Guestlist participants are invited to meet, chat and network in the specially designed virtual space. Join anytime during the Forum days, set up meetings with other guestlist participants and get connected with one another.

Opening with Forum Presenters Gina Calinoiu and Ian de Toffoli. 

Welcome Speeches:

• Monika Grütters, German Minister of State for Culture and Media, Berlin/Germany
• Barbara Klepsch, Saxon State Minister for Culture and Tourism, Dresden/Germany
• Joachim Klement, General Director & Artistic Director, StaatsschauspielDresden/Germany 

European Theatre Initiative:

• Barbara Gessler, European Commission, DG EAC, Head of Unit Creative Europe, Brussels/Belgium, in conversation with Forum Presenters Gina Calinoiu and Ian de Toffoli

Reunite What is Scattered: PROJEKT EUROPA

• Serge Rangoni, General Manager of Théâtre de Liège, ETC President, Liège/Belgium
• Maria Aberg, Artistic Director PROJEKT EUROPA and Associate Artist, Royal Shakespeare Company, London/United Kingdom

The first day of the programme will focus on the social dimension of the theatre and performing arts sectors. In three parallel sessions, expert speakers and guestlist participants will explore together the topics of working conditions in the performing arts, international collaboration in theatre and performing arts studies, and accessibility and diversity in the performing arts.

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Keynote and Introduction ^LIVESTREAM
  > Goran Tomka, University Professor, University of Arts, Belgrade/Serbia
  > Moderator: Ása Richardsdóttir, Secretary General, IETM, Brussels/Belgium
  
  
  
• 10:30 - 12:30
  
  
  • Session 1 – Working Conditions in the Performing Arts ^LIVESTREAM
    > Daphne Tepper, Director - Media, Entertainment & Arts, UNI Europa - UNI MEI, Brussels/Belgium
    > Sanna Ekström Forsberg, Wardrobe Manager, Skånes Dansteater (Dancetheatre), Malmö/Sweden> Konrad Michalak, Actor of the Kazimierz Dejmek's New Theatre in Łódź/Poland
    > Morten Gjelten, Managing Director, NTO (Association of Norwegian Theatres and Orchestras), Oslo/Norway
    > Dearbhal Murphy, Deputy General Secretary, International Federation of Actors (FIA), Brussels/Belgium
    > Elena Polivtseva, Head of Policy and Research, IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts, Brussels/Belgium
    > Heidemarie Meissnitzer, Councillor, Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU, Brussels/Belgium
    > Florentina Holzinger, Choreographer, Verein Spirit, Vienna/Austria
    > Ingrid Vranken, Artist, FoAM, Brussels/Belgium
    > Ulrike Kuner, President, European Association of Independent Performing Arts, Vienna/Austria
    > Angela Herenda, Club Guy & Roni. Groningen/The Netherlands
    > Members of the European Parliament: Domènec Ruiz Devesa (ES - S&D), Niklas Nienass (DE - Greens)
    > Heidemarie Meissnitzer, Councillor, Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU, Brussels/Belgium
    > Katrien Thienpont, Attaché, Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU - Representation of Flanders, Brussels/Belgium
    
    
    
  • Session 2 – Cocreate Now! Expert Talk on the Situation of Theatre and Performing Arts Studies and the Values of International Collaboration ^LIVESTREAM
    > Moderator: Regina Guhl, Prof. for Dramaturgy, University of Music, Theatre and Media Hanover/Germany
    > Máté Gáspár, Cultural Manager & University Lecturer, University of Theatre and Film Art (former), Budapest/Hungary
    > Beata Szczucinska, Theatrologist, The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw/Poland
    > Leo Swinkels, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Zuyd University / President of PLETA (Platform European Theatre Academy), Maastricht/Netherlands
    
    
    
  • Session 3 – Accessibility and Diversity in the Performing Arts ^{LIVESTREAM + GUESTLIST}
    > Moderator: Stefan Fischer-Fels, Artistic Director Junges Schauspiel / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, ASSITEJ International, Düsseldorf/Germany
    > Moderator, Julia Dina Heße, Dramaturg and Director in TYA, ASSITEJ Germany, Wiesbaden/Germany
    > Moderator: Louis Valente, Secretary General, ASSITEJ, Copenhagen/Denmark
    > Yvette Hardie, Director ASSITEJ South Africa, President ASSITEJ International, Cape Town/South Africa
    > Constanza Macras, Choreographer/director, Constanza Macras | Dorky Park, Berlin/Germany
    > Farnaz Arbabi, Artistic Director of Unga Klara Theater, Stockholm/Sweden
    
