Europa New Works Festival
The Europa New Works Festival is a collection and presentation of new Canadian works of performing arts. For artists, it’s an opportunity to develop and experiment with new works. For audiences, it's a chance to see exciting works-in-progress and be part of the creation process.
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Europa New Works Festival, taking place in January 2025 in Calgary, AB. Jupiter Theatre is seeking bold, contemporary works that engage with or push against the genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, and mythology.
Why the Name Europa?
Europa is among the first of Jupiter’s ninety-five moons to be discovered and is one of the few celestial bodies in our solar system with the potential to support life. Europa’s surface is sheeted with a thick crust of ice but harbours a vast ocean underneath with conditions that could be suitable to sustain living organisms. The Iceberg Theory, coined by Ernest Hemingway, offers an insight into the implicit deeper meaning often found below the surface of a writer’s work. Europa’s frozen exterior gives this iceberg metaphor an entirely new context.
With the Europa New Works Festival, Jupiter Theatre seeks to discover new life in the unfathomable depths of Canadian creators of the performing arts.
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