Flow Festival Ljubljana

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Flow Festival Ljubljana

Židovska steza 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.flowfestival.si

office@flowfestival.si

Founded byFlow Festival Ltd

Organised byFlov doo

Festival dates26.6.2015 - 28.6.2015

Organised in Helsinki since 2004, in 2015 Flow Festival established its partner edition, Flow Festival Ljubljana. This event mirrors the main unit's production model and aesthetics and also shares a part of its musical line-up. Nevertheless, Flow Festival Ljubljana strongly emphasises Slovene artists, who form a sizeable part of the three-day festival programme.

Unlike some other summer festivals of its kind, Flow Festival is a distinctively urban event. While the programme is centred around music, it is coupled with a well-established focus on arts and lifestyle dimensions. The former is represented by the artist JAŠA, who is setting up a companion piece to the one he exhibited at the Venice Biennial 2015, and by a collaboration with various video artists. The latter is shaped by a selection of food and beverage stalls featuring acclaimed restaurants and a varied high-end wine and beer selection as well as a creative industries fair with discussions on this topic.

Flow Festival Ljubljana 2015 by Flow Festival Ljubljana on YouTube

Some of the musical artists invited to the festival in 2015 are Pet Shop Boys, Roisin Murphy, Run the Jewels, Metronomy, Derrick May, Caribou. The local colours are represented, for example, by New Wave Syria, Torul, Polona Kasal, and a wide selection of Slovene DJs.

Venue

One of the attractions of the festival is the use of the vast, mostly unused former Tobacco Factory grounds (affectionately known as Tobačna). Set to be expanded into the Tobačna City (Tobačna mesto) architectural and urbanistic project, this area already hosts the Tobacco Museum, Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre, Poligon Creative Centre and Cirkulacija 2. As such, it is in the process of being spontaneously transformed into another urban cultural hub of Ljubljana. This wholesale transformation of the area into the festival grounds is a pioneering appropriation of the area.

See also

• Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre
• Poligon Creative Centre

External links

• Flow Festival Ljubljana website