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Music theatre

The very first theatre show by singer S10. Groeipijn (growing pains) is a musical performance about her search for safety.

S10

Groeipijn

The crown princess of Dutch alternative pop, S10, is set to deliver an electrifying festival show at Oerol.

S10

Try-out Explore the North 2025

Performance

An intimate, multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, experienced as a ritual of remembrance.

Sanam Tahmasebi, Roshanak Morrowatian & Explore the North

Beyond the Triangle

Water droplets translate the heartbeats of Terschelling’s animals — from natterjack toads to cormorants — into melody. When a heartbeat disappears, the melody changes forever.

Sanne Vaassen (winnaar Symbio Kunstprijs 2025)

Fountain of Heartbeats

In this literary installation you will hear the three dialects of Terschelling in conversation with the landscape. Get carried away by the voices of islanders.

Sanne van Balen

Spreken tegen de wind in

Vriendenactie | Nagesprek Spreken tegen de wind in

The search for the dialects of Terschelling led to a rich collection of texts and encounters.

Sanne van Balen

Vriendenactie | Nagesprek Spreken tegen de wind in

Storytelling

An engaging blend of storytelling and puppetry exploring themes of boundaries and sexuality, performed from a bathtub.

Sanne van Dijk / Studio SenS

VLOED

Wells' music captures the moments in her life that have altered its course. Such as life and death, parting and reunion, migration, hope, and fear.

Saphie Wells

Music theatre

Between Black and white, between Brabant and Sierra Leone. Rather than choose, singer and actor Sarah Janneh embraces the richness of duality in her solo show.

Sarah Janneh / NITE

Brabo Leone

Indie pop, Latin American rhythms, African melodies, and a touch of rock 'n' roll. Dance and let yourself be carried away to a place where you want to be.

Scarlet Rose

Grab a cocktail shaker. Throw in some rock ’n’ roll, Latin American rhythms and African melodies. Give it a good shake — and you’ve got the Scarlet Rose sound.

Scarlet Rose

Prikkel: Binnenste Buiten, Lichtgang & Kanteling

Experience your body in a unique way through the immersive installations Inside Out, Signal and Tilt – set in the heart of Terschelling’s landscape.

Schweigman& / Johannes Bellinkx

Prikkel: Binnenste Buiten, Lichtgang & Kanteling

Signal en Tilt: sensory experiences that play with perception. Two intimate installations that disrupt both internal and external senses – set in the heart of Terschelling’s landscape.

Schweigman& / Johannes Bellinkx

Prikkel: Lichtgang & Kanteling

Talks

Prikkeltalk: Boukje Schweigman on sensory processing and the phenomenology of the internal senses.

Schweigman& / Johannes Bellinkx

Prikkel: Talk

Talks

Everybody processes stimuli differently. How does that work for you? A physical theatre workshop that offers greater insight into yourself – and fosters understanding for others.

Schweigman& / Johannes Bellinkx

Prikkel: Workshop

Schylger Stout, the folk band from Terschelling, plays Irish, Scottish and slightly off-kilter, and they’re always up for a party! This year marks their 25th anniversary, and they’re ready to celebrate.

Schylger Stout

Sekushi is hot and dark, filthy and raw. The best elements of the Belgian underground scene come together in this four-headed, danceable machine.

Sekushi

Shady Lady takes you to the dancefloors of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s — and all the way to today. Get ready for disco, proto-house and rave.

Shady Lady

Professionals

A timely international exchange on supporting artists within the evolving landscape of art in public space.

Simone Hogendijk x Oerol Professionals

Oerol Professionals | Rethinking artist development

with professional wristband and ticket

Siquiche is back at Oerol for the 3rd year in a row with his top selection of sizzling boogie, tropical rhythms, and banging disco tracks.

Siquiche

Exciting grooves and hypnotic melodies from musicians from all over the world, that's Sirocco! A Rotterdam-based afro, funk and jazz collective.

Sirocco

Popunie 2025

This installation takes you on a journey to Terschelling's invisible landscape, home to drowned villages and vanished structures.

Sjoerd Willem Bosch / Dr. Heleen van Londen

Doorgronding

Vriendenactie | Ga mee op ontdekkingsreis!

Join the journey of discovery!

Sjoerd Willem Bosch / Waddenacademie / Dr. Heleen van Londen

Vriendenactie | Ga mee op ontdekkingsreis!

Raaklijn is a long-term collaboration between Oerol and SoAP/Rita Hoofwijk, inviting you to explore the ever-shifting boundary between the festival and the island’s protected natural landscape.

SoAP / Rita Hoofwijk & Tumbleweed

Raaklijn

Sons Of Jumira consists of musical talents with a fresh take on jazz: harpist Ranie Ribeiro, double bassist Julian Tjon Sack Kie, and drummer Mill Voyance.

Sons Of Jumira

A set full of hidden gems with 70s and 80s grooves from all corners of the world, nu-disco, italo and electro, as well as new songs by Dutch talent.

Space Age DJ Collective

This year, they're celebrating their 25th Oerol anniversary and are incredibly excited about it: please give a salty, silver round of applause for the Speelmannen!

