Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA* is an annual international art and culture event focused primarily on performance art, yet also supporting cross-disciplinary and experimental synthesis of performative arts.

The aim of the festival is to strengthen the position of performance art as a sovereign form of art, fighting against its constant ghettoization in the arts and culture ecosystem. In the increasingly alienated contemporary society, a dialogic and communication-driven art should be seen as a powerful tool not only enriching and diversifying the arts field, but also providing an opportunity to expose audiences to thought-provoking and empathy-encouraging experiences.

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* translated as a liminal space or space in-between