Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the flagship arts festival for the East of England with a reputation for innovative and inspirational programming and commissioning. For 17 days each May, the Festival transforms public spaces, city streets, performance venues, parks, forests and beaches, bringing people together to experience the same brilliant and inspirational events.
Since 1992 the festival is being held in a bi-annual rhythm. The audiences growing exaltation for theatre in public space made the KulturTeam introduce the dancing festival “MOVEMENTS” in the summers of the years between each “BILDSTÖRUNG”.
Terschellings Oerol festival has become to be known as one of the most exceptional landscape arts festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, art installations and music.
Unmissable event for street arts lovers and professionals. For 3 days artists invest the city, its neighborhoods, spaces and unlikely places ... They make the city breathe at their own pace and be rediscover by its inhabitants
The festival for street and puppet theatre, contemporary circus and community art looks to the future and, with commitment and passion, is dedicated to its objectives: to bring movement to the city, bring life to squares and streets, change perspectives and flip what is orderly upside down. To render visible that which is unusual in the everyday. To invite the city’s inhabitants not only as guests at, but also as participants in the festival.
Now approaching its 13th year, Freedom Festival is an established fixture on the national and international cultural calendar. Freedom Festival celebrates, through artistic and cultural expression, Hull’s independent spirit and historic contribution to the cause of freedom.
A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has been at the heart of the festival approach to bringing vital, exciting and surprising contemporary art to this inquisitive community.
The FiraTàrrega programme is a catalogue of unique theatrical experiences, with a firm commitment for excellence and a wealth of formats and styles, and where the street arts and non-conventional venues are the main reference point.
Every year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art brings current, provocative, and innovative theater and dance projects to Prague, often combining multiple genres or made with the use of multimedia. Also every year, the festival’s venues include unused or empty buildings in downtown Prague, and this year’s 24th edition of the festival will be no different.
Circus shows and many moments to think together, and in depth, the contemporary circus in Portugal: is the proposal of 23 Milhas, cultural project of the Municipality of Ílhavo, and Bússola, which develops cultural and artistic projects, in the second edition of LEME, a contemporary circus festival in unconventional spaces, in Ílhavo.
From 25 to 28 October 2019, the domain of Dommelhof will be transformed into a convivial circus village for the 11th edition of the international circus festival of Theater op de Markt. Circus artists from all over the world will perform shows you never saw before. Shows in authentic bigtop circustents or at unique outdoor locations. The programme offers a mix of free shows and performances at democratic ticketprices.
Authoritarian leaders, algorithms and global capital. Democracies are under pressure from all sides. If we want to shape power in a fair way, something needs to change. But what exactly, and how?
Every year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art brings current, provocative, and innovative theater and dance projects to Prague, often combining multiple genres or made with the use of multimedia. Also every year, the festival’s venues include unused or empty buildings in downtown Prague, and this year’s 24th edition of the festival will be no different.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
All installations and performative acts in this project deal with how we perceive our everyday reality and questions how our senses operate when we observe, experience and engage with our surrounding environment and the people who are part of it. By choreographing the gaze, Vandewalle makes the audience aware of the potential of the world we inhabit everyday.
C-takt is the new name of the stage workshop of C-mine culture center and Takt Neerpelt, the merger of two workshops for (young) talent. C-takt is the result of years of collaboration between two structures that work on a fertile ground for artists in Limburg (Belgium). The two places have already acquired a decent reputation in the Flemish, Belgian and international cultural landscape.
From a world in constant acceleration, condensation and confusion, in a low voice, le Bistaki suggests pulling out, physically and mentally. Pulling out calmly toward a Fine Horizon. Once again, the G.Bistaki invites you to your other home.
A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has been at the heart of the festival approach to bringing vital, exciting and surprising contemporary art to this inquisitive community.
The FiraTàrrega programme is a catalogue of unique theatrical experiences, with a firm commitment for excellence and a wealth of formats and styles, and where the street arts and non-conventional venues are the main reference point.
The Terni Festival presents national and international artists active in the field of dance, performance and visual art promoting innovation and crossing the boundaries of languages and genres, overcoming also the border in-between professionals and audience investing the city with wide spread outdoor installation, site specific projects and community works and researches.
Freedom Festival is the lasting legacy of the Wilberforce 2007 campaign, which celebrated the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, led by Hull-born MP William Wilberforce in 1807. 200 years after the Slave Trade Act was passed, Hull was at the centre of global celebrations to remember the life and work of our city’s most famous son.
The festival for street and puppet theatre, contemporary circus and community art looks to the future and, with commitment and passion, is dedicated to its objectives: to bring movement to the city, bring life to squares and streets, change perspectives and flip what is orderly upside down. To render visible that which is unusual in the everyday. To invite the city’s inhabitants not only as guests at, but also as participants in the festival.
