future events

Second annual General Assembly of mitos21, hosted by the organisation for the Cultural Capital of Europe in Bas Ischl 2024.

Saturday 12 October, 8pm at Lehár Theater 

Europe Speech: Zweig / a mitos21 European theatre project

Six teams of European theatre makers will create six twenty-minute microdramas based on Stefan Zweig‘s speech “Unification of Europe”. The conditions are the same for everyone: One text as a common basis, a maximum of three performers, minimal technical effort. Six theatrical commentaries from different perspectives on the still fragileunification of Europe. What does Stefan Zweig‘s dream of European unification as the only protection against war and nationalism still have to say to us today? Visit Europe while it still stands!

Participating theatres: Berliner Ensemble, Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Teatro Stabile di Torino, Katona Theatre (Budapest), Toneelhuis (Antwerp), Dramaten (Stockholm).

Annual meeting of the mitos21 dramaturgs' circle, hosted by the Katona Jozsef Theatre, in Budapest.  

Annual mitos21 General Assembly, hosted by the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.

Second annual General Assembly of mitos21, hosted by the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

Annual General Assembly of mitos21, hosted by the Berliner Ensemble.

Annual meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs, hosted by the Thalia Theater, in the framework of the Lessingtage International Theatre Festival.

Topic: "Challenges and strategies of artistic programming in the face of the current global crises"

Second annual General Assembly of mitos21, hosted by the Teatre Lliure, in Barcelona.

Annual meeting and General Assembly for mitos21 members, hosted by the Toneelhuis in Antwerp, Belgium.

The annual meeting for mitos21 dramaturgs, hosted by the Burgtheater in Vienna, in March 2022.

Topic: "Expanding the literary and theatrical canon".

The Fundamental Course - Sustainable Cultural Management for European Theatres

A joint initiative of mitos21 and the European Theatre Convention

27 January - 30 June 2022. 6 sessions each lasting 2-3 hours

Based on the mitos21 SCM Course, this series of seminars is open to all member theatres, creative teams and individual staff members across all departments of both theatre networks. It aims at offering the fundamentals of sustainable cultural management and artistic creation processes. European theatre professionals will be empowered to obtain basic knowledge for tackling the transition to create a greener, more environmentally conscious and mindful just future, considering the most recent sectoral developments around the world.

The course consists of six sessions. Upon completion, each participant recieves a certificate of attendance. 

Each session consists of an expert lecture with a Q&A, breakout learning sessions, and hands-on feedback rounds to share learnings. 

Course Programme:

• 27 January: Introduction to Creative Climate Leadership and Embedding Sustainability, in partnership with Julie's Bicycle
• 24 February: Artistic Visions for a Greener and More Just Future
• 31 March: Tools for Sustainable Transformations in Theatre Buildings and Operations
• 28 April: Green Theatre Productions and Fair Collaboration & Touring
• 2 June: Communication, Digitalization & Creation of Public Debate
• 30 June: Practice What You Preach - Learning from Each Other

This six-month-long course is conceived to offer a holistic perspective embedding environmental sustainability into theatre organisations, through a capacity-building and peer-learning approach with international networking amongst fellow colleagues.

It is strongly recommended that colleagues who sign up for the course attend all of the six sessions offered. The organisers will provide certificates of attendance to participants who have completed the full cycle of workshops, and reserve the right to alter the programme if needed.

Each session takes place online on a Thursday afternoon and lasts 2 hours, from 15:00-17:00 CET

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Plenary meeting for mitos21 members and second annual General Assembly (Saturday 16 October, from 10.30 to 17.00), hosted by the Teatro Stabile di Torino. 

First annual General Assembly of mitos21.

Eco-scenography / Sustainable Stage Design

Saturday 6 February 2021, at 10am CET (duration 2 hours). 

Οnline seminar for mitos21 members, presented by Dr Tanja Beer, ecological stage designer and Senior Lecturer in Design at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. 

Tanja Beer has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of theatre and the environment, having contributed to the relevant literature with her writings and through her practice. Her latest projects seek to re-think traditional design practices and re-interpret materials to embrace the possibilities of “ecoscenography” – a movement that integrates ecological principles into all stages of scenographic thinking and production. For more information:  http://www.tanjabeer.com 

Lessingtage 2021 digital: Thalia Theater Hamburg and Dramaten Stockholm present theatre productions of the mitos21 network, from all over Europe, from 20 to 31 January 2021.

