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ITI x THEATER DER WELT 2026
The ITI programme at Theater der Welt
© Nasser Hashemi
THEATER DER WELT takes place from 18 June to 5 July at different locations in Chemnitz. Whilst the festival moves from city to city every three years, the ITI programme acts as a link between the individual editions and offers insights into the core themes of the International Theatre Institute.
ITI ACADEMY
21 – 28 June 2026
During THEATER DER WELT, 18 young people from the arts, academia and civil society come together for a week from all over the world. They engage in dialogue on the festival’s artistic approaches, discussing topics such as artistic freedom and censorship, practices of collective care, fair collaboration and decolonisation.
BUILD – UNBUILD – REBUILD. The Archive and the THEATER DER WELT festival as temporary spaces
19 – 28 June and 30 June – 5 July 2026
How does a festival shape the city in which it takes place, and how does the city shape the festival in turn? This year THEATER DER WELT is coming to Chemnitz. With a focus on the temporariness of the festival, the archive, and the theatre, this exhibition dares to look behind the scenes.
BRIDGING THE GAPS. CONNECTING THE DOTS. Deconfining cross-continental collaborations between Africa and Europe. (EN/DE)
26 – 27 June 2026
How can artistic exchange across continents succeed – and what conditions are necessary for this? What kind of intertwining of art and politics empowers us to forge new paths? Over a period of four years, 12 organisations and their partners in Europe and Africa collaborated on these questions as part of the EU project DECONFINING project. This conference explores the cultural and political insights gained from this work.
Guest performance Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie: MEMORY DISTORTION. M I X T A P E /
Presentation of the ITI Prize to Nicoleta Esinencu
26 June 2026
A concert as an archive: voices, beats and loops make Moldova’s fragmented history audible and visible. / Following the event, Nicoleta Esinencu will be awarded the ITI Prize.
You can find the program for THEATER DER WELT at www.theaterderwelt.de.