Rewire 2025 begins this week! Before you join us in The Hague, here are a few final tips to help you prepare for your visit. Our field guide offers shares information about tickets and wristbands, registrations, venues, and other essential information. Any other urgent questions? Make sure to check our FAQ here.
Tickets for Rewire 2025 weekend are now sold out (limited tickets are available for our programme on Thursday evening). Official reselling of Rewire tickets goes through our TicketSwap page.
Please note: to access the festival you will need to exchange your e-ticket for a wristband upon arrival at our Ticket & Info Centre. The Ticket & Info Centre at Amare is your go-to for picking up your Rewire wristband, picking up Rewire merchandise, a programme booklet, or a timetable. There will be Rewire staff ready to answer your questions.
Amare Address:
Spuiplein 150, Den Haag
Opening Hours:
Friday: 12:00–00:00
Saturday: 12:00–00:00
Sunday: 11:30–22:00
*On Thursday 3 April, wristbands for the opening programme can be collected directly from the Koninklijke Schouwburg. After the Ticket & Info Centre is closed, e-tickets can be exchanged for a wristband at PAARD.
For a selection of events, we offer visitors the opportunity to ensure their spot. By registering for free, visitors will be granted early access to the venue and have a guaranteed place. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. To ensure a smooth entry and to not disturb the start of the concert, we ask visitors with a registration ticket to be there early: Aim to be at least 10 minutes early for registered events. If you are not there five minutes before the event starts, you may lose your slot to a non-registered audience member who is queueing.
See the full list of programme items that require registration from this link.
To get started with your festival planning, check out the digital timetable on our website where you can highlight and save all your favourite concerts, talks, screenings, installations, and more. View the timetable here, including a .PDF version. Printed timetables will be freely available at Amare, PAARD, and The Grey Space and the Middle during the festival weekend.
The Rewire 2025 timetable is also available to view on the go via our official festival app TMSQR. Download it here.
Rewire 2025 is spread across 30+ stages at 25 different venues in The Hague’s city centre. Most venues are within walking distance of each other, and it shouldn’t take you more than a quick stroll to get from one to the other. Koninklijke Schouwburg and West Den Haag can be reached by taking Tram 16 from Central Station to the Korte Voorhout stop. You can find information about each of the Rewire 2025 locations on our Venues page. To give you a quick overview, we made a handy map.
Please note that all venues have a maximum capacity. Be on time to avoid missing out on a specific performance.
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For this year Rewire has again teamed up with TimeSquare to present an interactive festival app for Rewire 2025.
The app allows you to explore the timetable and programme, and plan your own festival routes by saving your favourite artists, with the option to receive a reminder when these performances are due to take place. The interactive festival map allows you to easily navigate the festival locations. Additionally, we included the Rewire 2025 festival playlist, where you can listen to snippets of tracks to get an idea of what to expect, whilst reading up on the latest festival news.
Download the official Rewire 2025 festival app.
Get familiar with the full Rewire 2025 programme by checking out our programme booklet. The physical booklet will be freely available at most of our venues during the festival weekend. Printed programme booklets will be freely available at Amare, PAARD, The Grey Space and the Middle during the festival weekend.
Just after 20:00, a free concert is being hosted on The Hague's iconic inner-city body of water: Alvin Curran presents Maritime Rites on the Hofvijver. This free-to-attend event showcases a canonical work by Curran – whom Rewire is hosting a focus programme around at this year's edition. After 'Maritime Rites,' the programme continues at Koninklijke Schouwburg with Kianí Del Valle Performance Group, Hamill Industries & Tayhana's 'CORTEX.' And renowned Italian musician, composer, and instrument builder Alessandro Cortini's ever-evolving immersive audio-visual performance 'Nati Infiniti.'
Learn more here.
As a cornerstone of the Rewire 2025 programme, we believe that music and art belong to everyone. That’s why we’re presenting a vibrant lineup of free events and activities for those who don’t have a festival pass. Enjoy live musical performances, engaging talks, creative workshops, immersive sound walks, and captivating art installations.
Alvin Curran’s ‘Maritime Rites’
Alvin Curran is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. Curran’s piece Maritime Rites, a signature work of his, has been evolving since the 1970s across many iterations and changes – always relating anew to his life-long enjoyment of bodies of water. Performed at the opening event of Rewire 2025 on 3 April, this time, Maritime Rites takes to The Hague’s own inner-city body of water, the iconic Hofvijver beside the parliament building, for a performance of numerous musicians in multiple boats – passing one another like ships in the night, performing for the landlocked onlookers.
Rewire 2025’s context programme
Situated around its music and performance line-up, Rewire’s context programme provides a space for reflection and brings the various practices of artists into conversation with each other. Through workshops, conversations, sound walks and listening sessions, the context programme offers free-to-attend events throughout The Hague’s city centre. A full overview of the context programme can be found here.
Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy
Proximity Music is a joint exhibition program initiated by iii and Rewire. It seeks to connect music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through sensory experiences. Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy explores how chaos and entropy act as both forces of creation and catalysts for change. Drawing inspiration from the second law of thermodynamics, where entropy signifies the inevitable drift towards disorder, the exhibition delves into the consequences of these forces on our environment, socio-political systems, and human interactions. A full overview of the Proximity Music line-up can be found here.
Rewire x 3345 in-store
On the Saturday afternoon of Rewire 2025, we return to our favourite record store 3345 to host an in-store event. The line-up and timetable for this freely accessible event is:
13.00–14.00 Lulu
14.00–15.00 alys(alys)alys
15.00–16.00 Ana Roxanne (DJ set)
16.00–17.00 DJ Python
The event is freely available, and offers the perfect moment to grab some records by your favourite artists, while enjoying the special sounds of the in-store's artists.
Rewire’s film programme intersects with and ponders upon the festival’s overarching themes of listening-with, elements of sounding, sonic testimonies, and ears to the ground. Particularly, the 10 films being screened this year pay careful attention to the themes of sonic testimonies and ears to the ground. Join daily during the festival for this curated selection of films that engage with crucial concerns around sounding, listening, and witnessing. Find out more about the Rewire 2025 film programme and registration here.
All of our festival locations are located in the centre of The Hague and are easily accessible by foot. The Hague also offers a good infrastructure for cycling if you want to get to another location faster.
If you would like to get around by bike, and are based in The Netherlands, we recommend renting an OV bike for just €4.45 per day. In addition, there are several bike rentals in the city available to all. Especially for the festival, we have created an extensive bicycle parking area right in front of PAARD, one of the festival's main venues.
To give you an idea of what to expect during the festival, we’ve compiled an official Rewire 2025 festival playlist. Dive in and explore before you join us in The Hague this weekend.
Listen on Spotify:
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