Where limits meet imagination

No Limits Festival is an international performing arts festival featuring professional artists with disabilities.

Mission

No Limits Festival is committed to raising the profile of the work of artists and performers with disabilities (physical, hearing, visual, cognitive, neurodiverse). Not only do they deserve a natural and fully-fledged place in the cultural landscape; their perspectives are essential for a forward-looking and diverse artistic practice.

We aim to demonstrate the power and significance of this work by bringing important, high-quality international productions to the Netherlands and programming them alongside leading Dutch works. We support Dutch creators and performers and help them to expand their networks.

We also focus on a broad audience to show them, too, that a disability is no barrier to artistic quality and expressiveness. And we strive to lower as many barriers to attendance as possible. We want to set an example for other cultural institutions and demonstrate how barriers within the cultural sector (and society) can be removed. We aim to accelerate developments in the sector and drive change through our actions and by sharing the knowledge we have gained. We will consider our mission a success when a dedicated festival such as ours is no longer needed.

History

Since 2021, we have been staging productions featuring international and national professionals with disabilities at Het Nationale Theater. We did this under the name STET (Stichting The English Theatre). Since 2024, we have been bringing these productions together in an annual festival under our new name, No Limits Festival. In addition, we organise discussions to improve knowledge of accessibility among professionals and the public in the Netherlands.