects on some of the theatre festivals of this past summer and posits what makes the Berlin theatre scene so special.
Cori Thomas convenes playwrights based in the United States for a roundtable discussion about working internationally. They parse the differences in new play development and theatregoing cultures in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic.
Thomas Schmidt, author of Power and Structure in Theater, shares his research on the German theatre landscape. He illuminates toxic power structures, explains how the way theatre operates is a result of Germany’s neocolonial and Nazi history, and offers recommendations for how to improve in the future.
Join this webinar to collectively investigate international artistic and cultural mobility.
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Europe
For this Cultural Mobility Webinar, On the Move builds upon the two large-scale studies it carried out as part of the EU funded project Europe Beyond Access, Time to Act: How Lack of Knowledge in the Cultural Sector Creates Barriers for Disabled Artists and Audiences and Time to Act: Two Years On, Data-led Insights on Performing Arts and Disability in Europe.
Through a combination of testimony and reenactment, Milo Rau’s Hate Radio stages a broadcast from a notorious media operation that spread racist propaganda during the Rwandan genocide. Joseph Dunne-Howrie discusses the way that Rau’s work, when produced in 2023, reveals a contemporary parallel in the rightwing radicalization that is facilitated by networks like Fox News and GB News.
Cyber Attack: Digital Art and Activism is an online conference by NORDWIND in cooperation with FuturePerfect Studio (New York), Denis Semionov, Kampnagel (Hamburg), and Hellerau (Dresden). The opening session Histories of the Avant-garde and Contemporary Disruptive Technologies livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Wednesday 16 November 2022 at 9:30 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 12:30 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:30 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:30 CET (Berlin, UTC +1) / 19:30 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).
In this episode, hosts Zsófi and Bíborka take apart autobiographical theatre with stage director Panni Néder, actress Judit Tarr, actor and director László Göndör, and director and dramaturg Kristóf Kelemen. Together they delve into their approach to autobiographical material, playing themselves versus acting, their lives after creating a highly personal show, and the nuances of someone else playing them onstage.
Conversations questioning civil and artistic practices of resistance.
Friday 17 December 2021
Munich, Germany
IIPM and NTGent in collaboration with the Münchner Kammerspiele presented School of Resistance: Practices from Euromaidan to Belarus / Art in conflicted areas livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 17 December 2021 at 8 a.m. PST (Los Angeles, UTC-8) / 11 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 16:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 17:00 CET (Munich, UTC +1) / 18:00 EET (Kyiv, UTC +2).
Thursday 4 November 2021 and Monday 6 December 2021
Germany, Austria
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest.
Wednesday 3 November 2021 and Friday 3 December 2021
Germany
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest.
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Wednesday 23 June 2021
Germany
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Wagner-Bergelt and Héléna Pikon (Germany) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
ETC International Theatre Conference | The Week of New European Drama
Thursday 10 June 2021
Europe
The European Theatre Convention presented the panel Silenced Theatres in 2021: Illiberal Democracies & Effects of COVID-19 happening within the context of ETC International Theatre Conference and The Week of New European Drama. This panel will livestream for the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on Thursday 10 June at 10 a.m. CEST (Berlin, UTC +2) / 11 a.m. EEST (Bucharest, UTC +3) / 9 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1).
Young Europe Festival To:gather | The Week of New European Drama
Monday 7 June 2021
Europe
The European Theatre Convention presented the panel New Formats & Spaces for Young Audiences happening within the context of Young Europe Festival To:gather and The Week of New European Drama. This panel will livestream for the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network on Monday 7 June at 10 a.m. CEST (Berlin, UTC +2) / 11 a.m. EEST (Bucharest, UTC +3) / 9 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1).
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Friday 4 June 2021
Germany
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Joanna Warsza and Övül Ö. Durmusoglu (Germany) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 4 June 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Friday 21 May 2021
United States
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Marco Layera and Martin Valdés-Stauber livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 21 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Thursday 13 May 2021
Germany
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Milz, Stefan Schmidtke & Olaf Kröck (Germany) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Antonia Napp, Sonja Riehn, Silke Technau, and Stephan Schlafke share learnings about running KOLK 17, a cultural institution in Lübeck, Germany that combines a puppetry theatre company and puppetry museum, and where the goal is to redefine exhibiting the art form.
Hosted by European Theatre Convention's International Theatre Conference
Wednesday 25 November 2020
European Union
What can theatres do to reduce their carbon footprints? Why and how do we need to act and change our ways of producing, working and travelling? The conference focused on sustainability and "Green Theatre" practices to help the sector effectively implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
How an Arts Festival is Promoting a Better Germany
23 November 2020
verity healey recaps the multidisciplinary arts festival Kunstfest, which took place in Weimar, Germany in late August and early September this year and tackled issues such as immigration, identity, COVID-19, and the environment.
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Wednesday 18 November 2020
United States
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Sebastian Kaiser (Germany) livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 18 November 2020 at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +01) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).
Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona
Thursday 12 November 2020
Germany
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Rabih Mroué (Germany) livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 12 November 2020 at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +01) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).
