ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020

28/04/2021

Happy International Dance Day 2021!
ITI is very proud and pleased to present you with the International Dance Day 2021 online celebration program. ITI Centres and Cooperating Members, prominent figures of the global dance communities, plus dance companies contributed more than three hours of beautiful dance performances videos to this online celebration.
Please enjoy the celebration from 14h00 Paris Time on Thursday at www.international-dance-day.org.

29/03/2021

World Theatre Day 2021 Welcome Address
by Ernesto Ottone, UNESCO ADG for Culture
>>For more Speeches & Presentations, please visit:
https://www.world-theatre-day.org/wtd21speeches.html

27/03/2021

🎭Happy World Theatre Day 2021🎉
All The World’s A Stage!
World Theatre Day 2021 Online Celebration starts at
⏰12h00 (Paris Time) today.
See you!
https://world-theatre-day.org/mainevent.html

🎭Happy World Theatre Day 2021🎉
All The World’s A Stage!
World Theatre Day 2021 Online Celebration starts at
⏰12h00 (Paris Time) today. https://world-theatre-day.org/mainevent.html

26/03/2021

Tomorrow ⌛️World Theatre Day 2021 Online Celebration 🎉
⏰Saturday, 27 March | 12h00 – 17:30 Paris Time
https://world-theatre-day.org/index.html

Tomorrow ⌛️World Theatre Day 2021 Online Celebration 🎉
⏰Saturday, 27 March | 12h00 – 17:30 Paris Time
Thanks to the multitude of performance videos contributed by ITI Centres and by the World Theatre Communities, ITI proudly present the Online World Theatre Day Celebration 2021 to you.

World Theatre Day Online Celebration 2021 is celebrated in three different sessions – each one with the message by Helen Mirren and performance videos of the ITI Centres and Special Projects.

See you tomorrow!
To watch the celebration video, please visit
www.world-theatre-day.org

25/02/2021

📣World Theatre Day 2021 - Call for Performance Videos for World Theatre Day 2021

Due to the current unpromising situation of the global pandemic, the General Secretariat of ITI will organize the World Theatre Day 2021 Celebration - online. It will be a global Celebration consisting of a full-day streaming on 27 March of performance videos submitted from all over the world. All the streamed performances will also be available at the ITI worldwide and World Theatre Day websites after the event.

The General Secretariat of ITI is calling theatre artists and groups for submitting a creative production in the form of a performance video to enrich this marvelous celebration.

‼About the performance video that we are calling for:
- Duration of the performance should be around 8 to 10 minutes.
- The performance should represent the creativity of theatre artists of today.
- The performance may be in any form or mixed form of theatre. --- There is no theme and no restriction for the site where the performance happens.
- The performance needs to be understandable to global audiences that it is suggested to incorporate body language or any other means or use not much language or English.
- Emerging artists are very welcome for submitting their video performances.
- A short description of the performance needs to be sent to the General Secretariat as soon as possible.
- The performance video ⏰submission deadline is 4 March.
- With sending the performance video, you are giving ITI worldwide the right to stream the video and put it on the websites www.iti-worldwide.org / www.world-theatre-day.org. If a video is violating any copyright, the creator of the video is accountable.

ITI hopes that through this first initiative theatre artists from all over the world will be inspired to celebrate the World Theatre Day together. In these difficult times, it is essential to use the art of theatre to fuel people’s spirit on a global scale.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact with the General Secretariat of ITI: [email protected].📧

25/02/2021

📣Call for Sharing World Theatre Day Celebrations & Special Events
Members and friends of ITI are encouraged to organize celebration events for the World Theatre Day in various forms - online or at a venue inside or outside. 🎥The General Secretariat would love to promote and stream the event on the social media channels of ITI. Please share with the detailed information about your events by sending the General Secretariat the data.

We hope that through this initiative of ITI, members and the friends of ITI will share their Celebration of World Theatre Day. In these difficult times, it is essential to use the art of theatre to fuel people’s spirit on a global scale.

