Keywords – Festivals

TINFO’s International Highlights for 2026

In 2026, Theatre Info Finland (TINFO) continues to strengthen the international presence of Finnish...

Licence to thrive – unlocking new opportunities for artists and creatives

What we need now is action: new revenue streams and operating models to ensure that the theatre and...

In other bodies – bringing The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki’s Encounters to the world

Theatre Info Finland TINFO’s recent Portable Sharing project explored licensing and concept design i...

Encounters at Oslo’s Showbox Festival

The performance concept by Helsinki Feminist Secret Society will next be experienced in Oslo in Nove...

Marta Aliide Jakovski, What’s Up?

Marta Aliide Jakovski staged The Fundamentalist by Finnish playwright Juha Jokela at Tallinn’s Von K...

Sustainable Concepts Made to Last

The PS project strives to be a building block for future collaborations. TINFO, together with its pa...

Reality Bang to be premiered in Salzburg

Oblivia’s latest work Reality Bang premieres on 20 June 2025 in ARGEkultur Salzburg as part of the S...

Open call: Aurora Drama Award 2025

Competition entries for this year's edition can be submitted until April 28, 2025.

Kolibrí Festivaali open call

Submit your artistic proposals by March 10, 2025.

Portable Sharing (2025)

TINFO, along with five other Nordic and Baltic performance organisations and festivals, will explore...

TINFO launches the Portable Sharing (PS) project

Theatre Info Finland TINFO, along with five other Nordic and Baltic performance organisations and fe...

Open call: Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen

A networking platform for young theatre makers. Deadline 5 Dec, 2024.

Turning to others

From the topical political affects in Wuppertal to the lost dodo outlining the dramaturgy of the Ant...

R.E.A.D 10 festival Helsinki

This year the festival takes place on 16th and 19th of October.

Open call to Theatre Festivals in Teheran

Dramatic Arts Center of Iran (DAC) is inviting the professional theatre artists to attend in four fe...

Theatre of Change?

An open discussion at Tampere Theatre Festival on Sat 10 Aug 2024 at 10:15–12:15, Main Library Metso...

The new artistic directors of Hangö Teaterträff want to shake things up

Emelie Zilliacus and Martin Paul, the newly minted artistic directors of the international Hangö Tea...

A celebration of renewal at Hangö Teaterträff

The 32nd Hangö Teaterträff takes place on 6–9 June 2024 in the unique archipelago environment of Han...

UNITED – Out of the Bubble

A seminar about innovative and creative citizen participation on 5 March, 2024 at & Theatre, Espoo.

A performance as an anthem for our times

Johnny got his gun, a theatre piece by dramaturge and director Essi Rossi, sound designer Pauli Riik...

International Festivals in Finland 2023-2024

Save the dates and plan your trip to Finland

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Human encounters in Vilnius

The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki has received an invitation to appear at this year’s Vilnius...

Turku International Puppetry Festival 2023

8 to 12 November 2023 Turku, Finland.

From Start to Finnish at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

From Start to Finnish is an annual showcase of Finnish performing arts at the Edinburgh Fringe festi...

The Finnish Exhibition of Countries and Regions at PQ2023

The theme of PQ2023 is RARE and the Finnish national exhibition will be addressed under the sub-them...

A celebration of the impossible

An essay by Aleksandra Dunaeva, written in honour of another “festival of the impossible” – Baltic C...

Looking for playwrights and dramatic texts

Pink Pavilion is looking for one Finnish or Finland-based playwright who is interested in having an...

Baltic Circle’s 2022 programme focuses on building togetherness and exchanging information

The 19th iteration of the international theatre festival Baltic Circle is set to take place from the...

Making space in the centre

Artists Geoffrey Erista and Isa Hukka have been invited to convene their own working groups to creat...

Y-festival - Equality by means of art!

October 8th 2022. Y-festivaali (Y Festival) is a free cultural and human rights event that builds an...

READ #8 - Reading Drama Festival

27-29 October 2022, Helsinki

Wolf Safari at the Fierce Festival

Welcome to the Wild Side! Wed 12 Oct 2022 – Fri 14 Oct 2022, in Birmingham, UK.

Moving in November

3rd to 13th of November 2022, Helsinki

Turku International Puppetry Fest 2022

TIP-Fest 2.-6.11.2022 – New Beginnings

SAMPO Festival

24-28 August 2022, Helsinki, Finland.

