‘The Local’ (Germany’s News in English) provides an article “The Local’s guide to the Ruhr Valley’s year of culture” including a photo gallery. The guide contains a list of the highlights of 2010.
FIDENA – “Puppet Theatre of Nations” ist the title of an institute and a festival for international puppeteering in Bochum (Ruhr). This years festival takes place from August 29th to September 4th. There will be four different plays, some premieres and a play in English Llnguage. Anyway, you can visit nearly any of the plays because most of them don’t need any language. As an exception to the rule, one play affords knowledge of English language. It’s »Punch and Judy in Afghanistan – When East meets West, who will be laughing in the End?«
“Punch and Judy” are brother and sister to the German “Kasper und Grete” (Kasperletheater). This is connected to the headline of FIDENA in 2009: “Kasper reloaded” meaning “‘Punch and Judy’ reloaded”. This “Punch and Judy” will be performed by the Australian actor and puppeteer Neville Tranter who runs The Stuffed Puppet Theatre in the Netherlands. Well, I don’t want to summarize other pages, even if there seems to be only a German article on Wikipedia. On youTube, there are two videos from two different shows. One was part of the Ruhr Trienale. Here is the other video. It helps to understand what you will expect when you are thinking about visiting the shows on September 1st to 3rd. We already ordered tickets.
Neville Tranter and The Stuffed Puppet produce this Punch and Judy for the European Capital of Culture Linz’09. There will be a festival in November. The German premiere (not language but state of first show) will be in September in Bochum (European Capital of Culture 2010). We are going to spend a few days in Linz to learn about the Cultural Capital Project.
As you surely have heard, Ruhr will be European Culturual Capital in 2010, calles Ruhr.2010. The Ruhr.2010 company is in charge of developing and coordinating the program for 2010. You can follow it activities and plan on the website www.ruhr2010.de. The website is available with a complete English translation. The program will also be printed in several books. ‘Book one’ is available since autumn 2008. A PDF document can be found under ‘Downloads’. The English version of the website contains the translation of book one – the international version.
If you have friends who want to visit Ruhr, tell them to come now or in 2010. The programme book gives a brief overview what is happening here and is hoing to happen for the next years. The book is an advertisment for Ruhr and its vived cultural development. It’s fun to read and to decide where to go and what to see.
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