List of Regions and Networks

Networks within the Network

AITA/IATA network collaborates with alliances that are organized along geographic and/or cultural lines. These alliances operate in partnership with AITA/IATA, each following its own distinct structure and approach.

Regions and networks are fully independent non-profit organisations or simple initiatives/networks that sometimes work closely with AITA/IATA.

They all contribute in their own specific way to the functioning of our world organisation.

Examples of networks and regions are below:

AACT – American Association of Community Theatre

  • Short description : AACT offers a wide range of opportunities to share experiences, problems, successes and love of theatre. Founded in 1986, AACT is a nonprofit corporation that serves both individuals and organizations by providing expertise, assistance and support so that community theatres can provide the best possible theatrical experience for participants and audience alike.
  • Contact: Kris Geddie
  • Email: info@aact.org
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ASSITEJ International – International Association of Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People

  • Short description : ASSITEJ International unites theatres, organisations, and individuals throughout the world who make Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People. ASSITEJ International is dedicated to the artistic, cultural, and educational rights of children and young people across the globe and advocates on behalf of all children regardless of nationality, cultural identity, ethnicity, or religion. ASSITEJ International brings people together so that they can share knowledge and practice within the field of Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People in order to deepen understandings, develop practice, create new opportunities, and strengthen the global sector, on behalf of all children everywhere. The members of ASSITEJ International are National Centres, Professional Networks, and Affiliates.
  • Contact and Email:  https://assitej-international.org/about/contact-and-offices/ 
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CTC – Creative Theatre Commons

  • Short description : Creative Theatre Commons (CTC) is a voluntary international network of individuals, theatre groups, and organisations engaged in community-based (amateur) theatre practice. It brings together practitioners, educators, cultural organisers, and institutions who share a belief in theatre as a living, participatory artform rooted in communities and sustained through collective creativity. The Commons exists as a shared cultural space, belonging to and affecting the whole of a community, sustained by its participants through dialogue, collaboration, and mutual respect. It reflects the belief that theatre thrives when knowledge, practice, and opportunity are exchanged openly. Diversity of voice, tradition, language, and artistic approach is welcomed as a source of strength and creative growth. The Commons belongs to its participants collectively and is sustained through active contribution rather than regulation. Its vitality depends not on hierarchy or control, but on engagement, initiative, and the willingness of participants to contribute their experience and creativity to the shared whole. Creative Theatre Commons does not function as a governing authority or financial institution. It does not claim ownership over projects, artistic work, or institutional agendas. Instead, it operates as a platform for connection, enabling partnerships, fostering dialogue, and supporting collaboration across borders and cultures. Participation in the Creative Theatre Commons is based on trust, transparency, inclusivity, respect for cultural traditions and practices, and a commitment to strengthening community-based theatre across regions and generations. Together in respect, united in theatre. Many voices. One commons.

ETH – European Theatre House

  • Short description : The European Theatre House supports networking and exchange of theatre activities with focus on amateur, youth and children’s theatre and theatre education.
  • Contact: Nils Hanraets
  • Email: Nils.Hanraets@tpzlingen.de
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ITI – International Theatre Institute

  • Short description : ITI was created on the initiative of the first UNESCO Director General, Sir Julian Huxley, and the playwright and novelist, JB Priestly in 1948, just after the Second World War, and at the beginning of the Cold War, when the Iron Curtain divided the East and the West. The aim of the founders of ITI was to build an organization that was aligned with UNESCO’s goals on culture, education and the arts, and which would focus its endeavours on improving the status of all members of the performing arts professions. They envisaged an organization that created platforms for international exchange and for engagement in the education of the performing arts, for beginners and professionals alike, as well as using the performing arts for mutual understanding and peace. ITI has now developed into the world’s largest organization for the performing arts, with around 80 Centres spread across every continent.
  • Contact: CHEN Zhongwen – Director General of ITI
  • Email: info@iti-worldwide.org
  • Email: chen.zhongwen@iti-worldwide.org
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NEATA – North European Amateur Theatre Alliance

  • Short description : The member countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and The Faroe Islands. NEATA´s work consists among other things of coordinating and implementing activities with common interest for the amateur theatre in the region as well as representing the cultural political interests connected with amateur theatre in the region with regard to the national and international authorities as well as AITA/IATA. NEATA holds a theatre festival with participation from all member countries every other year. NEATA also facilitates other international exchange between amateur theatre groups.
  • Contact: Sofia Wegelius, Noomi Reinert and Hanne Kjersti S. Iversen
  • Email: info@neata.eu
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If you find that your network/region is missing from the above list or its details need to be updated, contact secretariat@aitaiata.net

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