Iran pays overdue membership fees to ITI

Iran's membership fee to the International Theatre Institute (ITI) has been fully paid until 2024.

The General Directorate of Dramatic Arts followed up so that the ITI Iran Center, in cooperation with the Iranian Performing Arts Association, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Counselor of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Paris, fully settled its overdue membership fees by the end of 2024, Iran Theater reports.

 

The 2025 membership fee will also be paid before the end of the year. According to the ITI Global Charter, Iran, as an active member of ITI and a member of this international cultural institution, will hold the General Assembly in 2025, and the members will elect the new Board of Directors, President, and Secretary General, and the policies, programs, and framework for future cooperation at the global and regional levels will be approved.

 

The active presence of the Iranian Theater Center in this forum and the upcoming decision-making processes will not only enhance Iran's position in the global theater community, but also pave the way for greater participation of Iranian artists in international events, exchange of theater groups, and introduction of Iranian masterpieces.

 

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. ITI has now developed into the world’s largest organization for the performing arts, with around 80 Centres spread across every continent.