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International Children’s Festival in Šibenik

13.06.2026. - 27.06.2026.
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The undoubted peculiarity of Croatian culture and a kind of trademark of Šibenik is the International Children's Festival. During June until July th, Šibenik becomes a city of children for the 66th time, and celebrates children's imagination and creativity.

The International Children's Festival in Šibenik, first held in 1958, is one of the most recognizable and oldest cultural events for children in Croatia. The festival originated as an initiative of children's art enthusiasts, and over the decades it has developed into a complex and internationally recognized program.

This year, too, Šibenik will host the children of the world, giving its streets to children's creativity and remind all its visitors how precious the world of children's play, joy and goodness is. During the festival days, Šibenik is one big open stage, a place of exciting meeting of poets and children. In numerous artistic and creative forms on the city streets and squares meet the whole world, representatives of cultures from all continents. Visitors can expect more than 200 performers from numerous countries around the world. This year, a record 53 workshops were registered, which will be attended by more than 1000 children.

The festival has three basic programmes: a festival of domestic and international children’s ensembles, the workshop programme directly and publicly involving children in the act of creation, and the educational part where a symposium addresses issues such as aesthetic education of children. To those who never forget their playful side and even more so to those who have completely forgotten it, Šibenik should be an inevitable destination.

The concept and humanitarian goals of the Festival have the full support of UNICEF and UNESCO and the constant patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia.

The International Children's Festival Šibenik was opened with the raising of the festival flag. The program part of the festival was officially opened on the Republic Square with the contemporary circus performance "Alboroto" performed by the artistic groups Truca Circus and Chicharrón Circo Flamenco from Spain.

The audience has already had the opportunity to enjoy various outdoor programs, and the performance by the Italian group Eccentrici Dadarò, performed at Poljana, attracted special attention. The European project "Family Theatre 2024 - 2027" was also presented as part of the Festival, which develops the concept of family theatre and encourages joint participation of different generations in art, with an emphasis on inclusion and cultural diversity.

The International Children's Festival in Šibenik hosted numerous artists from all over the world who dedicate their talent to children through play and laughter, plays, workshops, performances, art installations, visual arts, music and everything in which imagination reigns and joy triumphs.