Explore The North festival 2025 puts hope back in your emergency kit
We want to spend three days with you celebrating stories in all their forms. Artists go exploring for places where beauty and love can be found in a growling world. Sing, dance, sweat with us to bring hope back to life.
Recover your energy with writers and playwrights who bring a good morning kiss with the likes of Sinead O’Connor, Spicer’s Martians, and the lovely notion that everyone is needed, if only to keep your Monstera plant alive. Audio-makers tell you how a chance encounter at a bus shelter can change your life. If that’s not enough, there are musicians to get you moving with crushing beats, 2-string basses, harps, soundscapes, spoken word and more. And if all hope proves futile, there are always poets. And you, of course.
Like a firefly you’ll swarm past widely different places in the center of Leeuwarden, from churches to cellars and an old prison. Hope is everywhere, as long as you explore.
We’ll send you home with a little nugget of hope. Chew on it, put it in the fridge, or plant it in your garden and see what happens.