HAPU Festival, which in Albanian means OPEN UP and at the same time represents abbreviation for "HApësirë PUblike", in English: Public Space, is a unique festival of art work in public space presenting innovative work developed in Kosovo and wider, undiscovered for Kosovar audiences. HAPU using the power of art gives a different, transformable dimension to the Public Space.
Since 1992 the festival is being held in a bi-annual rhythm.
The audiences growing exaltation for theatre in public space made the KulturTeam introduce the dancing festival “MOVEMENTS” in the summers of the years between each “Bildstörung”.
This year Movements will present among others, Ex Nihilo with the performance ‘Derrière le blanc’ on 6thand 7th of July 2019 with 2 performances a day and an exhibition of the paintings of Jean-Antoine Bigot form the 5th– 7thJuly 2019.
All installations and performative acts in this project deal with how we perceive our everyday reality and questions how our senses operate when we observe, experience and engage with our surrounding environment and the people who are part of it. By choreographing the gaze, Vandewalle makes the audience aware of the potential of the world we inhabit everyday.
Les Tombées de la nuit aims to find new ways of occupying public space and imagining the relationship with the spectator. Combining genres, torpedoing the same old street performances, dynamiting habits and multiplying encounters and inventions, there was no end to his innovations although he always retained the principle that everyone can come and sit at the table. A biting and joyous denial for levellers-down everywhere!
Event Brussels, BE
CIFAS presents Nick Steur
30 June 2019
For a whole day on a long stretch of grass in the Royal Park, Dutch performer and visual artist Nick Steur creates fifty sculptures.
Each scuplture is composed of two natural stones chosen by the passers-by within 100 dedicated stones. Nick Steur then enters the greatest concentration to make them hold one on top of the other in balance on a metal stud.
Are you always on your way forward? Always with the next goal in mind? What if you turned around for a moment? Literally speaking.
Like a mentalist, Dutch artist Johannes Bellinkx manipulates our perception of time and reality and makes us take a step backwards in order to move forward. He invites us to turn our backs on everything familiar to wander backwards through the city. Enveloped by an audio montage, we step out of our comfort zones and into a city we no longer recognise.
Unmissable event for street arts lovers and professionals. For 3 days artists invest the city, its neighborhoods, spaces and unlikely places ... They make the city breathe at their own pace and be rediscover by its inhabitants.
Bureau Detours is a collective of artists, architects, designers and craftsmen, who carry on building in an area with their large toolbox of creative solutions. City space and parks are their playground, where they invite you to come and help build with them.
Terschellings Oerol festival has become to be known as one of the most exceptional landscape arts festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, art installations and music.
The great tradition of bread comes to life in a unique "journey-experience" that will transform Matera into the European capital of conscious eating and living. From 7 to 9 June 2019 a true "on the road" journey will lead us to the rediscovery of conviviality and the pleasure of being together, in the name of bread.
A building, as there are so many others in the districts and suburbs of the cities of France and Europe. Balconies, stairs, children's bicycles. The public is installed in front of the building which becomes an opera parterre. The stage is set, the two protagonists are present, the building with its inhabitants and its rumors of everyday life, the orchestra with its codes and its history. The partition unites them. The dialogue can begin ...
For 17 days each May, the Festival transforms public spaces, city streets, performance venues, parks, forests and beaches, bringing people together to experience the same brilliant and inspirational events. The flagship arts festival for the East of England, their world-class programme spans music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and free outdoor events.
You have an appointment in the city center with instructions "Attentifs, ensemble". Everything seems normal. And yet, they are there among us, far or near, those we do not see, more, too ... anonymous silhouettes, almost invisible as they are familiar. How are they, who are they, to be afraid, how do they see us, are we still part of the same world? Can you discern them?
OORtreders is Afrikaans for trespassers, but in Dutch it literally means EARwalkers. OORtreders wander through forbidden territory or no man’s-land, far from the beaten path. This is the field of transdisciplinary art: art between disciplines and genres, between the auditorium and public space, between passive and active experience, between ear, eye, body and brain. OORtreders presents transdisciplinary artists from Belgium and abroad with a single focus: sound. How can sound act as a medium to step beyond the bounds of a discipline?
OORtreders is a biannual adventurous music & sound art festival focusing on transdisciplinary creation, young artists and musical interaction in public space.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
Every year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art brings current, provocative, and innovative theater and dance projects to Prague, often combining multiple genres or made with the use of multimedia. Also every year, the festival’s venues include unused or empty buildings in downtown Prague, and this year’s 23nd edition of the festival will be no different.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
For this fifth edition of Travellings, Lieux publics invests the city of Marseille as a puzzle, from one corner to another, exploring different types of public spaces: streets, neighborhoods, from the center to the outskirts, passing through less frequented area like a fishing harbour, a municipal swimming pool, a park ... Travellings 2018 aims to elicit poetic moments, shared stories, but also a citizen ownership of public space spaces, our living spaces.
