Rijeka, the city that in this incredible year 2020 bears the European Capital of Culture title, after two months of mandatory isolation, returns into focus of the cultural public, artists and the audience. About ten music festival and weekend concerts, thirty drama and dance performances and stand-up performances, about ten performances of classical music, choirs, opera, orchestra, fifteen exhibitions and special attractions, among which a magnificent exhibition – the largest one ever dedicated to Rijeka – Fiume Fantastika : the city phenomena are only part of the rich cultural summer programme that will take place in Rijeka during July and August.
Thanks to great energy put in reshaping the ECC programme, and the communion of all cultural institutions in Rijeka, the company Rijeka 2020, numerous associations and individuals – Rijeka justifies its ECC title and proudly continues to be a city where each corner this summer breathes culture.
Already in May and June, following reduction in social distancing measures, several smaller theatre forms, exhibitions, children’s plays and film screenings were presented to the Rijeka audience, and at the beginning of summer the city’s cultural hustle and bustle heats up. Without much fanfare, the waters of Rijeka (meaning river) again run deep and the city remains the most interesting destination this year.
The programme, which is still being complemented, in addition to the specified festivals and concerts, classical music performances and exhibitions brings about twenty drama performances for children, Children’s Festival Toboggan, film screenings at the summer Art Cinema, inauguration of permanent sculptures within the artistic and tourist route Lungomare Art, and events in about ten villages, the so-called 27 neighbourhoods, in the territory of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, and the programmes from September onwards bring even bigger stories owing to the opening of infrastructure facilities, the Civic Museum and the Children’s House, that are under construction in the former Rikard Benčić factory, a future cultural quarter.
The year marked by an excellent start, was transformed due to the global pandemic, culture in Rijeka was stopped only for a while and the announcement of some summer events shows that Rijeka has not given up. About 120 single events in Rijeka and its surroundings during July and August have been announced today at a large press conference, with a remark that the summer programme will be further complemented and that all events will be additionally individually announced in the coming weeks.
Most of the dates and locations of performances are already known. Exportdrvo, the building of the former port warehouse, for which the City of Rijeka recently received a concession, will host about twenty programmes in just two summer months, and it will continue to be vibrant after August. The downtown Squar of Rijeka Resolution will become a new location that will host dramatic dance performances and puppet shows, stand-up performances and classical concerts. Across the city, and further away, in the towns of Kvarner and in a number of neighborhoods in the territory of the Primorje Gorski Kotar County, programmes will be held that will keep the local and a wider community awake.
Summer programmes in the European Capital of Culture (schedule by locations and dates of events)
Location: Exportdrvo, Delta, Rijeka
Fri, 3 July 2020
21:00 King Oedipus [play for young people and adults] – premiere
Directed by : Luciano Delprato
Co-production: Croatian drama of the CNT Ivan Zajc and the Rijeka City Puppet Theatre [ZAJC LAB]
Sat, 4 July 2020
