Grape Festival 2026
Grape Festival 2026: A Mythical ZOO Featuring Jorja Smith, YUNG LEAN & BLADEE, Parcels, ARTBAT and Tash Sultana Grape Festival, one of the largest and most popular multi-genre festivals in Slovakia, will bring a diverse line-up full of international names and a completely new theme this year. After last year’s “Sport” edition, Trenčín Airport will […]
Dance Performance: Silvia Sviteková – DYCHOTÉKA
Ballroom dance has long been considered a cultivated form of social interaction. It creates space for eye contact, the touch of hands, closeness, shared steps, and gestures. Beyond its energy and structure, it also reflects a stereotypical view of the male–female pair, with its hierarchical setup embedded in the rules of competition. When the pair […]
Pohoda 2026
Pohoda 2026 will be one of the places where music, art, freedom, and curiosity come together. Once again, the festival at Trenčín Airport will open up a space for shared experiences, unexpected encounters, and an energy that reaches beyond the boundaries of both the city and the country. Pohoda is more than a festival. For […]
Street Performance by Eléctrico 28 (AT/ES): The Frame
Eléctrico 28 / AT/ES: The Frame [ The Frame ] invites you to sit in front of the passing urban life and observe it. Chairs, eyes, words, signs, sounds, voices, asphalt… a multitude of characters, and among them four who observe and arrange, surrendering to the living flow in order to capture everything that happens […]
UNUSUAL FORMS OF WICKER 2026
We warmly invite you to the 18th edition of the event UNUSUAL FORMS OF WICKER 2026, which will take place on Saturday, 7 March at the Cultural House in Rudník near Myjava, starting at 10:00 AM. This year again you can look forward to basket-weaving workshops and demonstrations of weaving techniques, a market of wicker […]
Japanese Days in Trenčín
For the first time in Trenčín’s history, Japan is coming directly to you – into the streets, galleries, cultural centres, and the main square. Japanese Days in Trenčín mark the pilot edition of a festival that aims to build a lasting cultural connection between Slovakia and Japan, showing that Japanese art is not distant – […]
Pop-up Dance Performance Katarína Čillíková & Anna kolektiv: City as a Body City centre
The City as a Body Dance-performative situations by the Anna Collective Choreography and curatorial concept: Katarína Chilli Čillíková The City as a Body is a series of site-specific dance-performative situations in which urban space becomes a living organism. Urban still lifes function as a memento of the present moment and invite audiences to walk between […]
Readings, concert and light installation in the church: Word, Music, Light
The Trenčín Literary Festival in a sacred space offers a unique experience combining literature, choral singing, and a light installation by Marek Kvetán.
Poetry–music performance Mila Haugová, Robert Pospiš & Martin Sillay: The Deer Looking at the North Star
Acclaimed poet Mila Haugová, together with composers and producers Robert Pospiš and Martin Sillay, embarked this summer on a tour accompanying the album Srna pozerajúca na Polárku (A Doe Gazing at the North Star). Their joint work was performed live in its complete form for the first time over the course of this summer, and […]
Readings in city cafés: Trenčín Hours
The Trenčín Literary Festival presents socially engaged writing that reflects on current social phenomena— the city, urbanism, public space, and community life. We invite you to an inspiring afternoon of literary readings. Literary interventions performed by well-known Slovak actors and actresses will take place at different times in popular cafés around Trenčín. Coffee Sheep 13:00 […]
Weekend programme at the library: books, coffee and experiences
On Saturday, the Michal Rešetka Public Library will become a vibrant place with multiple layers of programming. Visitors can enjoy regular opening hours with a selection of books, coffee, and small merchandise, as well as the outdoor project Time Machine—a cardboard figure of Michal Rešetka, a commemorative badge, and a virtual gallery of notable personalities. […]
Acrobatic–dance performance Company Sacude (ES): Euforia
The Spanish artistic collective Sacude brings its high-energy aerial acrobatics show EUFORIA to Trenčín. Prepare for a breathtaking, multidisciplinary aerial performance that fuses acrobatics, dance, and live DJ music into one pulsating experience. On a ten-metre-high flying glass platform, an exhilarating celebration of movement, freedom, and the joy of life unfolds before the audience’s eyes. […]
Opening gala programme: Manifest Trenčín 2026
The highlight of the Opening Weekend—the evening gala programme Manifest Trenčín 2026 at Peace Square—will officially open the year of the European Capital of Culture. It pays tribute to the rich spiritual cultural and textile heritage of the city and region, to their unique genius loci, and to the identities and talents that have shaped […]
Oulu 2026 cultural programme: Finnish music concerts by Junna (FI) and Yungmiqu (FI)
Junna (FI) The Finnish duo Junna delivers an energetic mix of traditional Finnish folk music and electronic dance culture. Their distinctive sound blends electric violin, pulsating synths, and rhythms ranging from trance to drum’n’bass, revitalising folk melodies with a modern pulse. Junna represents a living musical heritage through emotive melodies and dance-driven energy that appeals […]
City Talent, Regional Talent: Hviezdoslavova Stage
The second stage of Saturday afternoon is located on Hviezdoslavova Street. The programme offers a diverse range of local ensembles—from a musical theatre performance and children’s folklore groups to contemporary dance showcases—reflecting the diversity of cultural life in Trenčín and its surroundings. LINEUP 13:00–15:00 Dancing City 13:00–14:00 Neonity Dance Club, Aura Dance Club, Choreofactory Dance […]