Spoffin 2024 aftermovie - Rafaël Stomp 2024 © Festival Spoffin
Going out with a bang: during the last weekend of August, Spoffin festival took place and Amersfoort could not ignore it. For the fourteenth and final time, the festival for street and location theatre treated the city to a special and diverse programme full of artists from home and abroad. The most diverse street theatre acts presented themselves at various locations in and around the Amersfoort city centre, and with that, Spoffin 2024 attracted a record number of visitors: approximately 46,000 over the entire weekend.
Spoffin 2024 aftermovie - Rafaël Stomp 2024 © Festival Spoffin
Going out with a bang: during the last weekend of August, Spoffin festival took place and Amersfoort could not ignore it. For the fourteenth and final time, the festival for street and location theatre treated the city to a special and diverse programme full of artists from home and abroad. The most diverse street theatre acts presented themselves at various locations in and around the Amersfoort city centre, and with that, Spoffin 2024 attracted a record number of visitors: approximately 46,000 over the entire weekend.
In July, the sad news came out that the 2024 edition will be the last edition of the Spoffin festival. After the municipality of Amersfoort had rejected the subsidy application for the period of 2025-2028 earlier this year, the objection of the organizing foundation Zomertheater Amersfoort (ZTA) was also dismissed in July. This threatens to make the only theater festival in the city disappear and the Netherlands loses one of the largest and most progressive international street festivals.
Read moreThe 14th edition of the Spoffin street festival in Amersfoort, from 23 to 25 August 2024, will also be the last. As a result, the town's only theatre festival is in danger of disappearing and the Netherlands will lose one of the largest and most progressive international street festivals. Spoffin, which started in 2010, attracts around 40,000 to 45,000 visitors every year.
Read morePerforming arts where the audience is: in the streets, squares, parks and other public spaces. This is the mission of Spoffin, the international circus, dance and street theatre festival. Since 2010, the festival has been held on the last weekend of August against the medieval backdrop of Amersfoort's city centre. The festival offers a curious and open-minded audience an exciting mix of summer carelessness and enticing complexity. High quality, low barriers: that's why visitors decide what to pay after each and every show.
Alfred Konijnenbelt general and artistic director
Julia Droogers financial director
Jantien Tap executive producer
Jojanneke Tap assistant producer
Annemarie Degens PR and communications
Ingelise de Vries marketing and sales
Ying Yi Wu hospitality
José Kistenkas volunteers coordination
Marcoen Hopstaken master of ceremonies
Charlotte van Nee and Adriaan Bruin moderators Spoffin PRO
Martin Wolber graphic design
Bert Meijers administration
Helma Keller office manager
+50 volunteers from the city of Amersfoort
Performing arts where the audience is: in the streets, squares, parks and other public spaces. This is the mission of Spoffin, the international circus, dance and street theatre festival. Since 2010, the festival has been held on the last weekend of August against the medieval backdrop of Amersfoort's city centre. The festival offers a curious and open-minded audience an exciting mix of summer carelessness and enticing complexity. High quality, low barriers: that's why visitors decide what to pay after each and every show.
Alfred Konijnenbelt general and artistic director
Julia Droogers financial director
Jantien Tap executive producer
Jojanneke Tap assistant producer
Annemarie Degens PR and communications
Ingelise de Vries marketing and sales
Ying Yi Wu hospitality
José Kistenkas volunteers coordination
Marcoen Hopstaken master of ceremonies
Charlotte van Nee and Adriaan Bruin moderators Spoffin PRO
Martin Wolber graphic design
Bert Meijers administration
Helma Keller office manager
+50 volunteers from the city of Amersfoort