Lass uns die Welt vergessen: Volksoper 1938 stages Austria’s fascist past, reckoning with the ghosts of Nazism and their legacies. For Jordan Schildcrout, the docudrama-metamusical becomes an opportunity to interrogate Austria’s history—and to imagine the future of the United States.
When government agencies establish well-structured frameworks for environmental action, they enable the arts and culture sector to function as a central, active contributor to addressing the climate emergency and ecological crisis. Iphigenia Taxopoulou discusses the growing trend in these cultural policy collaborations paving the way for a sustainable transition.
Milo Rau directs readings of Elfriede Jelinek’s new play, translated by Gitta Honegger
Monday 20 January 2025
New York City and Mossul
Democracy is in a serious crisis and people are confused. Elfriede Jelinek responded to Donald Trump’s second election victory with an important text: Endsieg, a grim sequel to Am Königsweg / The Burgher King, her play about the United States election eight years ago. Parallel readings in German and English.
A talk with Srećko Horvat, Dóra Büki, Matej Drlička, Milo Rau
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Vienna, Austria
Nationalist parties are on the rise across Europe. They instrumentalize fears and divide society. Their first victim is the freedom of art. Representatives of institutions, artists, and activists will share their visions of a global, solidarity-based response to the dangers posed by the new nationalism.
Watch as the panel creates and signs a global manifesto demanding immediate change and decolonization in a still deeply entrenched patriarchal field.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
New York City
Vienna Festwochen Festival and the Segal Center host a panel calling for action to address the devastating current state of representation when it comes to womxn composers in music spaces, especially in opera houses and in concert halls.
Join us for an afternoon with director Milo Rau featuring a book talk, a panel, and an excerpt screening.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
New York City
Milo Rau discusses his latest book, Reclaiming the Future, a republished essay from the Zurich Poetry Lecture, followed by a panel, and an excerpt screening of Rau's The New Gospel.
In the third episode of PUHA podcast, co-hosts Zsófi and Bíborka talk to the interdisciplinary collective Hollow, the experimental scenographer Eszter Kálmán, and dancer-choreographer Beatrix Simkó. Together, they discuss how their work features across different media and mixes visual and digital art with performativity. Get ready for a journey across household noise choreographies, moving bodies in Vienna’s Leopold Museum, underground queer communities in Tbilisi, and stories of friendship and pregnancy in performance art!
Thursday 4 November 2021 and Monday 6 December 2021
Germany, Austria
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest.
Tuesday 2 November 2021 and Friday 3 December 2021
Austria
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest.
Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre
Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021
Worldwide
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.
Several of this year's festival artists discussing their work in Roma theatre.
Monday 19 October 2020
Budapest, Hungary
Independent Theater Hungary presented a conversation with several of the 4th Roma Heroes International Theater Festival artists livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 19 October at 11:30 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 2:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 19:30 BST (London, UTC +1) / 20:30 CEST (Budapest, UTC +2) / 21:30 EEST (Bucharest, UTC +3).
Why is it So Difficult to Recognize a Non-European Universalism? With Achille Mbembe (Cameroon) and Milo Rau (Switzerland)
Saturday 17 October 2020
Graz, Austria
NTGent presented School of Resistance, Episode Eight: The Paranoia of the Western Mind livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 17 October 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).
Fabrica de Pensule presented a performance of this is where we draw the line livestreaming from Cluj, Romania on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Sunday 27 October at 20:00 EET (Cluj, UTC +2) / 18:00 (London, UTC +0) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Mihaela Drăgan interviews Sandra and Simonida Selimovic of Mindj Panther about their show Roma Armee, and the activist work they are doing in Austria to fight against Roma oppression.
City of Culture…City of Climate Change Communication
21 March 2018
American Studies scholar and educator Nassim Winnie Balestrini reports on how Climate Change Theatre Action relates to her seminar on cultural studies at the University of Graz in Austria.
Milo Rau and Servane Dècle’s “Theatre of the Real” documentary play examines the Gisèle Pelicot case in a four-hour afternoon performance with readings of documents retracing and examining this historic trial and its fight to end violence against women.
A discussion about the creation and development of The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisèle Pelicot in collaboration with the Pelicot family’s lawyers, the court, psychological experts, legal commentators, witnesses, and feminist organizations.
Series
Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021
Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.
