Krokusfestival

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KROKUSFESTIVAL AS A PROFESSIONAL

How to visit Krokusfestival?

We are looking forward to helping you and welcoming you in the nice, small town of Hasselt in the eastern part of Belgium. The city centre boasts with pubs, restaurants, caf?'s, shops. All can be done on foot, as is a visit to some of our tourist attractions. We will inform you about that with pleasure!

The festival centre is the cultural centre of Hasselt, also the organizer of the festival. CCHA, as it is called, is a large building with 4 venues, 4 exhibition halls and 7 meeting rooms. It presents a seasonal program of more than 350 performances and several exhibitions and welcomes yearly about 200.000 visitors. Next to Krokusfestival, CCHA organizes 3 other festivals: Nordic Night(s) at the end of October on Nordic art forms, Piano Day(s) at the end of March on all art forms including piano (works) and the bi-annual site specific festival SPOTS in September.

Best airport to fly in is Brussels, from where you can take a train to Hasselt (possible change/stop at Leuven). If you fly to Brussels South (Charleroi), note that it takes more time to get to Hasselt: bus from airport to Charleroi railway station, train to Brussels, train to Hasselt. Other options are Maastricht or Eindhoven, though public transport from there can be a problem.

Registration

If you are on our list, you should have received the 'save the dates' already and you will receive more info on the program automatically. That means info on the shows, companies and also on the professional days and meetings of the festival.?

At the same time you will receive a registration. Note that we do not work with delegate packages, you are free to select the shows and professional meetings you want to attend. Of course we are very willing to help you!

Catering and accomodation

We kindly welcome you all: tickets to shows are at a professional ticket price ; professional meetings, events and network moments are for free.

In the Theatre Café you can have lunch and dinner. But if you want to join the artists and our team in the artists' room - please indicate lunch and dinner voucher you want to buy on the registration.

Looking for a hotel? On the registration form you will notice we have special festival deals with some hotels. If you want to book, use the info on the registration.
More hotels, B&B and accomodations (Hasselt and environs): click here.
If you want to contact us:krokusfestival@ccha.be.

KROKUSFESTIVAL WELCOMES YOU!

We welcome everyone to the 23d edition of the KROKUSFESTIVAL, international arts festival for young audiences in Hasselt – Belgium.

KROKUSFESTIVAL offers an adventurous journey to discover new exciting shows and artists, both Belgian and foreign. This year we present 34 companies, 21 Belgian and 13 international from 10 countries: Canada, Brazil, Chile, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Taiwan, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Next to these 13 Belgian premières, you can also discover 5 premières:

° LAIKA & hetpaleis / Eva De Baets & Silke De Bruyne: Blue Monday (12+)
° WIThWIt: the TimeTamer (8+)
° Krokusfestival & HET LAB: If the door is closed… (site specific in children’s bedrooms; 6+)
° HET LAB@KROKUS: work-in-progress by emerging artists (Belgium/Denmark)
° 1000-POOT-Produkties & Krokusfestival: Tsjilp! (interactive installation)

KROKUSFESTIVAL presents established companies as well as new and emerging artists. An ideal opportunity to discover CarliHeleenSabienSilke, Hanafubuki, Lize Pede, Rebecca Lenaerts, Klankennest, cirQ, Els Roobroeck, Ilke Teerlinck, Mette Overgaard, Christine Verheyden, amongst others.

KROKUSFESTIVAL reaches out to all ages, from babies (Klankennest & Theater De Spiegel), to toddlers, to young children, to teenagers (Jaded Derudder, LAIKA & hetpaleis).

KROKUSFESTIVAL is puppetry, text theatre, dance, object theatre, performance, music, visuals, interactive installations, digital art forms.

We are looking forward to welcoming you here in Hasselt for KROKUSFESTIVAL between 19 and 27 FEBRUARY 2020.