From Emergency to Eternal - EPAD Business Initiatives and Prospects

Abstract

EPAD (Emergency Performing Arts Archive and Digital Theatre) was launched in 2020 to provide financial support in the Covid-19 Disaster. 3 years have passed, and as we welcome so-called After Corona, we describe the initiatives and prospects of the project. As an infrastructure development project for the performing arts, EPAD aims to contribute to the profitability of performing arts organizations by digitizing performing arts videos and having experts support the processing of rights to make them available for distribution, and to preserve the performing arts as much as possible as cultural heritage so that society as a whole can enjoy them, resulting in an ecosystem that will lead to the further creation activities.