This Cultural Policy Yearbook focuses on New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts. Theatre is essential, vibrant, and invigorating; cross-border co-productions, festivals, and networks re-discover our lives through dialogue and exchange. Articles discuss the resilience of the independent performing arts in times of global change.
The Cultural Policy Yearbook is an international, peer-reviewed publication, producing high-quality, original research published by Istanbul Bilgi University. The 20222023 edition is published in English, with a Turkish version available exclusively as an e-book, supported by the University of Hildesheim. The "Focus" theme for 20222023 is "New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts."
Independent theatre is essential, vibrant, and invigorating; through its cross-border co-productions, festivals, and networks, it allows us to continually re-discover our lives through dialogue and exchange. Despite language differences, there is a high level of geographical mobility among artists. Festivals serve as important points of contact, with mobility and flexibility facilitated by numerous organizing groups, alliances, and networks recognized and supported by cultural policymakers. Articles from the West, South, and East discuss the resilience of the independent performing arts post-Covid and the challenges of a transforming world.
Ian Hodder: Making Policy for Cultural Heritage: The Example of
Ēatalhöyük - Serhan Ada: Foreword - FOCUS (Editors: Wolfgang Schneider, Gökēe
Derviolu Okandan) - Wolfgang Schneider,,Gökēe Derviolu Okandan:Resilience
in the ecosystem of theatre, Cultural policy perspectives for the independent
performing arts - 1.1 Ana Letuni, Jovana Karauli: Collaborative
decision-making and participation in the independent cultural scene:
Transnational cultural networks in precarious working conditions - 1.2Özlem
Canyürek: Diversity as Equal Opportunities A Cultural Policy Framework for a
Heterogeneous Performing Arts Scene - 1.3 Wolfgang Schneider: Transforming
the Theatrical Landscape: The paradigm shift in funding for the independent
performing arts in Germany and Europe - 1.4 Khayelihle Dominique Gumede and
Rolf C. Hemke: Decolonization of Cultural Policy in Times of Transformation
The Role of Performing Arts in South Africa - 1.5 Kazuo Fujino: Bridging the
Performing Arts and Tourism to Achieve Regional Revitalization Cultural
Policy in Japan and the Challenge Faced by the Professional College of Arts
and Tourism - 1.6. Cristina Farinha, Matina Magkou and Anna Steinkamp:
International Cooperation, mobility and the Status of the Artist in the
Independent Performing Arts: A Plea for more Fair Policies and Practices -
1.7 Yeim Özsoy: Amongst a World Crises Resilience of Theaters in Türkiye -
1.8 Selda Dudu:Macro-level determinants of the number of theater audiences:
The case of Turkey - 1.9 Ceyda Atay: The Value of Small Live Music Venues in
the Music Ecosystem: Research on the Alternative Music Scene of stanbul,
Turkey - OPEN SPACE (Editor: Serhan Ada) - 2.1 Jonathan Vickery, Serhan Ada:
Futures and future-being for Cultural policy cultural policy as political
imaginary of human possibility - 2.2 Mike van Graan: Reflections on
Resilience: South Africas Sustaining Theatre and Dance (Stand) Foundation as
A Response to the Existential Challenge Posed to Theatre and Dance by the
Covid-19 Pandemic - REVIEW (Editor: Miyase Ēlen) - 3.1 fak Ersölü Banu Ayten
Ak: The Theater of the Real in the 21st Century: On the Smuggled Tea
Performance and Telemachos: Should I Stay or Should I Go - 3.2 Zeynep Nur
Ayanou: Being Alive in the Garden: Güüü Academy Theater Festival - 3.3 Seda
Nanic Zeybek: Book Review: Cultural Heritage Management Why and How?
Experiences and Discussions from Tükiye
Wolfgang Schneider, Founding Director of the Department of Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim/Germany, UNESCO-Chairholder in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development (20122020), Chair of the National Fund for the Performing Arts, and Honorary President of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People.
Hatice Gokce Okandan, Former Director and Professor - Cultural Management Graduate Programs at Istanbul Bilgi University. Expert on UN Cultural Indicators. Key Expert for the INSPIRE Project for a Proper Transformation of the Creative Economy in Türkiye, UNESCO Turkish Commission Cultural Diversity on Digitalization Expert.
