The 10th edition of one and only Floating castle festival is back at the Snežnik Castle!
From 4. until 7. August the Snežnik Castle and its surroundings will be filled with over 150 musical and theater groups from Slovenia and all over the world. The stories about the castle and its people will come alive. The rich heritage that lies in the castle walls and the vast forests will get a new perspective and thus give the castle’s history a breath of fresh air.
In cooperation with 30 stage designers, with a helping hand of local residents and more than 100 volunteers, the Floating Festival team will transform the castle and its grounds into a magical performance venue with 20 stages, especially made for the festival. Traditionally the festival will follow ecological guidelines of sustainable living with the natural environment. The festival market place will offer visitors a variety of food and drinks as well as hand made craft. We will also launch a system of contributions meant for artists. This way every visitor will donate half of his entrance to their favorite performers. This will be achieved by the festival coins called “Kojn”. The programme is diverse and big. One can catch concerts of ethno, jazz, fusion, author and experimental music, as well as performance, puppet theater, contemporary dance, circus, intermedial shows, street, improvisational and drama theater. The participants of this year’s masterclasses, Huge puppets and Commedia dell’arte will get a chance to taste pre-festival vibes and will show their work at the festival itself. And we must not forget the world famous Etno Histeria World orchestra! This year it will encompass more than 100 musicians from nearly 20 countries.
This year’s theme of the festival is Castle and Time. How can contemporaneity of shows, in relation to speed and direction of the spectators, give the visitors a place in the castle’s history? And at the same time make space for a new story? We will travel back and forth in time, we will lose ourselves in between the stages, that will be thematically situated in the performance venue with design and performance.
You are more than welcome to join the Floating castle festival, that is more than just a festival, it is an artistic platform, and exchange of knowledge, it is an immersive experience, it is a bridge between local and urban, it is an international community and a place of meeting, that rises up like magic at full moon, it is a place of coming together and a cradle of new expressions, faces and performative shapes. It is a sleeping castle, that awakens at night, wor those who don’t sleep.