The Festival Team is very pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Festival is going to be taking place from the 24th of September to the 1st of October 2022.

The theme of the year 2022 is “FRUITS”: the sweetest of the tree, the carrier of seeds, the spreader of new roots, the bright-coloured, the vulgar, the flamboyant, the evocative…

Open Out is an annual festival that consists of various exhibitions, performances, film screenings, as well as educative events like seminars and workshops, in different locations around town. The unifying theme for the festival is queerness. The way we understand queer is both in terms of sexual orientation (non-heterosexual), as well as in a more political sense: it’s about thinking outside the box, challenging dominant narratives and reinventing the future with more focus on taking into account divergent voices within society. The festival explores the perspectives of feminists, indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees, as well as other social minorities who do not always get to be included in the mainstream public debate. Our goal is to create a festival that is inclusive, diverse, and bringing Tromsø and the world together.