06 June 2012
ELIA: NEU/NOW Festival 2012 Launches!
Live in Porto, Portugal – July 11 -15, 2012
NEU/NOW Festival 2012 Launches!
ONLINE wherever you are, whenever you want.
LIVE 11-15 July amidst the summer splendor of Porto, Portugal.
The NEU/NOW Festival provides an innovative platform for the most exciting and creative NEU artistic talent NOW emerging from higher arts education institutions and universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to wider audiences in the NEU/NOW online and LIVE Festival.
The NEU/NOW Festival is:
+ An online and a live event that promotes artistic excellence through cutting edge presentations and activities;
+ An opportunity for selected young artists to show their work, meet each other during the LIVE Festival and create new international partnerships;
+ A place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects emerging from the art schools and universities across Europe;
+ A forum where emerging artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
+ A means of presenting an emerging generation of professional artists, drawn from across Europe, to the attention of a wide audience.
The European League of Institutes of the Arts received hundreds of nominations from art institutions across 31 countries from which an international jury selected 56 projects to be part of the NEU/NOW online Festival. In a second jury selection, 32 projects were selected from the 56 to be part of the NEU/NOW LIVE Festival.
The fourth iteration of the NEU/NOW online and the NEU/NOW LIVE Festival includes projects arranged across the following five art disciplines:
+ Visual Arts
+ Design
+ Theatre/Dance
+ Music/Sound
+ Film
In whichever field you find your passion for art, NEU/NOW has something fresh and innovative...
Porto, Portugal's second city, one of Europe's oldest settlements and an UNESCO World Heritage site, is easily accessible from many major transportation hubs and is serviced by low cost airlines.
Come bask in the Summer sunshine, enjoy the local cultural offerings of this vibrant city and the Europe wide work of NEU/NOW's talented artists.
For detailed information on travel and accommodation please refer to the visitor's information page
Visit the festival homepage to explore the online festival, preview the LIVE festival and view the full programme of events scheduled for 11-15 July.
Happier Together: NEU/NOW LIVE and ELIA's Teachers' Academy
This year's edition of NEU/NOW LIVE will be held in conjunction with ELIA's Teachers' Academy. For more information on this international platform for the professional development of lecturers in higher arts education scroll below to Teachers' Academy 2012 Porto.
For any additional questions or enquiries please contact Project Manager Ute Kohlmann: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it