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This background analysis on the situation of artists and cultural workers and the post-COVID-19 cultural recovery in the European Union is prepared for the European Parliament. It provides an overview of key characteristics of artists' and cultural workers’ status across Europe, their working conditions, precariousness and career paths. It outlines the justification for specific policy solutions and provides a mapping of key challenges for a European framework for working conditions in the cultural ...

Performing arts: Emerging from confinement

Sracfhéachaint 29-06-2020

In the EU as elsewhere in the world, the performing arts were among the first sectors to be hit by measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and are now among the last to reopen. As the confinement measures are relaxed, the focus now is on supporting the performing arts and finding a way to re-engage with live audiences.

Architects, dancers and a wide range of others from the cultural and creative scene are set to benefit from the new Creative Europe Programme. The new programme for 2014 to 2020 will bring together the current Culture, Media and Media Mundus programmes in a single structure.

Street Artists in Europe

Staidéar 05-03-2007

The study’s main objective is to analyse the situation of street artists in Europe, taking into account as much as possible all 27 Member countries. The study evaluates the importance of street arts and the characteristics of this artistic sector. The analysis is based on aesthetic and social research, enriched with surveys and interviews on the economic, political and cultural context of street arts, considering the multidisciplinary nature of the art forms, their social and urban involvement as ...

The paper is divided into three parts. Part I analyses the situation in the EU Member States with regard to the following questions: History and current situation, legislation on circus businesses, financial subsidies; vocational training in circus arts; legislation on circus artists and workers, working conditions, and health and safety issues; social security regulations; pre-school, primary and secondary education for the children from circus families; Current debates or future plans. Part II ...

The European Parliament's Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport had been authorised to draw up an own-initiative report on the importance and dynamics of the theatre and the performing arts in an enlarged Europe.In this connection, the Directorate-General for Research (DG IV) was asked to send a questionnaire to all ministries of culture in the EU Member States and the candidate countries. The replies to this inquiry are summarised below.