WESTWIND 2025 opening ceremony
Saturday, 31 May, 17:00 - Junges Schauspiel
We are delighted to be hosting Westwind 2025, the NRW theatre festival for young audiences, here in Düsseldorf and look forward kicking things off together with our vibrant festival community!
As part of the opening, we welcome representatives from our sponsors, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Düsseldorf, as well as our numerous other supporters. We particularly look forward to welcoming the chairwoman of ASSITEJ Germany, Katrin Maiwald, who will open the festival along with the WESTWIND 2025 team.
We will introduce you to the children’s jury, the youth jury and the awards jury as well as the selection committee, which will present nomination certificates to the 10 invited NRW groups. We would also like to welcome the international visitors group of NRW KULTURsekretariat, our partners from the joint festival network Exit the Room, the young participants from the same network, the teen representatives of the international youth congress “future (t)here” and study groups from Bochum, Düsseldorf and Cologne as well as the young theatre makers from the Next Generation Forum.