Divadelná Nitra Association
Aims and Intentions
Aims
- present a high quality of European theatre – non-traditional, searching and inspirational theatre
- to inform about the work, the personage and the tendencies of the contemporary Slovak theatre
- to search for and present the new names of artists – ‘rising stars’
- to bring up to date themes, attractive forms, new tendencies
- to aim beyond the usual borders of genres, to join different types of art (film, literature, music, visual arts, radio)
- to offer the opportunity to represent the regional culture – production for adults and children
- to continue in realization of the ongoing programme in the informal education for young people and motivating to volunteering
Intentions
- to develop the cultural exchange in European context
- to motivate in the Slovak theatre and cultural environment, to add to the possibilities of representation of the Slovak theatres and culture as a whole
- to inspire and provoke the creators, the cultural operators and also the spectators of the festival
- to support the variety of arts, methods of artistic expression and the perceiving of it
- to cultivate taste, fantasy, empathy, love for the beautiful, tolerance to the differences
- to permanently create the answer to the consumerism, to strengthen the name of the festival as an important platform for a polemic to traditional and commercial art
- to add to the personal development of an individual and to improve the quality of life












