European Theatre Convention

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European Theatre Convention
Formation1988 (1988)
Location
  • Berlin, Germany
LeaderHeidi Wiley
Website Official website

The European Theatre Convention (ETC) is a European theatre association founded in 1988. [1] [2]

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The ETC is funded partly by the Creative Europe programme of its strategic partner, the European Commission. [3] It is based in Berlin. As a "network of public theatres in Europe", it has 63 members in 31 European countries (As of November 2023). [4] The ETC organizes projects which promote European theatre as a "platform for dialogue, democracy and interaction", [4] and offers the possibility of international networking for theatre professionals. [5] The executive director is Heidi Wiley. [6]

History

Daniel Benoin  [ fr ], Jean-Claude Drouot and Heribert Sasse  [ de ] founded the ETC in 1988. [7] The statutes were laid down in November 1987. [8] Initially three theatres in France, Belgium and Germany collaborated. [9]

It aims at promoting contemporary theatrical creation, supporting the mobility of emerging artists, and the exchange of activities, ideas and artistic concepts in Europe. [10] [11] [9]

Projects

The ETC has organised annual conferences on a variety of topics for theatre professionals, and has provided financial and organizational support for international artistic exchange. [12] It has hosted a range of programmes.

"ENGAGE – Empowering today's audience through challenging theatre" was a four-year programme from 2017 to 2021, [13] [14] [15] focused on the topics of participatory theatre, youth theatre and theatre in the digital age. [16]

"Theatre is Dialogue – Dialogue of Cultures" is a program that has supported theatre makers in the Ukraine and other Eastern European countries since 2014. [17] [18] The focus is on the exchange of the theatre makers, such as artist residencies, guest performances and getting to know each other in the theatre scene. [17] [18]

Young Europe is a project of artistic cooperation, in which ETC member theatres have staged new theatre texts on the subjects of identity and integration, aiming at a young international audience. In 2015, Young Europe was recognized as a "European Success Story" by the EU. [14] [19]

Nadia is an international theatre project, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation  [ de ], that investigates reasons for the radicalization of young people in Europe, using artistic means, in exchange with young people. [20] [21] [22]

European Theatre Lab: Drama goes Digital was a project, between 2016 and 2018, to researched the future of theatre in the digital age. [23] [24] It won the Pearle award "Spotlight on Heritage in Culture and the Arts". [25]

The Art of Ageing was a project highlighting in four productions the challenges of a demographically changing society. [26] [27] [28]

Renaissance was a 2021 programme which produced an original series of 22 short drama films. [29] [30]

Trans-Formations is a project to energize and revive European theatres and audiences in a post-COVID world. The activities include conferences, artistic programmes and workshops from 2021 to 2024. [3]

In 2023, the European Theatre Convention curated the second edition of the European Theatre Forum organised by the European Commission, which led to the publication of the policy document, the Opole Recommendations. [31] [32]

Member theatres

As of 2023: [33] [34]

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