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Atelier Livestream

Every day, the panels of the Atelier will be livestreamed on youtube as well as iti-germany.de and thefestivalacademy.eu.

We are delighted to announce that  we have on 16 June at 4.30 pm CEST  a high-level online opening keynote panel on ‘‘The role of the arts and festivals in today’s society and the imaginative power of storytelling” with:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (World renown Nigerian writer. Named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015 and one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2017.  Member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – Nigeria),

Shahidul Alam, (artist, activist and founder of Chobi Mela Festival Bangladesh and 2018 Time Magazine person of the year)

Emily Johnson (Activist for Justice, Sovereignty and Wellbeing, Director/ Choreographer Catalyst, Bessie Awarded winning Choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and Doris Duke awarded artist - Yup'ik Nation/US).

All trail-blazing artists whose life and art is about shifting narratives, resisting dominant paradigms and defending human rights.


Ausgewählte Programmpunkte des Ateliers waren im Livestream über iti-germany.de sowie thefestivalacademy.eu zu verfolgen und sind hier weiterhin verfügbar:

Gespräch: The role of the arts and festivals in today’s society and the imaginative power of storytelling — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NG/US), Shahidul Alam (BD), Emily Johnson (Yup’ik Nation/US)

Livestream 17.06.21

Livestream 17.06.21

Gespräch: Festival-making in and beyond a time of COVID-19: the good, the bad and the ugly — Faisal Kiwewa (UG), Natália Machiavelli (BR), Rania Elias (PS), Vigdis Jakobsdottir (IS)

Livestream 18.06.21, 12:00

Gespräch: Festivals, inequality and international collaboration — Jan Linders (DE), Kirstin Hess (DE), Mike van Graan (ZA), Diane Ragsdale (CA), Edima Otuokon (NI)

Livestream 19.06.21, 12:0

Gespräch: The sustainability of festivals in a time of and beyond COVID-19 — Boitumelo ‘Tumy’ Motsoatsoe (ZA), Carmen Olaechea (AR), Rashmi Dhanwani (IN), Stefan Fischer-Fels (DE)

Livestream 20.06.21, 12:00

Gespräch: Global reach versus local relevance: festivals in a time of online possibilities — Freda Sideroff (US/South America) [to be confirmed], Judith Mair (AU), Teesa Bahana (UG)