“The Parallel City: The Journey Continues” aims in 2024 to stimulate civic energy, rekindle a sense of attachment to the city and its neighborhoods, revitalize public and unconventional spaces through local cultural participation, and develop the local cultural ecosystem by using immersive theater and associated practices as tools for civic and cultural intervention, reflection, and growth.
THE PARALLEL CITY means itinerant theater that spectators and passersby experience together with actors against the cinematic backdrop of the city—a fictional theater based on field documentation, an experience that leads us all to see familiar and forgotten places, ourselves, and “the other” with fresh eyes. Once we become curious and fall in love with all this again, we, residents of Timișoara and visitors alike, engage in rebuilding the communities we are part of.
The project is part of the national cultural program "Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023" and is funded through the Legacy Timișoara 2023 program, carried out by the Project Center of the Municipality of Timișoara, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture's budget.