Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)

Last week, we were thrilled to welcome Culture Ireland's Director, Sharon Barry, to speak with our and playwrights and theatre makers of 2023/24.

Sharon offered a great insight into the work of Culture Ireland. And, there were so many valuable learnings.

Culture Ireland supports Irish artists to present and promote their work at strategic international festivals and venues. As Sharon summed up perfectly, “Our job is to help you”.

Thank you Sharon Barry Culture Ireland

Learn more about the work of Culture Ireland and how you can avail of their supports:
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It’s festival season, and last week we hosted two hugely successful networking events during Dublin Fringe Festival, with our partners Culture Ireland. INFORMATION TOOLBOX and SHOW & TELL brought together dance and theatre artists/companies with national and international presenters, programmers, and potential collaborators. With over 140 attendees, conversations flowed, and opportunities were sparked!

Enjoy the pick of photographs taken at SHOW & TELL!

We're hosting another major networking event, again with Culture Ireland, which is just around the corner in October: the International Theatre eXchange (ITX), as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. This flagship event connects Irish theatre artists and companies with key presenters and programmers from around the world, fostering exciting new collaborations.

📷 Simon Lazewski

We are thrilled that Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) associated artists and Six in the Attic alums, feature in this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival Awards!

Congratulations to:
BEST PRODUCTION AWARD WINNER &
GORILLA BEST DESIGN AWARD WINNER
🏆The Maestro and Mosquita, Theatre Lovett
Directed by Muireann Ahern (SITA Alum)
Performed by Louis Lovett (SITA Alum)

IRISH AERIAL CREATION CENTRE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AWARD WINNER
🏆Where Lives Touch, Hannah Scully & Safire Hikari (Offsite @ CoisCéim 2024 Artist)

SOLUS NUA NEW VOICES AWARD - NOMINEE
🏆Afterwards, Janet Moran and Once Off Productions
Writer and Co-Director, Janet Moran (SITA Alum)

We can't wait for Dublin Fringe Festival 2025!

Read more about Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) associated artists, both current and alums, who feature in this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival (the 30th edition) and Dublin Theatre Festival programmes:
https://loom.ly/KqeXuEQ

Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) is delighted to announce that Intercity Dublin II, the Teatro della Limonaia flagship, launched in Florence this month.

For the last year, ITI has been working closely with Teatro della Limonaia’s Artistic Director, Dimitri Milopulos and the Intercity Dublin II team to help identify Irish writing to be staged for the 2024 edition. For the 2024 Festival, the following four Irish plays are being presented in Italian translations:

Conversations After S*x, by Mark O’Halloran
The Saviour, by Deirdre Kinahan
From Eden, by Stephen Jones
Chicken, by Eva O’Connor and Hildregard Ryan (national premiere, in English with Italian subtitles)

Fishamble: The New Play Company is also touring their award-winning production of Pat Kinevane’s KING (presented in English with Italian surtitles).

ITI wishes the best of luck to the Intercity Festival team and looks forward to continuing to share the work of Irish artists with Italian audiences beyond 2024.

Read more: https://loom.ly/JjSrD8s

Intercity Dublin II is supported by Culture Ireland

This morning, Irish Theatre Institute, Culture Ireland and Dublin Fringe Festival welcome Irish artists/companies to SHOW & TELL 2024.

The purpose of this networking session is to enable artists to introduce new projects, projects in development, and ready to tour work to national and international programmers and presenters with the intention of generating international presentation or co-producing opportunities.

Best of success to all!

Irish Theatre Institute's Information Toolbox 2024 is underway, and the room is buzzing!

Theatre and dance artists/companies programmed as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, are engaging with programmers, presenters and potential future collaborators.

Information Toolbox is supported by Culture Ireland and the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and presented as part of Dublin Fringe Festival

📸Richie O'Sullivan

The room is ready and the stage is set for Irish Theatre Institute’s 19th Information Toolbox, happening tomorrow Friday 13 September.

The energy in this room is going to be massive!

