Event Reports
The FIA Secretariat frequently attends seminars, conventions, hearings or other meetings of interest to the Federation and its affiliates. Although we cannot always feature, and report on, all these events, we endeavour to select and bring the most relevant ones to your attention.
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18.04.2023The equitable remuneration of performers in subscription...
Subscription video on demand (SVOD) is revolutionising the audiovisual industry, with important implications for the...[more]
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06.04.2023FIA proudly supports American Actors’ Equity
The International Federation of Actors and its affiliates around the world pledge solidarity and support to American Actors’...[more]
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23.02.2023Unions at ILO: Securing decent work in arts & entertainment
ILO meeting lays foundation for better arts & entertainment jobs globally[more]
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26.01.2023The future of work in the arts and entertainment sector...
For many years, our sector has been neglected within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has not been able to...[more]
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25.01.2023Digital Models – Decent Work, Event Report from Rotterdam,...
FIA, FIM, UNI MEI and the EFJ, the European trade union federations in the Media Arts and Entertainment sector, are engaged in a...[more]
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24.01.2023Konvertigo: A New Belgian Transition Scheme for Dancers,...
Conducted by FIA with the support of IOTPD, the International Organisation or the Transition of Professional Dancers, from 2016...[more]
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22.12.2022Free Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti !
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film 'The Salesman' at the 69th international Cannes Film Festival on May...[more]
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15.12.2022Update: Recommended Health and Safety Guidelines
In 2007, the FIA Secretariat published the Recommended Health and Safety Guidelines under the title ‘Act Safe’ in two different...[more]
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06.12.2022European Social Dialogue - Live Performance Committee...
The European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee on Live Performance will convene on December 6th 2022. The draft agenda and...[more]
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02.12.2022
Follow Online! VRdays - Digital Models - Sustainable Work...
The registrations to attend in person have closed, but you can still access a Livestream for this event. You can use this link...[more]
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21.11.2022
European Social Dialogue - Audiovisual Committee Plenary...
The European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee on Audiovisual will convene on November 21st 2022. The draft agenda and...[more]
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21.10.2022New Legal Blog: Future of Collective Bargaining and...
Have the new European Competition Law Guidelines on Collective Bargaining for self-employed piqued your interest? Would you enjoy...[more]
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21.10.2022New Commission Guidelines remove the Competition Law...
Collective bargaining for self-employed, freelance performers has long been hampered in Europe by the application of European...[more]
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26.09.2022Digital Business Models - Decent work for Creators -...
The European trade union federations in the Media Arts and Entertainment sector are working together to examine the opportunities...[more]
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27.05.2022Third global meeting of FIA’s live performance unions - 21...
There hardly is a country in the world with no theatre or live shows, and most FIA affiliates have grown a solid jurisdiction in...[more]
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26.05.2022Green and Sustainable Production in the European...
FIA, together trade union sister federation UNI MEI and employer counterparts CEPI and FIAPF, is currently engaged in a two year...[more]
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09.02.2022Pandemic Restrictions and Recovery Measures in Europe:...
Over the past turbulent two years, EuroFIA unions have frequently convened to exchange views and experience regarding their...[more]
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03.06.2021Launch of the NEW Risk Assessment tool for Audiovisual...
FIA is very happy to announce the launch and publication of the new European Online Interactive Risk Assessment Tool (OiRA) for...[more]
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16.12.2020Freedom of Expression - The State of Play for Queer Artists
Freemuse, the international network advocating for freedom of artistic expression and cultural diversity recently published its...[more]
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01.10.2020Event Report from the FIA Webinar on the EU DSA...
The recent EU Digital Services Act consultation (closed Sept 8) examined a range of issues regarding the operation of digital...[more]
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08.07.2020FIA, UNI MEI and FIM teamwork on post Covid-19 return to...
In the context of the Covid-19 crisis and its devastating effect on the media and entertainment industry, FIA and sister...[more]
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06.07.20202020: Handbook on Trade Union Organising in the Media, Arts...
This Handbook on Trade Union Organising is the outcome of a joint project by the four European trade union federations in the...[more]
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22.10.2019
A new transition scheme for dancers in Belgium: Konvertigo
About a year after the end of the EU project "Dance Futures: Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting...[more]
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19.07.2019Event report: Workshop on the social protection of arts...
