→ Thanks for coming and being with us! Homo Novus 2011 is over, but we still keep adding pictures from the festival shows and events under gallery section.
→ Today, September 8 the performances 10 Journeys To A Place Where Nothing Happens at 5 pm and The Lower Depths at 7pm and 9pm are sold out! Don' t miss the chance to get tickets for the Festival's final performance The Catastrophe Trilogy by Lone Twin Theatre on September 9!
→ Wherever you are, take a field trip with three artists who will broadcast from remote landscapes directly to your computer desktop. Broadcasts start today! Download now at www.fieldbroadcast.org/distance
→ Read the electronic Homo Novus 2011 newspaper here. Printed version available at the Festival centre from September 1!
→ Books about Homo Novus artists available at our library: Lone Twin. Journeys, Performances, Conversations (eds. David Williams & Carl Lavery, Performance Research Books, 2011), Not Even a Game Anymore. The Theatre of Forced Entertainment (eds. Judith Helmer & Florian Malzacher, Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2004).
→ Project DISTANCE is looking for radio amateurs to participate in the project "Amateur Danger" by Steve Ounanian! Please contact sandra.lapkovska@gmail.com
→ Photos from the press meeting which took place this morning at the Festival Centre on Skolas 15 published by our media partner Delfi.lv.
→ Homo Novus press breakfast will take place on August 17 at the soon-to-be Festival Centre on Skolas street 15. Media representatives, culture writers, critics, columnists, bloggers are welcome to join and meet HN artists, directors Viesturs Meikšāns, Vladislavs Nastavševs, Jurijs Djakonovs, programme curators Gundega Laiviņa, Zane Kreicberga, Laura Stašāne and the boss of Festival Centre Dāvis Kaņepe.
→ Call for participation at the festival workshops - profesionals and students are invited to apply for Speakeasy and Lone Twin Theatre workshop. Deadline: August 30. Read more
→ Festival tickets are on sale at the Ticket Service sales points, and from August 15 also at the New Riga Theatre box office, Lāčplēša street 25. For those who would like to see the entire Festival programme we recommend to get a Festival Pass at the New Theatre Institute office, 11.novembra krastmala 35-201. Read more
→ Foreign professionals working in the performing arts field are offered performance tickets for a reduced price and assistance with hotel booking at the official Festival's hotel Albert Hotel. Please contact us at contact@theatre.lv for reservations/information.
→ Homo Novus curator Gundega Laiviņa was on residency at O Espaco do Tempo from July 17-27 to rehearse The Curators Piece in collaboration with colleagues from Europe and the US. The premiere of the performance is scheduled on October 25 and 26, 2011 at Meteor Festival / BIT Teatergarasjen. Read more
→ The Festival centre at Skolas 15 has recently hosted the sustainable design workshop with British enterpreneurs and designers Nick Rawcliff and Adam Fairweather sentimental/useless/useful... The workshop was part of the British Council Latvia creative economy programme. Read more
→ Lone Twin (UK) will hold two artistic workshops during the festival: Speakeasy, run by LT artistic directors Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, will provide dramaturgical support to the theatre artists already engaged in making work, while Lone Twin Theatre workshop, given by members of the company, will explore the various approaches to narrative employed in the making of Catastrophe Trilogy and is aimed at participants who have seen one or all three works of the trilogy.
