Biennale Urbana, the collective from Venice, responsible for the design of the festival centre
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Tangente: The festival for contemporary culture

St. Pölten tangent

International, interdisciplinary and contemporary - this is how Tangente St. Pölten - Festival for Contemporary Culture presents itself. The cross-genre events can be visited from 30 April to 6 October 2024 in the Lower Austrian provincial capital.

"It's about St. Pölten, Austria and the world. It's about everything," says Tarun Kade, curatorial director of Tangente St. Pölten, describing the diverse programme of the event, which features a colourful mix of visual arts, theatre and performances, music, literature, science and discourse formats.

The currently relevant topics of ecology, remembrance and democracy form the main focus of the festival. "The present is the 'tipping time' in which the future must be shaped. Tangente St. Pölten is concerned with the question of how we can regain room to manoeuvre and shape the present. And it is itself an attempt to do just that. We want to touch people with art and culture," explains Tarun Kade.

Discover St. Pölten

The Tangente Festival also invites you to discover St. Pölten and aims to revitalise the provincial capital with its numerous venues. These range from the Festspielhaus St. Pölten and Museum Niederösterreich to the Landestheater Niederösterreich and KinderKunstLabor to the Domplatz and the newly renovated former synagogue.

Creating spaces for encounters

Guest performances, co-productions and in-house productions, exhibition and music projects, conferences, festivals and educational activities, a dedicated festival centre, etc. are planned. The numerous collaborations with local initiatives and new and existing institutions involve the entire city and its surroundings in the programme and aim to create spaces for encounters.

Details on the events, individual tickets and festival passes, discounts, accessibility and remaining tickets can be found on the festival website.

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Source: red, noe.ORF.at/agencies, ots.at

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