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Summer in Rijeka – European Capital of Culture brings many events

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

 

Locations so far unknown :

Fri, 10 July 2020 21:30 – 23:30 Cult cinema: Rocky

Fri, 17 July 2020 08:00 – 09:00 Sailor – music festival/LET 3 and…