    
    
    
• 12:30 - 12:45
  Break
  
  

12:45 - 13:30
Feedback Plenary ^LIVESTREAM

> Moderator: Ása Richardsdóttir, Secretary General, IETM, Brussels/Belgium
> Christoph Lepschy, Prof for Dramaturgy, University Mozarteum Salzburg/Austria
> Daphne Tepper, Director - Media, Entertainment & Arts, UNI Europa - UNI MEI, Brussels/Belgium
> Julia Dina Heße, Dramaturg and Director in TYA, ASSITEJ Germany, Wiesbaden/Germany
> With speakers and moderators from the three morning sessions.

Join your fellow guests for lunch and a conversation.

In a dedicated networking session, policy makers on national and European levels are invited to connect with each other and representatives of the sector in speed meetings.

One of the objectives of the European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus is “to connect the European theatre scene and the national theatre scene”. Guestlist participants are invited to get to know some of the key theatre and performing arts organisations and networks within Germany within Germany on the ETF Platform^GUESTLIST from 15:30 to 16:30.

Would you like to learn more about what they do? Perhaps you would like to initiate an international collaboration or share best practice. Eight organisations will be in the “café” on the ETF Platform^GUESTLIST for one hour and guestlist participants are invited to join one or more tables during this time for informal video meetings with discussions and introductions.

Guestlist participants are invited to meet, chat and network in the specially designed virtual space. Join anytime during the Forum days, set up meetings with other guestlist participants and get connected with one another.

Opening and welcome speeches with Forum Presenters Gina Calinoiu and Ian de Toffoli. 

• Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport

Presentation of an ongoing study into the current situation of theatre in the EU Member States. With Forum Presenters Gina Calinoiu and Ian de Toffoli.

• Clémentine Daubeuf, Associate Director, KEA European Affairs, Brussels/Belgium
• Rasa Goštautaitė, Researcher, PPMI, Vilnius/Lithuania

The second day of the Forum will address the urgent topic of climate change and environmental sustainability and the role the sector can and must play towards a fair, green transition. Young voices will be heard and their words will lead into two focussed sessions, looking at sustainability from the perspectives of policy making, science and culture, but also through the lens of good practice from the theatre and performing arts sector.

• 10:00 – 10:30
  Introduction & Prelude "Ihr habt keinen Plan! / You have no plan!" ^LIVESTREAM
  > Stefan Fischer-Fels, Artistic Director Junges Schauspiel / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Assitej International, Düsseldorf/Germany
  > Thomas Engel, Managing Director, ITI Germany, Berlin/Germany
  > Tara Runze, Activist, Fridays for Future, Düsseldorf/Germany
  > Dario Vecchi, Activist, Fridays for Future, Düsseldorf/Germany
  > Lynn Takeo Musiol, Dramaturg at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf/Germany
  
  
• 10:30 – 11:15
  Session 1: Culture & Environmental Sustainability: perspectives of policy-making, science & research, cultural system-change, cross-sectoral synergies ^LIVESTREAM
  > Moderator: Jan Jaap Knol, Director, Boekman Foundation, Amsterdam/Netherlands
  > Christos Carras, Executive Director, Onassis Stegi, Athens/Greece
  > Alison Tickell, Director, Julie’s Bicycle, London/UK
  > Dr Sebastian Brünger, Project Manager "Doppelpass - Theatre Cooperation Fund", German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle/Germany
  
  
  
• 11:15 – 11:30
  Break
  
  
• 11:30 – 12:15
  Session 2: Embedding environmental sustainability in the theatre & performing arts sector ^LIVESTREAM
  > Moderator: Iphigenia Taxopoulou, General  Secretary, mitos21, Thessaloniki/Greece
  > Ben Twist, Director, Creative Carbon Scotland, Edinburgh/UK
  > Eva Johansone, Culture Journalist, Project Coordinator of "Art. Climate. Transition", New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Riga/Latvia
  > Benjamin Verdonck, Artist & Theatre-Maker, Toneelhuis, Antwerp/Belgium
  > Natalie Driemeyer, Dramaturg, Curator, WORLD-CLIMATE-THEATRE, Berlin/Germany
  
