This year, the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus will take place from September 3 to 13, and in its 30th anniversary year, it will captivate audiences not only in Riga and Valmiera, but will also return to the festival’s very first location – Daugavpils.
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During the 2024 Homo Novus festival in Riga, Finnish artist Laura Puska in a public conversation introduced festival guests to her project “URGENT – Residency for Artworks” and to her artistic practice that reflects on the material agency. The discussion was led by Latvian artist and sculptor Gundega Evelone.
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The "Magic Carpets" Lab series, dedicated to working with communities, will bring together ten performing artists. In three workshops in different regions of Latvia, participants will gain theoretical and practical knowledge from experienced mentors and artists to develop their projects.
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In April, participants of the 2025 "Homo Novus" Festival School — poet Māra Ulme and the school's creative producer Samuels Ozoliņš — traveled to Canada to explore, together with "Mammalian Diving Reflex" and local artists, how an idea inspired by Avotu Street resonates with an international audience.
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From 24–27 April, Sandra Lapkovska, producer at the New Theatre Institute of Latvia, and GLEN-invited artist Reinis Boters took part in a meeting of the Great Little European Network (GLEN) in Iceland, joining fellow producers, curators, and artists. The programme included discussions, presentations, guided tours, and theatre visits – among them a showing of Reinis […]
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