What is the role of the festivals of the performing arts and cultural institutions, understood as hubs of encouragement for creation and active agents for approximation and interaction between artists and segments of the public? This is the starting point for the roundtable that discusses the challenges of cultural action in Ibero-America facing restrictions of public support for culture, a situation worsened by the sanitary crisis arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The guest participants address these issues based on the perspectives of management of many different festivals: the International Theatre Festival of Iberian Expression (Porto, Portugal), the Manizales International Theatre Festival (Colombia), Mapas - Performing Arts Market of the South Atlantic (Spain), Glance (Mirada) – Ibero-American Festival of the Performing Arts (Brazil) and the Santiago a Mil International Festival (Chile).

Carmen Romero
Chilean producer and cultural manager, Carmen participated in establishing the Teatro a Mil Foundation, of which she is the Executive Manager. She is also the manager of the Santiago a Mil International Festival. She dedicates herself to the internationalization of the performing arts in Chile, support for national art creation, and the development of the public.

Danilo Santos de Miranda
Danilo is a cultural manager with an academic background in philosophy and social sciences. He pursued further studies at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), in Switzerland. He organised the book Ética e Cultura (Ethics and Culture) and others. He is the director of SESC São Paulo.

Gonçalo Amorim
Actor and producer of plays, he is the artistic manager of the Experimental Theatre at Porto and, since 2014, has been the art manager of the International Theatre Festival of Iberian Expression (Fitei)

Octavio Arbeláez
Octavio is the head of the Manizales International Theatre Festival and a co-director of Mapas, the Market of Performing Arts of the South Atlantic. He is active in the cultural market, with emphasis on the performing arts and music, in different countries within Latin America.

Rosana Cunha
Rosana is a master in Government management and politics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo (FGV/SP) with graduate studies in cultural management and project management at the Administration Institute Foundation (Fundação Instituto de Administração - FIA/USP). He works at SESC São Paulo as a Cultural Action Manager and co-ordinates the annual hosting of exhibitions and festivals in many different areas of art.

Simultaneous translation in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS)
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