TORONTO – Performers from more than 75 countries, from Argentina to Zambia, will be descending on Toronto for a week of solidarity-building at the 2012 International Federation of Actors (FIA) World Congress.
Running from September 27 to 30, 2012 at the Sheraton Centre, the World Congress will be co-hosted by the three Canadian performer unions, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (Equity) and Union des Artistes (UdA). This marks only the second time in FIA’s 61-year history that a Congress has met in North America.
Participants will share information, develop best practices and work together for the improved economic, artistic, social and legal interests of actors, broadcast professionals, dancers, singers, variety and circus artists and other performers around the world.
Up for discussion will be working conditions for performers, how unions can unite to protect performers’ rights, promotion of equality and non-discrimination in the workplace and new methods of digital distribution.
FIA is an international, non-governmental organization based in Brussels, representing some 100 performers’ unions in 75 countries. As the governing body of FIA, the Congress meets every four years to develop policies that support performers.
