Project “Changing gender portrayal. Promoting employment opportunities for women in the performing arts”

Launching Conference: Reval Hotel Latvija, Elizabetes St. 55, Riga, LV 1183
April 4-5th
Interpretation: English, French, German and Latvian

Friday, April 4th
Lunch -	In the Esplanade Restaurant, Hotel Reval, from 12h30 to 14h00

14.00- 14.30-	Welcome and Registration of the Participants

14.30- 14.45- 	Words of Welcome from Tomas Bolme, President of FIA

14.45- 16.00- 	Presentation by Dearbhal Murphy, Deputy General Secretary : short introduction to the "2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All" and the origins of the FIA project and current state of play.
	Question and Answer Session/ Debate

16.00- 16.30-	Coffee

16.30- 17.00 - 	Feedback from Agnete Haaland on the outcomes of the steering group meeting that took place in the morning: next steps, final conference etc.
	Question and Answer Session/ Debate

Saturday, April 5

9.00-9.30 - 	Welcome and registration of participants

9.30-10.45 - 	Welcome by our host unions in Latvia LKDAF and LAA with keynote speeches by: 
Helena Demakova, Minister of Culture of Latvia

Līvija Marcinkēviča, Vice-President, Latvian Free Trade Union Federation 
	
		Question and Answer Session/ Debate on gender portrayal and employment opportunities for performers in Latvia.

10.45- 11.15	Coffee

11.15-12.15 - 	Presentation of the background work on the questionnaire for the project; the structure and format adopted; the information that it intended to gather; and the processing of the data arising from it. (Deborah Dean, Professor and researcher at the Warwick University, London -UK)

12.15- 12.45	Question and Answer session/ Discussion on strategies for disseminating the questionnaire and achieving a maximum response rate. 

12.45-14.00 - 	Lunch in the Esplanade Restaurant

14.00-15.30– 	National Experiences: Previous surveys/studies at national level ; best practices related to gender portrayal and age discrimination; personal testimonies:
Nina Stone, Sweden
Agnete Haaland, Norway
Jean Rogers, UK – on how national experience informed the choice of project theme and content by the steering group.

15.30-16.00 – 	Coffee

16.00- 17.00-	Open question/debate session on the national feedback on the questionnaire; the organisation of the face-to-face interviews; the preparation of the final conference; and the follow-up at national and European level.