A group of theatre-loving children and young people between the ages of 10 and 15 will once again accompany BRIGHT VIEW this year. They will watch most of the international guest performances together, talk about them, and artistically process and share their thoughts and impressions via short replays. The festival philosophers will come into contact with the artists and the audience and leave their mark on the festival – sometimes in the form of small poems that suddenly appear on walls or windows, sometimes in the form of paper planes with thought impulses that suddenly swoop into the courtyard, and sometimes the philosophers will mingle with the audience and initiate conversations. We are already looking forward to the interventions and encounters with this year's festival philosophers!
New Generation. New. What is that – new? Until now, the programme was called Next Generation. For the next generation of theatre-makers and theatre-thinkers. Next is always different from previous, which sounds finished or almost finished somehow. New is a departure, an openness to do something different right from the start, something without the competitive comparison to the existing. That's why it's new, this New Generation.
The times we live in demand that we always think anew; that we try something new. The new is exciting. The new is exhausting. Above all, the new is always uncertain.
The New Generation at the BRIGHT VIEW 2022 festival searches for the new in the known. Ten unknown theatre-makers from different countries get to know each other, (discover) new languages, throw themselves into the unknown with abandon and explore the new.
Direction: Frederic Lilje
As a theatre maker - performer/dramaturg/mediator – he acknowledges the many /// and begins to embrace them with abandon. If you can't fake it: feature it. In keeping with this motto, his projects and thoughts move between performative social investigations and yearning, theatrical excursions into the imagination.
Student Exchange at the festival
3 different universities
4 different degrees
40 different perspectives on theatre
As part of BRIGHT CAMPUS, drama students from the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts will meet students of "Cultural Education" from the Ludwigsburg University of Education and students of "Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice" and "Staging the Arts and Media" from the University of Hildesheim.Accompanied by their respective lecturers Frederik Zeugke, Tanja Frank and Prof. Dr. Maike Gunsilius, they experience productions for young audiences for a week, exchange ideas and get to know each other.
How can we talk about theatre? What perspectives and themes are important to us? Through which lenses do we see the world? And what (artistic) ways and formats can we find to get into an exchange with each other at all?
First semester drama meets Master's in Cultural Education, dramaturgy meets theatre education –mutual workshops make the respective professions tangible.
A conversation about theatre.
Hosted by teenagers associated with JES and Schöne Aussicht, as well as TEEN Ambassadors from Denmark and Italy.
The kitchen table conversations are an activity developed by the Theatre European Engagement Network (T.E.E.N.) run by Segni d’infanzia (Italy), Cultuurcentrum Hasselt (Belgium), Dialogue Community Performance (UK), ”la Caixa” Foundation (Spain), Scenekunstbruk (Norway) and Teatercentrum (Denmark) the program was Co-founded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and since 2019 have been held at festivals all over Europe.
The conversation will be held in English.
Saturday 14th of May 2022 at 10:00h in the kitchen.
CLOSED ENCOUNTER – INVITATION ONLY – VERY LIMITED CAPACITY
To attend the kitchen table conversation as an audience member you have to be invited by the hosts.
Rule One
The room must be set out to resemble a kitchen table.
Rule Two
There has to be food at the Kitchen Table.
Rule Three
The moderator should be a Teenager.
Rule Four
The Teenagers are the experts and the adults in the audience are the students.
Rule Five
Whilst it is important that the audience is involved, the discussion should focus on the opinion of the Teenagers, so adults should listen and raise their hand if they want to talk. There may be a spare seat at the table which the Teenagers can use for inviting adults to the table, if they wish.
Rule Six
Comments from the audience should last no longer than three minutes, unless it is agreed upon by the teenagers to grant the speaker more time.
Rule Seven
Opinions should be supported by experiences, or at least examples.
Dear audience,
at Bright View, a lot takes place not only onstage but also in our heads – new impulses or images that are familiar but long forgotten can set many thoughts and feelings into motion in the blink of an eye. And it is precisely this moment that I would like to capture. Be it a new thought, a surprising feeling or questions that you would like to explore more deeply after a performance.
To make sure that these special moments are heard and captured, I am available in the short breaks between performances as a mental sparring partner to exchange thoughts and ideas. I look forward to meeting you at the Agora and listening to your thoughts!
Kind regards
Meryem
The spoken word artist attends and observes the festival. Every day she shares a text about what she saw, thought and spoke about.
Festival Opening on Sunday May 8th, 2022, at 5pm in the JES Hall
Free of charge - registration is required.
Welcome to the JES!
