The Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) is a state-funded organization founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1959 as the Theatre Institute. Since the middle of the 1970s it has been based in the Baroque Manhart House on Celetná Street in Prague. In 2007 the institute changed its name to the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI).
The mission of the Arts and Theatre Institute is to provide the Czech and international public with a comprehensive range of services in the field of theatre and individual services connected to other branches of the arts (music, literature, dance and visual arts). The ATI collects objects and work relating to the theatre, processes and provides access to them, pursues research, initiates and participates in international projects, and publishes scholarly work. The ATI is also the headquarters of the Czech Office of the EU Culture Programme (Czech Cultural Contact Point)
The ATI has 65 employees, one-third of them work part time. Although the ATI is funded with the help of a contribution from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, almost 31% of its funding is self-generated revenue.
The Theatre Institute
The Theatre Institute (TI) is a centre of information, advice, education, production, and publishing for the field of theatre. It openly provides a broad range of services (a library, bibliography, documentation, video library, web portals, and databases), initiates and takes part in international projects, promotes and presents Czech theatre abroad, collects work and objects relating to the theatre, engages in research and documentation, and publishes scholarly work on the theatre.
More about The Theatre Institute here.
The Arts Institute
The Arts Institute (AI) was founded in 2005 as a separate department of the Theatre Institute with the mission of advancing and elevating the social prestige of art. The AI supports the exchange of information and experience between artistic fields, provides information and advisory services, pursues educational activities, and presents and promotes Czech art abroad.
More about The Arts Institute here
Look at the promotional video here: http://www.idu.cz/en/promotional-video
ATI Websites
The ATI operates several internet portals, which are dedicates not only to the theatre itself, but also to the music, literature, dance etc.
www.idu.cz , www.theatre.cz, www.culturenet.cz, www.pq.cz, www.czechlit.cz, www.theatre-architecture.eu, www.czechmusic.org; www.programculture.cz; www.czechdance.info
The Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI)
Celetná 17
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Tel +420 224 809 111
Fax: +420 224 809 226
info@idu.cz
www.idu.cz
Contacts
Ondřej Svoboda, Head of Theatre Institute Section
ondrej.svoboda@divadlo.cz
Tel: +420 224 809 164
Themes
Digitisation
Collections, documentation, databases
Research
Department for Czech Theatre Studies publish the acquired knowledge in the form of biographical lexicons in printed and electronic. See Czech Theatre Encyclopaedia
Virtual Study
International cooperation
Czech Art Guide
See other Theatre Publications, Periodicals, CDs and DVDs in Foreign Languages.
Scenography, theatre architecture
The ATI operates a multi-language database of The European Theatre Architecture (EUTA) which is used as a resource in international projects.
Creative industries
Socio-economic potential of cultural /creative industries in the Czech Republic (2007-2011)
Czech Cultural Contact Point
The primary goal of the Czech Secretariat of the Culture Programme is to inform and provide consultation services related to the European Union’s Culture Programme to the Czech public, primarily cultural organisations, and to promote their interest in multinational cooperation and realisation of relevant international cultural projects. The Theatre Institute in Prague was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic to serve as the national secretariat for the Culture 2000/Culture Programme.
The Czech Cultural Contact Point is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.
See http://www.programculture.cz/en/