Bibu 2026

bibu-MINGLE

If you arrive to Helsingborg on Tuesday 26 May, welcome to the bibu-MINGLE in Helsingborg City Theater's foyer!

Afropocalypse

This energetic and hugely imaginative production follows the journey of a group of story tellers in an apocalyptic setting as they share their fables of hope and resilience. Afropocalypse’s fourteen strong ensemble ...

Book release - Sensory drama in specialist education

Theories and methods in sensory drama are published in book form with clear lesson plans in script form, ready to be used in the classroom.

Boys Don't Dance

Boys Don’t Dance is a poignant dance theatre show by acclaimed disabled director, choreographer and dancer Marc Brew, reflecting on his journey as a boy who defied society’s expectations to embrace his love for danc ...

Danshörnan med Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

A meeting place for dance throughout the festival. In Danshörnan, you can take a break between performances, meet colleagues, rest your body and move it. Here you will find both scheduled programme items and spontan ...

Danspaus - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Dansring - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Extreme Icebreaker

Don't know many people at Bibu? No worries!

Figurer

Figurer is an imaginative dance performance in which three mischievous characters with shaky self-esteem sneak into a theater on a mysterious mission. Inside, the dusty interior comes to life and the performance tra ...

Fine Lines

The work of Roser López Espinosa is based on strong physicality, with a great passion for precision, delicacy, acrobatic elements and detail. A lively and playful physical universe of refined poetics and often a tou ...

Gravitation

Gravitation is a performance that takes you on a shattering and visually overwhelming journey through a teenager’s subconscious — a place where desire and fear collide in a vortex of emotional storms. Inspired by an ...

Hjälp, dom kommer!

Welcome to our dream society! Here, we live in a realised utopia, free from fear and chaos. You will follow different members of the group and become part of the well-functioning mini-society, where everyone has a ...

Medeas barn

Medeas barn retells the Greek Medea myth from the children’s perspective. The play was written by Suzanne Osten and Per Lysander and premiered at Unga Klara in 1975. At the time, it changed the perception of childre ...

Meet the owners

We can always be better, different, more amazing! Bibu was founded and is still owned by Teatercentrum and Swedish ASSITEJ. During the biennial you have the chance to meet board members and employees of the two orga ...

Mont St Gumboot

Mont Silent Gumboot is the highest mountain range on Great Labuan Island. In its centre is an active volcano whose pipe keeps eructing inextinguishable imagination lava into the sky. The total of six locals living h ...

OPENING bibu 2026

The opening ceremony will begin with music performed by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and conclude with Skånes Dansteater's duet Fine Lines.

PALS

PALS is a musical theatre work for young audiences by Ellen Renton about the friendship between a sighted girl and a visually impaired girl, using song, text, and movement to create an inclusive performance space.

Post Performance Discussion Mont St Gumboot

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask ques ...

Prix d'ASSITEJ

Prix d’ASSITEJ 2026 During bibu 2026, ASSITEJ Sweden will present its honorary award, the Prix d’ASSITEJ – a distinction that highlights important and inspiring contributions to the field of performing arts for chil ...

Queer conversations about performing arts for the younger audiences!

In this workshop we will discuss performing arts for the younger audiences from a queer perspective. The workshop is hosted by Normkreativa arbetsgruppen from the Scen och Film union.

Rotviska

A sensory theatre adventure through tangled roots, rustling foliage, and everything in between. At the heart of an ancient tree, full of life and movement, Rotviska follows every shift in nature. Here, the old makes ...

Rotviska – creating an accessible performing arts experience

Andrew Stanford and Eva von Hofsten discuss Rotviska, an accessible show for young people with complex disabilities, created by centering audience inclusion and artistic ambition from the start.

SAFT - Society, Family, Theatre

How do you find theatre when new in Sweden? SAFT gives Swedish For Immigrants students the chance to experience children's theatre with their families. A seminar about accessibility and inclusion.

Vems lilla mössa flyger

In Barnhans land, there are many whimsical characters, just like in real life. They wander around and keep themselves busy with all sorts of things—living and dying, starting secret societies, searching for love, an ...

Vintergatans bibliotek

Welcome to Vintergatans bibliotek, a sensory space where movement meets light and shadows meet sound. Here, movable shelves, tactile signs, and light shimmering from the books invite exploration. A moment together i ...

Working with the Child Perspective

In this workshop, we take a hands-on approach in identifying what a child’s perspective could be —and to using it when working with theatre for children.

