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IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts is a network of over 450 performing arts organisations and individual members working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide: theatre, dance, circus, performance, interdisciplinary live art forms, and new media.

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  • A symbol of an equals sign, contained in a circle, and divided by an intersecting diagonal line.
    #MeToo in the Arts: From call-outs to structural change
    Through research and main observations, this SHIFT publication starts by nuancing some preconceptions about the status quo of Gender and Power Relations in the arts while taking into consideration the diversity of contexts in Europe.
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    Posted 27 January 2022
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    SHIFT Annotated Bibliography on Gender and Power Relations
    This publication is part of SHIFT’s research into gender and power-relations and focuses on sexual harassment in the culture and creative sectors.
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    Posted 16 November 2021
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    Gender & Power Relations: SHIFT Key Findings
    This document aims to share and put into discussion some first major takeaways from the SHIFT project’s work on Gender and Power Relations.
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    Posted 6 October 2021
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    International Producing Organisations: Soon the End of the Competition(?)
    This session in IETM Munich brought together performing arts producers and their structures from different countries to share examples of cooperation, good practices and explain their business models and structures. This report summarises the findings from the three roundtables held during the session on hierarchical models within producing organisations, the relationship between the artist and the producer, and stories of success and failure regarding international cooperation.
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    Posted 16 December 2018
  • Cover for Beyond Curiosity and Desire. Title text sits in a red strip that cuts across a white page.
    Beyond Curiosity and Desire: Towards Fairer International Collaborations in the Arts
    In collaboration with On the Move and DutchCulture, IETM has published a new Toolkit for fairer international collaborations, written by Mike van Graan. The publication explores why and how artists and cultural professionals can adopt a more equitable approach to international and intercultural collaborations.
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    Posted 1 June 2018
  • Cover for Life Off-stage: Survival Guide for Creative Arts Professionals. Title text on a white background with a red strip cutting across.
    Life Off-stage: Survival Guide for Creative Arts Professionals
    There is a wealth of resources available, both online and offline, to inform, advise and support artists and cultural professionals on how to pursue their careers without neglecting their role as individuals, parents, partners and citizens, and on how to reflect their (artistic) values. Harder to find, though, is one’s path among all those resources.For this reason IETM has joined forces with FIA and UNI MEI to enlist questions most frequently asked by professionals in the sector and gathered comprehensive replies in an accessible language, based on sound theoretical knowledge combined with practical experience of the field.
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    Posted 27 November 2017
  • Cover for Look, I'm Priceless! Handbook on How to Assess Your Artistic Organisation. Title text on a white background with a red strip cutting across.
    Look, I'm Priceless! Handbook on How to Assess Your Artistic Organisation
    Evaluation’ - one of the key words in national, European and international cultural policies - is considered with mixed feelings by practitioners: as a burdensome and pointless process, as a meaningful tool for self-improvement, or as something in-between. This IETM toolkit aims to guide you through the key steps of evaluation, whether you have chosen to do it yourself or if a funder or decision-maker asks you to do so and provides you with preconceived tools.
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    Posted 5 June 2017
  • Cover for Platform: East European Performing Arts Companion. Very large title text, coloured with a red-blue gradient, on a white page.
    Platform: East European Performing Arts Companion
    This book explores questions concerning both the common historical experience and the organisation of theatre life in Central and Eastern Europe, tapping into an incomparably broader topic: does something like a Central European identity exist? Published by EEPAP, it counts with three chapters focusing on Romania translated to French by IETM.
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    Posted 18 May 2017
  • Cover for Art for the Planet's Sake. Photo shows the top of a statue with a rough sea in the background; titled 'The Drowned Mermaid'.
    Art for the Planet's Sake
    IETM, international network for the performing arts, shares its new publication Art for the Planet’s Sake that looks at how contemporary arts tackle environmental issues in terms of artistic contents, managerial practices and venues management. A publication in partnership with COAL, Coalition for Arts and Sustainable Development, Paris.
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    Posted 16 January 2016
  • Cover for Everyday Innovators, Innovative Work Practices in the Cultural Sector. Title on a white page with a colourful border of red, blue and yellow squares.
    Everyday Innovators, Innovative Work Practices in the Cultural Sector
    Everyday Innovators is a free online publication commissioned by IETM and researched by La Belle Ouvrage. It brings up practical examples of innovative work organisation practices in the cultural sector in Europe.
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    Posted 20 November 2012
  • Cover for Artistic activism in situations of ‘extreme conflict’: the challenge of evaluation. Title text on a white background.
    Artistic activism in situations of ‘extreme conflict’: the challenge of evaluation
    This dossier was commissioned by IETM in order to help artists and cultural operators involved in artistic activities in situations of extreme conflict look at their own work with an evaluative eye.
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    Posted 23 June 2011
  • Cover for I showed her my work and so she started to know me. Text on a white background, with subtitle 'Until you eat together ten times, you can’t work together'.
    I showed her my work and so she started to know me
    Case studies of international collaborations within and with the Med region. Commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation.
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    Posted 23 June 2011
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