DATES:
March 30 – April 9, 2026
For the 23rd year in a row, the stage will be taken over by children and young people with their creativity, courage, and heartfelt stories. The festival connects, inspires, and opens space for theatrical dreams — peers for peers, mentors for the community.
Join us in celebrating youth art!
The festival supports the cultural and artistic expression of children and young adults, and their creation process. It emphasises the significance and the power of peers performing for peers, while creating a community of culturally aware, active and connected youth. The young get the experience of performing on a professional stage, the opportunity to make their stories visible, the opportunity to present themselves to their peers and to fulfil their theatre dreams.
The festival also allows for mentors of theatre and impro groups to interact with other mentors, to exchange their methods and ways of working, to gain an insight into other mentor’s work, to get valuable expert advice from jury members and to cultivate new ideas.
Since the festival offers many opportunities for your theatre group, we kindly invite you to join us at the 23. Children’s festival of theatre dreams, which will take place in Ljubljana Festival Hall, between March 30 – April 9, 2026.
Applications are now open until the 6th February, 2026. Send your applications at karmen.rucigaj@pionirski-dom.si.
Conditions to take part in Theatre Performance Days:
all performers must be primary school pupils,
the performance must be 40 minutes long or less,
fill out the application form to sign up your theatre performance for the festival: Prijavnica_23OFGS
Conditions to take part in Impro Day:
all performers must be primary school pupils,
the impro performance must be 15 minutes long or less,
fill out the application form to sign up your group: Impro dan-prijavnica 2026
We are proud and delighted to be part of our mutual theatrical story and thank you for dreaming with us!