At the festive opening ceremony, the festival directors Brigitte Dethier and Christian Schönfelder, as well as the Secretary of State for Culture of Baden-Württemberg Petra Olschowski and the Mayor of Stuttgart Dr. Frank Nopper will answer the festival philosophers’ questions. Over a glass of juice, different generations will engage in a conversation about theatre for young audiences.
The opening ceremony will be accompanied musically by players from the "hotel europa" ensemble and friends.
Afterwards we will all make a toast to an exuberant and inspiring festival!
on Sunday May 8th, 2022, from 9pm in the JES Foyer
Live concert with Shelly Phillips and band: The German-American singer/songwriter tells stories from real life, of its small joys and big pains. Modern pop sound with soul, jazz and electronic influences – great live music with lots of levity and heart.
Afterwards, we plunge head over heels into our first festival date: love at first beat. Palpitations, sweaty palms ... do you come here often? We let ourselves be carried away by music from the jukebox - compiled by Anna-Lena Hitzfeld and Sebastian Brummer aka HotHotHitzlefd and Beasty Brummer. Music was my first love, but the first cut is also the deepest...
The big festival closing party on Saturday May 14th, 2022, from 9:30pm
I can't live, if living is without you... cause all of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections - is this burning an eternal flame?
The latest edition of the legendary festival Liebesleben: HotHotHitzlefd and Beasty Brummer give it their all. Don't leave me this way! We hate goodbyes, so we're going party to the fullest again. Cause this love could last a lifetime...
New Generation. New. What is that – new? Until now, the programme was called Next Generation. For the next generation of theatre-makers and theatre-thinkers. Next is always different from previous, which sounds finished or almost finished somehow. New is a departure, an openness to do something different right from the start, something without the competitive comparison to the existing. That's why it's new, this New Generation.
The times we live in demand that we always think anew; that we try something new. The new is exciting. The new is exhausting. Above all, the new is always uncertain.
The New Generation at the BRIGHT VIEW 2022 festival searches for the new in the known. Ten unknown theatre-makers from different countries get to know each other, (discover) new languages, throw themselves into the unknown with abandon and explore the new.
Direction: Frederic Lilje
As a theatre maker - performer/dramaturg/mediator – he acknowledges the many /// and begins to embrace them with abandon. If you can't fake it: feature it. In keeping with this motto, his projects and thoughts move between performative social investigations and yearning, theatrical excursions into the imagination.
Rule One
The room must be set out to resemble a kitchen table.
Rule Two
There has to be food at the Kitchen Table.
Rule Three
The moderator should be a Teenager.
Rule Four
The Teenagers are the experts and the adults in the audience are the students.
Rule Five
Whilst it is important that the audience is involved, the discussion should focus on the opinion of the Teenagers, so adults should listen and raise their hand if they want to talk. There may be a spare seat at the table which the Teenagers can use for inviting adults to the table, if they wish.
Rule Six
Comments from the audience should last no longer than three minutes, unless it is agreed upon by the teenagers to grant the speaker more time.
Rule Seven
Opinions should be supported by experiences, or at least examples.
Festival Opening on Sunday May 8th, 2022, at 5pm in the JES Hall
Free of charge - registration is required.
Welcome to the JES!
At the festive opening ceremony, the festival directors Brigitte Dethier and Christian Schönfelder, as well as the Secretary of State for Culture of Baden-Württemberg Petra Olschowski and the Mayor of Stuttgart Dr. Frank Nopper will answer the festival philosophers’ questions. Over a glass of juice, different generations will engage in a conversation about theatre for young audiences.
The opening ceremony will be accompanied musically by players from the "hotel europa" ensemble and friends.
Afterwards we will all make a toast to an exuberant and inspiring festival!
on Sunday May 8th, 2022, from 9pm in the JES Foyer
Live concert with Shelly Phillips and band: The German-American singer/songwriter tells stories from real life, of its small joys and big pains. Modern pop sound with soul, jazz and electronic influences – great live music with lots of levity and heart.
Afterwards, we plunge head over heels into our first festival date: love at first beat. Palpitations, sweaty palms ... do you come here often? We let ourselves be carried away by music from the jukebox - compiled by Anna-Lena Hitzfeld and Sebastian Brummer aka HotHotHitzlefd and Beasty Brummer. Music was my first love, but the first cut is also the deepest...
The big festival closing party on Saturday May 14th, 2022, from 9:30pm
I can't live, if living is without you... cause all of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections - is this burning an eternal flame?
The latest edition of the legendary festival Liebesleben: HotHotHitzlefd and Beasty Brummer give it their all. Don't leave me this way! We hate goodbyes, so we're going party to the fullest again. Cause this love could last a lifetime...
