On 9 August 2023, the Worldwide Presenting Commons (IPC) and the Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant gathered an invited, worldwide group of presenters, producers, artists, and brokers for a candid exploration of the alternatives and boundaries artists and programmers face as they transfer work throughout borders. Given the widespread challenges of restricted budgets, governmental assist, time, and house, individuals shared their improvements and successes within the creation and touring of labor. The dialog started by honoring the context wherein it was happening and centering the Scottish voices within the room, and expanded to incorporate everybody current. This distinctive, horizontal house for sharing experiences throughout roles and hierarchy led to the invention of widespread questions, studying alternatives, and potential collaborations.
In regards to the IPC
The Worldwide Presenting Commons (IPC) is an emergent, evolving, volunteer group of United States–based mostly performing arts presenters and inventive unbiased producers who’ve joined forces to maintain worldwide cultural trade and engagement alive and vibrant now and into the long run. IPC does this by means of advocacy, lively studying, useful resource sharing, and collaboration amongst performing arts presenters, artists, producers, and funders, who work collectively to construct extra sustainable insurance policies and funding fashions for the trade of labor around the globe. The group’s mission is in service of its more and more numerous communities all through the nation. IPC celebrates its position as a part of a worldwide cultural ecosystem and by partnering with artists and presenters from all around the world. IPC does its work by means of a commons-based method and is at the moment organizing with the assist and thought partnership of HowlRound.
In regards to the Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant
The Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant is a worldwide celebration of performing arts, bringing the best performers of dance, opera, music and theatre from around the globe to Edinburgh for 3 weeks each August. The Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant exists to advertise the trade of concepts and deepen understanding between cultures by means of a worldwide celebration of remarkable performing arts. The Worldwide Pageant was the impressed thought of Rudolf Bing, a refugee of the Nazi regime who grew to become the Common Supervisor of Glyndebourne Opera, together with Henry Harvey Wooden, the Head of the British Council in Scotland, and leaders from the Metropolis of Edinburgh. It was established within the aftermath of the Second World Battle as a cultural occasion to deliver collectively audiences and artists from around the globe, and over 76 years has gone from energy to energy.
The subsequent Worldwide Pageant will happen 2-25 August 2024 and is the second from Pageant Director and Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. Annually the programme is developed round a central query or theme. 2024’s theme “Rituals That Unite Us” follows on from Benedetti’s first 12 months, which requested “The place can we go from right here?”
The Worldwide Pageant’s impression additionally extends past the annual programme, with neighborhood studying, engagement {and professional} growth programmes working all year long, contributing to the cultural and social lifetime of Edinburgh and Scotland.
