Venezuelan Theater Festival 2025 will tour Community Circuits across the country

Published at: 19/08/2025 09:02 AM

The Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, highlighted this Monday that this time the Venezuelan Theater Festival 2025 will take place in two phases and will focus on community work.

“Theater is not going to be something for elites or exclusively for professionals, also for the professionals of tomorrow, in the Aura Rivas of tomorrow, for boys and girls (...) The birth of this cultural tool as an emancipated daughter of the International Progressive Theater Festival is happy news,” she said during a press conference in the Román Chalbaud room of the Alberto de Paz y Mateos Theater.

In this regard, he indicated that the first phase will take place from August 28 to 31, in homage to the teacher Asdrúbal Meléndez. In addition, he said that 1,850 creators and creators will participate, with 135 performances in 68 spaces distributed in the 24 states of the country and Caracas. 25 tributes will be paid to emblematic figures of the national theater.

He also noted that the second phase will begin from November 13 to 23 in Caracas, with 25 functions, 50 groups, 14 scenic spaces and delegations from all states, and will culminate in a large assembly of artists.

For her part, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Karen Millán, said that the Community Axis will mobilize thousands of artists and cultivators across the country. Therefore, he explained that more than 11,500 artists and community leaders are already integrated into the organization, along with 1,960 community art exhibitions and 2,660 training actions that will take place until November.

He said that the training phase will take place from August 27 to 31 in community spaces in the 25 states, including Guiana Essequiba, with workshops and activities that will promote Theatrical Cartography 2025.

During the meeting with the media, an opening of the festival was presented with the staging of the international co-production Black Star, a play between Burkina Faso and the National Theater Company (CNT), written by Pablo García Gámez and directed by Hassane Kouyaté, which narrates the life of the Afro-descendant leader Marcus Garvey.

Mazo News Team