Acrobatic movement theatre workshop

Explore DynamO Théâtre's artistic approach: acrobatic movement theatre. How do you script movement in space? What are the rules? The idea is to focus on the fun of acting through various theatre-of-movement developm ...

Afropocalypse

This energetic and hugely imaginative production follows the journey of a group of story tellers in an apocalyptic setting as they share their fables of hope and resilience. Afropocalypse’s fourteen strong ensemble ...

ARTIST TALKS - a relay

A relay of artist talks, where artists meet one on one in open conversations about process, practice, inspiration and method. Drop in, listen, and take part artist talks across disciplines.

Boys Don't Dance

Boys Don’t Dance is a poignant dance theatre show by acclaimed disabled director, choreographer and dancer Marc Brew, reflecting on his journey as a boy who defied society’s expectations to embrace his love for danc ...

Danshörnan med Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

A meeting place for dance throughout the festival. In Danshörnan, you can take a break between performances, meet colleagues, rest your body and move it. Here you will find both scheduled programme items and spontan ...

Danspaus - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Dansring - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

En ny värld

Welcome to a new world! Listen as Saga Ljungberg — a versatile musical artist, currently studying at the Ballet Academy in Gothenburg — shares her reflections on home and away, belonging and exclusion, through words ...

Figurer

Figurer is an imaginative dance performance in which three mischievous characters with shaky self-esteem sneak into a theater on a mysterious mission. Inside, the dusty interior comes to life and the performance tra ...

From Representation to Authorship: Disabled Led Creation on Stage

Beyond “inspiration” stories: this seminar challenges stereotypical disability narrative centring disabled artists as creators and exploring how commissioning can support authentic authorship.

Gravitation

Gravitation is a performance that takes you on a shattering and visually overwhelming journey through a teenager’s subconscious — a place where desire and fear collide in a vortex of emotional storms. Inspired by an ...

Gudarnas väktare - Guardians of the Gods

Guardians of the Gods is a unique global production created within The Childhood Project, initiated by Unga Klara. Through a collaboration involving 11 countries across five continents, the play explores the relatio ...

Hjälp, dom kommer!

Welcome to our dream society! Here, we live in a realised utopia, free from fear and chaos. You will follow different members of the group and become part of the well-functioning mini-society, where everyone has a ...

Klädställningen

Klädställningen is a playful and poetic circus performance. It is based on movement between hangers and clothes with different proportions. It is its own little world within the framework of a rather limited space a ...

Låt mig bara gå

A drama about forgiveness, reconciliation, and finding the way back to life for ages 13+.

Medeas barn

Medeas barn retells the Greek Medea myth from the children’s perspective. The play was written by Suzanne Osten and Per Lysander and premiered at Unga Klara in 1975. At the time, it changed the perception of childre ...

Meet the International Selection Committee

Meet the international selection committee behind bibu 2026. Hear their insights on artistic quality, key trends, and how the performances resonated with jurymembers and audiences. Held in English.

Meet the owners

We can always be better, different, more amazing! Bibu was founded and is still owned by Teatercentrum and Swedish ASSITEJ. During the biennial you have the chance to meet board members and employees of the two orga ...

Mont St Gumboot

Mont Silent Gumboot is the highest mountain range on Great Labuan Island. In its centre is an active volcano whose pipe keeps eructing inextinguishable imagination lava into the sky. The total of six locals living h ...

Morning Swim / Morgondopp with ASSITEJ

Begin the festival with a refreshing dip and coffee by the water. Meet, reflect on performances, and share inspiring conversations in a warm festival community.

PALS

PALS is a musical theatre work for young audiences by Ellen Renton about the friendship between a sighted girl and a visually impaired girl, using song, text, and movement to create an inclusive performance space.

Performative Conversation- Point of you

Point of You is a performative conversation where young people share memories and reflect on the society they want to live in. Through the tools of theatre, a space opens where voices are heard.

Post performance discussion Afropocalypse

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International selection committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity t ...

Rotviska

A sensory theatre adventure through tangled roots, rustling foliage, and everything in between. At the heart of an ancient tree, full of life and movement, Rotviska follows every shift in nature. Here, the old makes ...

Shifting the Stage- Keynote with Caroline Bowditch

Keynote with choreographer and cultural leader Caroline Bowditch explores how to build a more inclusive performing arts sector for young audiences, highlighting collective responsibility and the power of disabled-le ...

