Planeta Festival
2026
in English
Brief overview
We light up the darkness.
When Sweden is at its grayest and the Gothenburg rain lashes away your last memories of the summer sun, we summon the joy of the entire world—blending creative expressions from near and far, the pulse of the present, and ancient traditions—and gather it all into a festival we call Planeta, 22 October – 1 November.
Opening concert 1: Amit Mishra & Moa Danielson
Welcome to the opening of Planeta Festival 2026 – the start of 11 days of music and dance from around the world. Masterful classic North Indian music with Amit Mishra & Moa Danielson. Music for deep listening, leaning forward.
Opening concert 2: Fanta Yayo and band
The Planeta opening continues with Fanta Yayo from Guinea, the foremost jalimuso and griot in Sweden and France. With her quartet she performs songs from her latest album. Music for getting up and dance.
Concert: World Music Culture Club at Pizzeria Mums
Salsa from Cuba, marrabenta from Mozambique and much more – including after-work pizza. Join us out at Pedagogen Park!
Shows, try-outs and party with Arabesque
Experience dance, music and rhythm as Arabesque invites you to a festive evening. Try one class or several – or stay all night and end up on the open dance floor.
Dance session and live music for dancing: Tagel & Co, Urbanders and Höstrusk
A dance session where Balkan dances are taught, followed by live music for dancing with Tagel & Co, Urbanders and Höstrusk.
Concert: Lamine Cissokho
Lamine Cissokho, descended from a family of Mandinka griots from Senegal, meets the audience with stories, song and new ways of playing the kora. With Tobias Grim on guitar.
Planeta Kids: Make a piñata!
Start the weekend by making your own skull-shaped piñata. Take it home, fill it with something tasty – and try to crack it open.
Planeta Kids: Make a piñata!
An afternoon session that takes patience but gives you a truly unique piñata. Led by the artist Katia Ibarra of Casa Piñata.
Concert: Dona nobis pacem – grant us peace
Planeta Festival brings warmth to Alingsås with African rhythms and the Swedish song tradition, in songs about peace and freedom, gratitude and hope.
Concert: GAO Sessions
Göteborgs Alternativa Orkester invites you to the legendary Kinesiska muren, where the music embraces you with sounds from many different spheres.
Club Maqam: Nadia Pavlidou & Vangelis Kohilis
Live rebetiko with Nadia Pavlidou and Vangelis Kohilis from Thessaloniki, a dabke workshop and Club Maqam's DJs Gavana & Aimnbreak. Before the club: a show-and-tell about Gothenburg's Balkan and Mediterranean scene.
Workshop: Make a memory box
Who do you miss? Spend a Sunday making a nicho, a decorated memory box for someone you want to remember. Bring your own photos or use the materials provided.
Concert: Trio Sonrisa
A musical journey to Cuba – a swinging, colourful show inspired by son cubano, where the audience gets to clap rhythms, sing, dance and discover the instruments.
Planeta Choir Festival in Borås
An afternoon of choral singing in many languages at Kulturhuset in Borås – Jewish, Finnish, Sámi and Ukrainian choral traditions, poems, and a sing-along that everyone can join.
Día de Muertos opening
Día de Muertos opens with a colourful performance by the dance group Mexicas and the Mexican Association's installation “El umbral del Panteón”, a Mexican cemetery.
Planeta Kids: Let's sing and dance together
We sing and dance together – will you join us? An hour of dance and song for children aged 2–6.
Planeta Kids: Día de Muertos studio
Start the autumn school holiday in the studio: decorate a skull and a xoloitzcuintle, and learn the symbols behind the Day of the Dead. From age 8.
30 Shades of Dance
Film, stage and dance house: 30 Shades of Dance takes us through Hungary's world of dance – and then the dancers step off the screen and invite you to try Hungarian folk dance.
Planeta Senior: Larisa
Finnish tango, Ostrobothnian polkas and runo songs on the accordion. Larisa Ljungkrona-Mönttinen plays at café iHOP at House of Possibilitas.
Planeta Kids: Día de Muertos studio
The second and final session in the studio. Mónica Gutiérrez Hernandez and Cicela Alvarado Mendez guide you through two objects and the traditions behind them.
Planeta Senior: Fredy Clue
Fredy Samuel Lundh brings the nyckelharpa to Dergårdsfoajén in Lerum, with a story about the inner obstacles that hold us back.
