IBERESCENA - Aid Fund for the Ibero-American Performing Arts

Iberescena aims to promote the creation of an integrated space for performing arts in its Member States, through funding and financial support. Among its objectives are the following:

• Promote the activities of the performing arts with innovative languages and new expressions that able to dialogue with the contemporary scene.
• Encourage the distribution, circulation, and promotion of Ibero-American shows.
• Stimulate co-production in performances among Ibero-American public and/or private sectors, as well as promote such presences in international perfoming arts spaces.
• Promote the dissemination of the work of Ibero-American authors.
• Support Ibero-American scenic spaces and festivals, in order to encourage the prioritization in their programming of regional productions. 
• Favor professionalization in the areas of theater, dance, and circus arts.
• Advance efforts in collaboration and synergies with other programs, as well as instances related to performing arts.
• Promote the creation of projects which include the following the following themes: gender perspectives, native peoples, persons of African descent, as well as those topics which favor social cohesion and inclusion.

The period 2017 - 2018 the activity will be focused in:

• Financial aid to networks, festivals and performance spaces for the programming of shows.
• Financial aid to co-productions of Ibero-American shows in the performing arts.
• Financial aid to Latin American performing art centres in specialized residence