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Connecting Arts Across Borders: WAPA Charts a New Landscape for Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning in 2025

2025.12.30

In 2025, facing the accelerating evolution of the global centennial changes and a complex international landscape intertwined with shifts and upheavals, the World Association for the Performing Arts (WAPA)—initiated by China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)—upholds its core principles of "openness and inclusiveness, mutual respect, equality and cooperation, and mutual benefit." It continues to cultivate the fertile ground of global performing arts exchanges, making the bridge for cross-cultural dialogue increasingly solid and the vision of "building a global community of shared future for theatres" more distinct.

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Beijing Forum for Performing Arts

Initiated by the China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the World Association for Performing Arts (WAPA) is an international, professional and non-profit
social organization formed voluntarily by theaters, cultural groups, art colleges, cultural companies, and other institutions of performing arts. The WAPA is headquartered in Beijing with its Secretariat set at the NCPA.

The objective of the WAPA is to promote the international development of outstanding performing arts with national and regional characteristics and the integration of science and technology with performing arts by building an open and multilateral exchange platform so as to facilitate the exchange and mutual learning and common prosperity of
world civilizations.

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