SIGNAL will be back in September for its seventh edition! Discussions, workshops and urban interventions address our relation to the city, and confront our views - whether we agree or not.
Østfold kulturutvikling FOCUS at NonStop International Theatre Festival
19 Sep - 23 Sep 2018
This year again, Østfold kulturutvikling partner with NonStop International Theatre Festival (Moss, Norway) to present a high end program of artistic performances and installations in public space.
The Night of Museums and Galleries festival was held for the first time in Bulgaria in Plovdiv in 2005. The format started by initiative of SARIEV Gallery founders Vesselina and Katrin Sarievi. In 2007 the two established the Open Arts Foundation – the Night’s main organiser. Like other “White Nights” around the world, the idea is for the audience to encounter artists, art and culture in unusual evening and late-night hours. In 2005 the program included around 20 events attended by around 3000 people. Even then the festival was already a cultural revolution, doubling and tripling annual visits in some of Plovdiv’s major museums and galleries in one night. The night is quickly becoming one of the most recognizable Plovdiv events anticipated and attended by audiences across the country.
Event Genk, BE
C-TAKT
14 Sep - 23 Sep 2018
C-takt is the new name of the stage workshop of C-mine culture center and Takt Neerpelt, the merger of two workshops for (young) talent. C-takt is the result of years of collaboration between two structures that work on a fertile ground for artists in Limburg (Belgium). The two places have already acquired a decent reputation in the Flemish, Belgian and international cultural landscape.
FiraTàrrega is the international market for performing arts that takes place every year in Tàrrega during the second weekend in September. Founded in 1981, it is a great showcase of what is going on in performing arts, with an eclectic programme that includes indoor shows and places special emphasis on street arts, visual and unconventional shows.
As a meeting place and an international point of reference for debate, the main objective of FiraTàrrega is to boost the performing arts market, opening the door to the internationalisation of the companies.
After 10 years of existence, PLACCC 2018 will once again host site-specific artistic events in public spaces and at unique venues in Budapest. The keywords of the festival this year are body and technology, whith a focus on dance performances and projects based on new technologies.
Freedom Festival is the lasting legacy of the Wilberforce 2007 campaign, which celebrated the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, led by Hull-born MP William Wilberforce in 1807. 200 years after the Slave Trade Act was passed, Hull was at the centre of global celebrations to remember the life and work of our city’s most famous son.
Theater op de Markt is a summer festival for open-air theater during the even years and an autumn festival for circus theater during the odd years. The summer festival is approaching fast: This year, Theater op de Markt organizes the 18th edition of the international open-air theater festival in Hasselt from 9 to 12 August 2018. For all information about the upcoming edition: follow their Facebook page for the latest news or a look behind the scenes.
Pig is a large transparent pig. Inside it is a sign that reads: “This is a community fund. You can contribute to it if you like, and when you’ve agreed how to spend it you can open me and spend it. #ThePig”
The festival for street and puppet theatre, contemporary circus and community art looks to the future and, with commitment and passion, is dedicated to its objectives: to bring movement to the city, bring life to squares and streets, change perspectives and flip what is orderly upside down. To render visible that which is unusual in the everyday. To invite the city’s inhabitants not only as guests at, but also as participants in the festival.
HAPU Festival, which in Albanian means OPEN UP and at the same time represents abbreviation for "HApësirë PUblike", in English: Public Space, is a unique festival of art work in public space presenting innovative work developed in Kosovo and wider, undiscovered for Kosovar audiences. HAPU using the power of art gives a different, transformable dimension to the Public Space.
Les Tombées de la nuit aims to find new ways of occupying public space and imagining the relationship with the spectator. Combining genres, torpedoing the same old street performances, dynamiting habits and multiplying encounters and inventions, there was no end to his innovations although he always retained the principle that everyone can come and sit at the table. A biting and joyous denial for levellers-down everywhere!
Event Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, FR
Festival Viva Cité
22 Jun - 24 Jun 2018
Unmissable event for street arts lovers and professionals. For 3 days artists invest the city, its neighborhoods, spaces and unlikely places ... They make the city breathe at their own pace and be rediscover by its inhabitants.
Terschellings Oerol festival has a reputation as one of the most fun, most exceptional theatre festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, art and music. The shows are created or adapted specially for the exceptional locations where there are performed. From theatre spectacle to mime, from intimate musical theatre to hilarious circus shows, from Westerns to interactive installations: you will find all of this and more in the dunes, on the beaches, in the woods, on the dikes, in sheds and barns and simply on the streets.
