About Showbox

Welcome to Showbox 2025

Showbox, Norway's largest performing arts festival with performances for children and young people, will take place from Tuesday, November 25 to Thursday, November 27, 2025. The festival offers a wide range of performances, talks and discussions about performing arts, and is open to everyone. In 2025, Showbox will be 20 years old.

History and purpose of the festival

Since 2005, Scenekunstbruket Showbox is organized with the aim of strengthening the competence of performing arts for children and young people. Over the past 19 years, the festival has developed into an important national and international meeting place for artists, organizers and others in the performing arts field, where new artistic projects are shown to a wide audience from all over the country. The goal is to present performances of high artistic quality and to show a wide range of expressions and formats that appeal to different audience groups. This is to best show the range within the performing arts expression.

A gathering place for professional development

Scenekunstbruket sees it as an important task to create meeting places where different environments that work with performing arts for children and young people can gather. In this way, Showbox functions as an equal arena for networking, project collaboration and exchange of experience. The festival aims to stimulate dialogue and strengthen collaboration between players in the field, as well as being a good cultural offering for children, young people and families in the Oslo region.

Program and ticket sales

The festival program is open to everyone, and tickets for both performances and professional events will be available from autumn 2025. The program will be launched continuously.

Youth editorial team Young voices

As in previous years, the festival will be accompanied by a youth editorial team who will share their impressions and experiences on ungestemmer.no. This gives young people a unique opportunity to actively participate in the debate on performing arts.

See you at Showbox 2025!

Through a diverse program of high artistic quality, Showbox creates a platform for both artists and audiences to explore and experience performing arts across borders. Showbox 2025 promises inspiring days full of creativity, new knowledge, and engagement.