What's on in The Hague: events this week
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Sunday 1 November
The first edition of this city marathon starts at the Malieveld and runs its 42.195 kilometres through The Hague and the Westland.
Thousands of runners take on the city's first full marathon, with the course running through the Zuiderpark.
CORPUS is a Leiden-area attraction where visitors walk through a giant human body model to learn how organs work.
The Mauritshuis joins Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum to show works from the Spanish collection.
British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who played at the 2018 royal wedding, makes his debut with the orchestra in a month of programmes under three conductors.
A tasting event built around Michelin-starred cooking, with chefs serving small dishes to visitors in the medieval church.
Gints Zilbalodis's dialogue-free Latvian animation about a cat surviving a flood with other animals, which won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Legoland Discovery Centre's Halloween programme, with seasonal brick-building activities and trick-or-treating for younger children.
Visitors can learn about the Binnenhof’s past, present and future during the renovation.
Gnawa is Moroccan trance music of sub-Saharan origin, built on the three-stringed guembri and iron castanets, here paraded through the city centre.
World of Dinos is a touring indoor exhibition of life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, here at its Zandvoort location.
The tour explores the monumental former US embassy building in central The Hague.
Gnawa is Moroccan trance music of Sub-Saharan origin, driven by the three-stringed guembri bass lute and metal qraqeb castanets.
Ghost and true-crime walking tours combine stories about hauntings with real crime history.
The family amusement park in Rijswijk adds Halloween decoration and themed activities to its usual rides.
The tour introduces the modernist former embassy building in central The Hague.
A giant-screen film featuring T. rex and other dinosaurs.
A short guided tour of the Mauritshuis, the royal cabinet of paintings whose collection includes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson.
Día de Muertos is the Mexican festival honouring the dead with sugar skulls, marigolds and music, here with a Mexican programme at the Grote Markt café.
The Mexican Day of the Dead, when the dead are remembered with skulls and marigolds, marked here with tequila, Mexican snacks and live music.
This documentary follows Jack Johnson, the professional surfer who became a filmmaker and internationally known singer-songwriter.
An autumn market at a regenerative farm, with produce, crafts and stalls from local growers.
Herman Koch, the novelist behind Het Diner, opens the national reading campaign that distributes one book free across Dutch libraries.
The Moroccan comedian and television sketch star performs with Marmoucha Orchestra, the Amsterdam-based ensemble for Moroccan music.
A screen journey exploring life beneath the sea.
Theatre for children of three and up by 4HOOG, a Flemish company making work for young audiences, set in a future drawn from African and diaspora culture.
The museum's monthly programme of hands-on sessions for children, making music, moving and exploring the collection together.
Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, written in 1953 in the months after Stalin's death and often heard as his reckoning with the dictator.
A guided tour of the Scheveningen aquarium's working areas, where staff show how the tanks are maintained and the animals fed.
Bo Tarenskeen's play about Sukarno, the nationalist leader who declared Indonesian independence in 1945 and became its first president.
Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network revisits the consequences of Facebook’s influence.
A film journey through the animal kingdom.
A family-friendly animated adventure featuring Shaun, the mischievous sheep created by Aardman Animations.
A tribute act to Dolly Parton, the American country singer and songwriter behind "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You".
A film screening paired with food, where courses are served alongside or between the movie.
A wildlife film spanning habitats from the Himalayas to tropical waters.
A colourful space journey exploring planets beyond our solar system.
Music theatre for children aged four and up from Het Nationale Theater's youth branch, directed by Noël Fischer, about small sorrows and big adventures.
A stage version of Saint-Exupéry's story about a pilot who meets a boy from another planet, aimed at ages eight and up.
The Dutch-Moroccan singer and producer follows jazz's Moroccan thread, from Coltrane's A Love Supreme to the music scene of Tangier.
Dutch trumpeter and singer Michael Varekamp marks the centenary of Miles Davis, the trumpeter who reshaped jazz from bebop through cool to electric fusion.