21:00 King Oedipus Sophocles [play for young people and adults] – rerun
Directed by : Luciano Delprato
Co-production: Croatian drama of the CNT Ivan Zajc and the Rijeka City Puppet Theatre [ZAJC LAB]
Fri, 10 July 2020
10:00 – 02:00 Ri Rock, Rijeka, “Zvukom preko vode/With sound across the water”, musical manifestation
Sat, 11 July 2020
10:00 – 24:00 Ri Rock, Rijeka, “Zvukom preko vode/With sound across the water”, musical manifestation
Mon, 20 July 2020
21:00 – 22:00 Port of Dance / Collective Dope – Jenna Jalonen: BEAT “I just wish to feel you”, dance performance
Fri, 24 July 2020
20:00 – 00:00 Distune promotion and URK from Zagreb (Močvara club), “Swam up Rijeka”
or Distune promotion and Positive rhythm “Back to the future – From classical to modern jazz adventure”
Fri, 31 July 2020
20:30 Julius Caesar in Egypt – anew, Georg Friedrich Handel [opera] – premiere
Conductor: Ville Matvejeff
Dramatist-producer: Marin Blažević
Sat, 8 Aug 2020 – Sat, 29 Aug 2020
Hysterical machines, Bill Warn / Interactive robotic installation
Thur, 13 Aug 2020 – Fri, 13 Nov. 2020
Usijano more/Hot Sea – central exhibition of the Dopolavoro movement
Fri, 14 Aug 2020
Outdoor afternoon/evening dance party TIPSY / KOI KOI – Rijeka club format
Thur, 20 Aug 2020 – Sat, 31 Nov 2020
Fiume Fantastika: City’s Phenomena / OPENING
Thur, 27 Aug 2020 – Sat, 19 Sept. 2020
Dopolavoro: installation by Saša Sedlaček – Oblomo: Busy Being Lazy
Thur, 27 Aug 2020 – Sat, 19 Sept. 2020
Dopolavoro: exhibition by NiAuga Bojić – Terra Effluviens
A date of the following programme will be subsequently determined:
Zoran Majstorovic & Vasko Atanasovski – promotion of a new cd
Location: Trg Riječke rezolucije, Rijeka/Square of Rijeka Resolution, Rijeka
Fri, 26 June 2020
21:00 – 22:00 to Ivan Matetić Ronjgov, choir concert
Opera of the CNT Ivan Zajc in co-operation with the “Ivan Matetić Ronjgov” Institution – choir evening dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth and the 60th anniversary of the death of Ivan Matetić Ronjgov
Sat, 27 June 2020
21:00 – 22:00 to Ivan Matetić Ronjgov, choir concert
Mon, 29 June 2020
20:00 Lost tale: Hansel and Gretel, play for children CPT (City Puppet Theatre)
Tue, 30 June 2020
20:00 Lost tale: Hansel and Gretel, play for children CPT
Wed, 1 July 2020
20:00 Lost tale: Hansel and Gretel, play for children CPT
Thur, 2 July 2020
21:00 Inclusive Scene Festival / Port of Dance: Markéta Stránská – FLY!, dance performance
Fri, 3 July 2020
20:00 / 21:00 Inclusive Scene Festival: “Inkluzivni plesni Augektiv Magija”, a retrospective of inclusive works / presentation of the UHVATI FILM Festival
Tue, 7 July 2020
21:00 – 22:00 Aleks Curać Šarić: Budimo realni/Let’s be realistic / stand-up
Wed, 8 July 2020
20:00 Three Little Pigs, play for children CPT
Thur, 9 July 2020
20:00 Three Little Pigs, play for children CPT
Fri, 10 July 2020
20:00 Three Little Pigs, play for children CPT
Sat, 11 July 2020
20:00 Three Little Pigs, play for children CPT
Wed, 15 July 2020
21:00 – 23:00 Symphony concert “Become River – Adams, Shostakovich” symphony orchestra under the direction of maestro Ville Matvejeff
Thur, 16 July 2020
18:00 – 23:00 Inauguration of the Tobogan Festival (Triko Teatar Circus, Kišni razdraganci)
Fri, 17 July 2020
20:00 Koka Kokone, play for children CPT
Sat, 18 July 2020
20:00 Koka Kokone, play for children CPT
Sun, 19 July 2020
20:00 Koka Kokone, play for children CPT
Thur, 23 July 2020
21:00 – 23:00 Gala concert – Nessun Dorma 1
Rijeka symphony orchestra, under the direction of maestro Beatrice Venezi
Fri, 26 July 2020
21:00 – 22:00 Goran Vugrinec: Details, stand-up
Sat, 25 July 2020
21:00 – 23:00 Gala concert – Nessun Dorma 2
