Street Theatre: Sound of Sewing

Name: Street Theatre: Sound of Sewing
Start: 2026-08-21T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-21T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Rønhaveplads, Sønderborg

took place · 21 Aug 2026

Rønhaveplads, Sønderborg, Sønderborg

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Description was written before the event

Free entry. SOUND OF SEWING is an outdoor theatre-sewing workshop, part of Denmark's International Street Theatre Festival, which returns to Sønderborg with six performances in total. Here recycling, performance art and humour meet in the public space.

Since 2003, Karin Arts and Mariken Biegman-van Geel have toured the world with bicycles and antique sewing machines. The audience is an active part of the performance: everyone is welcome to bring old clothes, which are transformed on the spot into personal artworks - completely free. The two artists only need a pair of fresh legs to pedal, so the old machines can get going.

The performance connects to the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 12 on responsible consumption and production. No tickets - just show up.

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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