This year's festival poster is here!
In 2026, Riddu Riđđu celebrates 35 years as an Indigenous festival, meeting place, and cultural force - and we can finally present this year’s festival poster!
This year’s poster is created by illustrator and graphic designer Kine Yvonne Kjær from Trollvik in Senja municipality. With bold colours, a hand-drawn aesthetic, and references to classic 1990s comics, Kine has created a poster that both honours the festival’s history and celebrates the diverse community that has grown on the Riddu plains over the past 35 years.
Riddu Riđđu was first held in 1991 and has since grown into one of the world’s most important meeting places for Indigenous peoples. Every year, the festival gathers artists, musicians, storytellers, youth, families, and audiences from around the world for days filled with concerts, art, conversations, food experiences, and human connection.
Over the years, Riddu Riđđu has welcomed Indigenous peoples from all corners of the world – from Sápmi to Kalaallit Nunaat, Canada, Alaska, Taiwan, Aotearoa, the Amazon, and many more. This year’s poster carries that very history within it, as Kine portrays Sámi alongside Inuit from Kalaallit Nunaat and the Mi’kmaq people from Canada, who will also be guests at this year’s festival.
Kine studied photography, art, and music at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, where she completed a Bachelor of Media with a major in photography in 2009.
About the idea behind this year’s poster, she says:
“I wanted to evoke associations with the wonderful hand-drawn comics of the 1990s that I used to dream away in as a girl. The artistic expression is a nod to 1991, the year of the very first festival, and to the time before the technological age infiltrated both private and working life. That is why this year’s poster is drawn and coloured by hand, in a style that I hope will spark warm associations for those who see it.
The content is a tribute to the diversity of Indigenous peoples who have visited the Riddu plains over the past 35 years, where strong relationships have been created across borders. I would have loved to include every single visitor, but then the poster would probably have needed a different dimension. Congratulations on the anniversary year!”
We are incredibly happy to share this poster with you and feel that it truly captures the warmth and sense of community that Riddu Riđđu is all about.
Now there is only one thing left to say: Welcome to the anniversary festival on the Riddu plains, July 8.-12. 2026!