South Arts presents two annual events where both veterans and newcomers to the field can share ideas, gain skills, expand professional networks, and build individual and organizational capacity.

• The Performing Arts Exchange (PAE) is the primary marketplace and forum for performing arts presenting and touring—artists and work, ideas, learning and information—in the eastern United States. South Arts and the Performing Arts Exchange participate in the Network of Regional Performing Arts Conferences.  
• Folklorists in the South (FITS) activities focus on new trends in the field, regional and national issues, public programming, and research issues pertaining to folklife in the South. FITS welcomes public sector folklorists, community scholars, academics, students and others working in the field.