OUTNOW! 2019

OUTNOW! 2019

International Performing Arts Festival
From June 7 to 10, 2019

A cooperation project of the Schwankhalle and Theater Bremen

From June 7 to 10, 2019, the Schwankhalle and Theater Bremen will again host the Performing Arts Festival OUTNOW! Founded at the Künstlerhaus Schwankhalle Bremen in 1994, the festival has taken place biannually as a cooperation project of the Schwankhalle and Theater Bremen since 2013. OUTNOW! showcases young artists, groups, and collectives from all over Europe at the start of their professional careers.

Individual artists, directors, groups, and collectives who have not been producing their own works for much longer than three years are invited to submit their current productions to the OUTNOW! Festival 2019. Contributions from other disciplines such as media art, visual art, and music with performative or theatrical references are just as welcome as performances in public space and site-specific projects. Theater halls in Theater Bremen and the Schwankhalle are available. In addition, individual stages for urban space will be developed in a seminar at the University of the Arts Bremen. If possible, suitable spaces will be sought for pieces performed beyond the stage or in public space. There are no limitations regarding the length of the productions or the number of participants; short works and works with a large cast are also taken into consideration. A jury of representatives of the organizers will select the works invited to the festival from the submissions.

As a forum for international, up-and-coming theater creatives, OUTNOW! offers the invited artists the opportunity to be present during the entire festival period. Internal discussion formats, time for encounters and exchange are very important to the Festival. OUTNOW! offers individual consultation on organizational and aesthetic issues, from application advice with a professional production office all the way to feedback walks with dramaturgs of the participating venues. Furthermore, a selected group of young culture journalists and theater scholars will accompany the festival with reports.

ORGANISER
Schwankhalle Bremen/Neugier e.V. & Theater Bremen

FESTIVAL LOCATIONS
Schwankhalle, Buntentorsteinweg 112, D-28201 Bremen, Germany (www.schwankhalle.de)

Theater Bremen, Goetheplatz 1-3, D-28203 Bremen, Germany (www.theaterbremen.de)