Rewire 2026 is nearly upon us! Before you join us in The Hague, here are a few final tips to help you prepare for your visit. Our field guide offers information about tickets and wristbands, registrations, venues, and other essential information. Any other urgent questions? Make sure to check our FAQ here.

1. Tickets & wristbands

Tickets for Rewire 2026 weekend are now sold out (limited tickets are available for our programme on Thursday evening and for the club programme at Laak on Saturday evening). Official reselling of Rewire tickets goes through our TicketSwap page.

Please note: to access the festival you will need to exchange your e-ticket for a wristband upon arrival at our Ticket & Info Centre. The Ticket & Info Centre at Amare is your go-to for picking up your Rewire wristband, picking up Rewire merchandise, a programme booklet, or a timetable. There will be Rewire staff ready to answer your questions.

Amare Address:
Spuiplein 150, Den Haag

Opening hours:
Thursday, 9 April: 14:00–22.30
Friday, 10 April: 12:00–00:00
Saturday, 11 April: 12:00–00.00
Sunday, 12 April: 12:00–22:00

2. Registrations & Plus Tickets

For a selection of events, we offer visitors the opportunity to ensure their spot. By registering, visitors will have a guaranteed place. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. To ensure a smooth entry and to not disturb the start of the concert or screening, we ask visitors with a registration ticket to be there early: Aim to be at least 10 minutes early for registered events. If you are not there five minutes before the event starts (for free registration events), you may lose your slot to a non-registered audience member who is queueing – this does not apply for Plus Tickets.

See the full list of programme items that require registration from this link.

Plus Tickets are required for the concerts of Oneohtrix Point Never (on Friday) and Einstürzende Neubauten (on Sunday). While Oneohtrix Point Never Plus Tickets are sold out, a limited number remain for Einstürzende Neubauten, available to purchase at rewirefestival.nl/tickets.

3. Timetable

To get started with your festival planning, check out the digital timetable on our website where you can highlight and save all your favourite concerts, talks, screenings, installations, and more. View the timetable here, including a .PDF version. Printed timetables will be freely available at Amare, PAARD, and The Grey Space and the Middle during the festival weekend. 

The Rewire 2026 timetable is also available to view on the go via our official festival app TMSQR. Download it here.

4. Venues & map

Rewire 2026 is spread across over 20 different venues in The Hague’s city centre. Most venues are within walking distance of each other, and it shouldn’t take you more than a quick stroll to get from one to the other. Koninklijke Schouwburg and West Den Haag can be reached by taking tram 16 from Central Station to the Korte Voorhout stop. PAARD is located above the Grote Markt tram stop (accessible by the 2, 3, 4, and 6 trams from Central Station). Laak can be reached by the 1 and 16 trams to the Leeghwaterplein stop. You can find information about each of the Rewire 2026 locations on our Venues page. To give you a quick overview, we made a handy map.

5. Rewire 2026 festival app

For its 15th anniversary edition, Rewire has once again teamed up with TMSQR to present its festival app for Rewire 2026.

The app allows you to explore the timetable and programme, and plan your own festival routes by saving your favourite artists, with an option to receive a reminder when these performances are due to take place. The interactive festival map allows for easy navigation to the festival locations. Additionally, we have included the Rewire 2026 playlist, where you can listen to snippets of tracks to get an idea of what to expect, whilst reading up on the latest festival news. Remember to enable notifications.

Download the official Rewire 2026 festival app.

6. Programme booklet

Get familiar with the full Rewire 2026 programme by checking out our programme booklet. The physical booklet will be freely available at most of our venues during the festival weekend. Printed programme booklets are freely available at Amare, PAARD, and The Grey Space in the Middle during the festival weekend.

7. Rewire 2026 opening programme

Thursday Pass and 4-Day Pass holders are welcome to Amare for Rewire 2026’s opening programme, featuring five-time Grammy award-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani, an icon and early pioneer of electronic music composition, and producer Darren J. Cunningham, aka Actress, performing 'Concrète Waves’; and two premiere performances from Caterina Barbieri. First, she performs in collaboration with ONCEIM. Then she presents another premiere of new music as a solo artist, showcasing her vivid modular synthesis and expanded electro-acoustic formats, accompanied by guest musicians and visuals by MFO.

Learn more here and pick up your ticket from rewirefestival.nl/tickets.

8. Free programme

As a cornerstone of the Rewire 2026 programme, we believe that music and art belong to everyone. That’s why we’re presenting a vibrant lineup of free events and activities for those who don’t have a festival pass. Enjoy live musical performances, engaging talks, creative workshops, immersive sound walks, and captivating art installations.

Rewire 2026’s context programme 
Situated around its music and performance line-up, Rewire’s context programme provides a space for reflection and brings the various practices of artists into conversation with each other. Through workshops, conversations, sound walks and listening sessions, the context programme offers free-to-attend events throughout The Hague’s city centre. A full overview of the context programme can be found here.

Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum
Proximity Music is a joint exhibition program initiated by iii and Rewire. It seeks to connect music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through sensory experiences. Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum focuses on attuning to the seemingly inaudible rhythms, vibrations, and radiations that coexist in our environment. A full overview of the Proximity Music exhibition can be found here.

Rewire x 3345 in-store
Rewire returns to our favourite record store 3345 to host an in-store event on Sunday. Find more information here. The event is freely available, and offers the perfect moment to grab some records by your favourite artists, while enjoying the special sounds of the in-store's artists.

9. Film programme

Rewire’s film programme intersects with and ponders upon the festival’s overarching themes of staging sound, further listening, times and territories, and instrumental ecologies – with a particular focus this year around the latter two themes. The programme returns to Filmhuis Den Haag for daily screenings of films which touch on urgent ideas around ecologies, tradition, and sounding. Find out more about the Rewire 2026 film programme and registration here.

10. Getting around at the festival

All of our festival locations are located in the centre of The Hague and are easily accessible by foot. The Hague also offers a good infrastructure for cycling if you want to get to another location faster. Koninklijke Schouwburg and West Den Haag can be reached by taking tram 16 from Central Station to the Korte Voorhout stop. PAARD is located above the Grote Markt tram stop (accessible by the 2, 3, 4, and 6 trams from Central Station). Laak can be reached by the 1 and 16 trams to the Leeghwaterplein stop.

If you would like to get around by bike, and are based in The Netherlands, we recommend renting an OV bike for just €4.80 per day. In addition, there are several bike rentals in the city available to all. Especially for the festival, we have created an extensive bicycle parking area right in front of PAARD, one of the festival's main venues.

11. Food at the festival

Rewire takes places across the centre of The Hague and thus benefits from the many restaurants and cafes in proximity to its venues, but for Rewire-specific venues, food is available to pick up from The Grey Space in the Middle and PAARD. All food served there will be vegetarian; vegan options are also available. 

12. Rewire merchandise

This year, in addition to our deluxe long-sleeve shirt, Rewire also offers two different short sleeve t-shirts and its newly launched publication with Page Not Found, Centre for Artistic Publishing, titled Further Listening: On Adventurous Music and Sound, which launches on Friday at the festival at Page Not Found. Merchandise is available during the festival at Amare, PAARD, and The Grey Space in the Middle.

13. Listen to the festival playlist

To give you an idea of what to expect during the festival, we’ve compiled an official Rewire 2026 festival playlist. Dive in and explore before you join us in The Hague this weekend.

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Photos by Baroeg Mulder