In these times, with international artistic exchange happening merely on digital channels, Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Dramaten - Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm will present a two-week online selection of European theatre, starting on 20 January 2021: "Stories from Europe".  

Thalia Theater Hamburg and Dramaten Stockholm, both members of the European theatre network mitos21, an association of some of the best theatres across the continent, invited their partners to present selected shows online, to give international audiences the opportunity to quasi-travel "abroad", in spite of travel restrictions, and to experience an eclectic panorama of theatre aesthetics and styles.

“Stories from Europe”, on the one hand, refers to the video project of the same name initiated by Dramaten during the first lockdown last spring, and on the other hand takes place as part of the twelfth “Lessingtage” of the Thalia Theater. The festival, named after the great European enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, was planned to present international guest performances in Hamburg again in 2021. However, since personal encounters are still impossible, the audience is now invited to take a seat on a pan-European couch - at home, but still together, in Paris, Turin, Budapest or Moscow...

The participating institutions were all asked to select their contributions to the digital festival. Video recordings are in the original language, with English subtitles, and the productions will be offered online for free, as of 20 January 2021, for a few hours each (between 7pm-12pm CET), on the websites of Thalia Theater and Dramaten. Thalia Theater is contributing a live-stream from their repertory which will be available for purchase.

With productions from:

Dramaten - Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm, Sweden

Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France

Toneelhuis, Antwerpen, Belgium

Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany

Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, Spain

Theatre of the Nations, Moscow, Russia

Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Germany

Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany

Teatro Stabile di Torino - National Theatre, Italy

Katona József Theatre, Budapest, Hungary

Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany

More information & live stream at: www.dramaten.se/lessingtage, www.thalia-theater.de/en/lessingtage.

Photo-download: https://thalia-theater.de/presse/sonstiges/lessingtage2021

Announced in July 2020, the “European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus” will gather for the first time 200 theatre and performing arts representatives and policy makers. Together, they will create a vital representation for the entire sector, within and outside Europe. The event will also be available anywhere in the world via livestream.

The sectorial meeting is organised in the frame of the German EU Council Presidency and in cooperation with the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media and the European Commission. Originally planned to take place in Dresden, Germany, the event has been transformed into an artistically innovative virtual meeting and will take place online, due to current travel and event restrictions.

The European Theatre Forum offers, for the first time, a European representation for the entire sector as one of Europe’s major art forms, within and outside Europe. The aim of the Forum is to make visible and promote the outstanding importance of theatre in Europe with its diversity of performance forms, across language barriers, both as an art form and an important public space for cultural-political dialogue. It establishes a creative dialogue process within the sector and with policymakers through partnership and international collaboration.

mitos21 is a member of the Consortium of networks which launched the initiative and have been working in preparation of the main event in November 2020.

For more information: European Theatre Forum (official website)  

A capacity-building event for mitos21 “green” managers, including case-study presentations and round-table discussions. The event is part of the Teatre Lliure’s contribution to Barcelona’s Biennale for Thought.

Programme (online)

Morning / From 11.00 am to 12.30 pm (CET time) 

(online, in Spanish, accessible to mitos21 colleagues via simultaneous translation into Engish)

Public discussion: 

“Systems-change and Mind-shift: what role can culture play towards a more sustainable future?”

Marta Garcia Haro, Director of REDS (Spanish office of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network)

and 

Giorgos Kallis, ecological economist and degrowth theorist, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

The discussion will be moderated by Iphigenia Taxopoulou and will be followed by a Q&A session.

This is an open, public event, in the framework of the Bienniale of Thinking of Barcelona.

Afternoon / From 15.00 to 19.00 pm (CET time)

mitos21 Green Managers meeting

Introduction by hosts, the Lliure "green project", outline of the theatre's environmental mission and progress so far.

Brief introduction to the programme of the day and context-setting by Iphigenia Taxopoulou.

• 15.30 - 16.15 “Stegi goes green”, the sustainability programme of the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, presented by OCC executive director, Christos Carras.

