This year, the World We Live In Festival took place live in Groningen from Thursday 1st - Sunday 4th July and was a great success. (Check out our Facebook page to see photos!)
We also launched an online festival with artworks from our international participants, including a cinema and gallery that are still open for viewing - check them out!
THE FESTIVAL
The World We Live In Festival invites artists and creatives from all disciplines and backgrounds to share their personal creative messages with each other as well as with the diverse audiences that attend. The festival provides an open platform for using the arts to reflect on current global and local humanitarian issues, raising awareness on different subjects and offering constructive criticism to modern society in a way that encourages empathy, solidarity, and action.
Each edition presents new themes to address the ever-changing nature of the world we are living in, based on a bottom-up process of programming that is shaped by the participating artists’ personal concerns and experiences, through music, performances, visual art exhibitions, short films, workshops, multidisciplinary collaborations, and more.
2021
Our live programme, in Groningen, began with a day of interactive music and art/crafts workshops at Het Floreshuis on Thursday 1st July; followed by two days (Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd) of live music, performances, an art exhibition, interactive installations, and a small art market held at the beautiful venue De Loods; and finally, an afternoon of live film screenings, music, and Q&A/discussion sessions on Sunday 4th at the Prince Claus Conservatoire. (See the full programme here!)
At the same time, we also launched an online festival here on our website from 1st July, including diverse pre-recorded videos and images sent in by our participants from all around the world! You can watch their videos in our online cinema and view their visual artworks in our online gallery. (Access is completely free but we would welcome donations!)