Horsens Theatre Festival for children and youth 2026

Horsens Theatre Festival is an annual festival in Horsens, Jutland, and the largest curated festival for performing arts for children and youth in Denmark.

The festival shows 35-40 performances for ages 0-18 years and aims to present a diversity of genres: theatre, dance, puppetry, performance etc. The focus is work produced in Denmark, but every year we invite two or three international performances.

Family performances are held at various locations in the city center. The festival’s youth program takes place at FÆNGSLET. We showcase performances at 11 different venues. All our venues are within walking distance of each other. Alongside the performances we present and co-produce other activities; the opening performance, a seminar for professionals, and our upcoming program (Ung på vej), where young amateur groups present their work in parallel with the professional program.

Tickets are free for all performances but must be booked.