More than 200 European theatre professionals, artists and journalists gathered to discuss joint solutions for protecting artistic freedom across the continent, during the ETC International Theatre Conference event and IMPACT Forum from 01-06 November 2024 at Theatre de Liège. 
The conference marked a defining moment for ETC with the official launch of ‘European Theatre: BREAK THE MOULD’ a major new initiative co-funded by the European Union.

This ambitious project, which runs from 2024-2028, offers five key programmes: ETC’s Digital Theatre programme, ETC’s Sustainable Theatre programme, ETC’s Diverse Theatre programme, ETC’s Next Theatre Generation programme, and ETC’s European Theatre programme. It builds on ETC’s unrivalled knowledge and leading cultural partnerships across Europe to implement essential change in European Theatres on the topics of diversity, sustainability and digitality.

To this end, the conference marked the start of ETC’s new collaboration with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund as part of ETC’s Digital Theatre Programme. This aims to mainstream expertise in embedding technology in digital performances. A programme of exclusive workshops and webinars will be available and accompanied by advocacy and policy activities.