The counterculture temple for reflection, contemplation, dialogue, learning, feeling, evolving. ever evolving. shifting perspectives, liberating one another from default world conditioning and melting icebergs of thought. bodies and minds are invited to merge, the individual becomes the collective, kneeling before the centrifuge of ideas & skin & words and bones that yearn for enthusiastic synthesis.
Wednesday, June 19th
Radical Joy, Satire, Play, Bless the Mess – a lil walk through Apuro and The WOW.
Garden of Unearthly Delights
(aka the gran, grand opening variety show)
Kangela
Gutter Gucci
Morgana
Lady Blue Phoenix
Alec M Ballz
Lyou Bouzon
ivankaXpress
Thursday, June 20th
Deviance – How and why do we deviate from whose normz?
10:30 – 12:00 From Ballroom to VOGUE
Fuego 007 & Jo
A lil walk through the history of ballroom and a dive into the ecstatic freedom of voguing. Let loose for breakfast, bitchez.
12:00 – 12:45 Disco Aerobics
ivankaXpress
Come to sweat while channelling your inner and outer Jane Fonda. Get that heart rate up, cardio up, stickiness up, desire up – a flamin’ hot werk out.
13:00 – 15:00 Psychotropical Cruising
Avózinha crew
Come do psychedelics with grandma. Prep, aftercare and integration of powerful, mind-blasting, altered state experiences.
15:30 – 17:00 Body Confidance
Lady Blue Phoenix
Welcoming all bodies, all forms of flesh, all the Earthly delights of our material boundaries. Release the inner saboteurs of body dysmorphia, catwalk anorexia, and oppressive whiteness.
17:30 – 19:00 Eco-animist Puppetry
enormousface
Collaborative experience revealing the whack puppeteer inside you. Sparking wild imaginaries of fish, jungle, dicks and Spiderman.
19:30 – 20:30 Nightlife Futurology
Lutz Leichsenring & Erika
Dive into the deep underground culture of the future. Come groove.
21:30 – 23:00 This is My Body
Luke Macaronas
A participatory ritual where we subvert and honour religious rites, explore desire and queerness through consumption of flesh and blood of Christ – come to savour our saviour.
23:30 – 01:00 How to Sassy Strip Tease
Bx Sassy
You can leave your hat on – but that’s it : )
01:30 – 02:30 Beauty and the Obscene
Greta
Monstrous hallucinations. Monumental scale. Relive dreamscapes of Oz. Kneel before the sublime. What are you douching for
Friday, June 21st — Solstice Day
Grief and Loss – Cultivating Orphan Wisdom.
10:30 – 12:30 Breathing Out
Eva Greiderer & Alex Jenkin
Morning mourning. Psychedelic breathwork focused on release. That moment of breathlessness between exhalation and inhalation, the absence, the nothingness, that’s what we lean into.
13:00 – 15:00 Access All Areas
Nigâr, Jorhito & Vera
A sound ceremony for the depths of the depths of the depths. Submerge into the deep dark well of all you have lost, encounter yourself, and re-emerge into living.
15:30 – 16:30 Grief Council
Manuela Maciel & Haneen
A group therapy session with psychodrama and space-holding for grief, our most universal feeling, process, journey, rite of passage.
17:00 – 18:30 Remembrance Rituals
Gisela Casimiro
Collective storytelling, art, and play to reach our most vulnerable corners and unyielding edges.
19:00 – 20:00 UnMasking Death
Myrgon
A transformation ritual made of earth. From dirt we emerge and to dirt we return. Come to compost your grief, your past selves, your dreams to make way for newness. Shantay we slay the day with clay.
21:30 – 22:30 Dark Matter: Raging through Loss
Lea Fulton
Vocalising our pain. Connecting to the fiery archetypes of anger and burning through the hardships of losing, to regain contact with our inner flames. We will move and rage, buckle up.
23:00 – 00:00 The Veiled Sun
Michela Pelusio, Marnix Dekker & Aria
Solstice light ritual. Witness the birth of the midnight sun. Dark turns to light and light to dark. Take a bow with eyes wide shut.
