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.…
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…
From Thursday 30 to Saturday 1 September, the famous Recirquel Company performs in Theater Heerlen for festival Cultura Nova. The Hungarian circus theater group Recirquel takes the audience with ‘Paris de Nuit’ to the lively nightlife of the 1930s. An evening of beauty and desires but also of loneliness and loss, inspired by the characteristic…
This year Theater Titanick can be seen again during Cultura Nova with ‘Alice on the Run’ at the Europaplein in Kerkrade. On Wednesday 29 to 31 August Theater Titanick will perform a contemporary version of Alice in Wonderland during Cultura Nova. Theater Titanick, founded by artists from Münster and Leipzig, is no stranger to Cultura…
From Thursday 30 August to Saturday 1 September, the famous Recirquel Company Budapest will be performing at Theater Heerlen for the Cultura Nova festival. During the ‘Paris de Nuit’ performance, the Hungarian circus theatre group Recirquel will sweep the audience into the bustling nightlife of 1930s’ Paris. This will be an evening of beauty and…
‘Centriphery’ is the title of a collaborative project of nine European festivals and organisations recently awarded by the European Commission with a European subsidy for major projects within the contact of Creative Europe. In all of Europe only 17 large-scale projects have been honoured; in addition, 84 small projects have been honoured – this from…