• 16.15 - 17.00 Two innovative projects of the Opera de Lyon: EDEOS (a tool for measuring the environmental impacts of set-construction) and OSCaR (embedding circularity into stage set-design), presented by the sustainability advisor of the Opera de Lyon, Thierry Leonardi. 

• 17.00 - 17.45 The sustainability project of the National Theatre London: from NT Future (2012-2017) to the present; special focus on engagement and organisational change, presented by Paul Jozefowski, head of NT sustainability policy. 

• 17.45 - 19.00 Discussion and Q&A with participants.

The second annual General Assembly of mitos21, hosted by the Toneelhuis in Antwerp, Belgium (online).

The annual meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs, organised by the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Topic: "How the lockdown and the pandemic crisis have affected the work of house-dramaturgs and literary managers".

Update: the mitos21 dramaturgs' meeting took place online, on Saturday 19 September 2020, hosted by the Burgtheater. 

STATEMENT

The European theatre network mitos21, representing some of the most prestigious public theatre institutions in Europe, stands in solidarity with our colleagues in Hungary, the faculty members and students of the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts; mitos21 supports their struggle to safeguard the autonomy of SZFE, a University that has nurtured, over the past decades, generations of outstandingly talented artists, who have brought Hungarian theatre and film international renown.

We urge the responsible authorities to revoke all the measures taken recently that undermine the autonomy of the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts and to fully reinstate the legitimate leadership of the institution.

The mitos21 members:

• AKADEMIE FÜR DARSTELLENDE KUNST BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, Ludwigsburg

• BERLINER ENSEMBLE, Berlin

• BURGTHEATER, Vienna 

• DEUTSCHES THEATER, Berlin

• DRAMATEN, Stockholm

• DÜSSELDORFER SCHAUSPIELHAUS, Düsseldorf

• INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam

• KATONA JÓZSEF SZÍNHÁZ, Budapest 

• DET KONGELIGE TEATER, Copenhagen

• NATIONAL THEATRE, London

• ODÉON-THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE, Paris

• ØSTERBRO TEATER, Copenhagen

• THEATRE OF NATIONS, Moscow

• TEATRE LLIURE de Barcelona

• TEATRO STABILE DI TORINO – TEATRO NAZIONALE, Torino

• THALIA THEATER, Hamburg 

• TONEELHUIS, Antwerp

• UNIVERSITÄT MOZARTEUM, Thomas Bernhard Institute, Salzburg

A meeting of mitos21 young actors and directors, in the framework of the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival (27 August – 6 September 2020). 

This is the third time in a row that the Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden) welcomes young actors and directors, proposed by mitos21 members, to participate in an informal gathering during the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival. 

The meeting provides an opportunity for young artists to see invited productions, to attend the rich programme of the Festival, to meet theatre colleagues from mitos21 member theatres around Europe and to participate in discussions and debates on challenging and urgent topics. 

Covid-19 updates: The Bergman Festival changes its format in 2020

Uncertainty about how the covid-19 pandemic will develop in the world over the next few months has prompted the organisers of the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival to change and adapt its programme. Originally conceived as a festival offering a meeting place for international dramatic art, the Royal Dramatic Theatre is now looking at the possibility of offering its audiences a few of the guest performances spread out over a year.

The mitos21 meeting will be rescheduled to take place during the next edition of the Bergman Festival.

An invitation for mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers to join an international gathering of dramaturgs, in the framework of the annual Autorentheatertage festival, organised by the Deutsches Theater, from 6 to 20 June 2020. 

Note: meeting postponed to 2021. 

Covid-19 updates: 

The  Autorentheatertage, which was planned for the period from 6-20 June 2020, and the international opening weekend Radar Ost, will take place this year under different auspices. For the Digital Radar Ost weekend, the DT will be turned into a digital space. In three-dimensional, familiar and unknown areas, the audience can discover and experience digital editions of planned guest performances, premieres of transnational collaborations and live streams of productions by renowned directors – in addition to lectures, concerts, talks and workshops. 

Autorentheatertage will be turned into the Autoren(theater)tage, a year-long project where the focus will be shifted from theatre to playwriting. The competition in autumn 2019 and the selection of the three winning pieces will be followed by (short) piece commissions and three world premieres in autumn 2020.

