The online journey initiated in 2020 by a group of international producers will continue in 2021 in Brussels. A few places are open for new participants!
Created in 2016 by the International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts (CIFAS), the Producers’ Academy is organised in the frame of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
A group of selected international producers take part in a programme of conferences, workshops and peer-to-peer learning sessions, raising questions about their practice in the international cultural sector nowadays:
How do we understand the different contexts of international production?
How do we go beyond the distribution model of touring and develop more meaningful relationships?
How do we plan for more inclusion in the field of arts and culture?
To what extent can we tackle cross-border and regional financial inequalities?
How do we work across borders and cultures, taking into account environmental issues?
How do we produce in a world that is turning more and more towards nationalism and conservatism?
How do we combine and balance private and professional realities?
The Producers’ Academy increasingly pays attention to the notion of care, one of the fundamental concepts of feminism, and explores attentive and responsive practices, social and sustainable approaches in order to potentially invent new, adapted and fairer models of governance.
By meeting with experts and practitioners, participants will approach practical aspects of international collaborations - administrative, legal and financial issues - as well as conceptual aspects, questioning innovative production models that reinvent our global cultural landscape.
The 2020 edition has been replaced by an online programme between May 2020 and March 2021. In May 2021, we propose to the same group to continue the sessions during a 4-day face-to-face meeting in Brussels. The group will be joined by new international participants.
Applications will be open soon. Deadline for applications: 14 April 2021.
The Producers Academy is a project by CIFAS, On the Move, MoDul and Kunstenfestivaldesarts.