Telakka Open Border: Estonia

7-10 October 2022, Tampere, Finland

Festival Baltoscandal gives a glimpse of the future

Baltoscandal takes place 6-9 July in Rakvere, Estonia

Helsinki Living Streets

16 June to 25 August. Helsingin elävät kadut (Helsinki Living Streets) will take culture to the stre...

FINFRINGE - Festival for short performances

Turku 11.-14.5.2022.

Hippalot Arts Festival for Children

28-31 July, 2022

Finns at Edinburgh Fringe

Five Finnish performances will be presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this upcoming Summer. R...

Pipsa Lonka’s Second Nature to premiere in Buenos Aires

Plataforma Fluorescente in Argentina has emerged as an important producer of new plays and theatre t...

Hangö Teaterträff 2022

Mental resilience, family and parenthood at Tampere Theatre Festival

Preparations for the forthcoming Tampere Theatre Festival are now well underway. Hilkka-Liisa Iivana...

Artist selections for the Kulkue project announced

The artwork will be presented at the ANTI Festival, Baltic Circle Festival and Hangö Teaterträff bet...

Tampere Theatre Festival Celebrates Its Brand New Repertoire

1 – 7 August 2022.

Hangö Teaterträff 2022 – Programmet är publicerat!

Den 30:e Hangö Teaterträff ordnas 9–12.6.2022 i Hangö.

Надломленные юные голоса в декорациях ”Преступления и наказания”

Театральный режиссер Йоханна Фройндлих создала инсценировку для трех актеров. ”Преступление и наказа...

Turku International Puppetry Festival

3 to 7 November 2021.

UrbanApa x Ateneum 2021 – Festivalprogrammet är publicerat!

I år firas UrbanApa x Ateneum-festivalen den 28.10–30.10.2021 i Ateneum.

One Question for four International Curators

TINFO and Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs invited a group of international curators to attend...

The festival season is here!

With the future looking brighter and more settled for the arts industry, Finland's contemporary thea...

Three Finnish plays head for Vilnius

Elli Salo’s Alina, Mika Myllyaho’s Garage and Tuomas Timonen’s Stabbed for Complaining About the Noi...

Theatre bridging the Baltic Sea

Q&A with Jukka Hyde Hytti, theatre producer par excellence and international projects executive at T...

Garage on stage in London

Finnish playwright Mika Myllyaho’s plays have been performed in 15 countries to date. In October, he...

FINFRINGE 2021

FINFRINGE 2021 will be held at Åbo Svenska Teater in Turku, Finland the 13-16 October.

Open Call Urbanapa fall festival

The thematic landscape of UrbanApa fall festival is “Tides and currents”. Deadline: 7 Aug, 22:00....

Other Spaces to deliver transformative exercises at Wiener Festwochen

Live Art collective Other Spaces will give a workshop together with the Brussels-based artist Kate M...

Vibrations that resonate

Listening, due to be shown at the upcoming Performing HEL showcase, explores communication through l...

Curiosity as a driving force

We talked to Bek Berger, the Australian artist and curator who now heads the Homo Novus festival in...

SAMPO Puppet Theatre Festival

25th-29th August 2021 in Helsinki

The 2021 Tampere Theatre Festival is especially dedicated to Finnish theatre

The 52nd Tampere Theatre Festival, the largest and longest-running event of its kind in Scandinavia,...

URB 21 festival

Outside & Online 5 – 13 June, 2021

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2021

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival takes place in Kuopio between 14th and 19th September 2021

Mad House Helsinki Summer Program

The summer season starts in the end of May and lasts until the end of August.

New Nordic Voices - a showcase and more

Online event takes place on 29 March - 2 April 2021 with drama readings, panel discussions, mastercl...

Digital Showcase at the Berlin Theatertreffen

Submissions by the 24 Feb, 2021.

Puppet appeal

Finland's professional puppet theatre sector is diverse and thriving with bags of international appe...

Baltic Circle festival wants you to slow down

As the coronavirus pandemic spans the globe, it is more relevant than ever to consider the social an...

Turku International Puppetry Festival

TIP-Fest: LIGHT Edition 4 to 8 November 2020

ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

The nominees for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live are: Geumhyung Jeong (South Kor...