A practical guide to the marathon route, road closures and the best places to stand and cheer.
A commemorative concert in a former clandestine Old Catholic church, one of the hidden churches built when Catholic worship was banned in the Dutch Republic.
Family film screenings offer a cinema outing with films chosen for children and their grown-ups.
Doe-eiland is an outdoor play island where children build huts, dam streams and mess about with water, wood and tools.
Studio Bondi leads a Sunday yoga session inside the museum.
Iara Brusse talks about her mother Eva Besnyö, the Hungarian-born photographer who settled in Amsterdam and shot modernist street and documentary work.
The annual All Souls' commemoration at this historic cemetery, when graves are visited and lit in memory of the dead.
A jazz programme with a Brazilian accent, bringing bossa nova and samba rhythms to a brass-led ensemble.
A workshop in which children hollow out and carve a pumpkin into a lantern to take home.
A Spanish drama named for the Gran Canaria resort, long a gay holiday destination, screened with English subtitles.
A French coming-of-age comedy-drama about a teenager growing up in 1980s France.
A trade-fair-style event on sustainability, where organisations and companies present products, projects and ideas around living within the planet's limits.
The city's arthouse cinema on the Spui, screening international and independent films, with regular children's matinees.
A film programme for children, screening work chosen for younger viewers.
A dome-screen film touring the national parks of the United States and the landscapes they protect.
A chamber choir sings the English sacred repertoire, the cathedral tradition of composers such as Tallis, Byrd and Stanford.
A local-history exhibition on the Moluccan community in The Hague, which dates from the 1951 arrival of KNIL soldiers and their families.
An Italian film whose title means "let's go for one last drink", shown with English subtitles.
A guided trail through woods or dunes with clues and tasks pointing out autumn finds like fungi, acorns and falling leaves.
Monday 2 November
A Monday sneak preview, where the cinema screens an unannounced forthcoming release at a reduced price; English spoken with Dutch subtitles.
An annual gala evening of ballet performances raising funds for Dansersfonds '79, which supports dancers whose careers are cut short by injury.
An art workshop for children aged 7 to 12, run by Art-S-Cool.
A Day of the Dead party at this Latin dance school, marking the Mexican festival honouring the dead with music and food.
A classical concert staged inside Museum Voorlinden, the private art museum in the dunes at Wassenaar.
A club night headlined by Faberyayo, rapper and one of the voices of Dutch group De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, alongside DJs Jeff Solo and Mairo Nawaz.
A night from Bunker Records, the long-running Hague label founded by Guy Tavares known for raw electro and lo-fi techno, with live sets running until dawn.
The Japanese romantic comedy follows a salaryman who takes up ballroom dancing.
A drop-in information session about the long renovation of the Binnenhof, the parliamentary complex, held beside the site.
Ilker Çatak’s drama follows a Turkish theatre couple whose lives are upended by political pressure.
City archaeologist Wim van Passel presents an audiovisual talk on what has been dug up beneath The Hague.
The American guitarist and singer plays heavy electric blues rock, a style rooted in Texas and Chicago traditions.
A discussion of ecocide law and how international courts and documentary imagery might be used to hold people to account for large-scale environmental destruction.
A French-American duo making breezy, synth-tinged pop with a lounge and tropicália streak.
A music and movement session for toddlers and their parents, with singing, rhythm and simple instruments.
The listing marks this film screening as having English subtitles but gives no synopsis.
A stand-up comedy evening in the back room of this central Irish pub.
An exhibition of personal testimony from people living with money worries and debt, told in their own words.
A late-night rap and hip-hop line-up of Dutch acts playing through to five in the morning.
The second edition of a mixed bill of Dutch indie and alternative bands, including Haarlem-based indie pop group YESYES, with the night continuing into club hours.
Comedian and writer Janneke de Bijl, known for her cabaret work and her writing on humour, talks about her books and how she makes them.
