SPRING Performing Arts Festival

SPRING 2026 takes place both in the theatre and beyond. We’ve listed all the locations for you, and you can find them in this post or on our website. #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival performingarts uitagendautrecht

We are thrilled to share the new campaign image for SPRING 2026 and a glimpse of this year's theme with you! 🚀🩷 In these increasingly strange times, we will look back critically while also looking toward the future with hope. Throughout this year’s programme we will reflect on the increasing pressure to improve performance and extend our physical capabilities, while also exploring how our minds can expand the boundaries and limitations imposed upon us. With the theme Extended body/Expanded mind we create when we open ourselves to being together. Embracing the full diversity of our experiences, backgrounds, abilities, and limitations, we retrain ourselves in the practice of community. A community as a whole is always stronger and more resilient than the individuals who form it. We believe that a community is not created by adding individuals together, but by what we share, bear and endure. There, in that shared space, is room for something new. In the realisation that together we can do more than alone, not by becoming bigger, but by making space. SPRING Performance Arts Festival - May 14-23 ℹ springutrecht .nl Photography Medea Huisman en Dan Dijkgraaf - Design Dana Dijkgraaf #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts

Our ticket sale is live! Have you already checked out the programme on our website? Good news: ticket sales for SPRING 2026 is starting as we speak! Get tickets for your favourite performances and be surprised by unexpected perspectives on urgent themes! You will experience more than 30 different productions by more than 100 (inter)national artists in the theatres and in unexpected places and public spaces in Utrecht. Be quick, as some performances have limited capacity! 🩷SPRING Performance Arts Festival - May 14-23 ℹ springutrecht .nl #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #uitagendautrecht

Here we go In a few days our world tour begins starting @springutrecht A gratitude to the whole team who poured their hearts in the making of it. بحبكم كتير Director and writer: alaa minawi Performers: Wajdi Khalid - alaa minawi Assistant Director and Production Manager: Georges Abboud Technical Director: Mohammad Farhat - Antonella Rizk Assistant Technical Director: Tarek Majzoub Stage Manager: Mirvat Salhab - Tarek Majzoub Text Advisor: Lamia Abi Azar Costumes props sourcing and innovation: Wissy Il Bissy Sound Designer: Jawad Chaaban Poster Designer: Chadi Aoun Scenography and Light Designer: alaa minawi Videos Documentation and Trailers: Bachar Khattar Assistant Scenographer: Hassan Mourad Vocal Consultant: Oussama Abdelfattah Singers: Carol Abboud - Dana Mkhayel - Omar Dao Music: Hawi El Fadayel – Areej Ensemble Neblina – Ziad Moukarzel Wahet el Ghoroob (sunset Oasis) – Tamer Karawan Once Upon a Time (Take two) – Evgeny Grinko Special Thanks: Roula Melki – Marielise Aad – Josyane Bolous – Nidal Al Achcar – Issam Bou Khaled – Abdo Nawwar – Aline Gmayel – Minister of Culture Ghassan Salameh – Jalal Lawati – Ahmed El Attar – Ahmad Al Khatib – Sarah Nohra – Ibrahim Nehme – Hussein Baydoun – Marijn Lems – Liesje Knobel – Aart van Bolhuis – Grzegorz Renske – Katerina Bakatsaki – Hilde Guri Bohlin – Petra Serhal – Karim Dakroub – Ahlam Dirani – Mervat El Yafi – Youmna Kambris – Roy Sfeir – Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung – Beirut Art Center – Dar El Nimer for Arts and Culture. This project is supported by: Ibsen Scope – SPRING Performing Arts Festival – Cultural Resource – Houna Center – Het Huis Utrecht – Hammana Artist House -Amalgam – Le Monnot Theater

Today at SPRING it's the last time you can see the work of; ✨@maartenheijnens , The Meeting at @utrechtcentraal ✨@ebsil.85 , What Will We Do Without Exchile? at @theaterkikker (last tickets) ✨@patrickblenkarn and @miltonlim , @asses.masses at @bakbasecamp ✨@theomercier_official_ and @theycallmefrannie , Radio Vinci Park @werkspoorkathedraal Sold out: ✨RIDDEN of @leuwijee and @mioisd at @ssbutrecht Last tickets: ✨Sweet Spot of @harald.beharie at @theaterkikker On and only chance to see: ✨SHRINE by @khadouzja at @ssbutrecht Take a look at the whole programme of the day in this post of on our website! 🩷SPRING Performance Arts Festival - May 14-23 ℹ & 🎫 springutrecht.nl Engeki Quest, Home Bound and the film screening are a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025). The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (#AECFest) is organized by @asiaeuropefoundation with the financial support of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. @culture360_asef @asiaeuropefoundation 📸 Allard Willemse #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #uitagendautrecht #AECFest2026 #ASEFCulture #AECFestxSPRING #AsiaEuropeExchange #InternationalCollaboration

