This Cultural Policy Yearbook focuses on New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts. Theatre is essential, vibrant, and invigorating; cross-border co-productions, festivals, and networks re-discover our lives through dialogue and exchange. Articles discuss the resilience of the independent performing arts in times of global change.

Ian Hodder: Making Policy for Cultural Heritage: The Example of Çatalhöyük - Serhan Ada: Foreword - FOCUS (Editors: Wolfgang Schneider, Gökçe Dervişoğlu Okandan) - Wolfgang Schneider,,Gökçe Dervişoğlu Okandan:Resilience in the ecosystem of theatre, Cultural policy perspectives for the independent performing arts - 1.1 Ana Letunić, Jovana Karaulić: Collaborative decision-making and participation in the independent cultural scene: Transnational cultural networks in precarious working conditions - 1.2Özlem Canyürek: Diversity as Equal Opportunities A Cultural Policy Framework for a Heterogeneous Performing Arts Scene - 1.3 Wolfgang Schneider: Transforming the Theatrical Landscape: The paradigm shift in funding for the independent performing arts in Germany and Europe - 1.4 Khayelihle Dominique Gumede and Rolf C. Hemke: Decolonization of Cultural Policy in Times of Transformation – The Role of Performing Arts in South Africa - 1.5 Kazuo Fujino: Bridging the Performing Arts and Tourism to Achieve Regional Revitalization −Cultural Policy in Japan and the Challenge Faced by the Professional College of Arts and Tourism− - 1.6. Cristina Farinha, Matina Magkou and Anna Steinkamp: International Cooperation, mobility and the Status of the Artist in the Independent Performing Arts: A Plea for more Fair Policies and Practices - 1.7 Yeşim Özsoy: Amongst a World Crises Resilience of Theaters in Türkiye - 1.8 Selda Dudu:Macro-level determinants of the number of theater audiences: The case of Turkey - 1.9 Ceyda Atay: The Value of Small Live Music Venues in the Music Ecosystem: Research on the Alternative Music Scene of İstanbul, Turkey - OPEN SPACE (Editor: Serhan Ada) - 2.1 Jonathan Vickery, Serhan Ada: Futures and future-being for Cultural policy – cultural policy as political imaginary of human possibility - 2.2 Mike van Graan: Reflections on Resilience: South Africa’s Sustaining Theatre and Dance (Stand) Foundation as A Response to the Existential Challenge Posed to Theatre and Dance by the Covid-19 Pandemic - REVIEW (Editor: Miyase Çlen) - 3.1 Şfak Ersölü Banu Ayten Akı: The Theater of the Real in the 21st Century: On the “Smuggled Tea Performance” and “Telemachos: Should I Stay or Should I Go” - 3.2 Zeynep Nur Ayanoğu: Being Alive in the Garden: Güüşü Academy Theater Festival - 3.3 Seda Nanic Zeybek: Book Review: Cultural Heritage Management Why and How? Experiences and Discussions from Tükiye