Segal Center to Host Cultural Mobility Symposium & Conference, Jan 7

On January 7th, 2015, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, On the Move, & Theatre Without Borders will host a Cultural Mobility Symposium & Conference to announce the official launch of the first-ever Cultural Mobility Funding Guide for the USA: Theatre, Performing Arts and Dance.

The launch will initiate a day-long symposium featuring morning presentations from cultural mobility experts, funders, cultural exchange organizations, and practitioners. Professionals representing institutions from around the world will join afternoon working sessions to address a diverse selection of topics including artists & human rights, socially engaged performance, general funding practices, international collaboration, and practical challenges. The day will offer rare networking opportunities for international practitioners and service organizations.

This event grows out of an extraordinary inter-continental collaboration between the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (thesegalcenter.org), the European cultural mobility information network On the Move (on-the-move.org) and the U.S.-based grass-roots international network Theatre Without Borders (theatrewithoutborders.com).

The new Cultural Mobility Funding Guide for the USA: Theatre, Performing Arts and Dance will provide a free and user-friendly online guide to funding for international exchange for artists traveling to and from the USA. This guide builds upon On the Move's existing co-produced guides for artists and cultural professionals in Europe, Asia, and Arab countries (on-the-move.org/funding). The main objective of theses guides is to make available, in a transparent way, the existing information on funding for the international mobility of artists and cultural operators and to give input to funders and policy makers on how to fill in the existing gaps in funding for international cultural exchange.

The launch, symposium and conference will be free and open to the public.

Represented Organizations Include:

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Albugaa Theatre, Sudan
Arab Education Forum, Jordan
ArteEast
Artists from Abroad
Arts and Theatre Institute, Czech Republic
Asian Cultural Council
Association for the Development of the Music Industry in Iberoamerica, Colombia
CEC ArtsLink
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Creative Capital
CultureHub
Dance Info Finland
Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America
Doris Duke Foundation, Building Bridges
Euro-American Network of Performing Arts Festivals REDELAE
freeDimensional
French American Cultural Exchange
Fresh Arts Coalition Europe
International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts-IETM
International Theater Festival of Manizales, Colombia
International Theatre Institute-ITI
Korea Arts Management Service
La MaMa Umbria International Symposia, Italy
Latin Music Market of Medellin (Colombia) CIRCULART
League of American Orchestras
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Mid-Atlantic Arts
National Performance Network
On the Move
Sundance Institute Theatre Program
Tamzidat
The H.E.A.T. Collective
The Japan Foundation
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Without Borders
TransCultural Exchange
UNESCO Artist for Peace Program
University of Minnesota

Program is subject to change.