Mission

○ Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society is a multi-day trendsetting arts event.

○ Noorderzon offers a high-quality and idiosyncratic programming of exciting and contemporary performing arts from all over the world, for a broad and diverse audience.

○ Appropriate investments are made in promising international makers and companies, our local cultural infrastructure, interdisciplinarity and in involving our audience.

○ Noorderzon is a platform for exchange between colleagues in the informal setting of a public festival.

○ Noorderzon is therefore a somewhat odd man out and fulfills a unique role in the Dutch festival landscape.

↳ Noorderzon consciously takes risks and seeks experimentation to enable and demonstrate development.
↳ Noorderzon's programming shows context and shows different visions of the world around you with an open but sharp look. Arousing curiosity is our guiding principle, the world our backyard.
↳ Noorderzon introduces, inspires, welcomes and invites you to think. To this end, Noorderzon creates a context that is as open and accessible as possible, where everyone is welcome and feels welcome.
↳ The festival is our vehicle to encourage reflection and dialogue in the most pleasant and informed way possible. The city is our stage, the freely accessible Noorderplantsoen the beautiful backdrop, social meeting place and playground in one.