site.btaInternational 6Fest Street Arts Festival to Present Artists from Eight Countries in Plovdiv in April

The 16th edition of the International 6Fest Street Arts Festival will present artists from eight countries in Plovdiv between April 24 and 27, 2025. For the sixth consecutive year, the festival is part of the Cultural Calendar of the Plovdiv Municipality, said Katrin Gutman from the municipality’s cultural department.

6Fest started the year with international recognition, the festival received the EFFE Label 2024-2025 from the European Festivals Association. The EFFE label is awarded by an international jury and is the European quality mark for remarkable art festivals that demonstrate commitment to art, local community participation and international activity.

The street festival will bring together 40 artists from eight countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Czechia, Romania, Serbia, Turkiye, Ukraine and Finland), presenting a variety of genres such as circus, fire, puppetry, living statues and music. Giant carnival puppets will arrive from the Colibri Theatre and Puppets Occupy Street in Romania, as well as from the V.O.S.A. Theatre in Czechia. The Italian Opera Fiammae will present two theatrical fire performances. Vilma Talvitie will be a guest from Finland, whose musical style mixes modernity with Finno-Ugric singing traditions, and her concerts are a combination of vocals, piano, body percussion, percussion and dance elements.

The musical highlights will include the Bulgar Klezmer Band, the first international klezmer orchestra for street music in Bulgaria. In 2025, 6Fest will also host the premiere performances of several foreign performance art formations like Celik Comak (Turkiye), Matrix Entertainment (Serbia) and the Galatea Theatre of living statues (Ukraine). Among the Bulgarian participants will be Trio Theatre from Burgas, the first theatre company to introduce “theatre in a box” (theatromat) to the Bulgarian cultural scene. Metamorphosis Theatre from Sofia will present its latest circus production.

Entrance to all festival events is free.

The 2024 edition of the festival lasted 6 days (April 27 and 28, as well as from May 9 to 12, 2024) with two programmes, a main one with street arts and a parallel city programme. In September and October, the festival visited Sofia, Stara Zagora and Burgas.