PERFORMA-Q European Queer Performing Arts Platform
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The Consortium

Six partners, one stage

Who builds the platform

From Bratislava to Mariupol-in-exile

The consortium deliberately spans Europe's so-called periphery — capitals and cities where queer performance is made against the current. Each partner hosts, tours and documents; together they carry the platform.

SK · ★ LEAD

NOMANTINELSLead Coordinator

Queer theatre and civic association in Bratislava — producer of the Drama Queer festival, publisher of QYS magazine, and a long-standing engine of Slovak queer culture. Coordinates the platform.

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BA · PARTNER

Sarajevski ratni teatar SARTR

The Sarajevo War Theatre — founded during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992 — is a stage where theatre has always been an act of resistance and survival.

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CZ · PARTNER

CO.LABS

Brno-based independent performing arts hub for emerging makers — a space for co-creation, residencies and new dramaturgies in the Czech scene.

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AT · PARTNER

Wiener Wortstaetten

Viennese intercultural theatre project developing new writing for the stage, with a long practice of amplifying marginalised authors and stories.

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SE · PARTNER

Swedish Performing Arts Coalition

National coalition connecting Sweden's performing arts field — bringing structural know-how, networks and touring capacity to the platform.

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UA · PARTNER

Mariupol Theatre in Exile (UCPE)

The company of the Mariupol Drama Theatre working in exile — carrying a stage that war tried to erase, and proof of why this platform exists.

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Artistic Board

Curatorial care, named

An Artistic Board drawn from across the consortium reviews open calls and accompanies selected residents. Members and profiles will be published here — every PERFORMA-Q decision carries a name, never an anonymous committee.

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