An apartment block, like so many others in the neighbourhoods of France and Europe’s cities and towns. Like so many others in Marseille, in the sensible neighbourhoods in the North of the city, where Lieux publics has its home. Up on the balconies of the building, forty, fifty or eighty classical musicians take their places. It is a full symphonic orchestra with all the distinctive signs – tuxedo tails and long gowns -, the easily recognised sounds, the emblematic instruments - the harp, and kettledrums.
In front of the building, an audience of 500 to 2000 people sits or stands as if in the stalls of an opera theatre. The stage is set, the two main characters are present, the apartment block with its residents and rumblings, and the orchestra with its history and incongruity. The warm-up is over, the show may begin.
Event Copenhagen, DK
METROPOLIS presents HelloEarth!
01 Jun - 14 Jul 2018
THE NIGHT - visioning a post capitalist society while we sleep .
What kind of community can we imagine as a post capitalist model of being and functioning together? And how could we stimulate a collective visioning and “rehearsal space“for such collective field? To address these questions, HelloEarth! invites the audience for an extra-ordinary experience in the frame of an overnight stay. The Night is a 12 hours durational and participatory performance, where the fragile situation of spending a night together with strangers becomes a catalyst for deeper meetings and a platform to re-think economy of meeting and exchange.
(please do only come if you think something needs to change).
Event Copenhagen, DK
METROPOLIS presents GLiMT
31 May - 03 Jun 2018
GLiMT works is a fusion of physical theatre, contemporary circus, contemporary dance, many times live music, using scenography as an active part of the performance and its treatment of the theme. GLiMT has created more than 15 performances in varying scale and format like an interactive forest performance, small and larger black box style performances and intimate installation performance. In Juen they will perform a piece of KRAN, their latest creation fro a crane and a harbour.
PIFA showcases a breadth of international performances and installations, attracting tens of thousands of visitors with unique and inspiring works that evoke emotion and spark conversation.
The Kimmel Center’s gift to the City of Philadelphia, PIFA 2018 is 11 days of gasp-inducing goosebumps. Our Producing Artistic Director and PIFA Curator, Jay Wahl, has tirelessly brought together more than 50 performances – original works of art commissioned and curated by the Kimmel Center and performed by some of the world’s top awardwinning artists.
PIFA showcases a breadth of international performances and installations, attracting tens of thousands of visitors with unique and inspiring works that evoke emotion and spark conversation.
The Kimmel Center’s gift to the City of Philadelphia, PIFA 2018 is 11 days of gasp-inducing goosebumps. Our Producing Artistic Director and PIFA Curator, Jay Wahl, has tirelessly brought together more than 50 performances – original works of art commissioned and curated by the Kimmel Center and performed by some of the world’s top awardwinning artists.
Straßentheater Detmold - Associated Member IN SITU Associated Member
18 May - 21 May 2018
The town of Detmold offers a unique blend of urban and rural areas and has developed its own specific approach to cultural events in public space. The Bildstörung European Street Theatre Festival, which has been running every two years since 1991, involves public performances that temporarily melt into the life of the town and blend with local people's everyday lives. These works of art go well beyond mere performances, and are designed and developed in Hangar 21, a dedicated workshop for the performing arts.
For 17 days each May, the Festival transforms public spaces, city streets, performance venues, parks, forests and beaches, bringing people together to experience the same brilliant and inspirational events. The flagship arts festival for the East of England, their world-class programme spans music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and free outdoor events.
UZ Arts brings Luke Jerram’s amazing art installation the Museum of the Moon to Scotland. The project launches at the Queen's Cross Church in Glasgow with a live concert of Darker side of the Moon on the 11th May 2018. It will move to the Kelburn Garden Party on the 29th June as part of a major new visual art project being developed by Kelburn Castle Estate and UZ Arts. Details of how to purchase tickets for the Darker Side of the Moon concert, other events and opening times will follow shortly.
Theater op de Markt is a summer festival for open-air theater during the even years and an autumn festival for circus theater during the odd years. The summer festival is approaching fast: This year, Theater op de Markt organizes the 18th edition of the international open-air theater festival in Hasselt from 9 to 12 August 2018. For all information about the upcoming edition: follow their Facebook page for the latest news or a look behind the scenes.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
Every year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art brings current, provocative, and innovative theater and dance projects to Prague, often combining multiple genres or made with the use of multimedia. Also every year, the festival’s venues include unused or empty buildings in downtown Prague, and this year’s 22nd edition of the festival will be no different.
Biela Noc as the biggest and most visited festival of contemporary art in Slovakia has reached 170 thousand visitors in the 2016 edition. The festival embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a completely new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exists for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes ˮwhiteˮ.
White night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only the contemporary art forms, but also the untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
SIGNAL, the meeting place in Brussels to discuss living art in the city, is back at the end of September to explore what brings us together and what makes us move. Us: family, pack, gang, group, clan, community, class or society, we are not the same as soon as we are many.
