[Zoom-in] Emerging perspectives

27 Nov 2025

Playful, twisted, emerging and re-emerging perspectives get centre stage, whether hanging from a circus thread, echoing sounds through cities, or backed by decades of history. Here you can find festivals that highlight emerging artists and their performative perspectives.

Mostra Estufa

8th - Mostra Estufa Festival

28 - 29 Nov 2025 | Porto, Portugal

Mostra Estufa is a festival dedicated to emerging artists, to give space to new languages, aesthetics and dramaturgies of contemporary circus. A laboratory space for new creations and proposals, contributing to the development of the local and national.

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Photo credits: Erva Daninha website
LEME HQ

7th LEME Festival

04 Dec 2025 - 07 Dec 2025 | Ílhavo, Portugal

The festival proposes a journey through the dimensions of illusion and transformation within contemporary circus. Illusion as language, as aesthetic provocation, and as a key to reinterpreting the body, space, and perception. Commitment to dramaturgical innovation, the festival is a platform for artistic creation and experimentation, presenting new works by emerging Portuguese creators.

For more info click here.

Photo credits: Leme Festival website
Toyful

Toyful Music Festival

06 Dec 2025 | Lemesos, Cyprus

Festival seeks to redefine the experience of music creation and listening, exploring the sounds of the urban and natural landscape. It highlights music as a tool for shaping the city's cultural identity through activities that emphasise the concept of 'play'.

For more info click here.

Photo credits: Toyful Music Festival, frame from video
TIIIIT

13th Firstborn Girl Festival

30 Oct 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 | Skopje, North Macedonia

The first and only feminist festival in North Macedonia, a cultural platform that amplifies women’s contributions to society by foregrounding women and feminist perspectives in the arts. It provides space for local, international emerging women artists to jointly develop contemporary feminist performance projects.

For more info click here.

Photo credits: Valentina Miladinova

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