Over forty people attended the workshop organized by the Moroccan performers’ union (SMPAD - Syndicat Marocain des Professionnels...[more]
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09.07.2019FIA Warmly Welcomes the new ILO Convention on Violence and...
The Centenary Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) ended on June 21st with the adoption of a...[more]
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29.01.2019
New ILO Study: Challenges and opportunities for decent work...
The present study examines employment in culture and media in 16 countries, from four regions, and covering the very diverse...[more]
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17.01.2019Reaching the Full Potential of Social Dialogue for Atypical...
The joint FIA, FIM, UNI MEI and EFJ project on atypical work and social dialogue in our sector is reaching the end of its first...[more]
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17.01.2019Meeting report: Final Event of the Dance Futures Project
The final event of the Dance Futures project took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on the 6th of November 2018. This event...[more]
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05.11.2018Launch of the Dance Passport: A Union Solidarity Network...
ROTTERDAM, 6 November 2018: the International Federation of Actors (FIA) and its European members representing dancers launch the...[more]
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26.10.2018New Publication: Trade Unions Protecting Self-employed...
For the past two years, FIA has been actively involved in the ETUC project “New Trade Union Strategies for New Forms of Work”,...[more]
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11.07.2018Two Joint Positions from the European Live Performance...
The European Sectoral Social Partners in the Live Performance Sector, constituted by Pearle* Live Performance Europe on the...[more]
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09.07.2018
UNESCO Global Survey on Status of the Artist
FIA invites its members to participate in UNESCO online survey on the implementation of the Recommendation concerning the Status...[more]
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05.07.2018Capacity building Workshop in Bogota, Colombia, 4-6 May 2018
In early May FIA, carried-out a three day capacity building training in Bogota in cooperation with UNI MEI and UNI Americas, and...[more]
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04.04.2018Third Seminar of the Dance Futures project, Madrid
The third seminar of our European project Dance Futures took place on the 20/21 of March, in Madrid, Spain. The European meeting...[more]
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20.03.2018
Seminar: Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for...
The is the third and last seminar of the project "Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting...[more]
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30.01.2018
Third meeting of the Dance Futures steering group,...
The steering committee of the project "Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting Sustainable...[more]
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19.01.2018Life Off-Stage: A Survival Guide for Artists and Cultural...
There is a wealth of resources available, both online and offline, to inform, advise and support artists and cultural...[more]
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11.01.2018The European Pillar of Social Rights: FIA responds to the...
Since launching the broad policy package called the “European Pillar of Social Rights” in April of last year, the Commission has...[more]
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10.01.2018
FIA expresses grave concern regarding the situation of...
On December 18th, during the massive demonstrations to protest the pension reform plan in Argentina, the actor and activist...[more]
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10.10.2017Contested Labour Law Reforms and Attacks on Workers' Rights...
Last month, thousands of protesters marched in France against President Emmanuel Macron's contested labour law reforms and their...[more]
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06.10.2017Report from the Dance Passport Meeting
The Dance Passport Meeting took place on September 26th, in Warsaw, Poland. This meeting was organised within the framework of...[more]
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26.09.2017Dance Passport & EuroFIA meetings, Warsaw, 26-28 September
The next EuroFIA meeting will take place from the 26th to the 28th of September 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by FIA members...[more]
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20.07.2017Ending violence and harassment against women and men in the...
Violence and harassment in the workplace has an impact not only on workers and employers, but also on their families,...[more]
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26.06.2017Civil society gets it all together at 2005 UNESCO Convention
The UNESCO 2005 Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions is perhaps the only...[more]
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20.06.2017Dance Futures: Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers –...
The second seminar of our European project “Dance Futures: Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting Sustainable...[more]
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18.05.2017
Seminar: Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for...
This is the second working seminar of the project "Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting...[more]
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20.04.2017Dance Futures: Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers –...
The first working seminar of our new European project “Dance Futures: Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting...[more]
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22.03.2017
Seminar: Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for...