00:30 – late Le Petit Mort at the Sensual Soirée
Nuala Mary & Lucie Forster
When sex drive meets death drive, we receive all. We open ourselves to this cycle, embodying it through breath, striptease and dance. Reigniting sensuality with liberation, we climax into a naked celebration.
Saturday, June 22nd
The More-than world – When the Personal is Political, the Political is Witchy.
10:30 – 12:30 Intrinsic Nature Fortification
James Qureshi
Parkour for dummies. Find your inner tree frog, crane or flying squirrel. Flow, jump, stretch and fly into a new bodily relationship with your flesh avatar.
13:00 – 15:00 Land, Roots, and Freedom
Yahav Erez & Amir Ashkar
Finding common ground. A Jewish Israeli and a Palestinian drive a fishbowl discussion of the complexities of navigating the tensions of identity, ideology, and counterculture – a collective struggle for liberation inside and outside the festival grounds.
15:30 – 17:30 Lichenanarchy
Nat & Bambi
An ecopolitical, collective tattooing ceremony. Discover the symbiosis of solidarity and ink each other with permanent promises.
18:00 – 19:30 You Are Creation
Vanessa Faloye
Come to own the fact that you are a created being with a limitless capacity to create. Bridge the essence of what you are with what you could be. Break past the blockages to your creative spark.
21:30 – 22:30 There is nothing on TV
TV
“There might be nothing on but several things to turn you on.” A smokey immersive performance blending voice, samples and electronics summoning offshore TV shows into erotic minimalism and the yearnings of ever-happening conversations in archeological woods and afterparties.
23:00 – 00:30 Who Are You? No, Really?
Paolo Pascoal
Peel, peel, peel, away and what remains? Come undress your indenitites. Footprints, photographs, scars, memories of love-stained kisses, underlined paperback novels, mountains of cut hair and nail clippings, we are each a great garbage patch of trauma & transcendence. Who, what, where and what has bent time for you? What do you carry?
01:00 – 2:30 When the Body Says Yas!
Skinship Collective
Just say it! – A million ways of rephrasing, praising and grazing other gestures of intimacy. How do our bodies respond before we are in actual physical connection? How can we touch each other intimately with words and voice? This werkshop plays around with proximity, erotic suspension, the power of whispers and compliments as aphrodisiacs..
Sunday, June 23rd
Imagination – Reclaim, Rebuild, Remember.
10:30 – 12:30 The Rabbit’s Tale
Fleur Piacentini
Movement murmuration using contact improv and the radical imagination to reenact stories from childhood and the big-bang-birth of the cosmos.
13:00 – 15:00 Butoh Shiatsu
Gonzalo & Adriana
A fusion like you’ve never experienced it before. Deep somatic release with extensions into the grotesque and misshapen. Twist your inside out, be the masks, and remove the hidden layers of the secretest you.
15:30 – 17:30 Balkan Jamming
Kabare Nebula
Grab your instruments, or your voices or hips. And come spill your creative sparks all over the place, balkan style.
18:00 – 20:00 Reimagining the Dancefloor
Apuro & friends
We’re off to a dancefloor to reimagine, reenvision, remake dat dancefloor in all its multiversal glory.
20:00 – 21:00 What the Fuck Just Happened?
Apuro integration session. Come one, come all, let’s sit together and try to process a bit all the fuck that happened.
21:30 – end Improviola Devotionata
Rita Carreiras & Ashanti Kunene
Closing performance – Come to prayer. Come to anchor like a feather. Come soar like a mountain. The strings beckon. The vocal cords demand exaltation. Come for a slow burning rêve.
Apuro Edging Zone
Ryoko & Attila – aural/visual exploration of the relationships between sound, space and body.
Doreen & Tanya – embroiding lineage, weave, stitch, patch together pieces of ancestral meaning.
Latent States – seeing, hearing, tasting, sharing – fusing deep inquiry, synthesis & sensory rewiring.
Berenice Zambrano: The Year 2054 – a speculative visioning imagination werkshop.