A talk on the energy and resource costs of artificial intelligence and whether the technology can be made to serve environmental aims, part of the city's climate week.
A team quiz night with burgers served alongside, answers scored in rounds.
A workshop teaching seniors to play draughts, a strategy game played on a chequered board.
An evening of music, stories, silence and candle-lighting for remembering the dead, held around All Souls.
A Dutch title meaning “Treats & Letters,” suggesting a literary gathering with refreshments at the library.
The closing showcase of a comedy course, where the participants perform the stand-up material they have been working on.
A knitting group is a chance to work on projects alongside other knitters.
Adults can practise language skills and get support in a library setting.
A library language session offers a place to practise and explore language with others.
An All Souls gathering in Breezand with space to remember those who have died and to sit with others doing the same.
A film screening; the title alone does not identify which film is showing.
The French title means “In All Directions”, but the listing gives no further detail about the film.
The programme-and-tickets page for this Haagse theatre, which hosts music, dance, theatre and film in a converted bathhouse.
A cancelled library workshop on tracking your spending and household budgeting.
Madurodam is a miniature park featuring models of Dutch landmarks and city scenes.
The museum is home to Hendrik Willem Mesdag’s 1881 panorama of Scheveningen, a vast cylindrical painting that surrounds its viewers.
The permanent display of work by M.C. Escher, the Dutch graphic artist known for impossible staircases, tessellations and optical paradoxes, housed in a former royal palace.
CORPUS is an interactive attraction that takes visitors through the human body and explains how it works.
The gallery displays paintings from the Mauritshuis collection in one of the Netherlands’ oldest public art galleries.
Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes and Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti are brought into dialogue; Giacometti is famed for his elongated figures.
This theatre production takes its title from Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president and a central figure in the independence movement.
This explores Piet Mondrian’s artistic development and his move towards abstraction.
A guided visit to the Dutch House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament.
De Willemsvaart runs boat trips on The Hague’s waterways, offering a view of the city from the water.
The exhibition looks back over 75 years of fashion through the Kunstmuseum’s collection.
A guided walk past the sites of Dutch political killings, from Johan de Witt to Pim Fortuyn, led by the democracy centre.
Dutch illustrator Jet Boeke is best known for creating Dikkie Dik, the orange tabby cat featured in her children’s books.
A French-style market of food, flowers and brocante stalls set up alongside the Hofvijver pond.
The Hague Market is one of the largest open-air markets in Europe, with stalls selling food, clothing and household goods.
Papiria is an interactive adventure through the world of children’s books and their characters.
A behind-the-scenes tour offers a closer look at how an aquarium operates and cares for its marine animals.
ProDemos offers a guided visit to the Tweede Kamer, where Dutch MPs debate and vote on legislation.
A city-wide week of talks, tours and activities on climate and sustainability at venues across The Hague.
Public ice skating at the covered rink in the Uithof sports complex; skates can be rented on site.
Participants decorate tiles in a hands-on workshop drawing on Delft’s long tradition of painted ceramics.
The viewpoint offers an elevated look over the historic Binnenhof, the seat of Dutch parliament.
Eva Besnyö was a Hungarian-born Dutch photographer known for modernist photography and socially engaged work.
A travelling Dutch dance initiative that sets up a ballroom with a DJ playing old favourites, originally conceived for older people living alone.
Tuesday 3 November
Crossing Border pairs writers and musicians on the same bill, running several days at the Koninklijke Schouwburg and elsewhere in the city.
Arnhem-based company Introdans, known for its repertoire of modern choreography danced by a classically trained ensemble, performs a programme titled Energy.
A documentary-style theatre piece arguing that the drug trade runs through every layer of Dutch society.
A group exhibition on waste, consumption and the people who handle our discards, built around work by a Nigerian photojournalist and sociologist.
The Dutch-American journalist, a familiar face reporting from Washington for Dutch media, talks on stage about American politics.
