To mark the 30th anniversary of the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus, a bilingual volume – Homo Novus grāmata / The Book of Homo Novus – has been published in collaboration with Neputns Publishing House. The book can be purchased at the New Theatre Institute of Latvia office at Miera iela 39-2 (by writing to contact@theatre.lv or calling (+371) 26186631) or at the Neputns Publishing House gallery at Tērbatas iela 49/51, www.neputns.lv. Price – 30 euros.
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At the 2025 International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus, artist Linda Boļšakova premiered her participatory audio performance “Rehearsing Murky Bogland Futures”, created as part of the EU Creative Europe supported project “The Big Green.” The work was developed during The Big Green residency at Ķemeri National Park, where Linda continues her long-term research into […]
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The discussion features Santa Remere (New Theatre Institute of Latvia, curator of the international contemporary theatre festival Homo Novus), Gundega Laiviņa (long-time curator of the Homo Novus festival), Reinis Suhanovs (artistic director of the Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival), Armands Siliņš-Bergmanis (organiser of the alternative chamber-music festival Sansusī), Marta Keil (Polish curator, dramaturg and researcher), and Priit Raud (curator of Estonia’s theatre festival Baltoscandal).
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This year, the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus will take place from September 3 to 13, and in its 30th anniversary year, it will captivate audiences not only in Riga and Valmiera, but will also return to the festival’s very first location – Daugavpils.
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During the 2024 Homo Novus festival in Riga, Finnish artist Laura Puska in a public conversation introduced festival guests to her project “URGENT – Residency for Artworks” and to her artistic practice that reflects on the material agency. The discussion was led by Latvian artist and sculptor Gundega Evelone.
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