Member News
EFA Solidarity with Ukraine
The European Festivals Association (EFA) condemns Russia's hostilities in Ukraine. For the time being, we will suspend all our activities and all our collaboration projects in Russia and give our full support to the steps to end the war in Europe. We show solidarity with Ukrainian people, artists, arts festivals, cultural actors and all the people of the region. We act in accordance with UN resolution that demands Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders”.
Live DMA - Winter 2022 Newsletter
Live DMA project Live Style Europe, which gave rhythm to the past 4 years, has come to its end. 4 years full of activities, meetings, creative projects and cooperation between many European entities.
SIMM: 5th research seminar
The 5th SIMM research seminar is organized by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Copenhagen Centre for Research in Artistic Citizenship (CReARC/RMC) and the research platform SIMM and will be focussing on research on which music is proposed/created within social and community music projects.
The seminar is planned to take place from 5 to 8th September 2022 at the Guildhall School in London.
European Folk Network Newsletter March 2022
We begin this EFN initiative at a time of absolute shock, outrage and grief at the violence we are witnessing with the invasion of Ukraine. A few days ago we made a statement on this issue, which we repeat in this newsletter. We cannot let the horror of the situation curtail our mission.
PFI dernière 07/03
En attendant les derniers ajustements de la nouvelle identité de la PFI, voici sa dernière lettre d'info. Profitez-en et partagez-la sans modération !
World Theatre Day 2022
World Theatre Day Message 2022 by Peter SELLARS
Dear Friends,
As the world hangs by the hour and by the minute on a daily drip feed of news reportage, may I invite all of us, as creators, to enter our proper scope and sphere and perspective of epic time, epic change, epic awareness, epic reflection, and epic vision? We are living in an epic period in human history and the deep and consequential changes we are experiencing in human beings’ relations to themselves, to each other, and to nonhuman worlds are nearly beyond our abilities to grasp, to articulate, to speak of, and to express.
We are not living in the 24-hour news cycle, we are living at the edge of time. Newspapers and media are completely unequipped and unable to deal with what we are experiencing.
Where is the language, what are the moves, and what are the images that might allow us to comprehend the deep shifts and ruptures that we are experiencing? And how can we convey the content of our lives right now not as reportage but experience?
Theater is the artform of experience.
The EMCY Beat! - February 2022 issue
Dear EMCY readers,
After a bumpy start of the year due to the extended corona lockdown, it looks like we're finally moving in the right direction and can hopefully leave the worst of the pandemic behind us, but unfortunately, the world is challenged now with a new tragic crisis.
Live DMA Special News March 2022
Live DMA condemns the Russian government’s violation of territorial law and the violence towards civilian people and war in general.
If you are in contact with artists and music operators in need, you can activate our European network for support and solidarity. We commit to help them go through this crisis.