Historians and commentators Arend Jan Boekestijn and Rob de Wijk bring their popular geopolitics podcast to the stage for a live edition.
A look at innovations that could shape the cities of the future.
A late-night techno line-up headlined by Thomas P. Heckmann, the German producer active since the early acid and hard-techno days, running until dawn.
A big-screen presentation exploring music from the United States.
Learn lino printing, a relief-printing technique, and create a design for a card.
A space adventure for curious children aged four and up.
A hip-hop and spoken-word showcase hosted by Tré, mixing live performance across the evening.
Veteran American death metal band Drawn and Quartered, active in Seattle since the early 1990s, share a bill with Dutch group Noroth.
A retelling of the Cain and Abel story as a contemporary account of jealousy, love and loss, performed by Sahand and Raphael.
A production by the Amsterdam-based theatre collective Dope, who make work rooted in hip hop, spoken word and street culture.
Children learn about the Romans and write their own names in Roman style on a name tag, at the local library branch.
Europe's top club football tournament shown on screen, with tables bookable in advance.
A craft session at Oxfam Novib making placards and banners before an upcoming demonstration.
Raimond Giard speaks over lunch about the Celts, the peoples who spread across central and western Europe some 3,000 years ago.
At the second Spotlight On Award, Hague children and teenagers name the local organisations that matter most in their lives.
Wednesday 4 November
The live-action and animation hybrid pitting Wile E. Coyote against the Acme corporation in court, shown in its original language.
Former Dire Straits musicians, including saxophonist Chris White, tour the Mark Knopfler catalogue of "Sultans of Swing" and "Money for Nothing".
A comic stage parody of James Cameron's Titanic, with Céline Dion narrating her own version of the disaster.
A concert designed for babies and toddlers, with music presented for very young listeners.
Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror landmark, shot cheaply in Texas and still one of the most relentless films of its kind.
Chekhov's The Seagull, about art, love and thwarted ambition across two generations, staged by Nina Spijkers for Het Nationale Theater.
A programme pairing organ with orchestra, here with composer Francesca Ajossa and the Soundwave Collective conducted by Libia Hernandez.
Drag performers host a bingo evening over dinner at a restaurant, organised by the Forward network.
Children pick a work from the Kunstmuseum's collection and make a collage of it with a museum teacher.
The veteran Drenthe comedian, known for his absurd, rambling style and long touring career, marks turning sixty-five.
Children make their own jumping jack, a jointed paper puppet with strings that make its arms and legs move, and decorate it themselves.
A communal vegetarian meal that brings people together over food.
A four-session course on finding work in the Netherlands, covering Dutch application conventions and job-hunting practicalities for newcomers.
Bingo hosted by drag performers, with the usual numbers-and-prizes format played for comedy; adults only.
A children's music session built around movement, where kids play and respond to sound with their bodies rather than sitting still.
A concert designed for babies and very young children.
A tribute to Mukesh and Talat Mahmood, two of the great playback singers of Hindi cinema's golden age, known for their soft, melancholy ballads.
Ang Lee's 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, scripted by and starring Emma Thompson alongside Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman.
A music night at PAARD, the city's main pop venue on the Prinsegracht.
A long-running weekly social dance night with a rotating DJ playing salsa, merengue, bachata and related Latin styles.
Thursday 5 November
A large-format film about the British primatologist who transformed what we know about chimpanzees and became a leading conservation campaigner.
Martin McDonagh, the playwright and filmmaker behind In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin, directs John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents in pre-coup Chile.
A late-night electronic music session with Dutch producer I-F, a Hague fixture known for Italo disco and electro, alongside Chicago's Hieroglyphic Being and other DJs.
Fink is the project of British songwriter Fin Greenall, whose spare, bluesy folk and electronic production has backed countless film and TV scenes.
An evening opening until 22.00 of the show on James McNeill Whistler, the American painter and etcher whose Dutch travels fed his muted riverside scenes.
