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International Cooperation and External Relations Department
The International Cooperation and External Relations Department (ICERD) originated at the beginning of 2009
by interconnecting the Section of International Cooperation and the Section of Public Relations. It consists of three basic parts -
the part of the international cooperation and projects, the Prague Quadrennial and the production
and PR part. The main activity of the department is the promotion of Czech culture abroad, mainly theatre in all its forms. It prepares and executes
international and Czech projects, festivals, exhibitions, seminars and conferences concerning the concept, dramaturgy and production.
It collaborates with many Czech and foreign theatre and artistic organizations and institutions as well as universities.
It actively takes part in international network and it develops Czech activities on the field of international non-governmental organizations.
It provides contacts and information about Czech theatre for foreign countries and vice versa. It prepares publications and information
materials about Czech theatre for foreign countries in collaboration with the publishing department; it participates in
publishing of books by the Arts and Theatre Institute
in a dramaturgical and production way.
Our activities
- presentation of Czech theatre abroad as well as in the Czech Republic (Czech Theatre Showcase,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008)
- execution of international projects (workshops, seminars, cultural exchanges); active collaboration within international networks
(SPACE, IETM, interACT etc.)
- execution of the Prague Quadrennial
- execution of Czech theatre seasons (Czech-Canadian;
Czech Theatre in Latin America; Invasion to Europe;
Czech-Israeli Theatre Season ; etc.)
- a contact point of Czech and foreign theatre institutions, organizations and university departments (exchange programs, interships, residencies)
- an information centre about Czech theatre for foreign countries (www.theatre.cz)
- production and preparation of publications about Czech theatre (Czech
Theatre; Czech Performance Collection; Czech Theatre Directory;
Let´s Play Czech; Czech Puppet Theatre)
- a centre of Czech Centres of International Theatre Organizations
(ITI, AICT, UNIMA, ASSITEJ, OISTAT, SIBMAS, FIRT)
- marketing a PR organization
- distribution of books by the Arts and Theatre Institute
News
Spring with Catalan theatre
Czech theatre in European regions
The Arts and Theatre Institute uses the project "Czech Theatre Port: export/import"
targeted at European regions to connect to its successful projects realized in the past like Czech Theatre Season
in Canada, Czech Theatre Season in Latin America, Invasion to Europe and Czech-Israeli Theatre Season.
These projects have been focused on promotion of Czech theatre and art abroad in destinations selected
according to a national or continental key.
We would like to continue in the concept of exporting Czech stagings, organisation and coordination of
international co-productions and residencies and mediation of visiting foreign companies in the Czech Republic;
however, we do not focus on a specific cooperating continent or a country. Due to the decline of the importance
of the national aspect in global culture in the European Union as well, we would like to collaborate with artists
from those European regions that are in a similar position like the Czech Republic - they belong to so-called
small language groups but important European cultures at the same time. We have chosen the Netherlands, Belgium
and Spain to be the model countries that work on the basis of coexistence of distinctive regional cultures.
The ATI will collaborate mostly with Flemish and Catalan art subjects within the project "Czech Theatre in European Regions".
The Launch of the Contemporary Czech Plays Anthology in New York
The anthology of contemporary Czech plays called Czech Plays: Seven New Works was published in the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center in New York in June. The Theatre and Arts Institute and the Czech Center in New York participated in publishing of this book.
It contains plays by Lenka Lagronová, Ivana Růžičková, Egon Tobiáš, David Drábek, Jiří Pokorný, Iva Klestilová and Petr Zelenka.
David Drábek and Iva Klestilová were present at the festive launch of the book as well as at the scenic reading that took place
on 15th June 2009 in the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.
More information can be found here.
After the execution of several successful projects focused on international theater communication,
e.g. Czech Season in Canada/Canadian Season in the Czech Republic, smaller projects Czech Experimental Theater in North America
and Czech Experimental Theater in the Balkans, an extensive exchange Czech Theater in Latin America and a presentation of Czech theater
called Invasion to Europe, the Arts and Theater Institute prepared a project called the Czech-Israeli Theater Season 2009 that brings
Czech theater to Israel and Israeli theater to the Czech Republic. More info:
www.divadlo.cz/czech-israel/ or www.theatre.cz
International Theatre Networks
An open call for art managers in the field of performing arts - the SPACE 2009 project
A project supported by the European Commission within a pilot project for artists mobility.
SPACE is an initiative based on ten European national institutions. It operates in the field of performing arts
with international impact. SPACE should serve for an analysis of persisting discrepancies among countries, regions,
artists, disciplines and places for artistic work in the sense of spreading and mobility in the field of performing arts in Europe.
The aim of the SPACE project is to support mobility of artists and combine cultural mobility with cultural variety,
European citizenship and investments to future generations. SPACE is a young initiative that would spread its network and
it will implement various activities of this multi-purpose project.
The partner of the project is also the Arts and Theatre Institute.
More information can be found www.spaceproject.eu.
A new international theatre network InterACT
A Czech representative of the Arts and Theatre Institute took part in the first founding meeting of a new theatre
network called The World Theatre Network InterACT that took place from 15th to 17th March 2009 in Skopje, Macedonia.
A new association of theatres, theatre festivals, organizations and institutions wants to raise and activate artistic exchanges
and mobility within theatres, theatre festivals and theatre institutions. Twenty-five institutions from fourteen European countries
took part in the first meeting. All materials and documents will be published on the InterACT website that is currently under construction.
The association is open to other theatre festivals and institutions from whole Europe. A representative of the Arts and Theatre Institute
Tomáš Vokáč was elected a member of the InterACT program board during the first meeting. We will be happy to provide you with more
information at czechtheatre@theatre.cz.
Festivals, Conferences, Symposium
International Theatre Festivals and Audience Development / Novi Sad, Serbia
Within the framework of 54th Sterijino Pozorje Festival, that is organised annually in Novi Sad in Serbia,
the 13th International Symposium of Theatre Critics and Scholars was held. The main topic of two days´ conference was theatre festivals,
their programming concepts, communication strategies and educational aspects related to audience development and its higher cultural diversity.
The results of the symposium will be published in the latest issue of Theatre Review. More information:
tomas.vokac@divadlo.cz.
Exhibitions
The exhibition Josef Svoboda – Czech Scenographer With a World-Known Name in Buenos Aires
The International Cooperation and External Relations Department at the Arts and Theatre Institute in
collaboration with the Czech Centre in Buenos Aires and Teatro San Martín has prepared an exhibition about
Josef Svoboda as a part of the prestigious FIBA international festival. The exhibition took place on October
7 – 25 and it had a great reception.
The curator of the exhibition was Helena Albertová. The exhibition was
accompanied by a special lecture about Josef Svoboda’s work and history of Czech theatre. Apart from the
curator, Štefan Zajac, the ambassador of the Czech Republic in Buenos Aires, Daniela Čapková, the director
of the Czech Centre in Buenos Aires and Martin Kive Staiff, the director of Teatro San Martin took part in
the festive launch of the exhibition.
More information can be found here
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The exhibition of Viktor Kronbauer's photographs
The Arts and Theatre Institute prepared an exhibition of Viktor Kronbauer's photographs called Five coloured
together with the Theatre Institute and Museum in Budapest. The exhibition was launched on 27th March 2009 in Budapest,
it presents five important contemporary Czech directors who have recently staged classical theatre plays - V. Morávek,
J. Nebeský, D.D. Pařízek, J.A. Pitínský and J. Pokorný. Viktor Kronbauer and Helena Albertová - an exhibition experts of the Arts and
Theatre Institute - launched the exhibition as representatives of the Czech Republic.
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