More information: Autorentheatertage 2020

And for virtual festival visitors: Digital Radar Ost

Stories from Europe: Crisis and Reflection 

A mitos21 project, initiated and led by the Dramaten, Stockholm. 

What does everyday life look like when everything is turned upside down? What choices and difficulties do they face that now have to work for almost 24 hours? Nurses, cleaners, taxi drivers and other people from all over Europe who work in various community-carrying functions are allowed to speak freely from the heart about an extremely unusual time.

Short monologues based on the personal and existential stories from the interviewees, filmed and performed by actors from 10 different mitos21 theatres. The 17 short films are subtitled in English and will be available to watch on dramaten.se, Vimeo (until 7 September 2020), as well as on the participating theatres' websites.

Premiere at dramaten.se on June 12, at noon.

Participating mitos21 theatres: 

Berliner Ensemble (Berlin, Germany) 

Burgtheater (Vienna, Austria)

Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany) 

Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen, Denmark) 

Dramaten (Stockholm, Sweden) 

Katona Jozsef Theatre (Budapest, Hungary) 

National Theatre (London, England) 

Teatre Lliure (Barcelona, Spain) 

Teatro Stabile di Torino (Turin, Italy) 

Thalia Theater (Hamburg, Germany) 

On facebook 

In the New York Times

The first annual General Assembly of mitos21. In the framework of the Festival Theater der Welt, organized by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (14 – 31 May 2020).

Update: due to covid-19, the GA will take place online, while the Theater der Welt festival has been postponed to 2021.

Annual meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs.

Topic: Strategies for the development of contemporary writing.

Special event : workshop and presentation of The End of the World, a joint venture of Playstorm and the Bergman Studio.

A meeting for mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers, in the framework of the Festival
Autorentheatertage, organised by the Deutsches Theater from 29 May to 8 June 2018.
Precise programme of the meeting, as well as of performances, will be announced in the spring of 2019.

Out of 113 plays which were submitted, the Autorentheatertage jury has selected the following, which will
also be staged and presented during the festival:

– Lisa Danulat, Entschuldigung (Apology)
– Eleonore Khuen-Belasi, ruhig Blut (calm Blood)
– Svealena Kutschke, zu unseren füßen, das gold, aus dem boden verschwunden (at our feet, the gold, vanished from the ground)
 
The Theater Neumarkt Zurich will stage Lisa Danulat’s play, the Schauspielhaus Graz the play by Eleonore
Khuen-Belasi and the Deutsches Theater Berlin the play by Svealena Kutschke. The three plays will be
premiered during the Lange Nacht der Autorinnen (Long Night of the Playwrights).

The first annual General Assembly of mitos21.
Special event/round table: to be announced (Sunday 14 April 2019)

A selected group of young directors, proposed by mitos21 theatres, will work in a laboratory manner with students of the Thomas Bernhard Institut on the topic “The provincialisation of Europe”. The 3rd edition of the PLAS will take place through January and February 2018 and the final artistic projects will be presented as a joint performance, in Salzburg, on the 1st and 2nd of March 2018.  

(info on previous edition of PLAS, on the topic “The Future of Religion”, here)

The second annual General Assembly of mitos21.  

Special event/round table: “The art of fundraising” (Sunday 25 November 2018) 

The annual meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs, organised by the Theatre of Nations in Moscow, on the topic “Beyond the repertoire: programming parallel events and activities”, in the framework of this year’s edition of the Territoria Festival (festival programme to be announced soon).

A meeting of mitos21 young actors and directors, from Friday 31 August until Sunday 2 September 2018, in the framework of the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival (23 August – 2 September 2018). 

Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden) welcomes young actors and directors, proposed by mitos21 members, to participate in an informal gathering during the forthcoming Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival. 

The meeting will be an opportunity for young artists to see invited productions, to attend the rich programme of the Festival, to meet theatre colleagues from mitos21 member theatres around Europe and to participate in discussions and debates on challenging and urgent topics. 

For more information about the Festival and this year’s programme: Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival 

“Topographies of Paradise”, opening in the framework of the Bergman International Theatre Festival

“Topographies of Paradise” or “Idyllic Landscapes” is a mitos21 initiated project, a unique collaboration among five European theatres: the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten); the Royal Danish Theatre, Denmark; the Teatre Lliure, the Catalonian National Theatre in Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain; the Academy of Performing Arts in Ludwigsburg, Germany; and the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia.