📧If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the General Secretariat of ITI: [email protected].

04/02/2021

📣‼️Reminder Today at ⏰16.00 h Paris Time: ITI Italy and ITI Russia in dialogue | ITI - International Theatre Institute - Italia in association with the Russian Centre of ITI and ITI Georgian Centre თეატრის საერთაშორისო ინსტიტუტის საქართველოს ცენტრი
Chi è di scena? ITI Meets the World
>>Watch the programme on Facebook ITI - International Theatre Institute - Italia, without registration Link.

https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTheatreInstituteItalia

25/01/2021

📣Reminder: ⏰Wednesday, 27 January 2021
[Online International Conference] IATC(HK) - IATC(HK) - IATC(HK) - 國際演藝評論家協會(香港分會)
👥Keynote Speakers: Jaroslaw Fret, Nassim Soleimanpour and Alexandra Badea.
Conference Chair: Octavian Saiu

【Online International Conference】

‘𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 –
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎

Dates: 27 and 28 January, 2021
Time: HKT 5:00-7:30PM (27 Jan) and HKT 5:00-8:00PM (28 Jan)
Live Broadcast: www.facebook.com/iatchongkong
Language: English

𝙉𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚.

Here's introduction of our three keynote speakers:

𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐚 is a writer, theatre director and filmmaker. Although Romanian born, Badea has been living and working in France since 2003 and, consequently, writes in French. She’s had seven plays and one novel published with Arche Editeur Publisher and translated into several European languages. Her plays have been produced in National Theatres in France and across Europe and a few have even been adapted for the radio. As a director, she’s staged a number of performances in theatres in both France and Romania and directed two short films. Alexandra has had several residencies in Japan, Congo, Russia, Germany, Canada and been awarded several grants for writing by the Theatre National Center, the Book National Center, the Ministry of Culture or the Region Ile de France. Some of her plays are translated and performed in Europe. Her writing is directly linked to current affairs and the realities of the world. Her characters are human beings, they are persecutors and victims of a kind of modern slavery. She gracefully links intimacy, socialism and politics; she questions the different effects of globalisation, the media, liberalism, through restrained but strong language which depicts the modernity of our world and proves herself to be someone who understands the zeitgeist.

𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐫 is an Iranian playwright, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of the Berlin Based Theatre company Nassim Soleimanpour Productions. His plays have been translated into more than 30 languages and performed globally in over 50 countries. Best known for his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written to travel the world when he couldn’t, his work has been awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival Best New Performance, Summerworks Outstanding New Performance Text Award and The Arches Brick Award (Edinburgh Fringe) as well as picking up nominations for a Total Theatre and Brighton Fringe Pick of Edinburgh Award. White Rabbit Red Rabbit had a 9 month Off-Broadway run casting celebrated actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Martin Short, Bobby Cannavale, Wayne Brady, F. Murray Abraham, Cynthia Nixon and etc.

𝐉𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐬ł𝐚𝐰 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐭 - founder and leader of Teatr ZAR, theatre director and actor; director of the Grotowski Institute; lecturer of the Ludwik Solski State Theatre School, Filia in Wrocław, President of the Board of Curators of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 and Curator of its Theatre Programme. In 1999–2002 he carried out a series of expeditions to Georgia, Armenia and Iran, conducting research into the oldest forms of religious music of Eastern Christianity. In the following years together with members of Teatr ZAR he organized expeditions to Athos mountain in Greece, Sardinia, Corsica, Armenia, Turkey, Izrael. Director of five performances of the theatre which have been seen in Los Angeles, Florence, San Francisco, Chicago, Sybin, Athens, Edinburgh, Madrid, Belgrade, Paris, London, Cairo, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bangalure, Pekin, New Delhi and many other places around the world. In November 2013 he completed the work on Armine, Sister performance, for which he elaborated original musical dramaturgy and special stage architecture.

