On Friday 23 August at 21.30, the 29th Cultura Nova festival will be opened with the open-air spectacle ‘Romeo & Juliet’ on the Burgemeester van Grunsvenplein-square. This time Toneelgroep Maastricht is honoured to open Cultura Nova 2019 and they are doing so together with Groupe F (FR), Aérosculpture (FR) and Progression Freerunning (NL). They present…
Burgemeester van Grunsvenplein square, in front of Theater Heerlen, will form the beating heart of Cultura Nova during the entire festival. Alongside being the place to meet, have dinner before the show, and spend some wonderful afternoons, this square is the stage for a range of unique performances and fun children’s shows. Head to the…
Cultura Nova 2019: Spiegeltent (Mirror tent) The Grunsvenplein square in front of the Heerlen Theatre is the vibrant heart of Cultura Nova throughout the festival. The place to meet for audiences and artists. A nice dinner before the performance and a drink and a good conversation afterwards. Interviews and discussions that will be broadcasted live…
The Hungarian company Recirquel was awarded 5* by six leading critics for the performance of My Land at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Cultura Nova presents the Dutch première of this acclaimed performance in collaboration with Parkstad Limburg Theaters. In this stunning new production, a woman embodies the metaphorical role of Gaia, the Mother Earth goddess.…
AVANT-GARDE ELECTRO LEGENDS FROM THE BALKANS After Einstürzende Neubauten last year, Cultura Nova again presents an experimental avant-garde band that originated in the 1980s: Borghesia. The last album of this collective from the former Yugoslavia ‘Proti Kapitulaciji’ (Against the Capitulation) was released in 2018 and shows that experimentation and non-conformity are still high on the…
World-leading companies joined by regional theatre makers From Friday 23 August to Sunday 1 September 2019, the Cultura Nova International Visual Theatre Festival will offer an extensive and varied programme for young and old alike. The 29th edition has more than 60 different companies presenting 200 performances, concerts, films, workshops, and lectures at 25 locations…
Centriphery is a collaborative project of nine festivals from Europe that all manifest themselves in the ‘Randland’ of their country. For festival Cultura Nova in Heerlen, Centriphery will take place in 2019 and 2020. Each participating festival nominates two artists who together form a core artistic team. Cultura Nova has chosen theatre maker Lieke Benders…
Open Call for designing a logo for a participatory and inclusive European artistic project. ABOUT THE PROJECT As every periphery is its own centre, Centriphery will give the citizens of the so-called “periphery” a central voice in exploration and transformation of local myths and empower them to participate in the re-creation of local identities…