The European umbrella organisation The European Association of Independent Performing Arts was founded in September 2018. EAIPA represents the interests of professionals working in Europe’s independent performing arts scene and responds to Europe’s cultural policymaking by means of data collection and new policy proposals.
#1 09.11.2023 – Mental health in focus
#2 18.01.2024 – Career support
#3 14.03.2024 – Arts as public health service
#4 16.05.2024 – Chain of responsibilities: funding politics
EAIPA invites to an informal exchange amongst colleagues: in the spirit of “sharing and caring”, we would like to compare notes and share experiences in environmentally sustainable production and touring of independent performing art works.
In October 2022, EAIPA’s Bulgarian member, ACT Association, hosted the European Association of Independent Performing Arts in Sofia for its extra-ordinary general assembly. In this context, numerous meetings, working sessions and presentations took place to connect and strengthen the relationship of associations from all over Europe.
On November 10th 2022, we held an Online Event focusing on ‘funding structures for the independent performing arts in Europe’. As a result of our survey and the Online Event we hereby recommend specific topics.
The European Association of Independent Performing Arts kindly invites you to a series of online events.
On March 25th 2022, the European Association of Independent Performing Arts hosted its first hybrid conference on the subject of fairness processes in the European independent performing arts.
Author: Christian Keller
Picture: Winona Bach
EAIPA is collaborating with the Czech Association „Asociace nezávislých divadel ČR“ in an online seminar discussing different hot topics of the independent performing arts in Europe.
Date: June 9th, 2022
Time: 15.00 – 17.00 CET
On March 26th 2022, EAIPA held its annual general assembly in Vienna.
Many things had to be discussed, both past and upcoming events and also what EAIPA’s response to the current political developments should be…
Last Friday, we had an incredibly touching zoom meeting with the Alex Borovenskiy and Tetiana Shlepko from the ProEnghlish Theatre in Kyiv. With their venue being located in a cellar, they decided that this is currently the safest place to be – and their theatre was turned into an art shelter.