Workshop: Finnish folk singing and vocal technique with Anna Fält
Explore Finno-Ugric songs, Finnish folk songs and traditions where the voice carries both history and landscape – together with the singer and folk musician Anna Fält.
Planeta Senior: Larisa
Accordion melodies that have travelled between Finland and Sweden. This morning Larisa Ljungkrona-Mönttinen plays at Ryttaren in Uddevalla.
Planeta Kids: Lumi ja jää – The Snowflake's Tale
Lumi ja jää – “snow and ice” in Meänkieli – is a poetic and playful dance theatre performance for children aged around 6–8.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
Start the school-holiday day with crafts: learn to make Mexican paper flowers modelled on the cempasúchil, the flower that lights up the Día de Muertos celebrations. From age 4.
Planeta Senior: Agnes & Elian
Soprano saxophone, song and the Ottoman lute lavta. Today Agnes Viksten and Elian Hägglund give two concerts at Mötesplats Simonsland in Borås, the first at lunchtime.
Planeta Kids: Lumi ja jää – The Snowflake's Tale
Lumi ja jää – “snow and ice” in Meänkieli – is a poetic and playful dance theatre performance for children aged around 6–8.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
An afternoon session in paper and colour. The artist Katia Ibarra shows how the Mexican paper flowers take shape, petal by petal.
Planeta Senior: Agnes & Elian
Traditional music with stories about where the tunes come from. The afternoon concert at Mötesplats Simonsland in Borås, where Agnes Viksten and Elian Hägglund offer both vulnerability and full-on energy.
Noche de Muertos with Liliana Zavala
A full evening of DJ, bar, dance, talks and exhibitions during Día de Muertos – and a concert with Liliana Zavala, one of the most innovative forces on the Swedish folk scene.
Concert: Fotspår (Footprints)
A musical journey in the footsteps of the Swedish Travellers (resandefolket), where stories, historical images and traditional melodies bring an often overlooked musical history to life.
Planeta Senior: Sajouri – Här och nu och sen
“Here and now and later” – a music performance about the moments that change us. The first of today's two shows in Trollhättan, this one at Mötesplats Åsaka.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
Make the most of the school holiday: create your own Mexican paper flowers and take them home. We start from the cempasúchil, the flower of the dead.
Planeta Senior: Fredy Clue
A queer journey through folk culture, today at Mötesplats Hultahuset in Borås. Fredy Samuel Lundh weaves together folk costume, nyckelharpa and personal stories.
Lunch concert: New paths in tradition
Tradition meets the present as students from the Academy of Music and Drama play their own tunes with roots in the Nordic countries and the eastern Mediterranean. The first of two lunch concerts at Hängmattan.
Planeta Senior: Sajouri – Här och nu och sen
Music and stories inspired by encounters in India, Sri Lanka, Haiti and Senegal. Sajouri plays at Mötesplats Kronogården in Trollhättan in the afternoon.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
Thursday's second session: a workshop for everyone from age 4, where we make the flowers that adorn the altars during Día de Muertos.
Planeta Senior: Fredy Clue
What are you hiding? This afternoon Fredy moves on to Hässlehuset in Borås with a performance about secrets and about traditions that have room for more people.
Concert: Svarta Safirer
Svarta Safirer come to the National Minorities' Culture House. Together with young people and guest young musicians, the band plays Romani Balkan music centred on tradition, rhythm and the meeting on stage.
Workshop: Try Swedish folk dancing!
Dance Swedish folk dances! Come and try the rich variety of folk dance – with experienced instructors and something tasty in the break.
Jive Connection X
Jive Connection offer a pulsating meeting of South African music, afrobeat, afrojive and psychedelia. Fronted by Norman Zulu and Kele Lebogo, it will be a night full of groove and improvisation.
Eldfesten – a celebration of fire
Fire-making the prehistoric way, torches around Offermossen, ghost stories in the dark and a fire show by Nordcirkus. Vitlycke Museum celebrates what fire has meant to us.
Planeta Senior: Larisa
Larisa Ljungkrona-Mönttinen visits Landvetterträffen with accordion, Finnish tango and songs in both Finnish and Swedish.
Planeta Senior: Sajouri – Här och nu och sen
A single encounter can open up a new world. Sajouri round off their three shows at Mötesplats Sjöbohuset in Borås.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
End the holiday week in the workshop: fold, cut and shape your own Mexican paper flowers together with the artist Katia Ibarra.
