Jupiter Theatre is excited to announce the slate of shows for the 2025 Europa New Works Festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival has expanded to include four new works or performing arts by Calgary artists. For the first time, the festival is also presenting more than just theatrical plays.

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. This year, we're presenting two play readings, a presentation of a screenplay, and a new improvised comedy show. This year's festival line up includes:
Yeoman by Miranda Martini, with songs by Miranda Martini and Will Weisenfeld
People Who Stand With The Gods by Madeline Hunter Smith
Strangers by Andrew G. Cooper
Winging It! An Improvised Comedy Adventure
Artistic Producer Andrew G. Cooper is thrilled with the shows selected for this year's festival and said, "Jupiter Theatre presents bold, contemporary works that engage with or push against genres not typically seen on stage like fantasy and science fiction. The works in the festival this year are perfect examples of this. They explore the ‘what ifs' of human potential, challenge the status quo, envision new futures, and have something meaningful to say about the world we live in. Audiences are in for a real treat."
Why the name for the festival? 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.
The Europa New Works Festival will be presented January 31st - February 2nd, 2025 at the Erratics Indie Arts Club (625 11th Ave SW # 150, Calgary, AB) with the following schedule:
Friday, January 31, 2025
8:00 pm - Winging It!
Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
2:00 pm - Yeoman
5:00 pm - People Who Stand With the Gods
8:00 pm - Winging It!
Tickets are on sale now through EventBrite and can be found online at www.theatrejupiter.com/tickets.
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