Festival for children and young people KITOKS will take place on January 11-18, 2025, at the Arts Printing House in Vilnius.

This festival for children and young people is one of the first and one of the largest festivals in Lithuania, presenting unconventional, contemporary performing arts to spectators aged 0-18 years.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM:

SHADES OF SHADOWS | TANGRAM Kollektiv (DE)  

Laws of Physics dont apply, expectations are crossed. Shadows entering through the backdoor and stealing our Stuff Everyday object shadows are running wild for their own little dance of freedom. They are getting bigger, and smaller, they split and they merge. Even the Puppeteers Shadows multiply and are creating a dialogue. Shadows become whatever they imagined to be. shadows become bodies, bodies become shadows and than fo a second being alone feels a lot less lonely. An ode to the power of Imagination!

January 11, 10:00 and 14:00

Location: Pocket Hall of the Arts Printing House

Age: 5-8 years for children

Duration: 35 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

COLORSPHERE | Hands some Feet (FIN) 

This circus adventure is a story about exploration, change, and adapting to new environments. Join the explorers on their expedition into a new reality where they must learn to adjust to unexpected circumstances. Colorsphere takes both young and old spectators on an exciting journey towards completely new dimensions, promising a magical and memorable experience for everyone.

January 11 at 12:00 and 15:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Age: 3-6 years

Duration: 45 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

NO MOON | Samfaina De Colors (CAT)

A show without text where music is the language to communicate the feelings and emotions that guide us on this evocative journey. visual delicacy and live music. An ideal opportunity to delve into the beauty and magic of the night.

January 12, 10:00 and 14:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Age: 3-6 years for children

Duration: 40 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

GAJA MARA | Kauno kamerinis teatras (LT)

An interactive musical movement performance that tells about the time of light (Gaja) and darkness (Mara), using folkloric holiday songs, games, rituals and folklorics used in ancient Baltic traditions. The main artistic idea of the play "Gaja-Mara" is based on the worldview of the ancient Balts, the concept of the cycle of nature, the connection with light and darkness, the ritualism of the time and the primordial sensations by which the unborn, babies and those who are just starting to walk know the world. The performance features folkloric music, plays and games, for which the elements of scenography created on the principle of tactile toys are used – their textures, shapes, colors.

January 12, 12:00 and 15:00

Location: Pocket Hall of the Arts Printing House

Age: up to 3 years

Duration: 30 min. + 15 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

ARCHIPELAGO | Teatro Telaio (IT)

Archipelago is a theatrical installation performed and brought to life by the children themselves.
The children are immersed in a symbolic context in which they can recognize some metaphors within which to orient themselves. A journey that we hope will help the children to process some emotions and life experiences, personal or collective, that may have left a trace in their deepest self.

January 13, 10:00, 12:00, 18:00

January 14 at 14:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Age: 7-12 years

Duration: 40 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

INSIDES | El Patio Teatro (ES)

Where our body goes when they disappeared? What are we? What are we made of? What is a body? El Patio Teatro exposes themselves to the interior of human body to try to explain through object theatre and narrative what it is that we have inside. At an intimate anatomy class questions arise to unravel some of the mysteries of the human body. The outcome, a game, a brief anatomy lessons from El Patio Teatro.

January 13 at 18:00

January 14 at 10:00

Location: Pocket Hall of the Arts Printing House

Age: from 12 years

Duration: 35 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

FRAMED | hetpaleis (BE)

It seems as though our body has never had such a prominent place in the way we look at ourselves and others. In the lives of young people growing up, this leads to vulnerability and sometimes to downright violent behaviour: racism, fat shaming, sexism and bullying. These are the consequences of a gaze that reduces people to a physical characteristic.

January 15 at 10:00 and 14:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Age: from 14 years

Duration: 55 min.

The show will be held in English

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

ROLLERCOASTER | Wes Peden (FR)

Ultra-modern pop-punk juggling! Surrounded by a huge inflatable blue structure and accompanied by electro beats composed of distorted rollercoaster sounds, Peden shares his cutting-edge tricks inspired by corkscrews, adrenalin, and high-tech seatbelts. The show features a 4-meter transparent tube making balls spiral around Wes’ body, contemporary spinning plate rituals, epic 3-ball disco juggling, and invisible seatbelts providing the safety to perform some of the most difficult juggling ever done on stage!

January 16 at 10:00 and 18:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Age: 8-14 years

Duration: 45 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

GALAKTIKOS | Teatro istorijos & Kauno kamerinis teatras (LT)

The life of a teenager Carol is a delicate dance between a passion for the mysteries of the cosmos and the challenges associated with communication. Carol, who has autism spectrum disorder, perceives the world as a huge cacophony in which every sound, taste, touch and smell is enhanced, so the things that are common to us seem alien to him. The safest place for him is the room – a refuge that the guy turns into a spaceship, embarks on extraordinary journeys to distant planets, in search of his (neuro)tribe – a community that would truly understand him. Combining elements of paper and drama theater, the creative team of "Galaxy" takes viewers on an expedition through space, reflecting Charles' inner world.

January 17, 10:00 and 18:00

Location: Pocket Hall of the Arts Printing House

Age: 12-16 years

Duration: 1 hour 10 min.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

TRIJULĖ AUKŠTYN KOJOM | Taško teatras (LT)

Primordial and Dudule are a duo with their own well-established order, which they trust unconditionally. One day, however, their lives are turned upside down by the Trio: she doesn't care about the alien order, and even more so doesn't seem obliged to follow it. With her otherness, she not only provokes Primordial and Dudule to reassess the order they have created, but also reveals that otherness in the world is valuable and interesting. After all, the most important thing is not the rules, but friendship based on mutual trust and respect. The play tells how, as if the third and its otherness that have fallen from the sky, can shake up the routine of life that had previously been in place. However, respect, care and responsibility not only for oneself, but also for another, helps to establish and maintain relationships with a wide variety of people or animals that foster the individuality of each.

January 17 at 12:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Duration: 50 min.

Age: 6-9 years

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai

SOC NATURA | L'autèntica (CAT)

SOC NATURA is a captivating and original immersive installation which offers a nature discovery to the baby as well as a collective experience among other babies and families. What if you could become for a moment part of a forest that breathes? What if you could feel the oscillating fall of a leaf? Or even, if you could blow as the wind dragging everything on its way?

January 18 at 11:00, 12:00 and 15:00

Location: Arts Printing House Black Hall

Duration: 35 min.

Age: 0-24 months. Babies

Tickets: https://bit.ly/KITOKS_2025_Bilietai