16th FETA Festival
The FETA festival was founded in 1997 as an one-shot event prepared to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of Gdańsk. For 7 days the city was turned into a completely different place – its streets were taken over by dozens of the theatres from all over the world. Street performers charmed the citizens of Gdańsk, tourists, and media as well. Various other companies from Poland, Russia, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom.
The success of the festival is confirmed not only by the appreciation of the spectators, Polish and foreign media, but also of the companies taking part in it - in apoll organised by French street theaters FETA was found to be one of the ten best street festivals in the world.
Nearly 300 theatres from all over the world performed at Gdańsk's Old Town during the fifteen previous editions. They presented various productions: from chamber performances to monumental, spectacular shows.