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The Warming Up Festival from Tolhuistuin is returning: from November 19 through 22, it will spark a conversation about climate change. Especially with those who have given up, especially with those who are skeptical: alliance instead of atonement.
Warming Up Festival is an arts and climate festival that, this year, shifts its focus from asking how we can live more sustainably to exploring why so many people, especially young people, have disengaged from a conversation that perhaps affects them most of all.
Over three days, the festival brings together art, journalism, music and dialogue to explore how individual choices relate to systems that are largely beyond our control, and where we can make a difference by acting collectively. It is a festival that makes room for imperfection, uncertainty and new forms of engagement.
You don't have to get everything right to make a difference. Warming Up Festival invites us to explore these questions together, not out of guilt, but from the belief that change begins by making connections and building solidarity.
Explore the full programme in the event calendar at the bottom of this page. Join us for Comedy Opening Night on 19 November, Cultural Professionals Day for the creative, cultural and social sectors on 20 November, or Festival Day on Saturday, 21 November.
With guests like: Kadir van Lohuizen, Rashi Argarwal, Mounir Samuel, Follow The Money, Represent Jezelf, YUSU, Sioe Jeng, DE/MO (internationale spin-off van De Kiesmannen), Wouter Waayer, Lisa goes vegan, Teun van de keuken, Djuwa Mroivili, Paradiso (Jurry Oortwijn), Bureau Vergezicht, Pinopotato, Dymphie Braun, Julia Jouwe, Slow Fashion Show, Chris Julien, Luan Buleshkaj, Zahra Sebbar, Chris de Ploeg, Amara, Marikit Saturay, Sjoerd Scott, Ronan Brosnan, Nadine Froughi, Kunsten '92, Girls to the front, Patrick van Haperen, Tallita Ortiz de la Torre, Shila Ishwardat, Futures & Sustainability, Marjolijn Boterenbrood, Mark IJzerman, HUMAN 'De publieke tribune' and more.
Warming Up Festival 2026 is made possible in part through the generous support of Fonds 21, VriendenLoterij Fonds and Amsterdam's Noord District.