We encounter five theatres with five short plays, woven together. Madame Nielsen writes the plays, drawing on travels in the five countries, on interviews with the actors as well as with political organisations in the various cities. The directors from each of the five participating theatres create their own performance using local actors, and Madame Nielsen stages the final work by integrating the five plays into one production.

What is a nation? What is a home district? What is a native language? What does it mean to be Swedish, German, Spanish/Catalonian, Danish, Serbian?
Madame Nielsen is an internationally acclaimed performance artist and writer, appearing over the years in various guises, including Claus Beck-Nielsen and the nameless human guinea pig in Das Beckwerk (The Beck-work). She defies fixed identities and categorisations, continuously asking the question: What is a human being?

In autumn 2015 she accompanied on foot the stream of migrants along the Balkan route up through Europe, from Greece to Denmark, a contemporary educational journey that she subsequently described in the novel “The Invasion”. Her novel “The Endless Summer” has been a major international success, translated into many languages, including Swedish (2016) and English (2018).

Symposium: Art. Culture. Sustainability  

Lectures, round tables and performance 

Art and culture play a key role in building a sustainable global community founded on ecological awareness and social responsibility. Art has the power to transform challenges into visions and to enable change in our social environment. Cultural institutions and everyone who works in the creative sector have a unique potential to influence the world around them.  

The morning of the conference (29 June 2018) will focus on examples from Germany and other countries where people and institutions in the arts have integrated sustainability into their programmes and processes. The afternoon of the conference will bring artists and experts together to present their work and to discuss how culture and art (can) contribute to sustainable development.  

The conference aims, first, to provide a snapshot view of where we stand now and to illustrate how public discourse and (cultural) politics currently handle the environmental, economic and social challenges of sustainable development. It will add to the debate about why we need culture and art on our path towards sustainable development so as to formulate a new sustainability paradigm for the national and international context.  

The second part of the Symposium consists of Round Tables on 30 June 2018. Artists and academics at the conference will team up with the other participants to work on their individual ideas about concrete ways to combine arts and culture with a sustainable future. 

A meeting for mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers, in the framework of the Festival Autorentheatertage, organised by the Deutsches Theater from 1 to 23 June 2018. 

Programme of performances: Out of 143 new play texts that were submitted for the Autorentheatertage, the jury – journalist and theatre critic Bernd Noack, actress Bettina Stucky and writer Saša Stanišić – selected three which will premiere at the end of the festival on 22 & 23 June during the Lange Nacht der Autor_innen (Long Night of Playwrights) and coinciding with the dramaturgs’ meeting. 

In Stanniolpapier (“In Tin Foil”) by Björn SC Deigner, directed by Sebastian Hartmann, produced by the Deutsches Theater Berlin. 

europa flieht nach europa (“europa flees to Europe”) by Miroslava Svolikova, directed by Franz-Xaver Mayr, a coproduction of the Burgtheater Wien and the Deutsches Theater Berlin. 

Eine Version der Geschichte (“A Version of History”) by Simone Kucher, directed by Marco Milling, a coproduction of the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Deutsches Theater Berlin. 

Friday 22 – Saturday 23 June:  

Open Mic – public discussion with authors. 

Round-table talks moderated by experts, with the participation of dramaturgs, authors, directors, publishers, members of the jury. 

General Assembly of mitos21.

Mitos21 General Assembly, Saturday 11 November.
Programme of Sunday 12 April and special guest to be announced soon.

A meeting for mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers, in the framework of the Festival Autorentheatertage, organised by the Deutsches Theater from 14 to 24 June 2017.

Provisional programme
Friday 23 June:
Lange Nacht der Autoren (Long Night of Drama) on June 23, including world premieres at the Deutsches Theater of: Kartonage by Yade Yasemin Önder, a coproduction with Burgtheater Wien, directed by Franz-Xaver Mayr; Welches Jahr haben wir gerade? by Afsane Ehsandar, a coproduction with Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Melanie Huber; and Your Very Own Double Crisis Club by Sivan Ben Yishai, a production of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, directed by András Dömötör.

