Calls for participants to the training programmes




programmers on the move


We are looking for professional programmers or programme advisers of venues and festivals who have at least two years experience as responsible or co-responsible person for programming in the performing arts (theatre, dance, art performance, street theatre or circus, but not music), who are interested in reflecting the issue of programming international performances, who are interested in (re-)defining their role as programmers and protagonists in the circuit of international mobility, who want to built up and/or strengthen networks, and share ideas of audience development. 


Here you find the call for the training programme addressed to programmers. The deadline to apply has been moved to January 24th 2010.


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performing arts managers on the move



We received 385 applications from all over Europe, unexpected and significant result for the first call of the training programmes proposed by the SPACE project.

The selection has been completed in Paris last 6 and 7 July by the working group dedicated to this strand of the project and composed by Nadine Owen (British Council), Pavla Petrova (Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague), Laura Stašāne (New Theatre Institute of Riga) and Nathalie Vimeux (ONDA, Paris), with the support of Laure Gauzzoni (La Belle Ouvrage, pedagogical coordinator of the training) and Paolo Aniello (project manager of SPACE).

The selection has been a not easy process, due to the high number of the applications, the different levels of experience of the applicants, the different profiles that the profession has in the European countries and in the last steps of the selection for the high level of the applications received.

We have now the thirty professionals who will attend the training programme, in two groups of 15, starting in Modena group 1, 15-17 October, in the context of VIE Festival and in Hamburg, group 2, 5-7 November in Kampnagel.


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Journalists/Critics’ training


Call publication expected into 22 March 2010