Tue, 28 July 2020
21:00 – 22:00 Port of Dance / Joy Alpuerto Ritter: Babae, dance performance
Location: Croatian National Theatre Ivan Zajc, Verdi st. 1, Rijeka
Fri, 19 June 2020
20:00 – 21:00
ECC programme Imperial concert: Rijeka Symphony Orchestra with piano soloist Goran FiJuneec
Wed, 24 June 2020
20:00 – 22:00
ECC programme “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time, premiere
Directed by : Marin Blažević
Thur, 25 June 2020
20:00 – 22:00 “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time
Fri, 26 June 2020
20:00 – 22:00 “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time
Sat, 27 June 2020
20:00 – 22:00 “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time
Directed by : Marin Blažević
Mon, 29 June 2020
20:00 – 22:00 “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time
Tue, 30 June 2020
20:00 – 22:0 “Vježbanje života – drugi put” /Esercitazione alla vita – seconda volta / Practicing Life – second time
Thur, 2 July 2020
21:00 – 22:30 From the New World – symphony concert
The programme includes works by Mozart and Dvorak
Fri, 3 July 2020
21:00 – 22:30 From the New World – symphony concert
Tue, 7 July 2020
21:00 Evita, musical
Directed by : Renata Carola Gatica
Wed, 8 July 2020
21:00 Evita, musical
Directed by : Renata Carola Gatica
Mon, 20 July 2020
21:00 Mrs. Minister, by Branislav Nušić [premiere]
Directed by : Tatjana Mandić Rigonat
Wed, 22 July 2020
21:00 Mrs. Minister, by Branislav Nušić
Directed by : Tatjana Mandić Rigonat
Thur, 23 July 2020
21:00 Mrs. Minister, by Branislav Nušić
Directed by : Tatjana Mandić Rigonat
Fri, 24 July 2020
21:00 Mrs. Minister, by Branislav Nušić
Directed by : Tatjana Mandić Rigonat
Thur, 30 July 2020
21:00 Plamteća voda/ Burning water [preview]
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis
Fri, 31 July 2020
21:00 Plamteća voda/ Burning water [preview 2]
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis
Location: City Puppet Theatre Rijeka, Blaža Polića 6, Rijeka
Fri, 19 June 2020
18:00 – 18:30 Sretna kućica/Happy Little House
Sat, 20 June 2020
11:00 – 11:30 Sretna kućica/Happy Little House
18:00 – 18:30 Sretna kućica/Happy Little House
Tue, 23 June 2020
18:00 – 18:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
Wed, 24 June 2020
18:00 – 18:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
Thur, 25 June 2020
18:00 – 18:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
Fri, 26 June 2020
18:00 – 18:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
Sat, 27 June 2020
11:00 – 11:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
18:00 – 18:30 Palačinka mog života/The pancake of my life
Thur, 27 Aug 2020
18:00 Ježeva kućica/Hedgehog’s Home
Fri, 28 Aug 2020
18:00 Ježeva kućica/Hedgehog’s Home
Sat, 29 Aug 2020
11:00 Ježeva kućica/Hedgehog’s Home
18:00 Ježeva kućica/Hedgehog’s Home
Location: Summer Art-Cinema, Rijeka
Wed, 1 July 2020
21:30 – 24:00 Fellini every Wednesday: Eight and a half
Fellini 1920-2020 The celebration of the centenary of the birth of the Italian director Federico Fellini continues on Wednesdays during July at the Summer Art Cinema.
Fri, 3 July 2020
21:30 – 23:30 Cult comedies: A Fish called Wanda
In July the Cult Comedies Programme brings film titles that we all well know, but we certainly want to see them again on the big screen.
Tue, 7 July 2020
21:30 – 23:30 Cult comedies: Clerks
Wed, 8 July 2020
21:30 – 24:00 Fellini every Wednesday: Juliet of the Spirits
Sat, 11 July 2020
21:30 – 23:30 “Mediteran” cinema: Dark Stories
The cinema “Mediteran” traditionally sails into our summer residence, and this year from 11 to 12 July it presents two award-winning films.