  
• 12:15 – 12:45
  Concluding discussion ^LIVESTREAM
  > MEP Laurence Farreng (FR – Renew)
  > MEP Niklas Nienaß (DE - Greens)
  > Moderators: Anita Debaere & Silke Lalvani, Pearle*- Live Performance Europe
  > With the participation of the members of the working group

Join your fellow guests for lunch and a conversation.

Watch the festival opening event at www.fastforw.art 

Watch the online programme of the festival at www.fastforw.art 

Guestlist participants are invited to meet, chat and network in the specially designed virtual space. Join anytime during the Forum days, set up meetings with other guestlist participants and get connected with one another.

Opening and welcome speeches with Forum Presenters Gina Calinoiu and Ian de Toffoli. 

• Sabine Verheyen, MEP, Chair of the Committee for Culture in the European Parliament, Brussels/Belgium

The final day of the programme will look at some of the concrete issues facing the sector and envision the theatre of the future. In the keynote, panel discussion and the following workshops we will look at the architecture and the spaces of where performing arts take place and go into exploring the fundamentals of our performing practice.

How do we define the public space of a theatre as a very specific and contained place of local gathering in a European context of multilingualism and social diversity? Can the performing arts be avantgarde for framing our culture, our societies, and the vision of a future Europe?  The final voices heard will be those of 7 internationally renowned artists and leading creators of theatre companies, theatre institutions and festivals from different European countries. They will share their ways of working and tell of their distinct experiences with international collaboration.

• 09:30 – 09:45
  Keynote: Envisioning European theatre as public space ^LIVESTREAM
  > Francine Houben, Creative Director & Founding Partner, Mecanoo architecten, Rotterdam/Netherlands
  
  
• 09:45 – 10:45
  Panel Talk: The Making Of! European Theatre – Investing in International Collaboration ^LIVESTREAM
  > Moderator: Kopano Maroga, Curator & dramaturg, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent/Belgium
  > Thomas Ostermeier, Artistic Director, Schaubühne, Berlin/Germany
  > Angélica Liddell, Theatre Director, Writer, Actress, Atra Bilis Teatro, Madrid/Spain
  
  
  
• 10:45 – 11:00
  Break
  
  
• 11:00 – 12:15
  Artist Workshops: Found in Translation – Diversity and Understanding in International Theatre Cooperation ^GUESTLIST
  > Moderator: Sylvia Botella, Arts Critic - Graduate Assistant Lecturer, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels/Belgium
  > Davide Carnevali, Playwright, Director, Theorist, ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Nazionale, Milano/Italy
  > Martine Dennewald, Performing Arts Curator, Hanover/Germany
  > Paulien Geerlings, Dramaturg at De Toneelmakerij, Amsterdam/The Netherlands
  > Tiago Rodrigues, Artistic Director, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II Lisbon/Portugal
  > Dubravka Vrgoč, General Manager & Artistic Director, Croatian National Theatre Zagreb/Croatia
  > Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Artistic Director, Les Hommes Approximatifs, Paris/France
  > Ivan Medenica, Artistic Director BITEF International Theatre Festival, Belgrade/Serbia
  

Concluding discussion with the European Theatre Forum Consortium group of theatre and performing arts networks.

• Barbara Gessler, European Commission, DG EAC, Head of Unit Creative Europe, Brussels/Belgium
• Heidi Wiley, Executive Director, European Theatre Convention (ETC)
• Serge Rangoni, General Manager, Théâtre de Liège, ETC President
• Fabrizio Grifasi, Director, Romaeuropa Festival
• Tobias Veit, Executive Director, Prospero - Schaubühne Berlin
• Janina Benduski, President, BFDK - Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts Germany
• Jan Linders, Head of Programme, Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloß
• Florian Hirsch, Head Dramaturg, UTE / Theatre National Du Luxembourg

Watch the online programme of the festival at www.fastforw.art