Polip Festival continued its commitment to contemporary, socially engaged, and experimental artistic practices with the 2026 edition: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: WHAT ABOUT THE ECOLOGY QUESTION?

Since its beginnings in 2010, the festival has created a cultural meeting space that has brought together artists, audiences, writers, performers, and young creatives from different backgrounds and generations. Through theatre, spoken word, multimedia works, discussions, and interdisciplinary performances, POLIP has encouraged artistic exchange, critical reflection, and regional collaboration.

The 2026 programme invited participants to experience the festival not only through performances, but also through conversations, encounters, and collective reflection. Audiences had the opportunity to discover a wide variety of artistic works, meet artists, participate in discussions, and engage with the festival’s central theme through multiple perspectives and formats.

Alongside the performances, cultural initiatives such as ORDER OF THE DAY further expanded the festival experience. This year’s edition focused on ecology not only as an environmental issue, but also as a social, political, emotional, and artistic question. The programme explored the relationship between bodies, cities, memory, landscapes, systems of care, and collective responsibility through experimental artistic language and contemporary performance practices.

While rooted in the local context of the region, POLIP remained internationally connected, supporting emerging artists and creating space for new theatrical and performative voices from across Europe and beyond.