Theatre and dance artists / companies programmed as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, will have the opportunity to engage with programmers, presenters and potential future collaborators.

Information Toolbox is supported by Culture Ireland and the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and presented as part of Dublin Fringe Festival

💫INFORMATION TOOLBOX 2024 is only days away!

The Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) office is buzzing with activity, as the team puts everything in place for another successful networking event, where theatre and dance artists/companies presenting work in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 have the opportunity to engage with programmers, presenters and potential collaborators from across Ireland and abroad.

Roll on Friday 13 September!

Information Toolbox is supported by and and presented as part of

Against a green background, a hand with red nail polish holds up a handful of Dublin Fringe Festival leaflets. The name 'Dan Kok' is written in black marker on a post-it note, which is attached to the front of the bundle of leaflets.
Image 2: Rows of numbers, black against a white background, each in perspex holders, are lined up on a window ledge.

💫INFORMATION TOOLBOX 2024 is only days away!

The Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) office is buzzing with activity, as the team puts everything in place for another successful networking event, where theatre and dance artists/companies presenting work in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 have the opportunity to engage with programmers, presenters and potential collaborators from across Ireland and abroad.

Roll on Friday 13 September!

Information Toolbox is supported by Culture Ireland and the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and presented as part of Dublin Fringe Festival

Are you an artist/company programmed in Dublin Fringe Festival?
And you are registered for Information Toolbox 2024?

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the Online Pitching Coaching workshop with Rex Daugherty this week!

Through the workshop, you will learn from an expert about how to talk about your work to national and international presenters, before the Information Toolbox event happens later in September.

Dublin Fringe artists are strongly encouraged to attend one of these.

There are spaces available for Wednesday 4th September.
Free to attend.

Register now!
https://loom.ly/mjPChOU

Irish Theatre Institute is delighted to announce, Across the Water (ATW), a pilot project that aims to cultivate a new collaborative network and community for Producers Of Colour. In 2024, through an exciting programme of connections, the project will create a constellation of producers across Scotland, England, and the Republic of Ireland, focused on experimental dance, performance and visual arts.

With the support of Irish Theatre Institute, Amy Lawrence and Dan Kok will manage the pilot project, in collaboration with Renn Miano.

A project founded by Amy Lawrence and Dan Kok, in partnership with Irish Theatre Institute.

Learn more:
https://loom.ly/MkvY3-c

Irish Theatre Institute was delighted to host Dublin Fringe Festival Elevenses on Friday 16 August, to talk about Information Toolbox 2024.

It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know the Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 programmed artists, and their shows, and to share a short presentation about what to expect during Information Toolbox.

Information Toolbox is an the annual networking event at Dublin Fringe Festival, organised by Irish Theatre Institute in partnership with Culture Ireland. Now in its 19th year, this event offers theatre and dance artists/companies presenting work in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 the opportunity to engage with programmers, presenters and potential collaborators from across Ireland and abroad.

Learn more:
https://loom.ly/3IbzAlE

This week, David McGovern, current Six in the Attic artist and lecturer at University of Arts London, gave a Moving Images Workshop with his colleagues, with facilitator Lian Bell.

David explained the process and aims of this workshop, 'Moving image is a powerful tool for self-inquiry. Much like sketching, poetry, or simply pacing the room, we can use this discipline for ideation and expression.

We begin by using the camera to simply observe and notice - the essence of documentary making. Following this, we will become more reflective and experimental with our approach. We will discuss pace, framing and problem solving.'

This session was certainly a journey of self-discovery and everyone got so much out of the experience!
Thank you to David for so generously sharing this workshop with your colleagues.

Learn more about SITA playwrights and theatre makers here:
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“Fellow artists are what make my life sustainable”.
Andrew Simonet

Last week, we and our friends in Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre had the pleasure of hosting choreographer, teacher, artist advocate, writer and author of 'Making Your Life as an Artist', Andrew Simonet, to talk to a group of artist activists and advocates. The gathering was facilitated by Lian Bell.

The discussion was deep and thoroughly engaging, and we want to thank Andrew for dropping into us on his holiday!

