Kestenburg — International Festival of Student Theatre

International Festival
of Student Theatre

An international platform for theatre enthusiasts.
Created by students. For students. For the future of theatre.

April 20 – 27 Banja Luka 2027

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About the Festival

The Festival of International Student Theatre (KESTENBURG) is a youth festival entirely organized by BANJALUKA STUDENT THEATER.

KESTENBURG is an international platform for theatre enthusiasts. Our mission is to create an environment for cooperation between our and other international art students. We plan to achieve this by inviting students and professors from international art academies to participate in our program. Our Festival offers an attractive diversity of student theatre practices from around the world. Our participants and guests will have an opportunity to take part in other festival activities and programs, as well.

First KESTENBURG will take place from 31. of July to 09. of August 2027 in Banjaluka,

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Theatre is a meeting place of minds, hearts and cultures.

News

Latest updates & announcements from the festival. Stay informed about upcoming performances, guest appearances and programme changes.

Schedule

(coming soon)

Programme and event schedule for the 2027 festival. Full timetable of performances, workshops and side events will be published here.

Jury

(coming soon)

Meet the international jury of theatre professionals who will evaluate the festival performances and award the prizes.

Banja Luka

Today, Banja Luka, with population of about 250.000, is the biggest city of the Republic of Srpska and the second biggest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city represents the administrative, economic, cultural and university center of the Republic of Srpska. The city is located in the valley, at the 164 m above the sea level, where the Dinaric Alps from the south descend into the Panonnian Basin in the north.

Banja Luka has mild-continental climate with warm summers and mildly cold winters. The average annual temperature is 10,7 °C (July 21,3°C/January 0,8°C). The city is in the Central European Time Zone (GMT +1). More information on the city, its history, culture and sport, as well as tourist attraction can be found on official web presentation of Banja Luka City and Tourist Board.

More About Banja Luka

Festival Organizer BST

Students' theatre from Banja Luka was founded on 19th February 1977 with its first rehearsal and audition at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka, classroom number 14. The first director and concept creator was actor Zivomir Licanin Likota on 31st May 1977. On the stage of today's Banski dvor in Banja Luka, an academy in honor of Josip Broz Tito, named "I beg the party to accept me into its ranks" was performed.

That evening, on theatre and cultural scene of the city on the Vrbas River, STUDENTS' THEATRE was born – a nucleus around which students of Banjaluka's University, highschool students and all theatre lovers gathered.

The significance of the existence and work of the Students' Theatre and its contribution to the cultural life of Banja Luka, in recent years, is priceless.

International Festival
of Student Theatre KESTENBURG

Jury
Contact

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Veselina Maslese 20
78 000 Banja Luka
Republika Srpska
Bosnia and Herzegovina

studentskopozoriste.bluka@gmail.com kestenburg@gmail.com

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