From January 20 to 24, 2026 Latvian Academy of Culture was represented in Leipzig by playwright, theater maker and head of the playwriting program Jānis Balodis, and fourth-year Drama and Text studies student Elizabete Šiklova, as they participated in the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) training and the international contemporary dramaturgy symposium “Response and Responsibility”, which brought together dramaturgy lecturers and practitioners from more that 14 countries.