This year, the New Theatre Institute of Latvia has begun a four-year collaboration with the community center Resiliences Avots to co-create artworks, share experiences, and encourage creative collaboration. Over the next four years, with the support of the artist residency programme Magic Carpets, various contemporary theatre artists will reside at the community centre, working closely with the centre’s youth.

At the festival Homo Novus, we would like to introduce the broader public to artist-in-residence Laura Gorodko, her practice of working with communities, to meet the participants of this project, and to get a glimpse behind the scenes of the creative process. Resiliences Avots is a place focused on improving the quality of human life by offering individual and group activities to strengthen emotional and social well-being.