MONDAY, 16 AUGUST

0930 - 1130

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

13/29 Nicolson Street

Edinburgh EH8 9FT

VISITING ARTS

PRODUCERS’ BREAKFAST

Visiting Arts is pleased to invite you to our Edinburgh Producers’ Breakfast which takes place on Monday 16 August at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh breakfast creates the opportunity for 200 UK and international producers, programmers and creators with a passion for international and intercultural performance to come together, make new connections and sow seeds of collaboration, exchange and partnership for the coming year.

At this year’s breakfast we are delighted to present as speakers:

Robert Palmer, Chair of Visiting Arts and Director of Culture and Cultural and National Heritage at the Council of Europe.  This will be his first public address since joining us as Chair in 2009.

Lemi Ponifasio, Choreographer, Activist and Artistic Director of MAU. We are pleased to be supporting Lemi and MAU in presenting two productions in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, Birds with Sky Mirrors and Tempest: Without a Body. This will be their first performance in the UK since 2008.

Fabio Santos, Director of Phakama. Fabio has recently been creating work with artists in Indonesia and on the Tipping Point commissioned partnership project ‘Trashcatcher’s Carnival' in South London.

Register here: http://producersbreakfast.eventbrite.com  

The event is free but capacity is limited. The deadline for registration is Monday 9 August.

You may also be interested in attending the Cultural Contact Point (CCP) EU Funding for Arts Projects seminar taking place immediately after the breakfast from 12 noon to 1:30pm at Edinburgh Festival Theatre. The seminar will provide a brief summary of EU funding opportunities available to arts and cultural organisations who are interested in developing artistic projects in partnership with other European organisations. If you would like to attend, please indicate this during the registration process.

If you can not make it to the Producers' Breakfast but are still interested in attending the EU Funding for Arts Projects seminar, it will also take place a week earlier, on 10 August from 14:00 to 16:00 at Fringe Central, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street.

To book your place for this free event, send an email to rsvp@visitingarts.org.uk.

Visiting Arts would like to thank the Festival Theatre Edinburgh for their generous support of this event.