The is the first seminar of the project "Dance Futures - Creating Transition Schemes for Dancers and Promoting Sustainable...[more]
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01.02.2017Living (and dying) in Bollywood
FIA has been actively promoting proper health and safety standards in the burgeoning Mumbai film and television industry for some...[more]
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01.02.2017Theatre and freedom of expression in the Arab-speaking world
At the end of 2016, FIA was invited to attend the opening of the 9th International Arabic Theatre Festival, held in Oran,...[more]
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21.12.2016Dance Futures: First meeting of the steering group
Dance is more a vocation than a profession. But the dancing career is intensive, insecure and short. Dancers are a highly...[more]
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21.12.2016Atypical Work Project Handbook: The Future of Work in the...
Throughout 2015 and 2016, FIA coordinated work on its European « Atypical Workers » project, in partnership with FIM,...[more]
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21.12.20162016 Study: Analysis of the EU Audiovisual Sector Labour...
Read the labour market analysis in English or French and the country reports (in English)Read the executive summary of the labour...[more]
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21.10.2016FIA unions around the world united with SAG-AFTRA members...
The International Federation of Actors firmly stands by SAG-AFTRA members in the US as they strike to earn very reasonable and...[more]
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09.09.2016Meeting the challenge of atypical working: Final event and...
The Media, Arts and Entertainment sector has seen significant changes in the structure of the labour market and in the...[more]
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28.07.2016Report from the Closing Conference of the OIRA project for...
The OIRA II project by the European Social partners came to a close with a final event that took place in Athens on the 15 and...[more]
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15.06.2016
Closing Conference of the OIRA project for Live...
The OIRA project by the European Social partners will round off with a closing event taking place in Athens on the 15 and 16th of...[more]
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14.06.2016FIA Child Performer Toolkit
Children have always acted, in productions aimed at children as well as in order to create authenticity in the portrayal of...[more]
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07.04.2016Reaching Out to Atypical Workers - Workshop 4, 7-8 April,...
The last in the series of 4 workshops will take place in Rome on the 7 and 8th of April, 2016. This final workshop will look at...[more]
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07.04.2016The professional status of performers under threat in France
Outrage among professional performers is growing over the adoption on second reading of the "Creation" bill presented...[more]
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04.04.2016To be an actor today in Turkey
What actors do is play a role, to portray life and convey stories to an audience that resonate with their feelings. Based on...[more]
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12.02.2016Giant leap for performers within reach in Morocco
The International Federation of Actors (FIA) welcomes the news of the unanimous adoption by the Chamber of Deputies in Morocco of...[more]
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28.01.2016
OIRA: Two Health & Safety Tools for the Live Performance...
The FIM, FIA, UNI-MEI and Pearle* project to further develop and promote Online Interactive Risk Assessment in the Live...[more]
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27.01.2016Workshop 3 on Atypical Workers: Improving Social Rights and...
This event was the third workshop of the Atypical Workers project and was on the theme of improving social rights and working...[more]
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26.01.2016Reaching out to Atypical Workers: Workshop 3, 26-27...
2016 will get off to a positive start for the Atypical Workers Project with the next project workshop taking place in Ljubljana...[more]
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19.01.2016Looking for a theatre in Madagascar? How about penguins...
If you Google "theatre in Madagascar" nowadays, all you are likely to get is information about a popular animation...[more]
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30.10.2015Adoption of the ‘Law of the Actor’ in Argentina: A...
On the night of 28 October 2015, the ‘Law of the Actor’ (‘Ley del Actor’), officially recognising performers as workers, was...[more]
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29.10.2015National legislations and collective agreements for...
The present study was commissioned and coordinated by FIA and UNI-MEI through their regional groups in Latin America, FIA-LA and...[more]
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16.10.20151980 UNESCO Recommendation as relevant as ever
The report on the state of implementation of the UNESCO 1980 Recommendation regarding the Status of the Artist has just been...[more]
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13.10.2015Promoting safer standards in Bollywood
Global federations FIA, UNI MEI and FIM met with film workers' unions in Mumbai on October 7-9, 2015, to address health and...[more]
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21.09.2015Launch of the Live Performance OIRA Tools - 17 September,...
On the 17th of September, the European social partners of the live performance sector launched two online interactive tools to...[more]
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21.09.2015Collective Bargaining for Atypical Workers: Report from...
Trade Unions from across Europe, representing workers in the media and culture sectors, have demanded urgent action at European...[more]
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04.09.2015FIA stands in solidarity with Levent Üzümcü after his...
At the end of August 2015, Levent Üzümcü, well-know Turkish actor and member of the Actors’ Union of Turkey, one of FIA Turkish...[more]
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28.07.2015New European Study on Remuneration for Authors and...
