[Zoom-in] Love is in the Festivals
Still deciding how to spend Valentine’s Day? A festival is always a solid plan with a partner, friends or family. Below are several festivals taking place on 14 February, with concerts, dance performances, theatre, workshops and more throughout the day in Portugal, Norway or Belgium.
Gaze, observe and fall in love with the show.
DPP | Portimão Percussion Days 2026
Portimão, Portugal
The 5th Portimão Percussion Days aims to promote percussion as a universal artistic language and a musical form of unity and dialogue. Three performances take place on 14 February:
- Concert -“Native” by Tiago Manuel Soares: solo performance with Portuguese traditional percussion.
- Blade instrument workshop by Miquel Bernat: explore the world of the marimba and vibraphone, deepening your understanding of the techniques, sounds, and repertoire of these fundamental percussion instruments.
- "Konnakol" Rhythms Workshop by Kasia Kadłubowska: explore the basics of South Indian rhythmic language for counting, structuring, and intuitively understanding complex rhythmic patterns, known as Konnakol
- Street parade by Bomboémia Percussion Group of the University of Minho: traditional Portuguese and Brazilian percussion ensemble.
More Information here.
Photo source Facebook.
BalkanFest Trondheim
Trondheim , Norway
BalkanFest recreates the atmosphere of a backyard in the Balkans with quirky rhythms, sarmas, sevdah, børek and kolom. It delivers concerts, theatre-plays, exhibitions, and literature for everybody.
Now, for that special day, they are welcoming Ole Hamre and Gabriel Fliflet, celebrating their 30th anniversary.
- Concert by The Hanseatics: A cheerful Balkan-pes performance with pure poetry and playfulness on drums, singing, accordion, stepping, pots and melodica!
More Information here.
Photo source balkanfesttrondheim.webnode.page
DAS HAUS concert series 25-26
Brussels, Belgium
This year, the DAS HAUS concert series presents a blend of intimacy and innovation. Audiences are invited into adventurous formats that break down barriers between musicians and listeners. Interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and technology take centre stage, alongside urgent themes such as mental well-being, diversity, LGBTQ+ voices, social justice, and climate change well-being, diversity, and climate.
- Concert - ‘Polyphonic Encounters’ by Younes Zarhoni & Marc de la Linde: blend of rhythmic structures, field recordings, and electronic elements.
More information here.
Photo source dashaus.be
Krokusfestival 2026
Hasselt, Belgium
An adventurous day for all the family awaits you at Krokusfestival, a meeting place for children and young people with a focus on performing arts.
- “Rondom Rond” by Les Zerkiens: wordless puppet and object performance about Billy, a curious little bear.
- Interactive installation - “Is that possible?” by 1000POOT: playful installation delving into the world of dreams and reality.
- “Por” by dOFt: on stage, two living rooms literally revolve around their own axis. In one, a boy is trying to find his place among moving boxes. In the other, an older woman lives surrounded by cherished memories.
- “The mountain” by Laika: 'theatre of senses' - what if we could stretch time just a little longer? What if we could be together, just a moment more, with the one we have to let go?
- “The Ethereal Paradox” by Zoë Chungong: dance solo in three parts exploring the meaning of beauty. Each part highlights a woman presenting her body in a different zeitgeist and dance style.
- "Plakplein": continues festival interactive activity where kids can build, play, invent and listen.
- "Eyes. Gaze. Further. Look." by Lies Cuyvers and Ciska Vanhoyland: a dance performance that invites you to see things differently: at yourself, at others, and at what arises between you.
- "The Sharona": a cheerful play installation with the playful snake called "De Sharona".
More Information here.
Photo source krokusfestival.be
