• Tamizdat's New York based Performances series is designed to increase contact between Central and Eastern European artists, and their colleagues in the West, while increasing the Western profile of Central and Eastern European artists. The aim is to encourage the contacts which build and sustain global musical communities.
• The Central and Eastern European Club Coalition also serves to encourage contact and exchange by connecting Western, Central and Eastern European artists and audiences by encouraging touring throughout the former "Eastern Bloc".
• The Tamizdat RPM on-line record shop achieves a similar goal: based on Tamizdat's website, it is the central source for independent music from throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
• Tamizdat's Apprentice Program, is an academic/professional program designed to provide Central and Eastern European university students with real hands-on experience with the workings of effective New York arts organizations.
• The Tamizdat Archive is working to collect, preserve, and catalog dissident recordings from the years of Communism. It provides a necessary link to the past, and a crucial framework within which to understand today's culture.

1) That the cross-cultural free exchange of ideas is the most crucial prerequisite for people to develop independent, progressive, and critical understandings of contemporary cosmopolitan society

2) That experimental and independent contemporary music is intrinsically rich with cultural foment and discourse, making these arts and the cultures which surround them extraordinarily productive avenues for the cross-cultural free exchange of ideas

Tamizdat works to build international communities by bridging the cultural and economic gaps that separate American and Western Europe from Central and Eastern Europe. To do this, Tamizdat has created an interlocking program of projects aimed at providing the foundations and the framework for cultural cross-pollination between artists, music industry personnel, and most importantly, between audiences everywhere.

Tamizdat's New York based Performances series is designed to increase contact between Central and Eastern European artists, and their colleagues in the West, while increasing the Western profile of Central and Eastern European artists. The aim is to encourage the contacts which build and sustain global musical communities. Likewise, the Central and Eastern European Club Coalition also serves to encourage contact and exchange by connecting Western, Central and Eastern European artists and audiences by encouraging touring throughout the former "Eastern Bloc". Our Revolutions Per Minute shop achieves a similar goal: based on Tamizdat's website, it is the authoritative database for information about the current catalogs of independent labels throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Offering critical information, sound-clips, artwork, and label contacts, it works to raise the level of global exposure available to Central and Eastern European musicians. Tamizdat's Apprentice Program, is an academic/professional program designed to provide Central and Eastern European university students with real hands-on experience with the workings of effective New York arts organizations. Lastly, the Archive is working to collect, preserve, and catalog dissident recordings from the years of Communism. It provides a necessary link to the past, and a crucial framework within which to understand today's culture.