MAKING Your Life as an Artist
A guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life, written by Andrew Simonet, can be purchased as 'pay-what-it's-worth' here:
https://loom.ly/82sL_LQ

🔊 Registration to participate in the International Theatre eXchange (ITX) is now open to artists programmed for Dublin Theatre Festival 2024.

ITX is a key networking and platforming event which connects Irish theatre artists and companies with presenters and programmers from around the world.

Dublin Theatre Festival artists, register here: https://loom.ly/YeXT3Wo

For artists across the island of Ireland who want to present at ITX and are NOT programmed as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, an Open Call will be announced in early August at cultureireland.ie 'News & Events!

The 31st edition of ITX is presented in partnership with Culture Ireland and Irish Theatre Institute as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, and supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

‼️ Reminder ‼

Last chance to apply for Show and Tell At the 2024 Dublin Fringe Festival - Call for Artists/Companies

Applications should be submitted through the below link by Wednesday 7th August by 5pm!

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/4f9bb83b-5591-e990-253e-c7471716b213…

Dublin Fringe Festival
Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)

We are thrilled that Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) associated artists, both current and alums, feature strongly in this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival (the 30th edition) and Dublin Theatre Festival programmes. ITI is particularly excited that a colleague and team member - and Six in the Attic (SITA) alum - is included in the Dublin Theatre Festival programme.

Associated artists are:
💫Current SITA 2023/24: Eibhleann Caffrey; Eoghan Carrick; Pea Dinneen and Anthony Keighler (Xnthony).
💫SITA Alums: Muireann Ahern; Owen Boss; Shanna May Breen; Kate Gilmore; Raymond Keane; Louis Lovett; Louise Lowe; Phillip McMahon; Janet Moran; Jodie O’Neill and Dee Roycroft.
💫ITI team member & SITA Alum: Kate Heffernan
💫DUETS Alums: Eoghan Carrick and Lauren Moukarzel
💫Offsite @ CoisCéim Dance Theatre 2024 Artist: Safire Hikari

Throughout the year, ITI mentors, supports and resources artists and theatre makers to develop, create and present world-class new work to audiences. We are proud to see this work premiering on stages and in venues across the city this September and October.

We wish every success to the artists, theatre makers and arts workers involved in this year’s festival editions.

Read more & book your tickets now:
https://loom.ly/KqeXuEQ

🔊Artists across the island of Ireland!
📍Open Call for International Theatre eXchange (ITX) will open in mid-August.

ITX is a key networking and platforming event, taking place 4 & 5 October, connecting Irish theatre artists and companies with presenters and programmers from around the world.

Selection is by open call and is open to artists on the island of Ireland.
Registration for international programmers and artists/companies is by invitation only and will open in early August 2024.

To learn more:
https://loom.ly/YeXT3Wo

The 31st edition of ITX is presented in partnership with Culture Ireland and Irish Theatre Institute as part of Dublin Theatre Festival , and supported by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

💫Irish artists / companies!

Culture Ireland, Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe Festival are now inviting submissions to take part in SHOW AND TELL 2024.

This is an opportunity to meet and discuss your work with national and international programmers and presenters, as part of this year’s INFORMATION TOOLBOX at Dublin Fringe Festival.

SHOW AND TELL 2024 allows you to introduce new projects (not previously presented in any format) in development and ready to tour work to delegates to generate international presentation or co-producing opportunities.

Professional artists/companies from theatre and dance disciplines are eligible to apply.

Applications should be submitted by Wednesday 7th August by 5pm.
Read more & Apply:
https://loom.ly/VDGbg_c

Artists/Companies whose work will be featured in the 2024 programmes of either Dublin Fringe Festival or Dublin Theatre Festival are ineligible to apply – but you can take part in the INFORMATION TOOLBOX sessions (see irishtheatreinstitute.ie).

Have you signed the petition to urge policymakers in Ireland to retain, extend and expand Basic Income for the Arts?
If you haven't yet signed, please hit the link below!
to family, friends and colleagues.