Skådespelartura

Beer, 'hygge' and actors! The ensemble at Stadsteatern invite you to the classic actor tura with Sundsbussarna for socialising and hanging out.

Storyline Discovery – young people tell, young people lead

Seminar and workshop on Storyline Discovery. Presentation of the project's journey, methods and youth participation, as well as practical exercises in participatory performing arts and creative storytelling with int ...

Teknikertura!

Beer, 'hygge' and technicians! The Stadsteater technical departments invite you to the classic technician tura with Sundsbussarna for socialising and hanging out

Trans separatist meet-up

A forum for trans people to meet, make contacts and exchange experiences within the industry. We offer coffee!Organized by the network Transformers Scenkonst. 

Vems lilla mössa flyger

In Barnhans land, there are many whimsical characters, just like in real life. They wander around and keep themselves busy with all sorts of things—living and dying, starting secret societies, searching for love, an ...

Vintergatans bibliotek

Welcome to Vintergatans bibliotek, a sensory space where movement meets light and shadows meet sound. Here, movable shelves, tactile signs, and light shimmering from the books invite exploration. A moment together i ...

A Study of Losses

Through circus, contemporary magic and object manipulation, Kompani Giraff creates its own universe in A Study of Losses, playfully exploring the magnetic pull of what has been lost. Four circus performers and a col ...

ARTIST TALKS - a relay

A relay of artist talks, where artists meet one on one in open conversations about process, practice, inspiration and method. Drop in, listen, and take part artist talks across disciplines.

bibu PARTY

What do Finnish karaoke, Helsingborg's best actor-DJs and Helsingborg's most exciting food court have in common? They all form the basis of the bibu PARTY!

Binnánaš balus – Nesten ikke redd – Almost not afraid at all

In the gamme, Anna has cocoa and a cozy surprise ready as Biret enters with wet feet. Biret prefers being indoors surrounded by people than having to worry about animals and nature lurking outside the thin gamme wal ...

Danshörnan med Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

A meeting place for dance throughout the festival. In Danshörnan, you can take a break between performances, meet colleagues, rest your body and move it. Here you will find both scheduled programme items and spontan ...

Danspaus - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Dansring - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Framtidsbarnet

In the newly written and evocative sci-fi drama Framtidsbarnet, we follow a child’s desperate longing for unconditional love and belonging. Who am I in relation to myself and the world — and what does it mean to hav ...

Gudarnas väktare - Guardians of the Gods

Guardians of the Gods is a unique global production created within The Childhood Project, initiated by Unga Klara. Through a collaboration involving 11 countries across five continents, the play explores the relatio ...

Hjälp, dom kommer!

Welcome to our dream society! Here, we live in a realised utopia, free from fear and chaos. You will follow different members of the group and become part of the well-functioning mini-society, where everyone has a ...

Jobbigt

Jobbigt is the first dance piece by Ofelia Jarl Ortega made for a younger audience. Together, Marcus Baldemar, Ane Carlsen, Andrew Hardwidge and Laura Linna address the existential issues of being in a group togethe ...

Klädställningen

Klädställningen is a playful and poetic circus performance. It is based on movement between hangers and clothes with different proportions. It is its own little world within the framework of a rather limited space a ...

Låt mig bara gå

A drama about forgiveness, reconciliation, and finding the way back to life for ages 13+.

Live Report from the United States: Performing Arts for Young Audiences in a Changing Political Landscape

A live report from the United States on how political shifts are affecting performing arts for young audiences — and how artists continue to create despite an increasingly pressured and unpredictable cultural policy ...

Lorpan längtar

Lorpan sits alone in the playground, searching for a friend to play with — someone who takes play just as seriously as she does. Lorpan längtar is a love letter to play. To the joy of finding a friend who plays by t ...

Måndag är fiskbulledag

In the school kitchen, Irene and Ritva work side by side. They disagree about almost everything. Irene wants to introduce change and serve the children pan pizza and soda. Ritva despises change. She has worked in th ...

Master Class with Zoë Demoustier

In connection with her performance What Remains at BIBU, Dansalliansen invites choreographer and performer Zoë Demoustier to lead a Master Class where participants will gain insight into her artistic practice.

Meet the owners

We can always be better, different, more amazing! Bibu was founded and is still owned by Teatercentrum and Swedish ASSITEJ. During the biennial you have the chance to meet board members and employees of the two orga ...

Myller

In Myller the dancers are constantly confronted with emerging landscapes, where various challenges and surprises push the group to find temporary solutions and binding agreements. This ongoing evolution reveals mome ...