Lunch concert: New paths in tradition
A second chance to hear the students from the Contemporary Traditional Music programme at the Academy of Music and Drama – their own tunes where the Nordic countries meet the eastern Mediterranean, at Hängmattan in Majorna.
Planeta Kids: Make Mexican paper flowers
The last chance to make paper flowers this year – the very last session of the school holiday, modelled on the cempasúchil flower.
Planeta Senior: Agnes & Elian
Swedish folk music meets traditions from the eastern Mediterranean when Agnes Viksten and Elian Hägglund visit Kulturhuset Fregatten in Stenungsund.
Exhibition opening and concert: Ivan Mazuze Group & Los Gatos
Opening of Bertil Håkansson's photo exhibition “Människor och musiker i Hammarkullen” (People and musicians in Hammarkullen), followed by a concert with the saxophonist Ivan Mazuze and the support act Los Gatos.
Concert and dance: Tron Steffen Westberg, Ole Erik Feragen & Per Ivar Tamnes
A concert and dance with Tron Steffen Westberg, Ole Erik Feragen & Per Ivar Tamnes – driving Røros pols on two fiddles and guitar.
Concert: Tribu Le-Bert & Amanecer
Santiago meets Varberg in an evening of Chilean song traditions and modern South American sounds, with La Tribu Le-Bert and Amanecer.
Workshop: Djembe with Julien Djenke
Come and play the djembe drum with Julien Djenke, a musician, dancer and choreographer from Togo/Benin. All levels welcome, drums available to borrow.
Planeta Kids: Make a piñata!
The festival's last Saturday: build a skull-shaped Día de Muertos piñata, in a team of one adult and up to two children.
Workshop: West African dance with Julien Djenke
Dance to great rhythms with Julien Djenke from Togo/Benin – to both live drums and recorded music, in a class full of positive energy.
Planeta Kids: Make a piñata!
The last chance to make a piñata this year. Paint, paper and patience – and a skull to take home and fill.
Concert: Ivan Mazuze Group
The saxophonist Ivan Mazuze, with roots in Mozambique and based in Norway, combines African rhythmic heritage with contemporary jazz and global influences.
Workshop: Make a memory box
The last day of the festival, and this year's final chance to make a nicho – a memory box for someone who is no longer with us. All ages welcome.
Subject to change. Note that the children’s programmes and workshops are normally not presented in English. Please check the organizer’s information for any updates. Except for the 2026 inauguration concerts, we do not offer tickets on this site (planeta.se); however, where applicable, we provide links to the ticketing or reservation systems chosen by the respective organizers. Booking fees may apply to certain events. Please direct questions regarding prices, terms and conditions, refunds, etc., to the ticket vendor.
ORGANIZERS & PARTNERS OF PLANETA 2026: ABF, Arabesque Academy, Borås Folkhögskola, Borås Stad, Christinae kyrka Alingsås, Club Maqam, Danskompaniet Spinn, Dergårdsfoajén, Hulud Kulturhus, Folkdansringen Göteborg, Folkets Hus Hammarkullen, Folkmusikkaféet Allégården, Folkuniversitetet, Gräfsnäsgården, Göteborgs Alternativa Orkester (GAO), Göteborgs Nationaldanssällskap (GNDS), Göteborgs Stad, House of Possibilitas, Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborgs universitet, Kinesiska muren, Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Ungersk Kulturförening, Kulturföreningen Vida Världen, Kulturhuset Blå Stället, Kulturhuset Fregatten, Kulturhuset Kåken, Landvetterträffen, Lerums kommun, Meerkat Recordings, Mexikanska föreningen i Göteborg, Musikens Hus, Mötesplats Hultahuset, Mötesplats Hässlehuset, Mötesplats Kronogården, Mötesplats Simonsland, Mötesplats Sjöbohuset, Mötesplats Åsaka, Nationella Minoriteters Kulturhus, Oceanen, Pizzeria Mums, Redbergsteatern, Ryttaren Café & aktivitetscenter, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, Svenska Klezmerföreningen, Svenska kyrkan Alingsås, Trollhättans Stad, Utopia Jazz, Varbergs Musikförening, Vitlycke museum, World Music Culture Club, Världskulturmuseet, Västra Götalandsregionen och Zondede.
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