Saturday 24 June:
Round-table-talks moderated by experts, with the participation of dramaturgs, authors, directors, publishers, members of the jury.

mitos21 General Assembly, Saturday 8 April 2017.

Plus, on Sunday 9 April: Presentation by and discussion with guest speaker Michał Olszewski.
Info: Michał Olszewski is a journalist, reporter, writer and environmentalist. He works as editor-in-chief of the Krakow branch of Gazeta Wyborcza. He won the Kapuściński Award in 2015, and for his work By Touch he received an award in the Oczy otwarte reportage competition. His prose debut was the short-story collection To Amsterdam (2003, First Prize in the 3rd Edition of the Znak-Proza Competition held by Znak Publishers). In 2005 he published Praise the Dappled Meadows, and in 2009, the novel Low-tech. In 2010 he published Notes on Tickets – a story of journeys through Poland, and An Eco-book about Eco-God, a record of conversations on the environment with Franciscan priest Stanisław Jaromi.
In 2009 he was nominated for the A. Woyciechowski Award and the Grand Press Prize in the Journalism category, and in 2012 he received the Małopolska Journalist Award in the Internet Journalism category and the Grand Prix Małopolska Journalist Award.

After having launched the SCM International Training Course (Sustainable Cultural Management) in June 2016, mitos21 has joined this multinational Creative Europe project as associate partner. The CCL Training Course is addressed to cultural leaders and is led by Julie’s Bicycle, UK.
Duration of the project: 3 years.
More info: http://www.creativeclimateleadership.com

mitos21 General Assembly, Saturday 19 November.

Plus: “Trends and currents in contemporary Russian theatre”, a presentation by Roman Dolzhanskiy (chief dramaturg of the Theatre of Nations), followed by discussion with mitos21 members.

Meeting of the mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers on the topic: Theatre and Diversity.
With a specific focus on four areas:
Gender Equality
Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists and work
Deaf and Disabled artists and work
Diversity of form

Organised by the National Theatre New Work artistic team (Emily McLaughlin, Nina Steiger, Bernadette Whittle). With the participation of mitos21 dramaturgs and literary managers.
Opening speech by Rufus Norris (NT artistic director).
Guest-speakers: Lyndsey Turner, Anupama Chandrasekhar, Lucy Kerbel, Inua Ellams, Suhayla El Bushra, Nadia Fall, Charlotte Bevan, Emily Lim, Matilda Ibini and
Sarah Jane Murray.

Presentation: staged reading of extract from Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams.

A meeting of mitos21 young actors and directors, from Friday 26 until Sunday 28 August 2016, in the framework of the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival (25 August – 4 September 2016).

Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden) welcomes young actors and directors, proposed by mitos21 members, to participate in an informal gathering during the forthcoming Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival.

The meeting will be an opportunity for young artists to see invited productions, to attend the rich programme of the Festival, to meet theatre colleagues from mitos21 member theatres around Europe and to participate in discussions and debates on challenging and urgent topics.

For more information about the Festival and this year’s programme: Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival

In the framework of the Festival Autorentheatertage 2016.

This intensive course is designed to share the environmental best practice identified by and for the performing arts and to explore what actions can be taken to become more ecological in the way we govern cultural organisations, manage buildings, create and tour productions, collaborate with partners, and engage with audiences.
Experts from across Europe and the world will share their experience and best practice, and participants will come away with new skills and perspectives to manage their work effectively in the context of environmental sustainability and climate change.
The course is an initiative of mitos21 and it is organised in partnership with Julies’ Bicycle (the UK based, leading global charity, bridging the gap between environmental sustainability and the creative industries (http://www.juliesbicycle.com) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Mechanical Engineering).

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2016.

For more information and in order to apply: www.scmcourse.com

mitos21 General Assembly, Saturday 16 April.

Plus, on Sunday 17 April: presentation of “Eidomeni, Greece – The refugee crisis”, by Dimitris Papageorgiou, founder and coordinator of citizens’ volunteering groups in Thessaloniki, Greece; followed by round-table discussion with mitos21 members and students of the ADK.

Meeting for mitos21 Press and Marketing managers on the topics: “Marketing strategies using ticketing and CRM systems” and “Press strategies and new international press networks”.

