Weekly writing workshop led by PC (Poul Christian) Asmussen. No requirements, no critiques - write freely for ten minutes, read aloud and comment on each other's texts. Everyone is welcome, no registration necessary. Price: Free.

Writing Workshop at Dokk1 - Text for the Times

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Free two-day event with play, theatre, creative activities and space for children's opinions, where children and adults can try out democracy. Activities include lantern play, hat theatre, theatre storytelling, reading games, activity booths on Rampen and a ballot box where both children and adults can vote on whether 15-year-olds should have the right to vote.

Democracy and Children

Join cartoonist Peter Madsen and author Kenneth Bøgh Andersen for an inspiring conversation about the Valhalla universe. For children and adults of all ages. Together they explore the journey from the comics about Thor, Loki and the Norse gods to Kenneth Bøgh Andersen's novel version of Tjalfe and Røskva's adventures in Asgard.

Albus Festival: Valhalla Live - Gods, Heroes and Stories

Come and join in making your own little stories with markers, cardboard and artificial intelligence. For children aged 4 to 8 (and their grown-ups). Students from Aarhus University run the activities.

Albus Festival: Time Passes, but Where Does It Go?

Get an experience you can't get anywhere else! See, touch and feel real objects such as: dinosaur eggs, a mammoth skull, the first life on Earth, lots of fossils, dinosaur feathers, moon rocks and much more. For curious souls aged 4-99. Here, natural history becomes sensory, immediate and hands-on.

Albus Festival: Come and Touch a "Real" Dinosaur!

Gongen

Surprise collage workshop for children ages 6-10 (and parents) with illustrator and author Kristin Roskifte. Participants choose an envelope and create a picture collage from paper cutouts.

Albus Festival: Hva´ ser du? - A Creative Workshop with Kristin Roskifte

A day full of writing, readings, music and high spirits, with activist workshops, comedy and a closing concert with Takt og Tone.

Albus Festival for Unge

A festive celebration of this year's Orla Prize winners, hosted by Sisse Gram de Fries. The show will be livestreamed.

The Great Orla Prize Show

Rampen

An interactive and playful circle concert for children aged 3 to 6, in which six old traditional Danish singing games are rediscovered, accompanied and led by Musikflyveren. Duration approx. 45 minutes.

Albus: Old Danish Singing Games with Musikflyveren

Robot play for kindergartens. The children learn to program the little floor robot Blue-Bot by pressing the buttons on the robot's back, build courses, play robot games and make robot doodle art. An event for day-care centers with children aged 4-6.

Play with Blue-Bots

A daycare program for children aged 5 to 6. Read-aloud sessions, games and curious activities about the life and death of birds, part of the Albus Festival of children's literature.

Albus Festival: The Course of Nature – Birds

Go on an adventure with Kaj and his best friend – the brave, but also a little forgetful, Bamse. For children aged 4-7. Experience one of the funniest children's podcasts in a live format – and YOU get to help create the story. The stories are made up on the spot, and nothing is planned in advance.

Albus Festival: Kaj and Bamse Live

Come and taste the historic æbleskiver and hear the full story from food historian Line Everingham Schleisner. Open to all participants.

Albus Festival: Taste the History

Science communicator Matilda Tjellden takes the family on a journey down the stairs – and millions of years back in time. With each step we move further back in Earth's history, from volcanic ash on Fur (55 million years), over layers of chalk from Møns Klint (70 million years), to the bedrock of Bornholm (1.4 billion years). Both children and adults must book tickets.

Albus Festival: Deep Time

Drop by Rampen when a total of 12 slammers from 6 different efterskoler take part in the Danish Championship in Poetry Slam for Efterskoler 2026. Experience the unique battle of words in spoken poetry and spoken word, as efterskole students perform their own texts for an audience.

Albus Festival: Danish Championship in Poetry Slam for Efterskoler 2026

A sensory exhibition in which Stian Hole's pictorial world unfolds around you, drawing on the picture book Garmann's Secret.

Albus Festival: Exhibition - Garmann's Secret

Torvet

Illustrator Katrine Louise Jacobsen creates, together with visitors, an exhibition of floating faces, each representing an encounter between two people. The exhibition opens on Dyslexia Day for sixth-grade classes and then travels on to Fæstivalg, and it finally becomes part of this year's Albus Festival for Children's Literature. No special drawing skills are required. Free.

Albus Festival: Draw Floating Faces

Come aboard when Kalle and Captain Skipper sail into Albus Festival! A cozy storytime for children aged 6-10 with Nana Bang Kirkegaard, from Ole Lund Kirkegaard's world. Free, but both children and adults must book a ticket.

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Nov 20, 2026

Albus Festival: The Course of Nature – Birds

Nov 21, 2026

Albus Festival: Kaj and Bamse Live

Nov 21, 2026

Albus Festival: Taste the History

Nov 21, 2026

Albus Festival: Deep Time

Nov 21, 2026

Albus Festival: Danish Championship in Poetry Slam for Efterskoler 2026

Nov 9, 2026

Writing Workshop at Dokk1 - Text for the Times

23 - 24 Oct, 2026

Democracy and Children

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