La Strada (Bremen)
La Strada ( Italian for 'The Street'; own spelling LA STRADA) is an international festival of street arts in Bremen . It has been held every summer since 1994 and is attended by up to 100,000 spectators.
history
The festival emerged from 1992 to 1994 from the broad cultural work of the Bremen cultural initiatives Quartier e. V. (today Quartier gGmbH ) and Kontorhaus - workshop for free stage art (today theaterkontor in the kontorhaus ). In 1994, the independent event La Strada developed from this , which initially took place in various parts of Bremen with street theater .
In 1999 the festival moved to the inner city of Bremen, whereby the events were spread over the entire inner city and mostly took place directly at tourist places. Since then, the event conception and organization have been and continue to be carried out by the theaterkontor in the kontorhaus of the Neue Gruppe Kulturarbeit e. V. perceived. In 2000, the festival in Bremen took place as an external, ten-day sub-program of the Expo 2000 world exhibition held in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . Due to renovation work on Bremen's market square , La Strada was relocated to the Bremer Wallanlagen in 2001 , where the festival then had its main venue until 2005. In 2006 La Strada returned to downtown Bremen, and since 2008 the ramparts have also been used again.
Since 2008, the always large-format opening event has been financed by the Sparkasse Bremen as a “gift to the festival and thus to the city”. In 2008, for example, the large-scale production “Pi L'eau” by the Dutch theater company Close Act was made possible. 2012, the French company presented Retouramont opening of the festival its vertical dance performance "Danse des Cariatides" which as parade led on the next to Bremen's main train station located site of the former goods station and in front of the facade of the local art center Güterabfertigung was organized.
All events of the street festival, which takes place regularly in summer, are free of charge. With a few exceptions there are no stages, as the festival is geared towards the closeness between artists and audience and lives from it. In addition to the performances of the artists in the open air, the festival also includes an evening gala which takes place on the evenings of two festival days in a closed event room and which is subject to entry. The venue for the evening galas is the theater of the Bremen shakespeare company .
Enables La Strada through the use of many volunteers, the angels are mentioned, as well as through financial support of the City of Bremen, from sponsors and donors.
Event concept
The La Strada festival is now being held in public places and squares throughout Bremen's city center and, according to the company, provides “theatrical impulses, creates creative unrest and presents […] theater in public space ”. The free admission program of up to 160 shows offers a wide range of cultural activities for a wide audience and every age group. The program ranges from circus artistry to picture theater, Cirque Nouveau, mask theater and music clowning to staging of the square.
La Strada discovers the north of Bremen
Since 2017, a La Strada event with street art, entertainment and music has been taking place on the weekend before the street artist festival in Bremen city center on the site of the former Bremen wool combing in Bremen-Blumenthal ; 2019 the day before in Vegesack .
Street circus on the go
Since 2009, in addition to the street circus festival in Bremen, there has also been the street circus on the road project , which takes place in August (one to two weeks after the festival in Bremen until 2012) in the center of the Lower Saxony city of Rotenburg (Wümme) . However, this event was only initially organized by the organizers of La Strada.
Support association
The festival is supported by the development association LA STRADA Förderverein e. V. , which enables individual, family and company members to actively participate in the maintenance and organization of the international street arts festival. The members have a right of first refusal to enter duty La Strada events Select, regularly receive the La Strada - Newsletter and to all La Strada invited -Sonderveranstaltungen.
media
- “La Strada” is a crowd-puller in Bremen ( memento from August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Contribution to the TV magazine buten un within from Radio Bremen on August 22, 2011, with video stream (58 seconds)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ “La Strada”, a crowd- puller in Bremen ( memento from August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Contribution to the TV magazine buten un within from Radio Bremen on August 22, 2011; with video stream , 58 seconds.
- ↑ 1992–99: La Strada , Quartier gGmbH, July 8, 1992. Accessed January 18, 2016.
- ↑ a b c The Festival → History . On: Website of La Strada , Bremen. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Solveig Rixmann: hard work for La Strada. Artists, organizers and craftsmen do great things for the festival. In: Weser-Kurier , supplement district courier , Southeast edition of August 16, 2012, p. 6.
- ↑ (sis): “La Strada”: shadow plays to kick off. In: Weser-Kurier of August 17, 2012, title page.
- ^ Thomas Breyer-Mayländer : Success for city marketing and advertising associations. Structures, strategies, analyzes and nationwide successful campaigns. Offenburg University , Offenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-943301-00-7 , p. 100.
- ↑ a b LA STRADA - International Street Circus Festival . Information in the registration form for the LA STRADA Förderverein e. V. PDF , 160 kB; Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Street circus on the go… , without doubt.net, office for cultural services. Retrieved April 18, 2018.