Archive A/Z

Lacuna Kitchen explores the hidden stories and invisible labour of kitchen workers in Dutch gastronomy by reworking the colonial roots of our food.

Afra Tafri Creations / Abhishek Thapar

Lacuna Kitchen

Includes food 2025

Performance

The Ladder is a performative exercise on trust, an singular open symbol that’s structure offers a basis for investigating situations of safety and connection

Ahmad Mallah / Rebecca Lillich - Krüger

The Ladder

Electronic buzz from the stringed instrument tohard at full volume: Al Bilali Soudan brings you trance and desert blues like you've never heard before.

Al Bilali Soudan

Friends special

Electronic buzz from the stringed instrument tohard at full volume: Al Bilali Soudan brings you trance and desert blues like you've never heard before.

Al Bilali Soudan

Vriendenactie | Al Bilali Soudan

Joyful, sweet sounds from perhaps the hardest-working man in the tropical music industry.

Alex Figueira

Alexander Moto fuels the fire with raw boombap in both Dutch and Frisian.

Alexander Moto / Explore the North

Alexander Moto

Explore the North 2025

How much does the frame shape the art? Four performers use oversized picture frames to build sculptural forms with their bodies — climbing, contorting and balancing within them.

Alexander Vantournhout / Not Standing

Frames

Werkplaats

Get an exclusive glimpse into the creative process of a young artist and performer. Join her as she navigates the challenge of transforming the ancient Arabic tale of Majnun into a site-specific dance performance, infused with elements of hip-hop, waacking, house dance, and flamenco.

Amira al Rawi / Maas theater en dans

Majnun

A musical extravaganza presented by the Amsterdam Klezmer Band and the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra.

Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest x Amsterdam Klezmer Band

This is ANDRO — the return of Dutch-language reggae to the Netherlands. Blending roots reggae, pop and hip hop, he carves out a sound that is entirely his own and firmly rooted in the here and now.

ANDRO

Popunie 2025

Storytelling

The sensual language of poet Astrid Haerens and the intoxicating music of MARIS and Jasmijn Lootens result in an impressive fusion of language and music.

Anger's Family Tree

Oerhert

Anna-Rose Clayton lives and breathes contemporary pop hits, conquering Oerol with her British attitude and golden voice.

Anna-Rose Clayton

Talks

Live television show by AVROTROS. From Monday till Friday, Opium op Oerol will be reporting live from the festival. Join us!

AVROTROS

Opium op Oerol

Talks

Live television show by AVROTROS. From Monday till Friday, Opium op Oerol will be reporting live from the festival. Join us!

AVROTROS

Opium op Oerol

Uplifting underground disco, jazz-funk, boogie, and world grooves from the '70s and '80s delivered with lots of peace & love.

Ays

Baba Pen is the new spiritual leader from the East — of the Netherlands, that is. Psychedelic rock laced with hints of country, folk, and mysticism, all wrapped in a ritualistic haze.

Baba Pen & The Bimbam Band

Bamba Wassoulou Groove understands the power of hypnotic Malian guitars, effortlessly transporting you to the dusty roads and red earth of Mali.

Bamba Wassoulou Groove

A versatile band with musicians from all over the world, blending afrobeat, chakacha, and afrojazz among other genres.

Banda Matatu

Expedition

In an ongoing performance, artist Bart Eysink Smeets takes up residency in an kitchen on Het Groene Strand, carrying on even as the tide rises around him.

Bart Eysink Smeets

De keuken en het tij

Professionals

An afternoon on inclusive theatre as a shared responsibility — with discussion, lunch and perspectives from practice and policy.

Bartiméus Fonds x Oerol Professionals

Oerol Professionals | Inclusive theatre

with professional wristband and ticket

Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2025

Can sign language, music and dance come together as equals? Who's inspiring who? Exit Comfortzone! sets out to answer.

BB&Friends

Exit Comfortzone!

Let two urban acrobats guide you through a theatrical journey in the streets of West-Terschelling — and rediscover the island’s largest village as a circus stage.

Be Flat

Follow Me

You’ll recognize Ludo & Arsène by their overalls, ladder, and complete lack of fear of heights.

Be Flat

Ludo & Arsène

With roots in the 1980s and an eye toward the future, the Benjamin Herman Trio explores a hypnotic fusion of mutant disco, death jazz and nu-soul.

Benjamin Herman Trio

Performance

A musical performance exploring the mocking yet affectionate customs surrounding historical wooden speculaas moulds — used to shape the Low Countries’ favourite spiced biscuits.

Bert Scholten

Hond Geworden

Biki Baya brings sunny, high-spirited African party music. Think Afrobeat — but with catchy, sing-along choruses that make this band truly one of a kind!

Biki Baya

With her chaotic heart on her sleeve and singing her lungs out, Birgit shares tales and songs about falling down and getting up, losing and finding again.

Birgit Schuurman

Struikelen

Friends special

Aren't we all stumbling forward through life?

