Theater FESTIVALS IN TRANSITION (F.I.T.)

Theater festivals as a generator for a European cultural network
An initiative of eight festivals in eight countries

For a long time now, the key function of international theater festivals has been frequently underestimated, in their home countries as well as on national and international levels. They are a decisive and important factor in the mobility of performance art in Europe, in the exchange of artistic ideas and concepts, and in the transnational cooperation between artists and theaters, and they have an important function as an international "market place" for theater groups and artists and as a forum for a European discussion in the field of art. In the cities and countries where the festivals are located, they  are often the only window on the world of performance art beyond the borders of the festivals. They introduce their audiences and the media to the artistic developments taking place somewhere else. They provide local artists and theater critics with the opportunity of confrontation with European state-of-the-art theater, and they often represent the first stepping stone to the international scene for regional avant-garde artists.
 

FIT in BaltoScandal, July 1st, 2006

"The Future Of A Young Network”

• The FIT participants will discuss the result of the FIT meetings in previous cities and the possible future of this young network.
• What value has FIT had for the personal participants?
• What impact has FIT had on the participating Festivals?
• Is it important for FIT to continue and if so why and how?

www.theatre-fit.org
 

LINKS to the participating festivals:

• www.theatre.lv/hn/index.php?&2
• www.nitrafest.sk/
• www.sirenos.lt/
• www.spielart.org/
• www.reminiscencje.pl/
• www.ctyridny.cz/
• www.exodos.si/
• www.baltoscandal.ee/