Showbox 2023

Welcome to Showbox, a festival focusing on children and young people. This year’s festival will be held in Oslo, 27. November – 2. December 2023. 

Showbox is an international festival of performing arts for children and young people, organized by Scenekunstbruket.

Every year in December, at several venues in Oslo we present a varied range of innovative contemporary performances of different genres and formats. Showbox is a festival, a showcase and a meeting point for artists, organizers and everyone whose interest lies in performing arts for a young audinece.

The festival also has lectures, seminars, discussions and networking events, to contribute to the further development and strengthening of performing arts for children and young people. We place great emphasis on cooperation, discussions and presentations.

The festival was established in 2005, and since then we have become an important performing arts festival for children and young people in Norway.

The young voices of Scenekunstbruket (SUS)

We try to facilitate every aspect of the festival to be able to receive direct feedback from the young members of the audience themselves. We have a blog run by a group of teenagers who participate in the festival. During the week they publish their thoughts, interviews, reflections and reviews of the different performances. The arts we communicate must have meaning, and we are excited about meeting young people and hear their views on performances deemed by adults to be of both good quality and suitable for that particular audience. Risky? Indeed – but we like it!

The festival is presented by the Norwegian Touring Network for Performing Arts – Scenekunstbruket; a national promotion system with emphasis on a younger audience.

Contact information:

Festival director:
Tine Tyldum: +47 97 65 97 85
tine@scenekunstbruket.no

Delegates and academic program:
Gabrielle Haga: +47 99 29 01 46
gabrielle@sceneklunstbruket.no

Production manager and artistic program:
Anki Oveland: +47 95 83 20 79
anki@scenekunstbruket.no

Communications:
Elin O. Rekdal: +47 98 41 94 64
elin@scenekunstbruket.no

Social Media and volunteers:
Finn Adrian Jorkjen: +47 41 55 86 73
finn@scenekunstbruket.no