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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?

We’re looking for volunteers for the 2024 festival

Would you like to peek behind the scenes of an international theatre festival and follow the process of it coming to life? Join our team and come and create the Baltic Circle Theatre Festival with us!

Parallel Realities and the Future Power Take Centre Stage at the 2024 Baltic Circle Festival

The 21st international theatre festival, Baltic Circle, will be held in Helsinki from 22–30 November 2024. This year’s programme features premieres, workshops, discussions, a sound piece, and a seminar focused on future power.

Manifest it till you break it

Baltic Circle promotes good life: inclusive, communal practices that aim to take care of your brain, soul and/or body, the environment, and the different generations around you; introduce new perspectives, expertise, sharing, belonging. We think about your past, present and future needs but don’t get me wrong, a festival is never about an individual but always about community.

Tiff Tian Zhang Appointed Managing Director of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival

The new Managing Director will start in her position in April.

Baltic Circle ry is looking for a Managing Director

Baltic Circle ry is a progressive organisation in the field of performing arts. The association organizes the Baltic Circle Festival annually in November in Helsinki and the 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 working environment is international and ambitious, with a supportive and skilled team.

Political activism and the sharing of observations took centre stage at the Baltic Circle Theatre Festival – the November festival received acclaim for its timely program

The 2023 festival carried the weight of inequality by making space for community and activism. Sharing observations and various forms of listening were highlighted in the festival's exceptionally diverse program, which gathered full audiences.

Preface

Helsinki, 23.8.2023 At a time like this when nature’s systems collapse one by one, there’s a war next door, fascists […]