In order to think and heal the wounds of the City – the recent ones resulting of terrorism, leaving us in a security convalescence, the ones resulting of the social wrench, trying to divide us, the ones of the pollution peaks which spares no districts – the challenge must be taken up commonly, the common being itself one of the biggest challenge.
C-takt is the new name of the stage workshop of C-mine culture center and Takt Neerpelt, the merger of two workshops for (young) talent. C-takt is the result of years of collaboration between two structures that work on a fertile ground for artists in Limburg (Belgium). The two places have already acquired a decent reputation in the Flemish, Belgian and international cultural landscape.
The Night of Museums and Galleries festival was held for the first time in Bulgaria in Plovdiv in 2005. The format started by initiative of SARIEV Gallery founders Vesselina and Katrin Sarievi. In 2007 the two established the Open Arts Foundation – the Night’s main organiser. Like other “White Nights” around the world, the idea is for the audience to encounter artists, art and culture in unusual evening and late-night hours. In 2005 the program included around 20 events attended by around 3000 people. Even then the festival was already a cultural revolution, doubling and tripling annual visits in some of Plovdiv’s major museums and galleries in one night. The night is quickly becoming one of the most recognizable Plovdiv events anticipated and attended by audiences across the country.
The Terni Festival presents national and international artists active in the field of dance, performance and visual art promoting innovation and crossing the boundaries of languages and genres, overcoming also the border in-between professionals and audience investing the city with wide spread outdoor installation, site specific projects and community works and researches.
Event Marseille, FR
Travellings
08 Sep - 09 Sep 2017
Travellings 2017 - Back from Europe : travel stories Artists’ tales and paths
In this fourth edition of Travellings, IN SITU artists will be telling the stories of lifes on the move, covering journeys of all kinds, trips, departures and homecomings, and often involving amateur artists. These shows will recount journeys, language variations and shared experiences...
Flying the nest?
Heading into exile?
How can we understand one another?
How about playing together with the city, in various European countries?
Taking an active part in the community?
What is democracy… …here? …elsewhere in Europe?
Once again this year, Marseille residents are invited to meet the artists of the IN SITU platform artistic community – which Lieux Publics has been coordinating since 2003 – at the Cité des arts de la rue, in the Cité des Aygalades and the Parc de l’Oasis, for two evenings and an afternoon. Come and meet people, listen to stories, compare journeys and languages, ... This year, Travellings will be offering participatory artistic events and discoveries, connecting up residents of the Aygalades district and the rest of Marseille with IN SITU European artists. All the artists taking part are supported by the IN SITU European platform.
The town of Detmold offers a unique blend of urban and rural areas and has developed its own specific approach to cultural events in public space. The Bildstörung European Street Theatre Festival, which has been running every two years since 1991, involves public performances that temporarily melt into the life of the town and blend with local people's everyday lives. These works of art go well beyond mere performances, and are designed and developed in Hangar 21, a dedicated workshop for the performing arts.
La Strada Graz is a unique festival for street and puppet theatre, Community Art and Cirque Nouveau in Austria. It shares its passion with a growing audience since twenty years. Since 2001 it has been not only a presenting but also a producing festival and works on optimising the conditions for creating innovative artistic projects and introducing them to the international scene. As a Creation Center La Strada falls back on unused places, inspirit them temporarily as a place of production.
2017 La Strada celebrates its 20th anniversary by indulging a bit in the past remembering unforgetable moments and by making visible new connections between the past, the present and the future.
HAPU Festival, which in Albanian means OPEN UP and at the same time represents abbreviation for "HApësirë PUblike", in English: Public Space, is a unique festival of art work in public space presenting innovative work developed in Kosovo and wider, undiscovered for Kosovar audiences. HAPU using the power of art gives a different, transformable dimension to the Public Space.
Amanda Parer - Intrude (Les Tombées de la Nuit 2016)
The aim of Les Tombées de la nuit: to find new ways of occupying public space and imagining the relationship with the spectator. Combining genres, torpedoing the same old street performances, dynamiting habits and multiplying encounters and inventions, there was no end to his innovations although he always retained the principle that everyone can come and sit at the table. A biting and joyous denial for levellers-down everywhere!
Unmissable event for street arts lovers and professionals. For 3 days artists invest the city, its neighborhoods, spaces and unlikely places ... They make the city breathe at their own pace and be rediscover by its inhabitants.
Les Tombées de la nuit presents Museum of the Moon
12 Jun - 02 Jul 2017
Museum of the Moon has landed in Rennes in France, hovering over the main pool at St. Georges Swimming Pool. It will remain for three weeks. Above the water, the awe-inspiring piece will meld into the regular life of the building. It will shine around-the-clock so that anyone can visit for a moonlight swim under the sculpture and enjoy the amazing and deeply moving experience it is bound to procure.
