ITS OFF STAGE CULTUUR-ONDERNEMEN The organisation Cultuur-Ondernemen (Culture-Entrepreneurship) encourages entrepreneurship in creatives and artists, and its members are actively involved in ITs this year. At the ITs Business Fair and during the ITs Network Dinner you can fire questions at them about funding possibilities and cross-overs between the business world, social organisations and the cultural sector. Moreover, Cultuur-Ondernemen offers the winner of the ITs Ton Lutz Award a development course worth € 2000,-! So get talking to them and get the most out of your entrepreneurship. www.cultuur-ondernemen.nl
Sunday 23 June, Compagnietheater (café), 17.00
ITS BUSINESS FAIR
For the first time ITs is organising a business fair! The fair is the place where you can come for all kinds of advice on cultural entrepreneurship. Organisations such as Cultuur & Ondernemen, Stichting NORMA, ACT acteursbelangen, Kemna Casting and Groen Casting will be there to help you with their expertise and discuss any plans you might have. What kinds of business forms are available to you? How and where to apply for subsidies? How to get invited to castings? What are your rights as a performing artist? Come to the fair and prepare for your future.
Friday 28 June, Compagnietheater, 21.00
ITS HITS ON TOUR Monday 24 June, Compagnietheater, pitch: 11.45, meeting: 13.45
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMERS MEETING & PITCH ITs wants to support young performing artists in their struggle to find a place for themselves within the performing arts. This is why ITs invites a wide-ranging selection of (inter)national dance and theatre presenters each year to come and discover talented young makers. Last year this initiative helped over 70 performances to get booked at venues in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Iran and Turkey. And this year ITs is also organising an informal get-together with presenters and up-andcoming artists from the Netherlands and abroad. During this meet-and-greet you can get acquainted over a drink and during the ITs Pitch, two dozen young theatre and dance makers will pitch their work to you. Here, you can discover the stars of tomorrow during the pitch and help lay the foundations for these artists’ careers. To register, professionals only, contact Ben Visser at productie03@itsfestivalamsterdam.com
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Which performances will be part of the ITs hITs On Tour 2013? 2012 saw the first edition of The Best of ITs on Tour, which will continue this year under the new name ITs hITs on Tour. In the autumn of 2013 you will be introduced to three of the most arresting new theatre makers, selected for you by Theaterzaken Via Rudolphi at ITs. Freshly graduated from one of the Dutch theatre and dance schools they will be presenting themselves on a stage near you. Three of the most inspiring and surprising short performances in the ITs Festival will be touring the Netherlands for a month, like a travelling festival. Poetry, emotion, beauty, power, and most importantly, an unstoppable need to create great stage works is the thing that connects these young makers. www.viarudolphi.nl / www.itsfestivalamsterdam.com