In this year’s international festival of contemporary theatre “Homo Novus” in Riga, Latvia, a separate programme “The Shake Down” curated by young curators-teenagers took place. Anyone were able to visit the extensive program, in which all events were free of charge, on Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10, at the new cultural center “MAZE” – Brīvības street 109 (entrance from Palīdzības street). The programme of the festival, curated independently by 10 Latvian and Norwegian teenagers, dedicated to the theme of generational nostalgia, included a wide range of visual, scenic, musical and interactive works of art.

OPENING (photo: Aivars Ivbulis)

HAIR – STUCK IN TIME (photo: Aivars Ivbulis)

(AND) FROM ONE MOON TO ANOTHER I LEAP (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

SENSE OF NOSTALGIA (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

IN BETWEEN (photo: Aivars Ivbulis)

NOTES TO REMEMBER (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

MUSEUM OF CURATORIAL NOSTALGIA (photo: Andrejs Strokins (pa kreisi), Aivars Ivbulis (pa labi))

VIDEO OF PERFORMANCES AND FILM PROGRAMME (photo: Andrejs Strokins (on the left), Aivars Ivbulis (on the right)

THE FRIDGE (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

ARTIST TALK (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

LATVIAN PUPPET THEATRE PERFORMANCE “ME – BENJAMIN BUTTON” (photo: Andrejs Strokins)

FICTIVE CLOSING CEREMONY “THE NEAR THE FAR. HOUSE AND HOME” (photo: Andrejs Strokins)