[Zoom-in] Rites of passage
There is a boundary between the old and the new, the usual and the change: each lived process is marked by rites of passage or events that disrupt them with shifts and innovations. These festivals explore different passages, from the temporal to the geographical and historical ones, challenging and reinventing them as we celebrate the yearly passage from one year to another.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay
29 Dec 2025 - 01 Jan 2026 | Edinburgh, UK
Hogmanay is the Scottish word for the last day of the year, and the Festival dates back to 1993, evolving to one of the greatest outdoor celebrations of New Year’s Eve in the world. Four days of torchlight procession, massive outdoor street party, concerts, fireworks, and smaller live public entertainment. As the bells strike midnight, join hands with friends from across the globe.
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Photo credits: Keith Valentine
Barents Spektakel: The border crossed us
19 Feb 2026 - 22 Feb 2026 | Kirkenes, Norway
The 2026 edition marks the 200th anniversary of the northern border separating Finland, Russia, and Norway, once a borderless area supporting a nomadic and seasonal way of life and migrating cultures. What if the northern border had never been drawn? And what will our border areas look like in 200 years?
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Photo credits: Barents Spektakel
Transmediale 2026: By the Mango Belt and Tamarind Road
27 Jan - 01 Feb 2026 | Berlin, Germany
The festival's 39th edition lies a space·time for encounter, for trade, and for exchange. A space for communal and collective manoeuvring, for navigation across shifting tides and winds, giving imaginative and creative coordinates to rewire the root-codes of our systems with local hosts - artists, technologists, collectives, and cultural spaces.
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Photo credits: transmediale x ARKO Residency
Winterwerft Internationales Theaterfestival
29 Jan - 15 Feb 2026 | Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The festival challenges habits and rites by turning the tide, presenting unconventional and transdisciplinary approaches in theatre and performance, giving space for creative engagement with the acute ecological, political and social challenges.
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Photo credits: Transumanze,Teatro delle Radicim Winterwerft 2025
