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BOHEI Festival 2025 - Out of control!

Fri. 6 to Mon. 9 June 2025

Since 2020, the BOHEI Festival has been the artistic home of the COMEDIA Kollektive - COMEDIA's theater, performance and dance youth clubs. Over 100 young people between the ages of 6 and 27 show their work here and make the diversity of artistic forms of expression visible.

In 2025, the festival's motto is "Out of Control". It is dedicated to the question of what happens when structures are broken down, rules are questioned and artistic and social spaces are renegotiated. Who decides on art? Who sets the framework and what happens when these boundaries are transgressed? In addition to the performances by the collectives, COMEDIA will become a field of experimentation for artistic freedom: with interactive formats, parties, workshops, panels and discussions on the art of co-determination.

At the same time, the BOHEI Festival 2025 marks the beginning of a new phase in the festival's development. In the long term, the festival will open up more to the urban community and establish new collaborations with participatory actors from Cologne. During the BOHEI period, COMEDIA will become a place for participatory art by, with and for young people.

With each edition, the festival continues to grow and try out new forms of artistic exchange. The future of the BOHEI Festival enters the next round in 2025 - and it is open, dynamic and perhaps a little out of control.

The BOHEI Festival is supported by the Imhoff Foundation and Sparkasse KölnBonn.

BOHEI is still looking for helping hands, get in touch here!

You can also find the latest information on the festival program and tickets on our website:
https://www.comedia-koeln.de/buehne/festivals/bohei/