© Lena Busse

Impulse Theater Festival 2023: Digital Networking Programme

Individual trip

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Munich, a total of six international theatre professionals, producers and organisers were invited to the Impulse Theatre Festival 2023 from 8 to 12 June as part of an extended individual travel grant and in collaboration with the Impulse Theatre Festival.

Following the "Digital Networking Programme" jointly initiated in 2022 as part of the Impulse Theatre Festival, a further six participants had the opportunity to visit the festival on site in 2023: As part of the Impulse Showcase with venues in Düsseldorf, including FFT - Freies Forum Theater and tanzhaus nrw, as well as an excursion to the Impulse City Project in Cologne, the participants from Bangladesh, China, Finland, Indonesia, Iran and Canada had the opportunity to gain an in-depth overview of the festival's focal points.

The Impulse Academy events in Mülheim an der Ruhr also enabled visitors to exchange ideas with the festival's organisers, directors and artists.

The guests were:

Cui Zhang, Independent producer (theatre and dance, Beijing/CHINA

Yohayna Hernandez Gonzalez,Dramaturg, critic, editor, professor and cultural agent, CANADA

David Kozma, Artistic director: European Theatre Collective, Helsinki/FINLAND

Tasaffy Madani Hossain, Founder/managing partner: Bonhishikha – unlearn gender, BANGLADESH

Riyadhus Shalihin, Artist and dramaturg (film, video, drawing, and theatre), INDONESIA

Sepehr Sharifzadeh, Festival maker, independent curator, and producer, IRAN

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© Lena Busse

Impulse Theater Festival 2023: Digital Networking Programme

Individual trip

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Munich, a total of six international theatre professionals, producers and organisers were invited to the Impulse Theatre Festival 2023 from 8 to 12 June as part of an extended individual travel grant and in collaboration with the Impulse Theatre Festival.

Following the "Digital Networking Programme" jointly initiated in 2022 as part of the Impulse Theatre Festival, a further six participants had the opportunity to visit the festival on site in 2023: As part of the Impulse Showcase with venues in Düsseldorf, including FFT - Freies Forum Theater and tanzhaus nrw, as well as an excursion to the Impulse City Project in Cologne, the participants from Bangladesh, China, Finland, Indonesia, Iran and Canada had the opportunity to gain an in-depth overview of the festival's focal points.

The Impulse Academy events in Mülheim an der Ruhr also enabled visitors to exchange ideas with the festival's organisers, directors and artists.

The guests were:

Cui Zhang, Independent producer (theatre and dance, Beijing/CHINA

Yohayna Hernandez Gonzalez,Dramaturg, critic, editor, professor and cultural agent, CANADA

David Kozma, Artistic director: European Theatre Collective, Helsinki/FINLAND

Tasaffy Madani Hossain, Founder/managing partner: Bonhishikha – unlearn gender, BANGLADESH

Riyadhus Shalihin, Artist and dramaturg (film, video, drawing, and theatre), INDONESIA

Sepehr Sharifzadeh, Festival maker, independent curator, and producer, IRAN

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