Nema Labavo, FIDO Music Weekend, and Ego Free Festival are all hitting Split in April.
With the busy summer festival season quickly approaching, today we take a look at three urban festivals hitting Split’s alternative core this preseason.
Nema Labavo – Street Art Festival
This coming extended Easter weekend at Judino Drvo, a day and night program awaits, featuring a variety of programs such as exhibitions, live mural drawings, and music events by day and night. Organized by KUU Romb, Judino Drvo has opened their space and energy to create another remarkable event in this city – Nema Labavo.
The opening ceremony of the festival will begin on March 31st and begins with the exhibitiom “Parazite Live” and street action by the well-known artist Saša Pocnić. The opening evening will be accompanied by a packed music program. At this exhibition, Pocnić will offer a retrospective of street art in Split over the last 40 years. Some of the work on display does not exist today, as well as some of the authors, but the archives will offer a cross-section of the development and art in the city of Split. In the afternoon hours of the festival, cartoonists will paint the walls around Judino Drvo, thereby revitalizing a neglected part of the town.
Program:
Friday, 30.03, 21:00
EXHIBITION / RESIDENT NIGHT
Saturday, 31.03., 13:00
STREET ART / DJ PROGRAM
BANANA ZVUK
BEATS’n’SAX
KID VA
LETU ŠTUKE, 23:00
Sunday, 01.04, 15:00
DJ Shonky, DJ Miro, DJ Jakir and DJ Daff
FIDO Music Weekend
FIDO Music Weekend will be held for the first time in three locations in Split, from April 5 to 7. The first showcase music festival in Croatia, FIDO will present some of the great young regional performers in Split, as well as some better known foreign bands. The program, besides live music, will be enriched with accompanying educational and entertaining content.
Program:
Thursday, April 5
20:00 The Fogsellers @ Amfiteatar MKC
22:15 Freedom @ Split Circus
Friday, April 6 at Klub Kocka
22:30 Sara Renar
23:30 Kundyak Mezhie
01:00 Zoster
Saturday, April 7
MKC Gallery:
19:00 Fashion Show by Designer store KRUG
Klub Kocka:
22:30 Igralom
23:30 SOVIET SOVIET
01:00 DEBELI PRECJEDNIK
Tickets
Until 18.03. – 120kn early bird
Until 01.04. – 150kn
Day of the festival:
Thursday – 40kn / Friday – 70kn / Saturday – 70kn
Where to buy?
Split: Caffe bar Basket, Lumer Shop, Split Circus
Zagreb: Rockmark
Šibenik: VINO & INO
Ego Free Festival
After the first two editions of the festival delighted all visitors to the newly refurbished Turkish Tower, the third edition of Ego Free Festival is booked for April 27 to 29. This year’s festival boasts three days, 3 stages, and even a program for the littlest ones in attendance.
The novelty of this year’s festival release is the smaller, more mature stage (think a chill, hippie zone) that will be located on a large meadow, conceived as a picnic zone with blankets and hammocks, dogs, and children. The DJ program will be based exclusively on the sounds of the 70s, which will be a treat for the many older visitors looking to remember their youth. There will also be warm soup, fritule and tasty meals on offer.
Visitors will be able to choose from a variety of workshops (yoga house, juggling, face painting, youth games, and more) organized by various associations around the city. There will also be a fair of handicrafts where visitors will be able to buy original products crafted by some twenty artists from Split.
Ego Free Facebook
The festival is organized by the Split collective Underground Control and is of a humanitarian character. Together with the MoSt association, which will actively participate in the workshops and games, proceeds from the festival will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Association “Tako mala tako moćna” in Split to equip the stem cell transplant center at KBC Split.
Friday, April 27
MAIN STAGE
19:00: Festival begins with a concert
21:00: Ante Jakir will DJ until midnight
24:00 After party at Judino Drvo with hosts Beats’n’Sax
Tower O’CVIC (2nd stage)
20:00-24:00 = Dj program
Saturday, April 28
MAIN STAGE
19:00: Sekou Kouyate (Guinea) is a highly-acclaimed virtuoso of traditional instruments – especially choir, singing and composing Combining wah-wah pedals, rapid reactions, experimental distortion, rock, and African pop music with jazz excursions, Sekou Kouyate remains faithful to the beauty and simplicity of African culture. Kouyate brings music from a place that stifles the stiff views of dance as an important part of the concert performance, which is so often seen throughout the modern world. Sekou Kouyate is rightly considered to be a musical genius, and one of the most exciting products to have come out of the African music scene for the last decade
21:00-24:00: DJ Program
24:00: After party at Judino Drvo
Tower O’CVIC
12:00-24:00: Dj program
FREE HIPPIE STAGE (3rd stage)
12:00-19:00: DJ program, workshops …
Sunday, April 29
DJ program, workshops. All-day program on all three stages
* The event program will be supplemented later, for details see the Facebook page.