Speelman & Speelman

Join the forest ranger for a walk!

Staatsbosbeheer

Vriendenactie | Boschplaat wandeling

Will you come stargazing in the dark?

Staatsbosbeheer

Vriendenactie | Dark Sky wandeling

Join the excursion and see what happens when compost is returned to the forest.

Staatsbosbeheer en Elmo Vermijs

Vriendenactie | Onderzoek het bos

Storytelling

A tale blurring the lines between fiction and reality, depicting the experience of homelessness in a big city.

Steyn de Leeuwe

BLAKA WATRA

Food

Stichting Kliek invites you to a brunch at the organic sheep farm De Zeekraal. In a playful (and tasty) way, you'll become more skilled with food and more aware of how to reduce waste.

Stichting Kliek

Kliek x De Zeekraal

Come along on an adventure and immerse yourself in the stories of Terschelling!

Storytrail

Vriendenactie | StoryTrail

Immerse yourself in this interactive installation where solar panels produce a magical symphony powered by renewable energy.

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

Solar

Exhibition

Become a Beach Shaper and experience the power of creation.

Studio MACK

Strandvormers

Dead birds and live poetry. An installation with drawings and rhymes by Sue Wiggers and Marijke Boon.

Sue Wiggers en Marijke Boon

Kassiewijle

Sven Ratzke and the Matangi Quartet return to the creative rebellion and free-spirited energy of 1920s Berlin — the city of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Sven Ratzke & Matangi

Dans op de Vulkaan

Preview 2025

A suitcase, a ferry, a voice in your ear — SVUNG invites you on a shared journey through movement, memory and the weight we carry.

SVUNG

The weight we carry

by invitation

Circus

Walk along and discover the wondrous patterns in the world around us. A performance along a route where static art comes to life in hypnotic juggling choreographies.

Tall Tales Company

Square Two

Eerie cinematic portrait of a dismantling yard, the place where oil and gas platforms are taken to be broken down.

Tanja Engelberts

Decom

Street theatre

A poetic act of rebellion in public space, here to shake up the order in a world that seems increasingly unmoored from reality. This dance theatre performance fuses the code of urban dance with a quiet, theatrical language that makes the story both accessible and universal.

Teatro Pachuco

Le Contraire de Un

Street theatre

A giant man with a saxophone for a head!

Teatro Pachuco

The Saxophone Man

free admission

Band from Austin combines elements of dub, Texas psych, Peruvian chicha and more.

The Point

Performance

The Price of Bricks explores the physical and emotional price of rebuilding after destruction. A collaboration by Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger.

The Price Of Bricks

Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2025

Celebrate what you can’t — or just might — grasp in this immersive performance featuring live music, dance, poetry and an interactive lighting design. Join Jonathan Bonny and Theater Babel on an expedition.

Theater Babel Rotterdam & Jonathan Bonny

NOORDERLICHT

Two accomplices confront their past and reveal the humanity of the criminal underworld. A story about irreversible choices, love and family.

Theater RAST / Ferhat Kaplan

Bergen Verzetten

Theatrical live kitchen talk show, dishing up peppery conversation and spicy seasonings. Good food brings people together, and no one ever died from good conversation. Or so we hope…

Theater RAST / Sidar Toksöz

Madame Jeanette

An immersive time capsule that brings the first Surinamese opera, Helstone’s Het pand der goden (1906), back to life.

Theater Rotterdam / Mathieu Wijdeven

M8: Helstone

Preview 2025

A gripping journey into the dark depths of truth in a small community under pressure.

Theatergroep Suburbia / Kees Roorda

De Wouden

The duo TIDE blends cello, kora, and modular synths in genre-defying sonic explorations, merging classical, African, and electronic influences.

TIDE

Performance

In this mysterious portal to another reality, time stops. Whoever steps into it momentarily lets go of their human nature but remains forever connected to this place, even after the festival.

Tijd van de Wolf

Memoria

A socially awkward alt-comedian sings songs about Bakker Bart, Jan Peter Balkenende and the middle aisle of a certain supermarket. His greatest weapon? Sheer likeability.

Tim Koehoorn

.... heeft de gunfactor

De helpende handen van Oerol is a documentary about the festival’s volunteers — the helping hands behind Oerol — created by volunteers themselves.

Tinus Holthuis

De helpende handen van Oerol (werktitel)

The Plee-reef is back! Every evening from 9 to 11 pm, a splashy party by the toilets at de Deining!

To Pee or not to Pee

Exciting psych band from Tokyo blends groovy 70s sounds with traditional Japanese music.

Tõ Yõ

Songs and ancestral tales from deep within the Surinamese rainforest make their way to Oerol with the Totomboti artist collective. Mató! Tongôni!

Totomboti

Kanda Hanka / Liederen Verankeren

Totomboti docks their ship on Terschelling to connect Saramakan belief systems with the rights of nature. The aim: to protect our shared ecological lifelines.

Totomboti

Tete mu Tee mu

Suspended among the trees, discarded windscreen washer reservoirs from over a hundred car wrecks form a rippling super-organism of harmonising electronics. Get carried away by the rhythm of nature.

Touki Delphine

DRIFTING