Festival of Poetry-Shaped Art 2025

We are proud to present the fourth edition of the Festival of Poetry-Shaped Art!

This year’s edition of the festival will be the most ambitious yet, spanning over two weeks and multiple venues. United under the guiding theme of “In Touch: Between Bodies, Beyond Words”, the festival’s programming will aim to bring communities together and encourage its diverse international audience to consider the ritual of touch as both a physical and metaphysical means of interhuman connection.

FOPSA 2025 will allow the forging of these connections by presenting extended exhibitions, special performances, and workshops that will explore multiple ways of kinship and encourage festival visitors to form both personal and public links to the social body. This year’s programming will intertwine art forms such as dance, poetry, music, ceramics, photography, calligraphy, asemic writing, and more!

While the festival is growing and evolving this year, it continues to maintain its focus on showcasing interdisciplinary artistic expressions that challenge the limits of language in unexpected ways and investigate how language connects and inspires us.

The festival will commence on September 28 and run through to October 11.

Make sure you are subscribed to the mailing list and social media, as we will be sharing more exciting details about this year’s artists and projects leading up to the festival.

We look forward to sharing this special edition of FOPSA with you!

FOPSA team

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Schedule

Sunday September 28th, 13:00 - 16:30

Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, Vestdijk 25, Eindhoven

Opening of festival & exhibitions

Noam Youngrak Son, networked storytelling

Bart van Dongen, instant composition

Sven Staelens, project with internationals from Eindhoven metropole region

Friday October 3rd, 20:00 - 22:30

Arthouse United Cowboys, Kleine Berg 62, Eindhoven

Fatemeh Asiri & Changli Cui Luo, Traces That Speak

Natalia Papaeva, blended language

Marthe Koning, What Pessoa Thaught Me

Saturday October 4th, 20:00 - 22:30

Arthouse United Cowboys, Kleine Berg 62, Eindhoven

Six dance solos and one poem

Poet: Dean Bowen

Dancers: Revé Terborg, Rachele Chinellato, Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie, Anuschka Loose, Sameepta Lamba, Fleur De Decker

Sunday October 5th, 14:00 - 16:30

Arthouse United Cowboys, Kleine Berg 62, Eindhoven

Merijn Bisschops, Zwerm & Karen Willems, The Five

Berendine Venemans, Membrane

Karolien Wouters, Sweet and source

Saturday October 11th, 14:00 - 16:30

Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, Vestdijk 25, Eindhoven

Closing of festival & exhibitions

Abel Ton, reaction to exhibitions

Sarah Prescimone, reaction to exhibitions

Delia Vico, body paint performance