This autumn holiday, Festival de Betovering is entirely dedicated to the theme 'looking through'. What do you see when you look through a different lens? What stories do you discover behind a door, through a window, or beyond the horizon? During Festival de Betovering, you will experience nine days of... this autumn holiday.
Good news! The new dates for Festival de Betovering have been announced! From October 17 to 25, 2026, The Hague will once again transform into one big stage during the most fun autumn break in the Netherlands. During Festival de Betovering, you can enjoy an extensive program full of performances, workshops, and...
Join Izaline Calister & Thijs Borsten on an adventure during De Betovering and afterwards throughout the country. Theater De Vaillant, Festival De Betovering, and Stichting Parea jointly present her newest co-production on Monday, October 20. Following the successful tour of Doe Normaal! by Andy Ninvalle, h...
The Hague, October 2025 – Young performing actors from across the city are opening Festival De Betovering this year with the performance Bigger Than Life, a poetic and visual theatre piece that comes straight from their own experiences. Together with professional theatre maker Anna Boelens from youth theatre school...
There is plenty to experience during De Betovering, not only in theaters and museums but also outdoors. For five days, the youth theater festival tours the city with a free 'pop-up' program: from Loosduinen to Mariahoeve. In addition, the enchanting street theater returns to the city center and to...
Cultural boycott of Israeli institutions and companies De Betovering is one of the signatories of the cultural boycott of Israel. We, as one of the members of the Dutch and Belgian cultural sector, refuse to stand on the sidelines any longer regarding war crimes, crimes against the...
On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Het Koorenhuis will be entirely dedicated to 'Een Bruisend Feest', the first inclusive children's art day within Festival De Betovering. Together with KOO/De Bruiserij, the youth festival is organizing a special day full of workshops and activities, made accessible to everyone...
Fans of De Betovering have known for years that theater, music, visual arts, dance, and film are a regular feature of the program. During the upcoming autumn break, the art form 'language' has been added to the festival. A conscious choice to stimulate youth with this, and important for the city now that the literary...
Hip-hop sensation The Ruggeds in a children's screening, films at the new Flora Filmtheater, and a show on a bus with whizzing ping-pong balls. It's going to be absolutely CRAZY this autumn break. Our full program is online starting today. So now is really the time to find out which...
How cool would it be to have Festival de Betovering opened by children? Exactly! That is what we are going to do! Under the guidance of a professional artistic team from Theaterschool Rabarber and Cat Smits Company, we will work together with a group of creative actors to build the unique theatre production 'Bigger tha...