Max SteventonOrganisers of Denmark’s Roskilde Festival (cap.130,000) have revealed new additions and upgrades to the event ahead of its opening on 27 June.
The independently-run, non-profit, festival will feature two new stages, its own cinema and a larger version of its existing Orange Stage for its 2026 edition.
Roskilde’s two new stages will be named Fauna and Lagune. Organisers said Fauna will be a covered tent stage with the focus on intimacy while Lagune will stage up-and-coming Nordic artists. Meanwhile, the festival’s main stage, the Orange Stage, will be expanded, with organisers citing increasingly ambitious production plans as a key reason for the upgrade.
Organisers said the cinema area will show a mixture of blockbusters, documentaries and cult classics. It is being curated by Roskilde Festival and and Roskilde Festival Højskole, in collaboration with CPH:DOX, the European Parliament, The Why Foundation, RoskildeBio and the Danish Film School.
This year’s event will take place from 27 June-4 July and is located just south of the city of Roskilde, 18 miles west of Copenhagen. Headliners include The Cure, Gorillaz and Zara Larsson.
Roskilde Festival director of art Signe Brink Wehl said, “It’s been 13 years since the festival last featured a cinema, and Cinema will be an entirely new format, presenting films that focus on current issues and debates that engage festival participants in conversation.”