Terschellings Oerol festival has a reputation as one of the most fun, most exceptional theatre festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, art and music. The shows are created or adapted specially for the exceptional locations where there are performed. From theatre spectacle to mime, from intimate musical theatre to hilarious circus shows, from Westerns to interactive installations: you will find all of this and more in the dunes, on the beaches, in the woods, on the dikes, in sheds and barns and simply on the streets.
he series of actions and events organized in June as part of the “Public Facades” project attempt to contribute to the development of Chisinau residential areas through cultural innovation and creativity. By initiating various artistic experiments we aim to consolidate the local communities, encouraging interaction among different groups within the district and stimulate social cohesion.
The Public Facades project aims to identify innovative solutions for greater cultural mobility directed towards the residential areas, which would facilitate the circulation of the artworks and artists and that would respond better to the cultural needs of the inhabitants. The planned actions take into consideration the urban identity specific for this area and are aiming to complement the programs and resources that are already available in the district.
Brought to Dilworth Park by iternationally renowned French visual artist Olivier Grossetete in partnership with Kimmel Center, hundreds of Philadelphians will construct The People's Tower -- a huge edifice without any cement or bricks! 1,400 carboard boxes and 18 miles of masking tape will rise into an 88 foot monumental-community-performance-architectural structure evocative of Independence Hall.
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June 4th - Art in public space panel
At the intersection of the arts, public space, and civic participation lies the ability to create dialogue about what it means to be a part of a community.
Communities are both physical and conceptual. Whether defined by agreed upon values, interests, activities, or languages, individual inclusion in any community is active; a constant negotiation. Public space is also not neutral and always shifting. It is central to the meaning, quality, and accessibility of all shared actions and with respect to the arts, it is the foundation of the audience’s experience. The arts are a way for us to communicate, recognize, and legitimize each other; they are the act of transferring empathy and sharing our humanity. When the arts, the community, and public space are all in play together, a functioning democracy becomes possible, one in which we, the citizenry, share active responsibility both for ourselves and those around us.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the flagship arts festival for the East of England with a reputation for innovative and inspirational programming and commissioning. One of the big four UK international arts festivals, each May we transform and celebrate our city and county through an internationally acclaimed programme of music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and outdoor arts, enjoyed by over 75,000 people.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the flagship arts festival for the East of England with a reputation for innovative and inspirational programming and commissioning. One of the big four UK international arts festivals, each May we transform and celebrate our city and county through an internationally acclaimed programme of music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and outdoor arts, enjoyed by over 75,000 people.
6 artists discuss works in progress with 30 programmers and professionals.
With one common goal: to get to meet each other and discuss new artistic projects ; to share views on art in public space, and to grow from the others’ experiences.
For the second time this year, Montpellier City commissioned Lieux publics, directed by Pierre Sauvageot, to imagine and carry out the artistic programme of its yearly festival in public space: the ZAT - Zone Artistique Temporaire (Temporary Artistic Zone).
This year’s edition will take place on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2017 in Parc Montcalm, a 25 hectare-urban park situated close to the city centre. Two days and one evening of outdoor programme including contemporary circus, theatre and dance, cosmopolitan & multilingual storytelling, poetical constructions and participatory performances.
20 vivid artistic creations dealing with themes such as utopian architecture and collective action, being young and considering the future nowadays, falling and getting up again, human behaviour and tradition, profusion and derision in Northern societies, violence and tenderness of new technologies, nature and sport, including feminine football and no-ball football!
Closing of 18 months of training, the Panorama des chantiers is a time of encounter between the 16 apprentices of the outgoing promotion and professionals. Each apprentice presents a work in progress that allows to discover his/her aesthetics, his/her project and his/her research tracks.
This event is a time of experimentation for these future authors-directors of artistic projects in public space. It is aimed at collecting advice and critical feedback from professionals and opening their perspectives of production and distribution.
3 days 16 artists 20 programmers and professionals
With one common goal: to get to meet each other and discuss new artistic projects ; to share views on art in public space, and to grow from the others’ experiences.
Hot houses are organised in the frame of IN SITU ACT, a 4-year cooperation project that started in November 2016.
We are at a crossroads; the time is short and each turn is crucial.
By becoming more business-like, aren’t we compromising our artistic integrity? By learning to be self-sustainable, won’t we risk losing the last remnants of public money? When asked to prove the value of our practices, should we tap into the rhetoric of numbers, of “growth and jobs”, or resist the whole discourse of tangible measurement? Developing our audiences, should we seek for growth-oriented marketing strategies or deepen the engagement and authentic relationships with our public - or both? And how about the status of the artist - shouldn't that be our main concern?