Second annual General Assembly of mitos21.

Special event on Sunday 8th November: seminar on cultural economy.

Two-day event with workshops and guest lecturers on sustainable cultural management, for mitos21 “green” managers. In the framework of the ArtCOP21 related activities, leading to COP21

Paris, December 2015.

Dates to be announced.

The Lost Ring / Der verlorene Ring

Lessing’s Ring Parable reflected by 5 directors and 10 actors from 6 countries The Ring Parable, as one central aspect of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise poses the question which of the three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – is the right and real one.

Lessing’s Solomonic answer is up-to-date and leads to the following questions: In what do we believe? Do we believe in other people’s freedom? Has tolerance come to an end? How open and open-minded is our society?

Five mixed teams, each composed of one director and two actors, create five mini dramas based on the Ring Parable – five theatric comments from different points of view.

A coproduction of the Deutsches Theater and mitos 21 in cooperation with: Katona Jozsef Theatre – Budapest, Royal Danish Theatre – Copenhagen, Schauspiel Frankfurt, National Theatre – London, Dramaten/Royal Dramatic Theatre – Stockholm

Directors: András Dömötör, Alexander Eisenach, Yannis Kalavrianos, Elayce Ismail, Nielsen

Set design: Veronika Witlandt

Project manager: Christa Müller

With: Özlem Cosen, Julia Dufvenius, Yorgos Glastras, Moritz Grove, Janna Horstmann, Lehel Kovács, Christian Kuchenbuch, Katharina Schenk, Asad Schwarz- Msesilamba, George Siena, Soma Boronkay (dramaturg)

Performances: 3, 4, 5 September 2015 at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin

In the framework of the festival Autorentheatertage 2015.

Meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs, in the framework of the annual showcase of the Katona Jozsef Theatre.

Performance Laboratory Salzburg: “The Future of Religion”. Final presentation of performances, at the Thomas Bernhard Institute, Department of Acting & Directing, Mozarteum University.

Presentation and visit of the National’s “NT Future” project, in the framework of the joint sustainability plan currently being elaborated by mitos21 members.

Preparatory meeting for PLAS 2015, with mitos21 young directors and students of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, Department of Acting & Directing, Mozarteum University, Salzburg. Topic: “The Future of Religion”.

A revival of the mitos21 theatre project, initiated by and presented at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin (Autorentheatertage, June 2013).
In collaboration with the Goethe Institut.

mitos21 General Assembly, Saturday 29 March 2014.
Round-table: Sustaining Creativity – Sustainable Theatre Management, with Alison Tickell, CEO Julie’s Bicycle (Sunday 30th March, Deutsches Theater).

Meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs and artistic directors. Workshop sessions on “The meaning and legitimacy of public (subsidized) theatre”, around the book by Dragan Klaic, Resetting the stage. Public theatre between the market and democracy (Intellect, University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Informal meeting of mitos21 dramaturgs, in the framework of the festival “AutorenTheaterTage Berlin 2013”.

David’s Formidable Speech on Europe, a theatre project for mitos21 directors and actors, based on David Cameron’s speech about Europe, in the framework of the festival “AutorenTheaterTage Berlin 2013”.

International Conference "Sustainability and Culture / Sustainable Cultural Management", in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Greece.

The term “sustainability” is primarily associated with the theories and the approaches of ecology. It is a different way of planning human activities of all kinds, taking into account their possible (immediate and future) impact on the environment and focusing on the rational consumption of natural resources, with a sense of responsibility toward coming generations.

Human-centred and very broad in scope, the concept of sustainability has been considerably enriched in recent years and has become central to economic theory, development strategies and central political guidance implementation at the local, European and international levels.

The international conference “Sustainability and Culture: Sustainable Cultural Management”was intended to shed light on yet another aspect of this very fertile perception of contemporary reality. Culture does not exist on the sidelines of society, nor is it independent from it. It is an organic part of society and interacts with it. Every proposal for sustainable development in favour of the future of humanity should incorporate not just the social, economic and environmental dimensions, but also the cultural dimension, i.e. visions, utopias and
human creativity.

