[Zoom-in] Winter has no dark days
As daylight dims down and winter fades its colours with puffs of cold winds, theatres open their doors and their stage lights. Cherishing community gathering around a stage or unusual places and supporting artistic research, here we collect theatre festivals running until the final curtain call of the year.
Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni XVI
29 Oct 2025 - 29 Nov 2025 | Genoa, Italy
The 16th edition celebrate Research through art, education, and community engagement: research guarantee to everyone the legitimacy of their position and its overcoming, inevitably assuming that truth is a concept to be explored and re-examined and, as such, does not exist in absolute terms. Theatrical performances create a shared stage for collective experiences through workshops, talks, and exhibitions.
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Photo credits: Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni Festival, 2024
Totem Urban Scene
29 Oct 2025 - 30 Nov 2025 | Ferrara, Italy
Totem is a symbol that unites the community, an object toward which gestures, desires, and conflicts converge. Founded in 2012, the festival aims of bringing theatre both within and outside us. In thia trail, theatrical productions, multidisciplinary artistic residencies, socio-cultural projects, and workshops radiate outside the theatre, invading city spaces.
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Photo credits: Teatro Totem, Cronoca Comune Ferrara
CENIT Festival 2025
31 Oct 2025 - 02 Nov 2025 | Sevilla, Spain
Organised by Teatro TNT, CENIT is Spain’s only festival dedicated to and promoting theatre as artistic research, highlighting creativity and experimentation. Along performing, the winning production will be invited to be part of the 19th International Festival of Research Theatre (MITIN).
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Photo credits: ABC - Sevilla Culture
International theatre festival Baltic Circle
21 Nov 2025 - 06 Dec 2025 | Helsinki, Finland
Since 2000, the festival brings together theatre artists, production centres, cultural institutes and universities. This year's theme spotlights the body as a tool for resistance and self-expression, asking us how bodily perceptions shape our awareness of change, safety, and communality.
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Photo credits: Suvi Sievilä, Lemmings - A Rehearsal for a Revolution
International Festival of Students’ Theaters - URBAN FEST 2025
05 Dec 2025 - 09 Dec 2025 | Niš, Serbia
Theatre students and young theatre makers perform and compete, with the possibility to introduce and discuss their pieces in collateral activities, workshops, panel discussions, debates.
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Photo credits: Suvi Sievilä, Lemmings - A Rehearsal for a Revolution