The British songwriter Fin Greenall, who records as Fink, plays his spare blues- and folk-inflected songs.
The Rotterdam chamber orchestra joins Duo Mantar for a programme mixing classical repertoire with contemporary sound.
John Landis's 1980 musical comedy in which Jake and Elwood Blues reunite their soul band to save a Chicago orphanage, with Aretha Franklin and James Brown appearing.
Kieślowski's 1993 film, first of the Three Colours trilogy, follows a woman rebuilding herself after losing her husband and daughter, with Juliette Binoche in the lead.
Beer pong played with books instead of beer, a social games evening at the central library.
A serenade by the Czech romantic Antonín Dvořák alongside work by Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman, with the guitar-and-mandolin pairing Duo Mantar.
The Howlers are a British post-punk trio from London known for a desert-rock guitar sound and relentless touring.
English-language storytime and craft activities for children aged 4–8.
The Rotterdam indie-rock four-piece, back after festival runs at Lowlands and Pinkpop and a European tour supporting Nada Surf.
A workshop series where participants learn to rap and write lyrics, led by Dutch-Surinamese rapper Djani.
A short concert built for toddlers and babies, with musicians playing at a volume and length suited to very young ears.
A dance piece at Korzo, the Hague theatre that specialises in commissioning new contemporary choreography.
Scordatura means retuning a string instrument away from standard pitch, and this ensemble's programme explores that practice.
Colombian-born guitarist Julian Escobar leads a quintet in Latin jazz at Laak's neighbourhood theatre.
A festival screening followed by a post-film discussion, with English subtitles.
Friday 6 November
The Residentie Orkest is joined by British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, with Haydn, a new work and Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony.
The Hungarian company Recirquel performs its brand of cirque danse, blending contemporary circus acrobatics with dance and live music.
The seasonal rink beside the Mall of the Netherlands shopping centre in Leidschendam opens for public skating.
A guided visit to Paleis Kneuterdijk, the nineteenth-century royal palace on the Kneuterdijk now used by the Council of State and rarely open to the public.
The city's resident symphony orchestra plays Haydn alongside Mendelssohn, two pillars of the classical and early Romantic repertoire.
A stargazing evening at the science museum, with astronomy talks and telescopes turned on the night sky.
Decoden is a Japanese craft of encrusting objects in whipped-cream-style glue, rhinestones and charms; here applied to small keepsakes.
Popronde takes up-and-coming Dutch bands and acts on tour through dozens of towns each autumn, playing venues and cafés around the city.
Popronde is a travelling festival of up-and-coming Dutch bands playing free shows in cafés, shops and small venues across a city on one night.
The Moluccan-Dutch funk and Latin rock band, best known for the 1978 hit Sajang É, joined by veteran tenor saxophonist Hans Dulfer.
Pianist Andrew Wright plays Brahms's late, inward piano pieces opus 116-119 on an 1892 Blüthner grand of the composer's own era.
The Hague cabaret performer and columnist, known for his sharp local humour and his New Year's conferences, tries out new material.
Hamilton is an American tenor saxophonist who built his career on warm, pre-bebop swing; a Dutch rhythm section plays alongside him.
The Dutch stand-up comedian, a familiar face from De Avondshow and Dit Was Het Nieuws, tours his programme Demonen.
Philosopher Marli Huijer, a former Denker des Vaderlands, discusses Celine Song's Past Lives, a quiet drama about two childhood friends reunited decades later.
Popronde is the travelling Dutch festival that sends up-and-coming unsigned bands around the country's small venues for free gigs.
Nicole Beutler is an Amsterdam-based choreographer; this work is billed as a danced manifesto for peace and plays at several times across the day.
An annual gathering for residents running neighbourhood initiatives in The Hague, with workshops and talks on making the city more liveable.
A presentation on cloth bundles used in divination practices, drawing on the national library's collections.
The Here Now Project builds a feature documentary entirely from first-person phone footage of floods, fires and storms filmed within a single year.