Vandaag (17 mei 2026) aan de slag @springutrecht ! Ik sta op de Neude in Utrecht, kom jij ook een touwtje bijdragen aan het bijzondere bouwwerk van HomeBound?!! Ik leg je macramé knopen. Die kun je zelf thuis voor van alles gebruiken. Leuk als ik je daar zie! (We zijn niet te missen 😉) #macrame #kunstprojekt #verbinding #netwerk #ontmoetingen

Stroll through the city Utrecht with Engeki Quest ✨😍 These pictures were captured during the launch of the Adventure Book Engeki Quest. With the book you explore Utrecht on foot it's a flâneur-style adventure guided by an Adventure Book. Alone or with others, you step into the perspective of fictional characters, uncover hidden streets, stories, and social life, and experience the city in a deeply personal and immersive way, offering a new perspective for both locals and visitors. Dates & location 🗓 Until Sat May 23 you can determine the start time yourself 📍Collection point for the book Theater Kikker | address: Ganzenmarkt 14, starting point for the Quest Library Neude | address: Neude 11 🩷SPRING Performance Arts Festival - May 14-23 ℹ & 🎫 springutrecht.nl Engeki Quest is a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025). The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (#AECFest) is organized by @asiaeuropefoundation with the financial support of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. @culture360_asef @asiaeuropefoundation 📸 Luz Soria #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #uitagendautrecht #AECFest2026 #ASEFCulture #AECFestxSPRING #AsiaEuropeExchange #InternationalCollaboration

Morgen (zondag 17 mei) staat de interactieve videogame asses.masses op het programma! Het is een 7,5 uur durende strategy game die live in het theater wordt gespeeld (bij BAK in de Pauwstraat). Samen met het publiek wissel je de controller af om een kudde werkloze ezels door een post-industriële wereld te loodsen. Een super meeslepende, unieke ervaring over arbeid en technologie. Goed om te weten: het duurt van 13:00 tot ongeveer 20:30 uur, dus al het eten, drinken en snacks (vegetarisch/vegan) zijn gewoon bij het ticket inbegrepen. Perfecte zondagbesteding dus. De versie van morgen is volledig in het Nederlands. 🗓Zondag 17 mei vanaf 13:00 uur 📍BAK | Pauwstraat 13A Koop je kaartjes en maak deel uit van SPRING! SPRING Performing Arts Festival – 14 t/m 23 mei ℹ & 🩷 tickets springutrecht.nl #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts

The installation of Home Bound is getting expanded by the day 😍✨ also, the Adventure Book of Engeki Quest is officially launched! Are we going to see you soon? Get your tickets and be part of SPRING! SPRING Performing Arts Festival – May 14–23 ℹ & 🩷 tickets springutrecht.nl Home Bound and Engeki Quest are a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025). The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (#AECFest) is organized by @asiaeuropefoundation with the financial support of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. @culture360 @AsiaEuropeFoundation #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #uitagendautrecht #AECFest2026 #ASEFCulture

Op donderdag 14 mei hadden de makers van de Bouwplaats de primeur om ‘Engeki Quest’ van @orangcosong te ervaren. Dit boek laat je Utrecht ontdekken vanuit het perspectief van personages, en geeft je een nieuwe manier van naar de stad kijken. Na een inspirerende presentatie zijn onze makers en communityspelers ’s middags direct zelf aan de slag gegaan. De Bouwplaats is onze eigen interne trainings- en experimenteerplek voor zowel ervaren als nieuwe community art-makers. Hier wisselen we kennis uit en onderzoeken we nieuwe manieren om persoonlijke verhalen uit de stad te verzamelen en te vertalen naar kunst. Wil je Engeki Quest zelf ervaren? Het werk is te beleven in de stad tijdens @springutrecht !

A new SPRING-day! This Saturday we have a full programme! Which performance will we meet you at today? And will you come dance with us tonight? Get your tickets and be part of SPRING! SPRING Performing Arts Festival – May 14–23 ℹ & 🩷 tickets springutrecht.nl Home Bound and Engeki Quest are a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025). The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (#AECFest) is organized by @asiaeuropefoundation with the financial support of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. @culture360 @AsiaEuropeFoundation #spring #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #uitagendautrecht #AECFest2026 #ASEFCulture

Grief, anger and resistance come together in a ritual space during SHRINE. Buy your tickets for the Dutch premiere on this Sunday ✨ In SHRINE, emotions are given space to be. There is remembrance, prayer, sacrifice and celebration. Khadija El Kharraz Alami takes us into a world where past, present and future converge. 🗓 Sun May 17, 19:30 📍Stadsschouwburg Utrecht Get your tickets and be part of SPRING! SPRING Performing Arts Festival – May 14–23 ℹ & 🩷 tickets springutrecht.nl #springutrecht #springperformingartsfestival #performingartsfestival #springfestival #performingarts #utrecht #uitinutrecht