More Information: www.iatc.com.hk/doc/106500

14/01/2021

Congratulatory Video Messages from ITI Family Members

Congratulatory Video Messages from ITI Family Members at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020

Video messages from:
Marianela BOAN, Cuba
International Dance Day Message Author 2018

Henrik NEUBAUER, Slovenia
ITI Honorary Member

Georgette GEBARA, Lebanon
ITI Honorary Member

Ann Mari ENGEL,Sweden
ITI Honorary Member

Philip ARNOULT, U.S.A.
World Theatre Ambassador

Maya ZBIB, Lebanon
World Theatre Day Message Author 2018

Emilya CACHAPERO, U.S.A.
ITI Honorary Member

Cristina HOYOS, Spain
World Dance Ambassador

Gregory Vuyani MAQOMA, South Africa
International Dance Day Message Author 2020

https://youtu.be/NFZh9Z3haA4

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13/01/2021

Congratulatory Messages from ITI Honorary Presidents

Congratulatory Messages from ITI Honorary Presidents at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020

Jeong Ok Kim, Korea Republic
Honorary President of ITI (1995 – 2002)

Manfred BEILHARZ, Germany
Honorary President of ITI (2002 – 2008）

Ramendu MAJUMDAR, Bangladesh
Honorary President of ITI (2008 – 2014)

https://youtu.be/S1dXGTGlkfY

Congratulatory Video Messages from ITI Honorary Presidents:KIM Jeong-ok, Korea Republic Honorary President of ITI (1995 – 2002)Manfred BEILHARZ, Germany Hono...

12/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #7 - Werewere-Liking GNEPO

Keynote Speech of Werewere-Liking GNEPO at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
https://youtu.be/EK9YSk-ioo8

Werewere-Liking GNEPO, Ivory CoastWord Theatre Message Author 2018Please click here to read her biography:http://www.iti-congress.org/pdfs/Werewere-LikingGNE...

11/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #6 - Anatoli VASSILIEV

Keynote Speech of Anatoli VASSILIEV at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
https://youtu.be/J75bl9zEtLo

Anatoli VASSILIEV, RussiaWorld Theatre Ambassador & World Theatre Day Message Author 2016Please click here to read her biography:http://www.iti-congress.org/...

10/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #5 - Nikkole SALTER

Keynote Speech of Nikkole SALTER at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
https://youtu.be/9ytyBkZ0rCs

Nikkole SALTER, USAActress, Writer, Educator & AdvocatePlease click here to read her biographyhttp://www.iti-congress.org/pdfs/NikkoleSalter_Bio_en.pdf ----...

09/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #4 - PU Cunxin

Keynote Speech of PU Cunxin at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
https://youtu.be/kdokiw9jRTY

PU Cunxin, ChinaPresident of the China Theatre AssociationPlease click here to read her biography:http://www.iti-congress.org/pdfs---------------------------...

08/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #3 - Lupwishi MBUYAMBA

Keynote Speech of Lupwishi MBUYAMBA at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
https://youtu.be/K_9dh-itPxE

Lupwishi MBUYAMBA, Democratic Republic of CongoExecutive Director of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA)Please click here to read her biogr...

07/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #2 - Karima MANSOUR

Keynote Speech of Karima MANSOUR at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020

https://youtu.be/jFT0ROPoMTE

Karima MANSOUR, EgyptInternational Dance Day Message Author 2019Please click here to read her biography:http://www.iti-congress.org/pdfs/Karima_MANSOUR_bio_e...

06/01/2021

Keynote Speaker #1 - Carlos CELDRAN

Keynote Speech of Carlos Celdran at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020

https://youtu.be/sv8gV4_zB2E

Carlos CELDRAN, CubaWorld Theatre Day Message Author 2019Please click here to read his biography:http://iti-congress.org/pdfs/ErnestoRenatoOTTONE_RAMIREZ_bio...