Saturday 7 November
Cool Event Scheveningen
A Pasar Malam is an Indonesian-Dutch night market with food stalls, live music and goods, a long-standing tradition in this country.
A queer festival night spread across two bars, with Dutch and international acts spanning riot punk, experimental hip-hop, hyperpop and synthpop.
Gnawa Diffusion, the Algerian-French band led by Amazigh Kateb, fuses Moroccan Gnawa trance music with reggae, rap and rock.
A Hindustani celebration of Divali, the festival of lights, with live acts including Daimonds 2000 and Abid & Son's; entry is free.
A hands-on cooking session in which participants prepare West African dishes together and eat as a group.
Puppetry and live music combine in a wordless immersive piece by maker Cézanne Tegelberg's company.
A practical fair for internationals, with stands and talks on housing, work, tax, insurance and settling into Dutch life.
A performance that collides hip-hop beats with the bleak absurdist theatre of Samuel Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot.
The British new wave band led by John Watts, best known for the 1979 single The Worker.
A festival named after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, the uprising widely treated as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Yelizaveta Smith's documentary observing civilians and soldiers across wartime Ukraine, its title coining a term for the human shaped by war.
A tribute band plays the Pink Floyd catalogue, the English group behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
An evening mixing theatre, conversation and a party, hosted by drag and performance artist Amber Vineyard of Black Silk.
A goldsmithing workshop using lost-wax casting, where a wax model is burned away so molten metal can take its place.
A film journey into the world of dolphins.
A festival devoted to fair and sustainable food, typically with producers, stalls and tastings.
ADO Den Haag’s home fixtures give local supporters the chance to watch the club play on home turf.
The British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer weaves Arabic scales and quarter-tones into jazz; A Paradise in the Hold draws on Bahraini folk song.
Lost-wax casting means carving a model in wax, burning it away inside a mould and filling the cavity with molten metal.
464 events, concerts, exhibitions, markets and things to do in The Hague from Sunday 1 November to Saturday 7 November, gathered from the venues and organisers and refreshed every morning. Pick a day or a type on the side to narrow it down. This guide is in English; some events are in Dutch or other languages.
This weekend: Running (Sunday), NN Marathon passes through the Zuiderpark on 1 November (Sunday) and Journey Through the Human Body at CORPUS (Sunday).
Questions about what's on in The Hague
What's on in The Hague this weekend?
197 events are listed for the weekend. Among the highlights: Running (Sunday), NN Marathon passes through the Zuiderpark on 1 November (Sunday), Journey Through the Human Body at CORPUS (Sunday), Thyssen-Bornemisza X Mauritshuis – Masterpieces from Madrid (Sunday) and Debut of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and world premiere of Amarante Nat at the Residentie Orkest at Amare (Sunday). Pick Saturday or Sunday on the side to see them all.
Are there free events in The Hague this week?
Yes. 7 of the listings this week are free, for example Divali Night 7 november 2026 at Opera Zalencentrum (Saturday), Colourful skulls and Mexican music: celebrate Día de Muertos in The Hague at Café De Zwarte Ruiter (Sunday) and Day of the Dead at De Zwarte Ruiter (Sunday). Tick "Free only" on the side to see just those.
What concerts are on in The Hague this week?
89 concerts and live music nights are listed, including 06 november 20:15 uur Concertzaal Amare, Den Haag Symphonic Friday Haydn & Mendelssohn Maak kennis met topcellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason bij het Residentie Orkest. Haydn, een nieuw werk en Mendelssohns zonnige Italiaanse symfonie. Kaarten (Friday), Debut of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and world premiere of Amarante Nat at the Residentie Orkest at Amare (Sunday) and Dire Straits Experience - The Long Highway Tour 2026 at Amare (Wednesday). Tick Music on the side for the full list.
How often is this calendar updated?
Every morning. The listings are gathered from the venues, organisers and ticket sites, and past events drop off automatically.
