Holstebro Festuge
(Holstebro Festive Week)
Started in 1989 in order to celebrate Odin Teatret's
25th anniversary, Holstebro Festuge
mingles local official institutions and grassroots organisations
together with foreign artists and theatre groups in a theatrical
process which lasts nine days and nights. It takes place every
third year with Odin Teatret as the main artistic motor and
coordinator.
What makes Holstebro Festuge special is that
the inhabitants are not only the audience, but they participate
actively through their work and recreational interests. The basic
idea is to bring together various local milieus which do not
normally interact, establishing collaborations and mutual
innovative projects that are surprising and may be seen as
expressions of organised performance. Sports clubs, cultural and
educational institutions, churches and their parishioners, ethnic
and religious minorities, the military, business and commercial
associations, hospitals and care homes - more than 100 milieus
participate in a multitude of inter-related activities within a
theatrical framework created by Odin Teatret and guest artists.
Each group, institution and organisation comes up with a
performance/event within their own field according to the specific
theme of the Festuge and is financially responsible for its own
contribution. It is nevertheless possible to apply for a grant from
Holstebro Municipality.
Up to the present day there have been nine Festuger.