05/01/2021

Keynote Speech of Ernesto Renato OTTONE RAMIREZ

Keynote Speech of Ernesto Renato OTTONE RAMIREZ at ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO
Chile/France
http://iti-congress.org/keynoteunesco.html

04/01/2021

Expression of Gratitude
The Executive Council and the General Secretariat want to thank the speakers, ITI Centres, the Committees, Forums and Networks of ITI, the Partner Organizations and all individuals and groups that have participated in the General Assembly Special Edition 2020. Your participation and contributions created a culturally rich event that was highly appreciated by members and friends of ITI.

As a matter of fact, the feedback that has reached and still reaches the General Secretariat is beyond expectations.

For those who would like to watch or re-watch the event, may do so, by visiting the website www.iti-congress.org. You may watch by the following selection, click on the line:
A) Day by Day http://iti-congress.org/events.html
Day 1 – Introduction, Welcome Addresses and Keynote Speeches
Day 2 to 5 – Presentations of ITI Centres, ITI Committees, Forums & Networks as well as Presentations of Partner Organizations, etc.

B) Single Speeches & Presentations
You also can watch at single presentations or speeches, click on the line and select the speech or presentation you are interested in.
🔵 Welcome Addresses, Keynote Speeches
http://iti-congress.org/watchkeynotespeeches.html
🟣 ITI Centres
http://iti-congress.org/centres.html
🟣 ITI Committees, Forums & Networks
http://iti-congress.org/committees.html
🟢Partner Organizations
http://iti-congress.org/partnerorganizations.html
🟠World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT/ITI
http://iti-congress.org/wtti.html
🟠ITI/UNESCO World Performing Arts Capital
http://iti-congress.org/performingartscapital.html
🟠ITI/UNESCO Network Higher Education in the Performing Arts
http://iti-congress.org/network.html
Presentation of the work of the General Secretariat
http://iti-congress.org/generalsecretariat.html

During the Internal Meeting, ITI Centres have presented 15 different international projects. If you are interested in the project descriptions, please send an email to 📧[email protected], and the General Secretariat will send you the document.

31/12/2020

May the new year bring you encouragement and inspiration
for creating a good life – personally and professionally.
May 2021 become an extraordinary culturally rich year for
all of us – in a world where mutual understanding and
peace permeates our lives.
------The General Secretariat of ITI

Que la nouvelle année vous apporte encouragement et inspiration pour créer une vie bonne - personnellement et professionnellement.
Puisse 2021 devenir une année extraordinaire et culturellement enrichissante pour nous tous - dans un monde où la compréhension mutuelle et la paix imprègnent nos vies.
-----Le Secrétariat général de l'ITI

23/12/2020

Don't worry if you have missed the ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
You can click the link below to watch the playback day by day.
http://iti-congress.org/events.html

21/12/2020

International Theatre Institute ITI - Congress

If you have missed the Opening Keynote Speeches of the ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020, please click the link below to watch the playback.
http://iti-congress.org/watchkeynotespeeches.html

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14/12/2020

Less than 2 hours!! Day 5 - Presentation & Interaction of the
ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
🎥See you on Facebook LIVE
⏰Paris Time 14h00 - 17h00 GMT +1
👤Moderated by Teresa EYRING, Vice-President ITI
https://www.facebook.com/ITIWorldCongress

13/12/2020

Welcome to the Day 5 - Presentation & Interaction of the ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
See you on Facebook LIVE🎥
TOMORROW Monday, 14 December
⏰Paris Time 14h00 - 17h00 GMT +1
👤Moderated by Teresa EYRING, Vice-President ITI
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13/12/2020

Less than 2 hours!! Day 4 - Presentation & Interaction of the
ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
See you on Facebook LIVE🎥
⏰Paris Time 14h00 - 17h00 GMT +1
👤Moderated by Ali MAHDI NOURII, Secretary of ITI
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12/12/2020

Welcome to the Day 4 - Presentation & Interaction of the ITI General Assembly Special Edition 2020
See you on Facebook LIVE🎥
TOMORROW Sunday, 13 December
⏰Paris Time 14h00 - 17h00 GMT +1
👤Moderated by Ali MAHDI NOURI, Secretary of ITI
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