Collective reflections towards the professionalization of the live arts sector

Last Wednesday, June 18th, performing arts professionals we met at Nau Ivanow to present the Relating of the successful days 2024by the hand of The stage platform. The aim of the meeting was to share and discuss the conclusions of these days, with the aim of recovering the materials and debates generated, and to draw real and contextualized commitments to the dignification and professionalization of the sector.

A seemingly simple, but deeply revealing question within a sector where precariousness often prevents clear criteria of professionalization. Despite this, a shared consensus was reached: the definition must be flexible and inclusivenot excluding. You can be an artist without fulfilling all the established requirements, but recognizing some brings Safety and professional recognition.

The proposal is that this definition becomes a shared horizonespecially for institutions and administrations, guiding their cultural support and policies programs towards this idea of ​​professionalization.

The meeting continued with a proposed space where they were shared six concrete measures Having arising from the collective debate, conceived as starting points to promote structural changes in the sector:

• Promote network residences and supports Between different agents, in order to optimize resources, beyond economic financing.

• Unify the system of callsin order to simplify and reduce, both by artists and by agents, finding points in common and considering the particularities of each. The need to adapt and make them more accessible were also on top of the table.

• Address intersectional challenges and to integrate the presence of non -hegemonic identities, dissident and infrared communities, at all levels, also in spaces of power and decision.

• Accompany From the artistic and also management field, based on a constant dialogue, a wider listening and ensuring the long term.

• Guaranteeing good regulation of the legal and contractual framework and ensuring the proper knowledge by the artistsin order to impact positively on their professionalization and time to guarantee their labor rights.

The Importance of cultural producers as key figures to translate creative needs into decent working conditions as well as the potential of the Mentories tailor -made As a specialized and specialized accompaniment formula.

We left too Open questionswhich can lead to future debates;

• What specific actions can institutions take place to support long -term artists?
• Are we touching the roof with regard to current models of creation support?
• How can we evaluate the actual impact of a supported accompaniment on projects?

It also raised the need for each agent in the sector to focus on their specialty: for a festival to work on exhibition and external projection, and a center of creation, research and artistic development; and like this modular complementarity It could promote a comprehensive and consistent accompaniment throughout the stages of the creative process.

The critic of the current model, excessively focused on production and premiere, opened the door to claim spaces for the Research and exhibitionbalancing the cultural ecosystem and ensuring the promotion of well -structured exhibition circuits; Give space for pieces that can come out of artistic research processes and guarantee a journey into the distribution ecosystem.

Finally, from the ship expressed the Commitment to collect all these reflections and incorporate them into the projectwith the aim of continuing to weave complicity and promoting a structural change from dialogue and shared practice.