Sun, 12 July 2020
21:30 – 23:00 “Mediteran” cinema: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
Tue, 14 July 2020
21:30 – 24:00 Cult cinema: The Wild Bunch
Wed, 15 July 2020
21:30 – 23:30 Fellini every Wednesday: The Road
Wed, 22 July 2020
21:30 – 24:00 Fellini every Wednesday Casanova
Thur, 23 July 2020
00:00 – 00:15 Fellini every Wednesday: Casanova
Fri, 24 July 2020
21:30 – 23:30 Cult comedies: Annie Hall
Wed, 29 July 2020
21:30 – 24:00 Fellini every Wednesday: Satyricon
Location: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Krešimirova 26c, Rijeka
Mon, 1 June – Wed, 15 July 2020
Who has called silence
Fri, 12 June – Fri, 10 July 2020
Bodies on Stage
Thur, 16 July – Thu, 23 July 2020
MMCA programmes for Tobogan 2020
Fri, 24 July – Sun, 30 Aug 2020
Covid
Wed, 29 July – Sat, 29 Aug 2020
90ties: local
Location: Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral, Riccard Zanella sq. No.1, Rijeka
Fri, 3 July 2020
20:00 – 21:00 Port of Dance / Viktor Černický: PLI, dance show
Wed, 15 July 2020
20:00 – 21:00 Port of Dance / Máté Mészáros: Mechanics of Distance, dance show
Location: The Croatian Cultural Centre, Strossmayer st. no.1, Rijeka
Fri, 26 June 2020
18:00 / 20:30 Flash Dance Unit, final production
Sat, 27 June 2020
18:00 / 20:00 Flame dance group, final production
Sat 4. July 2020
18:30 / 19:30 / 20:30 Inclusive Scene Festival: Zagreb Open University
Da smo mi netko (If we were someone else) / DIVERT/IMRC & Martina Tomić: The Devil’s Advocate / Zagreb Open University, concert by inclusive deaf bands: EnTre, Drummerscompanny, Deaf Band DLAN
Location: Kortil Gallery, Strossmayer st. no. 1, Rijeka
Thur, 18 June 2020 – Thur, 9 July 2020
Uncertain exhibition – Part II
Wed, 15 July 2020 – Fri, 31 July 2020
Iva Mrčela: I’m Watching You, exhibition
Location: Rijeka Civic Library, Trsat branch
Thur, 25 June 2020
18:30 – 19:30 “Špajza” guesting: lecture on how to compost in an apartment
Thur 2 July 2020
18:30 – 19:30 “Kozlići” guesting: Small paper theatre or Kamishibai at the Rijeka Civic Library
Location: Rijeka Civic Library, Central Department Modello Palace
Sat, 4 July 2020
10:00 – 13:00 FemWiki workshop; a workshop about editing Wikipedia articles with an emphasis on women’s history. The workshop is organized by the Pariter Association and Clubture, and is performed by Željko Blaće
Location: Delta Lab (Ivex), Delta 5, Rijeka
Thur, 25 June 2020 – Fri, 24 July 2020
Dopolavoro: Exhibition by Igor Eškinja – Sanjaju li biljke sutrašnjicu? (Do plants dream of tomorrow?)
Opening: Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 20 h, Opening hours: Mon-Fri 17-21 h
Wed, 26 Aug 2020
All day of the Future Architecture Platform: Publishing School
Other numerous locations in the territory of Rijeka and its wider surroundings:
Drenova, Heritage Museum Drenova, Drenovski put 138A
Thur, 18 June – Sat, 18 July 2020
Bordering quarter
27 neighbourhoods
Initiative promotor: association “Bez granica” (Rijeka), association Dren (Rijeka), Rijeka Civic Museum – Heritage Museum Drenova
Fužine
Thur, 25 June 2020
Fuzzy Speculations on Neighbourhoods: a talk on the topic of “speculative souvenirs” intended for future neighbours
27 neighbourhoods
18:00 – 19:00 sati @ Zoom link https://tinyurl.com/y9vusqnd
Korzo, Rijeka
Fri, 26 June 2020
17:00 / 18:00 Inclusive Stage Festival: Presentation of an inclusive dance workshop by Kristina Paunovski
Lovranska Draga
Fri, 26 June 2020
16:00 – 20:00 Opening Puli Malina – Lungomare Art
Protocolar part near the installation, then the entertaining part at a nearby location.
