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Bodies, the Senses, and Collective Movement Animate the Stage at the 2025 Baltic Circle Festival
The 22nd edition of the international theatre festival Baltic Circle will take place in Helsinki from November 21st to December 6th, 2025. This year’s programme presents an impressive mix of domestic and international premieres, participatory discussions and workshops, alongside nocturnal city walks and ceremonial readings.
The 2025 festival programme spotlights the body as a tool for resistance and self-expression, and asks us to consider how bodily perceptions shape our awareness of change, safety, and communality.
Invitation
It might be exciting, it might be overwhelming. For sure it’s uncomfortable at times but is it to provoke? To […]
When three festivals put their needs together, Kulkue was born
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the performing arts thoroughly and relentlessly in the first years of the 2020s. The shortsightedness, ambiguity […]
Helmi DeMaxi and Sanna Ritvanen Join Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival
Baltic Circle is pleased to welcome two new members to its core team ahead of the festival’s next edition in November 2025. Helmi DeMaxi joins the festival as Marketing and Communications Lead, stepping into the role in August. Sanna Ritvanen continues in their recent position as Producer and Assistant Curator for the festival.
Baltic Circle is looking for a Marketing and Communications Lead
Baltic Circle ry is a progressive organisation in the field of performing arts. The association organises the Baltic Circle Festival annually in November in the Helsinki metropolitan area. In addition to the festival, Baltic Circle restores water systems, participates in cultural policy, and creates more sustainable structures for the arts. The key values of the festival are freedom, respect and adventure. The working environment is international and ambitious, with a supportive and skilled team.
Audio work from Radio That Matters projects available for listening in March
The Radio That Matters journey is coming to an end and will culminate in the Listening Biennial online festival, where the audio works produced within the project will be available to the public for listening. The works are released on March 27, 28 and 29, and will be available for listening on the website for a week.
Rescued by Private Donation, Baltic Circle Festival Brightened the Darkest Moment of November with Cutting-Edge Performance Art
The Baltic Circle International Performing Arts Festival, held from November 22–30, was successfully organised despite the financial turbulence. Even with a more streamlined program than in previous years, the festival brought together up to 1,500 people to enjoy domestic premieres, music, and meaningful discussions.
Baltic Circle 2024 – Safer Space Guidelines
By entering the festival’s event we all agree to respect each other’s physical, mental and emotional boundaries within the space. […]
Baltic Circle 2024 – Free Events
Everyday utopias, a revolutionary drama reading, a workshop and a seminar, and clubbing in November’s embrace.
Sense of Water
In her article, our festival guardian Saara Kankaanrinta dives into the relationship between humans and water from both her own and global perspective. How could understanding the importance of water cycle affect our understanding of climate change?