Through Minister Catherine Martin and this governments’ introduction of the Basic Income for the Arts pilot, Ireland has taken a significant step towards better supporting and investing in its artists. This initiative provides a basic income to artists, recognising their contribution to society and the economy.

However, this program is currently a pilot.

Let us stand together in support of our artists and arts workers by urging policymakers in Ireland to retain, extend and expand Basic Income for the Arts.

If you agree, hit the link below and SIGN THE PETITION:
https://chng.it/NxbdWrtpWc

Are you presenting a theatre or dance show at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024?
Registration is now open for the annual networking event
INFORMATION TOOLBOX
on Fri 13 September at The Complex Dublin.

Now in its 19th year, INFORMATION TOOLBOX offers theatre and dance artists/companies presenting work in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 the opportunity to engage with programmers, presenters and potential collaborators from across Ireland and abroad. In advance of the event, you will be given a timetable of one-to-one meetings.

Registration is now open and will close on Sunday 25 August.
Capacity is limited — early registration is strongly advised.

In partnership with Culture Ireland.

Register today:
https://loom.ly/3IbzAlE

Irish Theatre Institute is extremely proud and privileged to launch the new research report AMPLIFY: A Call For Transformative Action, as part of the Safe to Create programme, on Wednesday 3 July at Project Arts Centre, joined by an incredible line-up of artists: Emma Dabiri, Alan James Burns, Shane Michael Byrne (supported by Caroline Loughman), Oein DeBhairduin, Farah Elle, FELISPEAKS, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Oonagh Murphy, Lianne Quigley and Amahra Spence. The launch event was excellently hosted by Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and ISL interpreted by Caoimhe Coburn Gray and Shelley Gibson.

The research findings were presented by the Director of Irish Theatre Institute, Niamh O’Donnell, and Dr Ciara L Murphy, who led the research project with indefatigable commitment, forensic attention to detail, and care (supported by the AMPLIFY Research Team; Rachel Parry, Dr Sarah Hoover, Conall Ó Duibhir and Dr Michael Lydon, with support from Gráinne Pollak, Olwen Dawe, Keishia Taylor, and Dr Brenda Donohue).

We would like to thank everyone who joined us on the day and engaged with the findings presented.

More importantly though, the research wouldn't have been possible without the 58 disabled, ethnically & racially minoritised, and LGBTQIA+ artists and arts workers, and 16 consulting organisations, who generously gave of their time, openness, honesty, expertise and trust, to ensure that this research was created and undertaken with marginalised voices at the forefront of each stage of the work. We look forward to continuing with many of these brilliant, wise, and talented artists and arts workers to propel the recommendations forward into the transformative action needed now.

Finally, we want to thank Alphabet Soup’s Siobhan Griffin who created our stunning AMPLIFY design.

AMPLIFY is a call to action for everyone in the arts and creative sectors to work together to create meaningful change, ensuring all artists and arts workers can thrive in an inclusive, vibrant and equitable environment.

You can access the report in full, a Plain English Summary, an Audio Summary, or an Easy-to-Read Summary here:
https://loom.ly/NSggB_I

Safe to Create is in partnership with the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon , Screen Ireland and Minding Creative Minds, on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

📷 Senija Topcic and Marc O’Sullivan (first image)

The launch of the research findings of AMPLIFY: A Call for Transformative Action, Wed 3 July 2024.

Findings from the recently released research report AMPLIFY: A Call for Transformative Action, commissioned by Irish Theatre Institute as part of the Safe to Create programme, has highlighted that the burden of labour to improve conditions for minoritised artists and arts workers is falling on the artists and arts workers themselves, whereas across all categories the power to enact meaningful change is in the hands of employers and organisations.

Read the full AMPLIFY report, an Easy-Read version of the report or a Plain English Summary of the report; you can also listen to an audio recording of the Plain English Summary:
https://loom.ly/NSggB_I

Please

AMPLIFY: A Call for Transformative Action, in the arts & creative sectors.