Hartera, Rijeka – various locations within Hartera, Vodovodna st and Ružićeva st.
Sat, 27 June 2020
11:00 – 22:00 KVARTera: inauguration
Filodrammatica, Korzo 24 a, Rijeka
Mon, 29 June 2020
Whole day Diversity Mixer workshop I
Workshop for institutions, companies, organisations, freelancers in the field of cultural and creative industries on the topic of diversity management
Tue, 30 June 2020
Whole day Diversity Mixer workshop II
Molo Longo, Rijeka breakwater, Rijeka
Wed, 1 July 2020
Ebriphone – inauguration
Sound installation on the Molo Long, in cooperation with Linz Export Austria, the Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria and the City of Bakar.
Sat, 11 July 2020
18:00 – 20:00 Balthazar’s “Uragan”: inauguration
Brseč
Fri, 3 July 2020
Opening: Strokes and Incisions – Lungomare Art
Inauguration of the art. installation Strokes and Incisions by Sofia Thorsen in the park at the entrance of Brseč near the bowling court. Opening is organised by the local association Citizens of Brseč.
The Terraces of the Skyscrapers at Kozala, Ante Kovačić st. no. 6, 51000, Rijeka
Sat, 4 July 2020
City in the clouds – The Terraces of the Skyscrapers at Kozala: professional guidance
Grobnik field
Thur, 9 July 2020
20:30 – 22:00 Dopolavoro: main rehearsal by the BADco group. – The Work of Panic
Fri, 10 July 2020 – Sat, 11 July 2020
20:30 – 22:00 Dopolavoro: performance by the BADco group – The work of panic
Rijeka Fish Market, Vatroslav Lisinski st. no. 12B
Fri, 10 July 2020
11:00 – 13:00 Opening “Meštri” – Lungomare Art
Inauguration of an art. installation “Meštri” by Pavel Mrkus on the gallery of the Rijeka Fish Market during the opening hours of the fish market.
Gomirje
Sat, 11 July 2020
12:00 – 22: 30 Gomirje World Accordion Championship 2020
27 neighbourhoods
Školjić / Vodovodna st. and Ružić st., Rijeka
Sun, 12 July 2020 – Sun, 19 July 2020
Rijeka of murals
Where: Školjić / Vodovodna st and Ružićeva st
Dobrinj, island of Krk
Sun, 12 July 2020 – Wed, 30 Sept. 2020
Stars & Guitars
Where: Gallery Infeld, 51511, Dobrinj, Croatia
Grčevo Beach , Rijeka
Sat, 18 July 2020
Balthazartown beach – opening
Island of Unije
Sat, 18 July 2020
The wind holiday
27 neighbourhoods
Novi Vinodolski
Wed, 29 July 2020
Summer buzz of Novi Vinodolski
27 neighbourhoods
Novi Vinodolski – yard of the birth house of the Mažuranić brothers, Stari grad (Old Town)
Gornji Kuti
Fri, 7 Aug 2020
Kuti, happy village
27 neighbourhoods
Kostrena
Sat, 22 Aug 2020
In search of the heart of Kostrena
27 neighbourhoods
Kostrena Seamen’s House, Sv. Barbara, Kostrena
Island of Rab
All year round
Rab Archaeological Traces
27 neighbourhoods
Initiative promotor: Cultural centre Lopar, Open University Rab, Tourist Board of the city of Rab
Online
Sat, 27 June 2020
“Vozim ti priču”
Wed, 1 July – Fri 31 July 2020
FEKP19 – short story competition for young writers
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