BuskinCity is an idea created in 2014 by Thorsten Andreassen, Festival Director of Stockholm Street Festival and Ulf Andersson- Festival Director of International Street Theatre Festival in Halmstad. Both of them have a long experience of street theatre and street performing in public spaces for over 30 years.
Ulf A. and Thorsten A. are Board members of Manegen - Federation for Circus, Variety and Street Performing in Sweden.
They are members of Circostrada - the most important European network for contemporary circus and street art. Likewise as FACE - Fresh Art Coalition Europe.
BuskinCity is a direct collaboration with municipalities and business associations in different cities around the world. This is a pilot project to be developed over three years.
We start small to make the concept of BuskinCity sustainable, with a goal to grow with a few countries and 5 - 10 cities per year after an initial evaluation period.
The reason why is simple. The concept of BuskinCity creates jobs and income for a very special kind of artist -an artist who usually isn’t working the theatres but is nomadic and “untied” in character. It also creates culture in city centres without putting the burden of finance on the city (through citizens) or other actors. Buskin’ is one of the great ways to provide art and street life that is not motivated by commercial actors, but rather it’s the artists themselves who set the terms. Furthermore, it’s a borderless community of artists which means that one day you can have a Swedish small-town juggler, and the next you’ll have Italian pair-acrobats.
It’s a great complement to the city and as we’ve learnt in both Stockholm and Halmstad, the audience loves it. The craft and the artform (because it is both) is designed to appeal to the audience (it’s voluntary to pay, after all) and the artists have no obligations to funders or venues - meaning that they are very free when it comes expressing themselves.
Buskin’ as a phenomena is worth supporting and with the system we are co-developing with the municipalities, it will be easier and faster for public bodies to facilitate “free” art in the city centres. And easier for artists to be able to provide it.
we are happy to announce 2 new Special events in the calendar.
1. Tallship Race in Halmstad taking place between 30th of June to 2nd of July 2017
Click here to read more about the event.
2. Stockholm Street Festival open up a special pitch for BuskinCity during the three day festival.
Click here to read more about the event
We are happy to announce 2 new Special Events in the calendar.
These two events let you book your self on allocated pitches.
1. Tallship Race in Halmstad taking place between 30th of June to 2nd of July 2017
Click here to read more about the event
2. Stockholm Street Festival open up a special pitch for BuskinCity during the three day festival.
Click here to read more about the event
Hi Guys!
Kalmar has done an awsome job to create the best situations for street performing this coming summer.
As voted as the SummerCity of the year 2015 and 2016, you can be sure there are alot of visitors in town while they having their different events.
Check out Kalmar city profil page here on BuskinCity, to find out more about the pitches where and when. Click here >>>
We are happy to announce that Halmstad City in Sweden is now open for bookings between 16th of June - 20th of Augusti 2017.
There are 2 ordinary pitches for the full season.
But please keep an eye open! There will be a special event for the Tall Ship Race. This is an event that attracts a lot of people to Halmstad City. More information to come.
Please remember to read the profile page for each city, and before you do any bookings check their own peak season chart.
Cheers
Team BuskinCity
We just got a call from Borgholm who said they want to step on board the BuskinCity project for 2016.
It´s going to be a great summer city, due to it´s faboulus beaches and tourism. And dont forget the city has it´s 200 anniversary celebration this year.
So we say congratualation to Brogholm.
Halmstad is used to street performance due to it´s tradition and by the International Street Theatre festivla since 20 years.
Halmstad is to be the first city to sign up with BuskinCity. And we are thrilled. 8 cities now in Sweden.
We are now eventually in the staging mode with BuskinCity.com. Now we can see how the booking calender is going to look like.
We are very excited to see the final result.
Please contact us if you have general questions or maybe just interested about the concept of BuskinCity. Use the form below
Send an email to:info@buskincity.com
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