Sinikka Hurskainen

For the past ten years the Black and White Theatre Festival has been offering high standard international theatre in Imatra at the culture center, the pedestrian street, schools, restaurants and the theatre. The Black and White Theatre Festival has charmed the spectators time after time. The amount of theatre groups has been growing such as the amount of spectators.

The roots of the festival go into the Katri and Kamran’s vision, the will to offer people multiple, high standard international theatre.

In order to carry on, you need a good idea and the people that believe in the idea and are ready to make sacrifices. In the beginning the festival was mainly about puppet theatre, both children and adults.

Through years the scale has been expanding and the groups of performancers has come from more and more countries. This year we can enjoy the performances from twenty-one groups 18-25.5, some of them in Lappeenranta.

The Black and White Theatre Festival is based mainly on voluntary labour, the help of enthusiastic supporters of the theatre.

The festival has been growing and developing into a high standard event, that’s earned it’s place in Imatra. Therefore it’s durability must be ensured also in an economical sense.

Congratulations for the ten-year-old festival!

Sinikka Hurskainen, protector of festival