All this food for thought and conversations were developed in close relation with our partners and the context in which the Atelier took place, serving as a source of inspiration and discussions, by meeting local actors, with time in the programme to discover the respective festivals and arts scene in Düsseldorf / Germany.
Find out more on our partners:
Atelier Düsseldorf/Theater der Welt 2021 is organised in partnership with the International Theatre Institute(ITI) and Theater der Welt:
- ITI was created on the initiative of the first UNESCO Director General, Sir Julian Huxley, and the playwright and novelist, JB Priestly in 1948, just after the Second World War, and at the beginning of the Cold War, when the Iron Curtain divided the East and the West. The aim of the founders of ITI was to build an organization that was aligned with UNESCO’s goals on culture, education and the arts, and which would focus its endeavours on improving the status of all members of the performing arts professions. They envisaged an organization that created platforms for international exchange and for engagement in the education of the performing arts, for beginners and professionals alike, as well as using the performing arts for mutual understanding and peace.
- Theater der Welt was founded in 1981 after the success of THEATRE OF NATIONS, the festival of the worldwide ITI, in Hamburg (1979) by the German centre of the International Theatre Institute as a biennial festival. Theater der Welt became triennial in 1993. Each festival edition takes place in a different city in Germany and with a different artistic director. The next Theater der Welt festival is scheduled for 2020 in Duesseldorf, May 14-31.
The Atelier for Young Festival Managers - Düsseldorf is part of ACT
Act for Global Change
The project entitled ‘Act for Global Change: A Global Conversation from the Arts to the World’ (ACT) has the ambitious goal to build bridges between different fields of actions, being the artistic, social, political and business world. ACT is implemented with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.