Departments of Theatre Institute
Theatre Documentation, Information and Digitalisation Department
The Theatre Documentation, Information and Digitalisation Department collects and systematically edits documentary and historical materials concerning the Slovak professional theatre from its establishing in 1920 (by establishing the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava) until present days. It maps artistic activity of Slovak theatre professionals of all genre forms – drama, musical, puppet and dance theatres, theatre of movement and mime. It focuses also on theatres of national minorities acting in Slovakia from 1945 – Hungarian, Ruthenian and Roma. Extensive classified collections provide essential or specialized information and serve to various purposes - from scientific to promotional. The integral part of documentation or the archives, is a video and film collection as well as a collection of possessions of distinguished theatre people. The Theatre Institute goes beyond the framework of the focusing on the Slovak professional theatre by monitoring the most important activities in the field of the Slovak amateur theatre or by information and documentary materials – posters about the activities of German and Hungarian theatres from the 18th and 19th century.
Theatre Research Centre
Theatre Research Centre, created in 2006, comes from the need of systematic analysis of Slovak theatre (history and theory, methodology and terminology, tendencies and actual conditions, support for young scientists). The Theatre Institute received in 2010 an important accreditation – the Certificate of Qualification for Research and Development as an evidence of long-lasting quality research activity of the institution in the field of theatre and preserving of cultural heritage. The Theatre Research Centre is a part of the FIRT / IFTR international organization - the International Federation of Theatre Research. One of the most important roles of the Theatre Research Centre is a focus on scientific activity of particular departments of the Theatre Institute (mostly the Theatre Documentation, Information and Digitalisation Department, Publishing Department and Project Department). It monitors historical research and creates modern methods of its analytical processing. The aim of the project is a contribution to research and preservation of cultural heritage and its spreading among the professional as well as broader public.
Publishing Department
The Publishing Department focuses mainly on research of contemporary Slovak theatre and publishing of theatrical literature. It publishes Slovak theatre plays, translations of foreign plays, Slovak and translated literature concerning theatre history, theory and critique, and also portraits and memoirs of important personalities. The publications of the department are issued in six editions: Slovak Theatre, Slovak Drama, World’s Theatre, World’s Drama, Nová drama / New Drama and Personalities. Another activity of the department is a distribution of the Theatre Institute publications as well as the operation of the information centre and PROSPERO bookshop.
Public Relations Department
The Public Relations Department provides a complete agenda of public relations of the Theatre Institute as well as a consulting activity. On request it gives information about Slovak theatre and theatre abroad, works on analysis materials from the field of cultural policy. It creates the basis of activity of some Slovak centres of non-governmental theatre organizations (OISTAT, ASSITEJ, SIBMAS, ITI, AICT), it co-operates with international cultural institutes which work in Slovakia, and with Slovak institutes abroad, with whom it usually exchanges information and documentary materials concerning theatrical happenings. It communicates with the media, state and independent theatres. It provides a co-operation with organizers of theatre events, festivals, conferences, with theatre associations or organizations working in theatrical sphere. It collaborates in designing of the projects organized or co-organized by the Theatre Institute such as exhibitions and other presentations of Slovak theatre.
Projects Department
It is the newest department of the Theatre Institute. Its scope is to coordinate particular leading projects which showed in the past as successful, and their activity therefore requires a fully prepared and involved dramaturgical and execution team. The department roofs a complete programme of the Nová drama / New Drama project (festival, book edition, promotions of the event in the Studio 12 and it simultaneously runs a new subprogramme of the project, the seminar of creative writing - New Writing) and the activities of the multimedia space of the Studio 12 which has profiled as the centre of new drama and new media. The department co-ordinates the projects -The History of Slovak Theatre and The History of Slovak Drama, and plans to publish editions of the same name. Another very interesting project of the department is a co-operation with the European Workshop of Translation / Atelier Européen de la Traduction established in France – the National Theatre Orléans. The project is about co-operations between Italian, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, Romanian and Slovak theatres and cultural theatre institutions. The workshop’s aim is to create a broad European-level translation forum, which co-operates with universities, professional journals, theatres and publishing houses. In 2005 the project obtained a grant from the Culture 2000 programme. From its establishing in 1997 the project has initiated and supported more than 100 translations of contemporary drama from/to French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and other languages. In 2005 the Theatre Institute became a member of the network and a partner of the project.
Cultural Contact Point Slovakia
From January 2005 the Theatre Institute has carried out the activities of the Cultural Contact Point Slovakia (CCP) agenda. The main activities are monitoring and mediating information about cultural and social processes in the EU countries, promoting the Culture 2000 Programme, co-operating with corresponding institutions abroad, consulting, helping to coordinate designs in preparing of projects, organizing of educational programmes, workshops, seminars and lectures. The Cultural Contact Point Slovakia Slovakia is in daily contact with other offices in Europe, they exchange experience and opinions concerning consulting and providing partnerships for projects. It has also kept the contact with many international organizations (EFAH, IETM, ECF etc…) which provides a full view on European cultural environment and at the same time it presents information about Slovakia internationally. More about CCP.
European Contact Point Slovakia
The coordinate and implementation body of the programme called Europe for Citizens 2007 - 2013 in Slovakia.
Financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the European Union, the European Contact Point (ECP) was opened in the Theatre Institute in January 2011. Its primary role is promotion of the grant system of the Europe for Citizens 2007 – 2013 programme and a help for those applying for the grant with the preparation of international projects of civil activities. More about ECP.
Economic Department
Theatre Institute’s Economic Department designs the main economic policy orientation of the organisation, it follows its feasance and provides the overall bookkeeping following the procedures approved for subsidized organisations of the Ministry of Culture. It is responsible for budget fixing and budget drawing, prompt settlement of invoices and other payments; it provides financing of organisation’s needs and controls the financial resources using. It maintains personnel matters and is responsible for timely account and salary settlement. It provides communication between the Institute and the Economy Section of the Ministry of Culture and it prepares and fulfils tasks arising from this communication. It fulfils tasks following the generally binding legal norms and acts regarding the Theatre Institute’s financial management, and the agreement with the European Commission for the Culture Contact Point and European Contact Point Department. It prepares all economic data and information for the annual report of the Institute. It provides economic services for the Theatre Institute’s employees.
General Director Department
The General Director Department at the Theatre Institute provides complete performance of the secretariat of the Theatre Institute collaborating with all the scientific departments following the aims of the organization’s activity, it keeps the central list of written records, it takes care of their preservation and storage, it keeps the communication between the Theatre Institute and its founder, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. It collaborates with other scientific departments in the projects and activities of the Theatre Institute. It deals with recruitment of new employees, it takes part in updating of novelised internal documents, regulations and directives of the Theatre Institute, it focuses on fulfilling the activities following Government’s resolutions, it takes care of implementing acts within the condition of the organization, it works out basic material for annual assessments of the organization, data and declarations of tasks given by the superior bodies. Collaborating with the Financial Department and professionals it provides basic data and executes orders of goods and services in the form of public acquisition. It makes sure that the conditions of health protection in work and of fire protection were observed as well as the key regime of the organization. It prepares contracts and watch their observation, it controls the attendance of its employees, provides transport of its employees and the partners of the Theatre Institute during local or foreign business trips and events, as well as the transport of publications and exhibition materials of the Theatre Institute to the events executed by the Theatre Institute.
