PACE.V4 / Performing Arts Central Europe—Visegrad Countries Focus is a platform for continuous cooperation among cultural organisations in the Visegrad countries, aiming to foster the exchange of ideas and networking within the Central-Eastern Europe region.

PACE.V4 follows and tracks the most current and exciting aspects and the latest trends and challenges affecting the Visegrad countries’ theatre and performing arts sector, both with the observance of the regional and local contexts.

The PACE.V4 platform was founded in 2012 by the Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the International Visegrad Fund. Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute has been active in PACE.V4 since 2014.

The Visegrad Group (also known as the “Visegrad Four” or simply “V4”) reflects the efforts of the countries of the Central European region to work together in several fields of common interest within the all-European integration. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have always been part of a single civilisation sharing cultural and intellectual values and common roots in diverse religious traditions, which they wish to preserve and further strengthen.