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Nordics Combined is an informal network of Nordic agencies/information centers promoting Nordic Performing Arts internationally. Nordics Combined partners collaborate to create and facilitate sustainable networks and artistic market opportunities for Nordic performing artists/companies within the independent performing arts scene. The network initiates and carries out joint projects, coordinates promotional activities, and exchange information.

The network consists of the following Nordic partners:

• Circus & Dance Info Finland
• The Swedish Arts Council
• Swedish Arts Grants Committee
• The Agency for Culture and Palaces, Denmark
• Performing Arts Centre Iceland
• PAHN - Performing Arts Hub Norway
• Theatre Info Finland (TINFO)

PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) is a national competence center promoting professional performing arts both nationally and internationally. We actively collaborate with the global performing arts community, enabling performing artists from Norway to showcase their artistry while forming networks, creating mobility and expanding international markets. We invite international presenters and experts to Norway to experience our performing arts scene in close collaboration with Norwegian art organizations and embassies. We provide support to performing artists from Norway to tour abroad.

PAHN is supported by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Ministry of Culture and Equality.

We are Denmark’s largest arts foundation. We work to spread the arts to a wide audience all over Denmark, to promote Danish art internationally, and to pave the way for talented artists. In the Danish Arts Foundation, we wish to facilitate the conversation about our shared world of art, and we invite everybody to join in. Through more than 60 different funding programmes, we fund the production and promotion of both visual arts, film, literature, music, performing arts, architecture, crafts, and design – and all that transcends the borders of these art forms. As a foreign artist, you may apply for funding for your artwork or project through our international funding programmes.

As a government agency, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee is tasked with implementing government policies. We are the government agency responsible for implementing the national artist policies.

The primary assignment of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee is to promote the arts. We will use the economic and informational instruments allocated to us to support artists so that they can practice their art and develop artistically. In reality, this means awarding grants and residencies, and also building knowledge, collaborating and sharing information on the economic and social conditions for artists.

Swedish Arts Council is a government authority whose principal task is to implement national cultural policy determined by the Parliament. The national cultural policy objectives state that: “Culture is to be a dynamic, challenging and independent force based on the freedom of expression. Everyone is to have the opportunity to participate in cultural life. Creativity, diversity and artistic quality are to be integral parts of society’s development.” Through our grants and other operations, we contribute to the fulfilment of these objectives.

We are an independent expert organisation representing the circus and dance sectors in Finland. Our activities are funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

We produce and disseminate information about the circus and dance sectors’ activities and actors, conditions, results and impacts, and aim to develop these arts in our country. We also facilitate international cooperation and exports in these fields.

A large part of our activities is carried out in the form of projects for which we seek separate private or public funding. We cooperate on an ongoing basis with numerous Finnish and international organisations working in the performing arts, as well as with Finnish Cultural Institutes and Embassies around the world.

Performing Arts Centre Iceland(PACI) is an information and support centre for artists, producers, groups and institutions within the performing arts in Iceland. The role of PACI is to support Icelandic performing arts to increase their visibility and demand internationally. The centre achieves its mission through focused promotional work and specific initiatives that encourage international networking among performing artists and institutions in Iceland. The Center for the Performing Arts also provides information, educates and holds specific courses for professionals whose goal is to build the ability to work in an international context.