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Subject: [artbox] International theatre festivals and audience development
From:    "Dessy Gavrilova" <dgavrilova la redhouse-sofia.org>
Date:    Wed, October 15, 2008 10:37
To:      "ARTBOX group" <artbox la groups.cult.bg>
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      13th International Symposium of Theatre Critics and Scholars
        International theatre festivals and audience development
          Organised by the Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad, Serbia
                          in association with
          International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
                                  and
             the European Festival Research Project (EFRP)
                                  in
                 Novi Sad, Serbia, 28th – 31st May 2009

Topic: International theatre festivals and audience development
Convenors: Dr Dragan Klaić (Amsterdam), Chair of EFRP, and Dr Ivan
Medenica (Belgrade), IATC Adjunct Secretary General.

This symposium will investigate how theatre both nurtures new audiences
and develops the cultural capital/knowledge of their existing audiences.
More than just a marketing operation, the topic includes programming
concepts, communication strategies and educational aspects of those
festivals that reach out to different constituencies and build an
audience that may also be of benefit to regularly producing cultural
institutions. An underlying assumption is that these festivals embody
the main challenges and contradictions in cultural production and
distribution today. They have an experimental potential, a special
position that enables them to invent and test practices that can later
be absorbed by the cultural organizations that produce and present year
around. Not all festivals reach out consciously and successfully to new
audiences and this symposium will therefore aim to focus on ideas,
strategies and practices that are remarkable, successful and inspiring
for other festival professionals

Format: the symposium will consist of four sessions, introduced by
invited key note speakers (critics, researchers, festival professionals
and artists), followed by research presentations, public interviews and
panel discussions.

Interested colleagues (critics, researchers, festival professionals) are
requested to send an outline of their paper (200 words, in English or
French) to draganklaic la gmail.com and ivan.medenica la gmail.com by December
1, 2008. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 15. The
authors of proposals that are accepted will be asked to send their full
paper of 2000-4000 words in English or French by March 1st, 2009.
Authors are urged to go beyond a presentation of a single festival, to
pursue a specific issue in the practices of several festivals, to look
beyond the borders of their own country, to apply a comparative method
and to stress contemporary challenges rather than dwell on historic
developments. Papers will not be read at the symposium but will be made
available to participants in advance, through the website of Sterijino
Pozorje. Authors will be requested to refer to the essential conclusions
of their papers in the panels in which they will take part. Some authors
will be invited to summarize their findings in a concise power point
presentation (max 10 slides). The symposium will be conducted in
English, French and Serbian, with simultaneous translation provided.
After final editing by the authors, papers will be made available at the
websites of the organizers: Sterijino Pozorje (www.pozorje.org.rs),
International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) (www.aict-iatc.com)
and at the EFRP public depository on the website of the European
Festival Association (www.efa-aef.org). Options for a printed
publication are under consideration.

The symposium will take place in the framework of the 54th Sterijino
Pozorje Festival and its programme of national and international
productions. The host is providing hotel accommodation, meals, and
theatre tickets for the participants who will be responsible for their
own travel costs. Transfer from the Airport Belgrade to Novi Sad (80 km)
and vice versa will be provided. Arrival is on 28th May, departure on 31
May.

Sterijino Pozorje (www.pozorje.org.rs)As a permanentfestival of domestic
drama and domestic theatre, with a competitive character, Sterijino
Pozorje was established in 1956, in conjunction with the celebration of
the 150thanniversary of the birth and the 100thanniversary of the death
of the great Serbian comedist Jovan Popovic Sterija. In the course of
time, Sterijino Pozorje has become a highly specialized theatre
institution for the development of the national theatre and advancement
of dramatic literature. Sterijino Pozorje is an initiator and organiser
of professional and research activities concerning theatre practices,
their documentation and information. It organises and carries out the
meeting of superior institutions of the performing arts professional
training (Pozorje of Youth), regular expert and scientific meetings of
domestic and foreign theatre experts, critics, playwrights and artists.
It organises domestic and international exhibitions, publishes
monographs and periodicals on the art of theatre and dramatic
literature. It researches, collects, processes, keeps and publishes
theatre documentation. The work of Sterijino Pozorje is carried out in
several ways: The National Drama Festival, international cooperation,
publishing and documentary-research work. Sterijino Pozorje Festival is
held annually, at the end of May in Novi Sad. The participants of the
festival are professional theatre companies and groups from Serbia and
abroad, with productions based on texts by domestic and foreign authors.
A five-member jury decides on Sterija awards for artistic achievements
shown at the festival: the best play, best contemporary drama text,
dramatization, adaptation, directing, stage design, costumes, stage
music and five awards for acting performance.


International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) (www.aict-iatc.com)

The IATC draws together more than two thousand theatre critics, through
some fifty national sections. Founded in Paris in 1956, the IATC is a
non-profit, non-governmental organization, benefiting under the B
statute of UNESCO. The purpose of the IATC is to bring together theatre
critics in order to promote international cooperation. Its principal
aims are to foster theatre criticism as a discipline and to contribute
to the development of its methodological bases; to protect the ethical
and professional interests of theatre critics and to promote the common
rights of all its members; and to contribute to reciprocal awareness and
understanding between cultures by encouraging international meetings and
exchanges in the field of theatre in general. The IATC holds a world
congress every two years, seminars for young critics twice a year, as
well as symposiums, and contributes to juries. English and French are
the association's two official languages, and its place of incorporation
is Paris.

European Festival Research Project (EFRP) is an international,
interdisciplinary consortium, which is focused on the dynamics of
artistic festivals in contemporary life. One of its principal aims is to
understand the underlying causes of the current proliferation of
festivals and its resource implications and diagnostic perspectives.
EFRP focuses on those festivals that are driven by a firm artistic
vision, involving international programming and which benefit from
substantial support from public authorities. The consortium instigates
research papers, studies, publications and debates and articulates
tentative conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for
festival operators, public authorities (as subsidy givers) and potential
sponsors. All research outcomes are being made accessible in a public
depository at the web site of the European Festivals Association
(http://www.efa-aef.org/efahome/efrp.cfm).PeriodicallyEFRP organizes
intensive research workshops on specific topics where the results of
research are presented and discussed. Such workshops have taken place in
Nitra (2005), Leicester and Le Mans (2006), Barcelona (2007) and
Helsinki (2008). Further workshops are being planned for Moscow (autumn
2008) and for 2009-2010. An edited book on festival politics,
programming, impacts and governance will be produced by the consortium
and associated researchers in 2009/10.

                                    Dr Dragan Klaić and dr Ivan Medenica
                                                     Symposium Co-Chairs

-- 
Dessy Gavrilova
Director

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