
Communication, Participation and Fellowship
We believe that real communication is the key for growing participation, fellowship, friendship, and love. We do so by creating an open platform for performance where art, science and public can meet.
Communication, Participation and Fellowship We believe that real communication is the key for growing participation, fellowship, friendship, and love. We do so by creating an open platform for performance where art, science and public can meet. About OPA…
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About OPA
We considers ourself as an open academy that values the conversation between makers and thinkers, in which the audience plays a key role. We are an open knowledge and practice platform for practitioners and theoreticians working in the field of performance. We sees collaboration as a method to establish new conversations and interest. By bringing both the academic, artistic and public together we strives for lively debates in fragile moments of development. By basing itself on a collective form of learning and making, we contributes to intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue.

OPA PROJECTS
Making Public/ Public Making
With Making Public/ Public Making OPA aims at creating space for dialogue in different media easily accessible for the audience.

Live Events

Research & Education

OPA Screenings

Publications

OPA Archive

Performance Art Netherlands | PA.NL
Performance Art Netherlands (PA.NL) is an independent organization under the umbrella of OPA. PA.NL supports events, projects and artists in the Netherlands.
OPA Contributions to Art and Knowledge
OPA Statement
Through the connection of art and science, our aim is to find new perspectives in contemporary social debates. We do not offer ready-made cultural information, but focus on people’s ability to ask questions, of themselves and of each other. By involving different disciplines in our event, we offer space for encounter and reflection on a theme that concerns us all.
OPA Network
We work extensively on collaborating with other organizations to create opportunities for open conversations and lively debate. Find out more about our collaborations and network.
- Do you like to be part of our network? Please contact us.
OPA Support
Support OPA is; supporting knowledge production, within the artistic and theoretical process.
OPA strives to create and display all other forms of art and theory in the field of performance. With your help we can support artists, theorists, educators, activities and legacies that matter now and in the future.
Contact OPA
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