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Here you will find news, background articles and interviews with artists and news from the cultural field.
Pre programme SPRING
From now on, buy tickets for the pre programme SLOW TV CinemaThis year we have a special pre program that will help you get in the mood even before the festival. With all the hustle and bustle around us, we invite you to unwind.
Programme SPRING 2025 is online!
You can find the full programme of SPRING 2025 on the website from now on. In addition, sales for Day Passes and Passe-partouts have started.
SPRING Academy launches a new format!
From coming edition it will be possible to join a multi-day deepened experience of the festival. We present seven different thematic trajectories that the interested participant can choose between. From Protest & Future Imagination to Artistic Research and Vocabularies of the Body. These trajectories are carefully curated and will focus on current relevant topics in connection with the performances of SPRING Festival.
Participant for Gob Squad’s Is Anybody Home? wanted
For the new performance Is Anybody Home? at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht on Saturday May 31, is Gob Squad looking for a participant aged between 18 and 28 and lives in Utrecht.
SPRING IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
Do you want to be involved behind the scenes of an international festival and experience the thrilling, artistic ambiance? Sign up as a volunteer of the SPRING Performing Arts Festival!
Teens from Utrecht pay attention, this is a special call for you!
Utrecht is the next stop for Teenage Songbook of Love & Sex, a unique musical performance featuring young people from Reykjavik. Together with local talents, and complemented with even more lyrics and songs written by young Utrechters, this makes for a unique one-off appearance in Stadsschouwburg Utrecht during SPRING.

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SPRING is looking for a: Business assistant
We are looking for a: Business assistant (0.4 fte)
Theater critics choose SPRING as best festival
What a nice compliment! SPRING turns up four times in the annual lists of Dutch theater reviewers in the Theaterjaarboek.
SPRING @ De Utrechtse Nacht: Ways To Submit
During De Utrechtse Nacht on November 23, 2024, SPRING presents the performance Ways To Submit at KABUL à GoGo. A performance by performer Ira Brand about domination and submission.
New vacanties for the SPRING festivalteam
Join our festival team! As of January, SPRING's team is expanding. For the Marketing & Communications we are looking for two new colleagues. There are also vacancies for interns out for the Production, Academy and Marketing & Communications departments.
Haribo Kimchi: four stars in the Volkskrant and on 8weekly
“Performer Jaha Koo cleverly mixes his childhood memories with Korean cooking in 'Haribo Kimchi'. In the intimate solo performance, Koo shares his with computer music interspersed story of his departure from Korea, his homesickness, his feeling of being nowhere at home.”
Successful first edition of SPRING Days
Last weekend was the Dutch premiere of SPRING co-production Haribo Kimchi and a context program that included a workshop, an aftertalk and a Reading Group.