Birgit Schuurman

Vriendenactie | Birgit Schuurman

From New Order to Ramses Shaffy to Happy Hardcore — three-headed rave band Blaaskaak bring the house down.

Blaaskaak

Singer-songwriter Blaudzun performs with his six-piece band — a striking voice and force on Dutch and international stages, and a phenomenon in the indie scene for years.

Blaudzun

In this try-out of his first ‘solo’ theatre show, Blaudzun offers a glimpse into his world — one of devilish music, shoelace-tying certificates, religious trauma, and a passion for cycling.

Blaudzun

BLAUDZUN - IN HET BOSTHEATER

Preview 2025

Seeing Poetry! Poetry isn't just meant to be heard; it's meant to be seen too!

Boaz Blume & Brendan Lodder

Gedichten in Gebarentaal

free admission

During the Visual Language Weekend, we also play with language. Sign language, of course!

Boaz Blume & Brendan Lodder

Roept U Maar

free admission

Listening to music is great, but seeing music – that's music for your eyes!

Boaz Blume & Dewi Latupeirissa

Kijk: Muziek!

free admission

Let yourself be carried away by warm, danceable rhythms from Africa, Brazil, and Latin America!

Bonnefooi

Let yourself be carried away by warm, danceable rhythms from Africa, Brazil, and Latin America!

Bonnefooi

Performance

Immerse yourself in the sound bath of Echo’s Chamber, a multimedia space dedicated to silence and listening to the world around us.

Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

Echo's Chamber

Première 2024

Werkplaats

A happening that offers a fertile free space for a group of young queer performers. Out of each person’s longing for transformation emerges a living artwork — a constellation of bodies moving beyond the binary.

Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

HOLOBIONT

A musical video installation with pixels, paint and living bodies, in which a woman in transition searches for new — boundless, circular — ways of loving.

Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

SONGOFSONGS

In BRAS BOT dives into the inspiring powder keg of the interwar period. In doing so, BOT questions our current '20s, in which tension is once again in the air.

BOT

BRAS

Première 2024

If you're into house and techno, then Brandaris Records is the name to remember! This DJ and producer collective shines a spotlight on up-and-coming talent, showcasing Daniel Williamsen, Lenz b2b Vinorocas this time around.

Brandaris Records

Brandaris Records is Terschelling’s electronic dance music event. Discover the freshest new DJ talent right here!

Brandaris Records

Theatrical installation that immerses you in a story about watching and looking away from war. A magical experience at the heart of contemporary history.

BrotherTill / Lisa Weeda

Dans Dans Revolutie

An explosive mix of rap, punk, rave and performance art: BUG puts on a show to remember.

BUG

Werkplaats

In the surf, musicians construct a moving playground. For six hours, following the tide, their rhythms and melodies resound, accompanied by the whispering of the sea.

BUI

What are you building in there!?

Boundary-pushing punk artist who surprises crowds with a unique blend of theatricality, storytelling, and electrifying punk energy. All while wearing a bee costume.

Bumble B. Boy

Beautiful music, humour, a sweeping story — and plenty to reflect on. Because change is needed, now. What else can we say to the generations that follow?

Burger Koekoek Kracht

Hoe vind je zelf dat het gaat?

Embark on a musical journey through the natural history museum of Theo Jansen's impressive Strandbeasts.

Calefax Rietkwintet / Theo Jansen

Strandbeest Zingt

Première 2024

Talks

From Congo to Venice: a conversation with the Art Collective CATPC

CATPC / Yuki Kho / Oerol

CATPC: Road to the Venice Biennale

A psychedelic groove band from Utrecht, born out of a love for funk, disco, and afrobeat.

Cavolo Nero

Friends special

A psychedelic groove band from Utrecht, born out of a love for funk, disco, and afrobeat.

Cavolo Nero

Vriendenactie | Cavolo Nero

100-year-old Magda marks her final hour, accompanied by the music of fellow climate activist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. What should be kept alive after she’s gone?

Cello Octet Amsterdam en Sophie van Winden

Coda

Première 2025

Expedition

Reflections on art and life on the plantation of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC).

Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC)

Getting to the Root of the Plantation

In this solo mime performance, a lost young man takes on the everyday, battling to tame it as he searches for what lies beyond.

Charles Pas / Studio FCP

Victory Boogie Woogie

Visual art

What would happen if a textile artwork could evolve to live in the forest?

Charlie Holper

Blobs

Première 2025

Cheapo Cheapo’s garage rock is loud and raw — but above all, straight from the heart. Let it hit you deep in the soul.

Cheapo Cheapo

Together we muddle through a life full of coincidences and contradictions. De Vlucht Naar Voren gives voice to it all with a dose of Dutch-language bathroom blues, experimental pop and whisper rock.

Christian Kuitert & De Hoop

De Vlucht Naar Voren

An electrifying dance between six performers and the force of gravity, as acrobatic bodies balance on the edge of the impossible.

Circumstances

BEYOND

Première 2025