Sound of Sewing (NL)

Name: Sound of Sewing (NL)
Start: 2026-08-27T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-27T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Gårdspladsen ved Karens Minde Kulturhus.

took place · 27 Aug 2026

Gårdspladsen ved Karens Minde Kulturhus., Copenhagen

theater family outdoor free

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In Sound of Sewing, a courtyard transforms into a living theatre sewing room where recycling, performance art, and humour go hand in hand. Since 2003, Dutch artists Karin Arts and Mariken Biegman-van Geel have toured the world with their antique sewing machines - and all they ask the audience is to provide a pair of legs to pedal.

Children and adults are welcome to bring old clothes and take home a handmade "one-of-a-kind" souvenir. Free entry, no registration required.

The performance is part of the Children's Culture Festival Kultur For en Tudse (25-28 August 2026) and Copenhagen Street Theatre Festival (23-30 August 2026), both of which are free and open to all.

About the venue: Gårdspladsen ved Karens Minde Kulturhus.

The courtyard is the green outdoor area behind Karens Minde Kulturhus - a former psychiatric institution from 1880, designed by architect Vilhelm Klein, now a community cultural centre in Copenhagen's Sydhavn district. The space hosts concerts, street theatre and festivals, and in summer the venue runs a weekly Friday bar here with music and food. If it rains, events move inside to the café.

Wagnersvej 19, 2450 København SV Get directions

About: Mariken Biegman-van Geel

From Friesland to festival stages worldwide: Mariken Biegman-van Geel turned an environmental engineering degree into a street theatre career. With Sound of Sewing - the travelling sewing studio she co-founded with Karin Arts in 2003 - she has spent over two decades transforming audience members' clothing into one-of-a-kind pieces, right there in the crowd.

20+

years at festivals with Sound of Sewing (founded 2003)

continents naaiatelier has performed on (Europe, Oceania, etc.)

What's new

2023-08
Het mobiele naaiatelier celebrated its 20-year anniversary with a performance at the Open Flair festival in Eschwege, Germany (August 8-11, 2023).
2023-09
Groot Heerenveen and Groot Fryslan presented in September 2023 a portrait of Mariken Biegman-van Geel, in which she told about the balance between festival life and family life in Jubbega.
2023
In addition to Sound of Sewing, Mariken now also works with smaller productions such as 'Sisters of Soap' and 'Het Bankje, de ontmoeting'.

Tracks

Het mobiele naaiatelier / Sound of SewingTraveling sewing-show founded 2003 - toured at festivals in Europe, New Zealand and around the world

Mevrouw BakkerFemale street theater company founded in 2000, toured at European festivals 2000-2003

De verdwenen peerdenProduction shown at Under de Toer festival in Oldeberkoop, 2018

Sisters of SoapNewer smaller production in development from around 2023

Het Bankje, de ontmoetingNewer intimate street theater production in development from around 2023

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