Stockholm Fringe Festival
Date: – August
Time: Thursday—Saturday
Location: Stadsmuseet, Slussen
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is an art festival where both local and international artists present innovative works.
Experience highlights from today’s art scene in the museum courtyard, indoors in the auditorium and on the streets.
Clownsejd (Sweden)
- Thursday, August 28 at 6.30—7.50pm
- Saturday, August 30 at 2.30—3.50pm
Location: Auditorium, floor 2
Price: SEK 175/100
Language: Swedish, English
Performing artist/group: Rebecka Cardoso, Hans Sandquist
Recommended age: 16+
Clownsejd is an improvised performance where the audience can ask questions about life, love, and death to the character The Seer. The answers may offer comfort, laughter, or confusion — nothing is predictable.
The show combines clowning and mask techniques with inspiration from ancient Norse seiðr (prophecy) and is built on active audience participation.
Clownsejd was created by Rebecka Cardoso, who has extensive experience in performing arts and spiritual work. Also performing is Hans Sandquist, who moderates the conversation in the role of The Anchor.
Clownsejd won the Audience Award at Stockholm Fringe Festival 2024 and was also nominated for an award in innovative performing arts.
Please note: The experience can be intense, and the audience is responsible for the questions they ask — and the answers they receive.
Blank Maps (Italy)
- Thursday, August 28 at 8.30—9.30pm
- Friday, August 29 at 8.30—9.30pm
Location: Museum courtyard
Price: SEK 150/100
Language: English, Italian
Performing artist/group: Il Milione
Recommended age: 5+
Thick morning fog, a market tent, and a map of maps. And three questions: Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from?
Blank Maps is a journey out of time, telling the story of two old friends searching for something very precious they’ve lost.
Blank Maps has received nominations and won awards at both the Catania and Milan Fringe 2024, followed by guest performances at, among others, Avignon Off (France) in 2025, as well as this year’s editions of the Gothenburg and Stockholm Fringe festivals.
The show is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.
War Daughter (Sweden)
- Friday August 29, 6.30—7.30pm
Location: Auditorium, floor 2
Price: SEK 150/100
Language: English, Swedish
Performing artist/group: JP Bichard and Ala Riani with Savaş Boyraz and Timimie Gassko Märak
“War Daughter” brings together film and the spoken word: a screening of JP Bichard and Ala Riani’s short art film “War Daughter”, a short film by artist and academic Savaş Boyraz, a reading from Ala Riani’s book “Krigets dotter” and a spoken word piece by Sami poet and performance artist Timimie Gassko Märak.
The artists and performers are activists who engage indigenous, gender and “othered” rights through film, literature and education.
The works are about displacement, embedded histories and identity through the endurance of stories, experiences and memories.
The show was inspired by Ala Riani’s book “Kriget’s dotter” on her upbringing as a child from eastern Kurdistan (Iran).
Walk of Shame — A Scandalous City Tour of Stockholm
- Friday, August 29, 6.30—8pm
- Saturday, August 30, 6.30—8pm
Location: Södermalm, Old Town (Gamla stan)
Price: SEK 200/150
Language: English
Recommended age: 14+
Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather!
A site-specific and interactive city walk with burlesque icon Fräulein Frauke, who will take participants on a glamorous, pleasurable, informative and shocking journey through Stockholm’s forgotten and sinful history.
Starting at the City Museum, Frauke will take participants on a pleasurable, informative and shocking journey through Stockholm’s forgotten showgirls, famous and unknown courtesans, the local history of burlesque, secret brothels, the concept “Swedish Sin” and Malmskillnadsgatan — past and present.
Ending at Regeringsgatan, this walk through Old Town promises to be a beautiful and exciting experience, shared in the spirit of glamour, pleasure, and forgotten history.
Tickets
Tickets must be purchased in advance via STOFF:
Stockholm Fringe Festivals website
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF)
Experience the 16th edition of STOFF from August 27—30 with over 200 program events. From burlesque city walks to raw stand-up and political theatre — Stockholm Fringe 2025 offers bold performances in rebellion!
The festival is supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm, and the City of Stockholm’s Cultural Administration.