The crossroads are multiple – between international and local, technical and artistic, experiential and innovative. As long as a crossroads is not an impasse, there is always a path to new opportunities. Let’s keep our minds open and find this very path.
Returning for 2016, this 2 day cultural feast brings artists from across Europe and Scotland, to create a magical spectacle of street theatre, music, performance, dance, video and visual art on the streets of Greenock.
Get involved in this year's Halloween Parade with prizes for best groups and best wee guiders.
Galoshans is rooted in the heritage of Inverclyde. The people of the West of Scotland used to celebrate Galoshans by visiting each other's houses and performance a Galoshans play. If it was well received they might receive a 'treat', and it is this practice which is credited as the origin of the American 'trick or treating' at Halloween.
Halloween is also a time of the year when the fabric between this world and the next is so thin that it is possible for mortals to travel between them.
We have invited artists to collaborate with communities and create work that looks at what happens when two worlds touch.
Join them and journey to another world with Europe's most spectacular artists and performers.
Station Moon transit by Dylan O'Donnel via European Space Agency
OORtreders is Afrikaans for ‘trespassers’, but in Dutch it literally means ‘EARwalkers’. OORtreders wander through forbidden territory or no-man’s-land, far from the beaten path. This is the field of transdisciplinary art or inter-art: art between disciplines and genres, between the auditorium and public space, between passive and active experience, between ear, eye, body and brain. Over two evenings, Musica and Dommelhof present transdisciplinary artists from Belgium and abroad with a single focus: sound. How can sound act as a medium to step beyond the bounds of a discipline? This question is also central to the study day that opens the festival. Step into the fascinating universe of in-between-art with sound at OORtreders.
OORtreders is the successor to the community art festival Samhain and is organised by Musica, Impulse Centre for Music and TAKT Dommelhof (Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof)
‘What is reality?’ This is one of the most contested issues today. The real is said to be multiple, fragmented, virtualized, or even lost, as a result of media effects and social dynamics. The interpretations offered are highly controversial, some point to the disappearance of immediacy, others to the changes provoked by the application of new technologies. What are the layers of reality today and which of them concern us most?
The new technologies have created hyperreality as the new environment for the human condition, destabilizing the senses, affects, knowledge as well as spatial and temporal relations). We move in simulated environments and talk to programmed people and feel less and less able to separate facts from fiction, editorials from advertisements, humans from bots. The virtual is more real to us than the mere real.
Reality Research Festival will investigate how the new technologies inserted between the zones of sensation and consciousness affect our perception and grasp of the surrounding world, what happens when AR, VR or MR technologies set the benchmarks for reality.
Reality Research Festival 2k16 (21-27 October) is a concerted effort by PLACCC (IN SITU partner) and Kitchen Budapest to map and dissect contemporary concepts of reality.
La Paperie and the urban planning agency of the Anjou region offer an artistic and cultural reflection on a territory and question its uses and practices.
The 12th and 13th of October, they invite you to a conference and workshop on the new dynamics of the urban fabric. Outside the usual scope of wonder, the sensational, the exceptional, together, they will ask the question of what art can do for the city?
The biggest and most visited contemporary art festival in Slovakia.
White Night embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exist for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes “white”.
White Night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only contemporary art forms, but also untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
"Mnemosyne is a site-sensitive project about emotional memories connected to places. Mnemosyne was the personification of memory for the ancient Greeks: daughter of Uranus and Gea, Sky and Earth, mother of the Muses. Art, in all its forms, arises from the past, or rather from what the past leaves on us. That is where the name of the project comes from: a modular, site-sensitive, flexible format that gathers individual and local memories in the wider idea of collective memory. We re-map places on the base of the emotional life of the people living there, connecting locations with emotions to create an emotional interface with the spaces. Places that are normally ignored are in this way enhanced by the fragments of the story they contain. The project's goal is to create an emotional map of a place, starting from memories and experiences of people living there. The starting point consists in a survey; the final one in an installation where the public can visit places wih different eyes."
FOCUS Placcc Festival: X/tnt - Dedriving Actions in Budapest
07 Oct - 08 Oct 2016
X/tnt - Dedriving Code
Capitalism, communism, nazism, nationalism, consumerism... create representations of collective freedoms through the use of symbols that should make us feel, powerfull, indestructible...eternal... But their profound nature is to divide- to feed us with a erzats of freedom. They act upon us as a drug, they give us a sense of collective power, but deny our individual basic needs - music, dance, poetry and art in general convey that electrifying feeling for life. A monument is not an art piece, it uses art to convey only one idea - it tames art as it tames human nature. Freedom, all the same is just a word from which we need to be freed.
