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This year, there are again different venues for the events at CircusDanceFestival:

Festival site
CircusDanceFestival
An der Schanz 6
50735 Cologne-Riehl

Tram: Line 18 - Boltensternstraße, line 13 - Slabystraße

Depot
Schanzenstr. 6-20
51063 Köln

Tram: Linie 3/4/18 Keupstraße

CCCC
Dillenburgerstr. 63
51105 Köln

Tram: Line 1/9 - Kalk Kapelle

Festival site

The festival site is located in the immediate vicinity of the banks of the Rhine. It extends over the grounds of the LATIBUL in Cologne-Riehl and the adjacent meadow area An der Schanz.

Please note: LATIBUL has two locations, the festival site is located at the circus site in Cologne-Riehl.

How to get there

• A cycle path along the Rhine leads to us. There are bicycle parking spaces on the lower meadow area.
• Take the KVB line 18 in the direction of Slabystraße and get off at the Boltensternstraße stop. From here it is another 200 m to the festival site.
• There are also some car parking spaces at the upper entrance.

Here is a video about the festival site.

Audio Descriptions & Touch Tour

For two events in this year’s festival program, we offer audio description, and for one event also a touch tour.

Overhead Project | What is Left at the Depot

Darragh McLoughlin | Stickman on the festival grounds (with touch tour)

For both events, please register at: tickets@circus-dancce-festival.de by May 19th. If no registrations are received by then, the audio description will not take place.

German Sign Language (DGS) Translation

There is a video in German Sign Language about the 2026 festival program.

The official festival opening on May 21 at 6:00 PM will be live interpreted in German Sign Language.

The following events take place without spoken language:

Overhead Project, Jef Everaert & Marica Marinoni, UNANiM, 101concrete, 360° Tag I, 360° Tag II, 360° Tag III, Handle with care, Fotoausstellung, Campus Session, Campus into the city, Campus Inter-actions

Assistance Service

For people who need support, we offer an assistance service from the Boltensternstraße or Slabystraße tram stops, and of course also from the parking lot for those arriving by car.

Please register by May 19 at: tickets@circus-dancce-festival.de

Accessibility of the Festival Grounds

The festival grounds consist of two parts. The upper part belongs to Latibul, the Circus and Theater Pedagogical Center, and is accessible via the street "An der Schanz."

From the Boltensternstraße train station, it is about 300 meters. There are elevators at both tracks of the station that take you up to a bridge. From there, you can access the street without any further barriers and continue on to Latibul.

Directly in front of the entrance to Latibul, there are several parking spaces. Designated parking spaces for people with disabilities are available at the youth hostel, just 200 meters from the festival entrance. The path to the festival is level.

The venues on this part of the festival grounds include two circus tents and a cinema, all of which are accessible at ground level. There is also a bar and the restrooms. A barrier-free toilet for wheelchair users is located in the restroom container and is accessible via a ramp.

The second part of the grounds is the large field at the bottom, between Latibul and the Rhine. You can reach it from the upper part (Latibul) via stairs or a paved path with a slight incline. Alternatively, you can also access it from the paved bike and pedestrian path along the Rhine. Between this bike and pedestrian path and the stages is a patch of grass. On this lower part of the festival grounds, events take place in another circus tent and on the concert stage. There is also a small tent with an open library and various activities to engage in conversations and get creative, as well as another bar.

The lower tent is accessible via a paved path. The incline upwards may be too steep for wheelchair users to navigate on their own. The other stages are only accessible via the grass.

There is a video that takes you through the grounds, so you can get an idea of the conditions. The video is available with subtitles.

Awareness Team

Community Guidelines

We expect all visitors, artists and team members to adhere to basic rules for respectful and sensitive interaction. This will be communicated in advance and during the festival. Not all discriminatory or offensive behaviour stems from malicious intent, but it can still be hurtful. As there is often a lack of awareness of this and many people are unsure how to react when something happens, we have drawn up our Community Guidelines. These will be shared with all employees, artists and supporters in advance.

More information about our awareness concept can be found under Awareness & Accessibility.

Contact Points & Availability:

• Pink Shirt with A
• Awareness wagon, Bars and Info point

Our Awareness Team moves around the festival grounds and can be identified by pink shirts with an "A" on the back. If you can't find the team right away, feel free to get in touch at our awareness wagon, directly behonde the bar at the festival centre, one of the other bars or the information point. The staff there will direct you to the right person. The Awareness Team can also be reached by phone at +49157 54251181 during the festival, in case direct contact is not desired or possible. The phone is also available if you need support at an event at one of the external locations.

Support Options:

Support may involve talking about what happened, sharing how you are feeling, or expressing your needs to help you feel better. We offer a quiet space where you can step away from the festival activities to talk, relax, or take a break.

In consultation with the festival team, individuals may be asked to leave the festival grounds. We will try to assist you with any matters to the best of our ability.

After the Festival:

If you need support following the festival regarding an incident or if you would like to share something with us, please feel free to contact us. If necessary, we can also refer you to professional support services.
We would also greatly appreciate feedback on how we handle these issues, as we are still in the process of improving. So, please feel free to reach out if you notice anything missing or bothersome in this text or during the festival.
You can email us at awareness@circus-dance-festival.de if you would like to contact the festival production team.

Tickets are sold via rausgegangen. You can purchase your tickets directly on the information pages for each performance on our website.

Regular: 20€

Reduced: 15€

Culture Support Ticket: 25€

Tanz.Card Holders: 8€

This year we also have again ourFestival Pass and a Day Pass for each day.

On the festival grounds, you'll find cool drinks at the bar. Our friends at Kaffe Güzel await you at the coffee bar with delicious coffee, and the boys of Trapas have everything you need in terms of good snacks. The catering at the festival is entirely vegetarian. A beer garden with a wide range of additional food and drinks is located nearby.

During the festival, photo and video recordings will be made for future promotional purposes. Our photographers and videographers are sensitive to the participants' right to privacy.

We are striving to organize the festival and its projects in an environmentally friendly way. The measures include everything from commuting to the office by bike, to using printed materials from an eco-friendly printer, to reusing materials for the site design.

The festival offers only vegetarian food. For coffee and backstage catering, we use reusable dishes.

Since 2024, we have a cargo bike that allows us to largely replace car journeys within Cologne.

You can support us by, for example, arriving by bike or public transport, showing your ticket digitally, or following the waste separation guidelines on the festival grounds.