The European Commission has just made public an eagerly anticipated study entitled “Remuneration of authors and performers for...[more]
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10.04.2015ILO Meeting of Experts makes progress on Atypical Work
The International Arts and Entertainment alliance IAEA (made up of FIA, FIM and UNI-MEI) was represented by its President, John...[more]
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20.02.2015European Risk Assessment Tool for the Live Performance...
Through their joint project-based work since 2012, the European social partners in the Live Performance sector (Pearle* for the...[more]
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20.02.2015Reaching out to Atypical Workers: Organising and...
Since early 2015, FIA been coordinating work on its European « Atypical Workers » project, in partnership with FIM,...[more]
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09.02.2015Deadline extended till 15/02/2015! UNESCO 1980...
Source: UNESCO, Section on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions UNESCO is undertaking an important review of the implementation...[more]
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15.12.2014European Mobility Resources for Mobile Performers
Are you trying to organise an artistic project abroad, touring, or taking up a foreign engagement? Such opportunities can throw...[more]
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01.12.2014The flip side of Bollywood
Mumbai boasts one of the most prolific and popular industries in the entire world of entertainment: it is the Mecca of Indian...[more]
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07.10.2014
ILO Advisory Body Meeting in Geneva, 7 October 2014
The ILO Advisory Body is a tripartite entity meeting several times a year to agree on sectoral proposals to be submitted to the...[more]
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05.09.2014
European Ten-country Survey on Contracts and Income of...
Europe Economics and the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam are undertaking a study on the remuneration...[more]
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30.07.2014
Update of the OECD Model Tax Convention – Substantial...
In fact, Article 17 no longer refers to “Artistes and Sportsmen” but has been changed to “Entertainers and Sportspersons”...[more]
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19.06.2014
Artists' mobility, social security and taxation in the EU...
Brussels, 19th-20th June – FIA participated in the two-day seminar on Artists' mobility, social security and taxation in the EU,...[more]
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13.11.2013
Euro FIA/ On The Move Joint Seminar on Performers’ Mobility...
The Euro FIA seminar, which was held in Brussels on November 13 and kindly hosted by ACOD-Cultuur, focussed on “Frequent Problems...[more]
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02.10.2013FIA meets with UN Rapporteur Fareeda Shaheed to discuss...
FIA’s longstanding commitment to promote artistic freedom and generate political support around this important issue took shape...[more]
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20.09.2013
FIA denounces the shocking assassination of Greek rapper...
The International Federation of Actors (FIA) joins its Greek member the Hellenic Actors’ Union and the worldwide artistic...[more]
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21.09.2012
Sign the petition to free Zakaria Zubeidi, co-founder of...
Zubeidi has been held since May 13 and has now been sentenced by the Palestinian Authority to another 19 days of prison. In reply...[more]
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12.09.2012
FIA expresses its support to Russian band Pussy Riot
Following the condemnation of the band’s members to a two-years imprisonment for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and...[more]
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20.10.2011
Dancers’ Career Transition: A EuroFIA Handbook
FIA’s new handbook on professional career transitions for dancers is now freely available for download in English, French,...[more]
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26.06.2011
EuroFIA Conference on Transition Schemes for Dancers
The International Federation of Actors (FIA) is running a project on career transition schemes for dancers in Europe with the...[more]
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01.12.2009
FIA calls for the release from Prison of Burmese actor U...
During FIA’s last Executive Committee and EuroFIA meetings, our British affiliate Equity UK reminded the present members the...[more]
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15.09.2009
Guidance and Reference Document for Dancers Working Abroad
The EuroFIA working group on dancers has as its main priority the development of practical tools to support dancers and help to...[more]
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19.01.2009
FIA-FIM Manifesto on the Status of the Artist
This Manifesto on the Status of the Artist is the outcome of cooperation between the International Federation of Actors (FIA) and...[more]
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13.06.2007
Actsafe: recommended health and safety guidelines - Live...
These guidelines are meant as an essential – albeit not exhaustive – checklist for performers, with practical tips they can keep...[more]
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10.06.2007
Actsafe: recommended health and safety guidelines -Film and...
These guidelines are meant as an essential – albeit not exhaustive – checklist for performers, with practical tips they can keep...[more]
