Baltic Circle is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. The festival celebrates its 20th anniversary from November 20-28, 2020.

The festival brings intensities into the city, takes stands on current questions, and ignites dialogue. Baltic Circle believes in the aesthetic and affective powers of the arts, and in the potential of social and political agency of performance. The works seen at the festival search for new forms of performing arts and revised modes of production.

Baltic Circle is based on a firm belief in the opportunities of arts to bring people together and to participate in societal change. Art can grant a space to imagine what does not yet exist, to re-organize our way of understanding reality, and to find forms to share it.

Baltic Circle functions under the Helsinki based theatre Q-teatteri as an artistically and economically independent organisation.