The first day of the conference was intended to highlight the great potential and the richness in the field of culture, as well as the ways in which culture can contribute to a global and international sustainable perspective, not in theory, but in practice. Representatives of national cultural organisations, senior government officials, special advisors on cultural policy-making, with international experience, independent innovative organisations that are already applying the principles of sustainability in culture, and acclaimed academics mapped out the field of this alternative approach to culture. Through arguments, case studies and their prestigious experience from Europe, USA and Canada, they lent meaning and content to the motto of our conference: “another way of thinking, another way of acting”.

On the second day of the conference, representatives of cultural organisations and public cultural institutions, artists and art and culture theorists, cultural managers, and representatives of educational and cultural establishments presented innovative and successful models of sustainable cultural management, with impressive results which point to the path to follow in future.

Public presentation of Performance Laboratory Salzburg:  Borders/Bridges – Stories on Moving Geographies, a joint project of mitos21 and the Mozarteum Department of Acting and Directing.

http://www.moz.ac.at/de/events/veranstaltung.php?vanr=9228

Public presentation of Performance Laboratory Salzburg:  Borders/Bridges – Stories on Moving Geographies, a joint project of mitos21 and the Mozarteum Department of Acting and Directing.

http://www.moz.ac.at/de/events/veranstaltung.php?vanr=9228

“I was hit at fourteen forty-five”, a co-production of Dimitria Festival and Piramatiki Skini Theatre Company, based on the original project of Ingmar Bergman International Festival and mitos21.

http://www.piramatikiskini.gr/index.php/plays/details/me-xtipise-stis-2.45/

Meeting of mitos21 PR and Marketing Managers on “Contemporary challenges and alternative strategies for the big public theatre institutions in Europe”.

Informal meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs, in the framework of the festival “Autorentheatertage Berlin 2012”.

“I was hit at fourteen forty-five”, based on the book Je suis complètement battue by Eléonore Merciers – a European coproduction of mitos21 and the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival (Dramaten, 27 May-6 June 2012).

http://www.bergmanfestivalen.se/about-the-festival/

Informal meeting of mitos21 members, in the framework of the annual showcase of the Katona József Szinház.

Meeting of mitos21 General and Administrative Managers on “Contemporary practices of theatre management”.

Meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs, in the framework of the “Divine Comedy” annual festival of Polish theatre.

On the occasion of the opening night of “Hamlet”, directed by Staffan Valdemar Holm.

In the framework of the Holland Festival and the presentation of Ivo van Hove’s The Russians.

Informal meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs, in the framework of the festival “Autorentheatertage Berlin 2011”.

“Until the End of the World – perspectives on growth”, final presentation mitos21 young directors workshop.

Informal meeting of mitos21 members, in the framework of the annual showcase of the Katona József Szinház.

Mitos21 workshop on Theatre Management, in collaboration with the FU Institut für Kultur und Medienmanagement.

http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/chronik/2011/forschung/tagungen/2011_we8_workshop.html

On the occasion of the project Focus on mitos21, a public presentation of performances by mitos21 young theatre artists, following the year-long workshop “Theatre of tomorrow”.

Focus on mitos21, public presentation of performances by mitos21 young theatre artists, following the year-long workshop “Theatre of tomorrow”.

http://www.stary.pl/pl/detal/aktualnosci/id/395

Meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs on “High Culture as Sub-Culture”.

A meeting for the general managers of mitos21 member-theatres, on questions of legislation, finances and administrative structure of national theatres across Europe.

Meeting of mitos21 Dramaturgs on “New Plays from Europe” and staged readings at the National Theatre Studio.

Mitos21 plenary meeting, in the framework of the European theatre project “After the Fall”
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/prj/atf/the/kon/enindex.htm

The Obama Victory Speech Project, a European co-production of mitos21 and the Ingmar Bergman International Festival.

http://www.dramaten.se/Bergmanfestivalen-en/Programme/Seminars-meetings-and-workshops/The-Obama-Victory-Speech-Project/

http://news.cision.com/se/bergmanfestivalen/r/intenational-actors-and-directors-examine-the-obama-victory-speech-at-the-ingmar-bergman-international-theatre-festival,c430064

http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=51028

Mitos21 plenary meeting, in the framework of the annual showcase of the Katona József Szinház.