Post performance discussion Myller

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the Swedish jury. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask questions.

Post Performance Discussion What Remains

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International selection committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity t ...

Sjaddo

Sjaddo means seed in Lule Sami, about growing and developing. To listen to one's instinct and intuition, to feel each other and to be present. It all begins with earth being created: the reindeer's body becomes fore ...

Som bröder

Som bröder is a story about a family, about the love between two young brothers, and their struggle to find footing in a fractured existence. It is playful and charming, yet also heart-wrenching and at times violent ...

The Childhood Project

The Childhood Project is a global collaborative initiative involving 11 countries across five continents, Initiated by Unga Klara. The project focuses on the international exchange of methodologies and narratives su ...

The universal gold

A workshop where ideas turn into action. Everyone has the right to art and culture on their own terms and through this workshop we want to help each other achieve the functional rights goals within culture.

Vintergatans bibliotek

Welcome to Vintergatans bibliotek, a sensory space where movement meets light and shadows meet sound. Here, movable shelves, tactile signs, and light shimmering from the books invite exploration. A moment together i ...

VOICES IN THE NORDICS: AN ARTISTIC LANGUAGE FOR JUSTICE & INCLUSION

Voices in the Nordics, a seminar exploring how art and culture reshape language around diversity and inclusion, sharing experiences and inviting audience dialogue.

Walk and Talk

Walk and talk through the streets of Helsingborg with the Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network, where we promise engaging conversations and meaningful meetings.

We followed The Tail

In the project Svanslandet, Spinn explored and developed new methods to increase accessibility with children´s perspective.

What Remains

What Remains is a story about beginning and ending, about standing at the furthest point of a line in life, the point at which you start out as a child or end as an older person. The poetry of changing as a human be ...

A Study of Losses

Through circus, contemporary magic and object manipulation, Kompani Giraff creates its own universe in A Study of Losses, playfully exploring the magnetic pull of what has been lost. Four circus performers and a col ...

Binnánaš balus – Nesten ikke redd – Almost not afraid at all

In the gamme, Anna has cocoa and a cozy surprise ready as Biret enters with wet feet. Biret prefers being indoors surrounded by people than having to worry about animals and nature lurking outside the thin gamme wal ...

Danshörnan med Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

A meeting place for dance throughout the festival. In Danshörnan, you can take a break between performances, meet colleagues, rest your body and move it. Here you will find both scheduled programme items and spontan ...

Framtidsbarnet

In the newly written and evocative sci-fi drama Framtidsbarnet, we follow a child’s desperate longing for unconditional love and belonging. Who am I in relation to myself and the world — and what does it mean to hav ...

How Does a Performance Taste – and Where Does It Really Make Itself Felt?

How is criticism changing in an era of digitalisation, co-creation, and new publics? A unique Nordic conversation between researchers and critics on how children and young people can become co-creators through creat ...

Jobbigt

Jobbigt is the first dance piece by Ofelia Jarl Ortega made for a younger audience. Together, Marcus Baldemar, Ane Carlsen, Andrew Hardwidge and Laura Linna address the existential issues of being in a group togethe ...

Lorpan längtar

Lorpan sits alone in the playground, searching for a friend to play with — someone who takes play just as seriously as she does. Lorpan längtar is a love letter to play. To the joy of finding a friend who plays by t ...

Måndag är fiskbulledag

In the school kitchen, Irene and Ritva work side by side. They disagree about almost everything. Irene wants to introduce change and serve the children pan pizza and soda. Ritva despises change. She has worked in th ...

Mapping opportunities for playwrights in Europe

The Fence is an international network of playwrights and dramaturges with 275 members from 51 countries. The Center for Dramatic Writing works to widen the fields in which playwrights and scriptwriters work. 

Myller

In Myller the dancers are constantly confronted with emerging landscapes, where various challenges and surprises push the group to find temporary solutions and binding agreements. This ongoing evolution reveals mome ...

Sjaddo

Sjaddo means seed in Lule Sami, about growing and developing. To listen to one's instinct and intuition, to feel each other and to be present. It all begins with earth being created: the reindeer's body becomes fore ...

Som bröder

Som bröder is a story about a family, about the love between two young brothers, and their struggle to find footing in a fractured existence. It is playful and charming, yet also heart-wrenching and at times violent ...

What Remains

What Remains is a story about beginning and ending, about standing at the furthest point of a line in life, the point at which you start out as a child or end as an older person. The poetry of changing as a human be ...