FREE FREEDOM, is a new type of vehicul. It is a 1 m 20 high mobile pedestal designed to spread ideas accross the city and to bring ephemeral statements into public space. It is a message to the authorities: Ideas are not frozne, there is always an alternative.
More info: http://wiki.dcod.eu/index.php/Free_Freedom#Free_Freedom_action
The biggest and most visited contemporary art festival in Slovakia.
White Night embodies the desire to (re)discover urban environment which is given a new dimension through art. A city is transformed into an interactive space whose usual nocturnal cycle ceases to exist for a few hours. Contemporary art breathes life into the city at night and the night thus becomes “white”.
White Night is a prestigious international art project aimed at bringing near to the general public not only contemporary art forms, but also untraditional, unknown and important spots of big European cities.
This year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art takes over the municipal buildings in the center of Prague
This year’s 21st edition of the 4+4 Days in Motion International Festival of Contemporary Art moves into the unused Municipal Buildings in the very center of Prague. From 30 September to 8 October, the empty buildings next to Franz Kafka Square will host an extensive exhibition by 50 artists – sculptures, paintings, installations, and photographs selected by curator Pavlína Morganová on the subject of The Independent Research of Subjectivity. The Municipal Buildings will also host the premiere performances of various theater projects, public discussions with experts, guided tours, and children’s workshops led by renowned Czech artists.
The aim of Les Tombées de la nuit: to find new ways of occupying public space and imagining the relationship with the spectator. Combining genres, torpedoing the same old street performances, dynamiting habits and multiplying encounters and inventions, there was no end to his innovations although he always retained the principle that everyone can come and sit at the table. A biting and joyous denial for levellers-down everywhere!
The aim of Les Tombées de la nuit: to find new ways of occupying public space and imagining the relationship with the spectator. Combining genres, torpedoing the same old street performances, dynamiting habits and multiplying encounters and inventions, there was no end to his innovations although he always retained the principle that everyone can come and sit at the table. A biting and joyous denial for levellers-down everywhere!
Unmissable event for street arts lovers and professionals. For 3 days artists invest the city, its neighborhoods, spaces and unlikely places ... They make the city breathe at their own pace and be rediscover by its inhabitants.
Terschellings Oerol festival has a reputation as one of the most fun, most exceptional theatre festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, art and music. The shows are created or adapted specially for the exceptional locations where there are performed. From theatre spectacle to mime, from intimate musical theatre to hilarious circus shows, from Westerns to interactive installations: you will find all of this and more in the dunes, on the beaches, in the woods, on the dikes, in sheds and barns and simply on the streets.
Terschellings Oerol festival has a reputation as one of the most fun, most exceptional theatre festivals in Europe. From its roots as a small festival in 1982, Oerol has grown to become a true phenomenon. Every June, the island of Terschelling in the Wadden Sea is transformed for ten days into a unique natural stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, art and music. The shows are created or adapted specially for the exceptional locations where there are performed. From theatre spectacle to mime, from intimate musical theatre to hilarious circus shows, from Westerns to interactive installations: you will find all of this and more in the dunes, on the beaches, in the woods, on the dikes, in sheds and barns and simply on the streets.
From 13th to 16th of may 2016, during four days the streets and spaces in town become big stages, temporary theatres and sites of surprising encounters. During four days artists will move the audience, make it laugh, wonder or move it to tears.
The programme will show street theatre in all its facets: small, mobile walk-acts and animations, new circus, dance theatre, multi- media site presentations and locally based productions that deal with current topics of individuals and society.
The KulturTeam of Detmold is looking forward to an open minded audience that always gets involved in the various productions and gets enthusiastic for the variety of theatre in public space.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the flagship arts festival for the East of England with a reputation for innovative and inspirational programming and commissioning. One of the big four UK international arts festivals, each May we transform and celebrate our city and county through an internationally acclaimed programme of music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and outdoor arts, enjoyed by over 75,000 people.
For 17 days each May, the Festival transforms public spaces, city streets, performance venues, parks, forests and beaches, bringing people together to experience the same brilliant and inspirational events. The flagship arts festival for the East of England, their world-class programme spans music, theatre, literature, visual arts, circus, dance and free outdoor events.
From 13th to 16th of may 2016, during four days the streets and spaces in town become big stages, temporary theatres and sites of surprising encounters. During four days artists will move the audience, make it laugh, wonder or move it to tears.
The programme will show street theatre in all its facets: small, mobile walk-acts and animations, new circus, dance theatre, multi- media site presentations and locally based productions that deal with current topics of individuals and society.
The KulturTeam of Detmold is looking forward to an open minded audience that always gets involved in the various productions and gets enthusiastic for the variety of theatre in public space.
Every year, the 4+4 Days in Motion international festival of contemporary art brings current, provocative, and innovative theater and dance projects to Prague, often combining multiple genres or made with the use of multimedia.
