The Book of Homo Novus – celebrating the festival’s 30th anniversary

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. 

DemArt Toolkit Online – Now It’s Your Turn!

The DemArt open-source Art Commissioning Toolkit is now available online!

Homo Novus Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary to a Full House and Standing Ovations

A heartfelt thank you to all our supporters, friends, and partners for making this year’s festival possible. See you next year!

Rósa Ómarsdóttir: Looking for the Bog

Artist Rosa Omarsdottir’s reflection on the residency carried out in collaboration with artist Linda Boļšakova within the framework of the European Union programme Creative Europe project The Big Green at Ķemeri National Park. Translated by Ieva Lešinska.

Curator Discussion: The Festival as Part of the Cultural Process

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).