Welcome to the Karlsøy Festival 2023
This year's festival theme is PEACE and UTOPI, and we encourage everyone – audience, volunteers, organisers, artists and musicians – to contribute equally and be an active part of the festival experience.
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The Freedom Theater attacked
The Freedom Theater is a theater that works in a refugee camp in Jenin on the occupied West Bank in Palestine. They are now affected by the brutal attack on Jenin and the refugee camp there. And the Karlsøy Festival wishes to express our solidarity with the population of Jenin in general and The Freedom Theater in particular.
Everyone is a participant !? What does that mean?
In 2007, the Karlsøy Festival was on top with over 2000 festival passes sold. Many people may recall the memories from these legendary festivals when they think of Karlsøy in Troms. In the last 15 years, the organizers have become a little older and the crowd in front of Storscena has become somewhat thinner. At the same time, the festival has slowly but surely developed towards something new, towards a kind of hit, a gathering or a large splice team. The last two years have been a good opportunity to cultivate and refine this "new" that has been lying in the corners.