Valmiera Summer Theater Festival This year will offer six premieres for children, teenagers and families, several guest performances and adventures in the urban environment.
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According to the organizers, from August 6 to 8, the festival will invite both artists and visitors to look at the world through each other’s eyes. Performances, as always, will take place in different places in the city of Valmiera – in courtyards, parking lots, school and elsewhere. The program will be complemented by events in the Festival Center, created by the participants of the short-term architecture and urban summer school, contemporary art workshops and other events.
“This year we have put the younger generation at the forefront of the festival. We want to understand and feel children’s and young people’s vision of the world, look at it from a different perspective. All new works are created by listening and respecting their interests, current topics and the theme of this year’s program is outlined by its creator Jānis Znotins.
For three days in the center of Valmiera, in the territory of the former boiler house, there will also be a festival center, which will be traditionally set up by the participants of the International Summer School FestivaL’and organized by the School of Business, Arts and Technology RISEBA. Various events are also planned – a concert, a pop-up radio studio and other events. In parallel with the festival, trainings for young professionals in the field will take place at the Children and Youth Theater Institute in Valmiermuiža, during which they will also work on the ideas of their performances.
As reported, the festival program this year will include performances for children, teenagers and families.
Festival performances:
Director Krista Burāne together with the creative team and students of several Cēsis schools are working on the show about saving the world “The End of the World and Other Nonsense”, during which together with actors Mārtiņš Meiers and Jānis Kronis will go on a rescue mission. Recommended audience 11+.
The summer show about love and other pleasures for teenagers “Marija un zibens” is staged by director Paula Pļavniece. The show will tell about the confusing world, which is getting smaller and smaller, and the torments that are constantly burdened by the mysterious force in the name of life. Recommended audience 13+.
Choreographer Liene Grava and her team will present a dance performance “Pus Audzis” at the festival this time about experiences in a person’s life that cannot be gained remotely by communicating on social networks – the first slow dance, the first kiss, the first falling in love, the first divorce. Recommended audience 7+.
The legend about the eater of happiness “Cilts” together with the young actors of Valmiera Theater is staged by director Toms Treinis. It will tell of a guy who has been looking for a mysterious tribe since early childhood that can make even the most unhappy person happy. Recommended audience 6+.
One of the participants of the Children and Youth Theater Institute, director Māra Uzuliņa is staging a show about how different people are at the festival. Some cheerful but sincere, others noble again, but now utterly nasty. The protagonist of the show “Ball does not speak” will be Bomb, an eight-year-old boy who does not speak but is very friendly, and it will tell about his adventures. Recommended audience 6+.
The walking audition “Urban Safari”, in turn, will be an adventure for the whole family, which will offer the opportunity to observe people of different generations in the imagination. The show will introduce various features of the X, Y and Z generations, will allow you to compare, think, better understand, as well as laugh together about yourself and each other. Accompanied by audio guides, it will be possible to follow 4 different generational trails. Recommended audience, starting at 5+.
Traditionally, an important place in the festival has been given to the “Student Shed” or works created within the framework of study projects. Choreographer Kristīne Brīniņa together with the students of the Liepāja Theater Actors’ Course has created a documentary show – a walk “River”. It is a journey in stories about the interaction of people, things and nature, created after the real life events of Liepaja residents. The stories of Liepaja will go to Valmiera to create a meeting between the two cities and people. Recommended audience 12+, but suitable for the whole family.
In turn, the Daugavpils Theater performance for the whole family “Samson’s Journey” has been created by Endīne Bērziņa, a graduate of the Director of the Latvian Academy of Culture. The show touches on important topics that often remain completely unspoken and incomprehensible – family relationships, friendships, the pain of loss and others. Recommended audience 8+.
The festival program will be supplemented, tickets are available oneruerasfestivals.lv and social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram @valmierasfestivals. It will be possible to attend the festival in accordance with the current Covid-19 restrictions. Accurate information on the festival website .
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