Stories

In the Shadow of Ecstasy

on grieving & festivalling ...

Intentional to Tensional Tribalism

communities on the edge of the pre-invented world ...

The WOW

The sky is beautiful everywhere, but how rarely do we really look up?

The Last Sky

humanities, moralities, monstrosities & dancefloors ...

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

flawed attempts at sensemaking during times of senselessness ...

High, Highs & Low, Lows

on chasing peak experiences & getting schooled by confusing come downs ...

Fluidity, Flux, Flood

fluids flow, flux fluctuates, flooding overwhelms ...

Reflections on twenty-two

Well that was... quite hard to put into words. Whoever found themselves around ...

Take Care to Care Take

Take care to care take. Care take to take care ...

The (un)Lost Art of Pilgrimage

Moods & Madness

That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood ...

Underground4Ukraine

Music Mobilising Bodies and Raising Funds for Ukraine ...

Dark soil, dirty hands

A festival draws nutrients from its natural surroundings. The sun, the dust, the ...

The Space Between

In 2005, at the SMAK Museum in Ghent, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, arranged for ...

Waking Life in The Coronacene

It is quite likely that more people have been happy to see the calendar ...

Sustainability report 2019

Waking Life sprouted from a common dream of a group of friends to build ...

53 Years or 53 Minutes

Many protests are continuing around the world against racial discrimination, police brutality and ...

A love letter

Even though now it feels like we are worlds apart, we still believe in our joint trip ...

Covid-19

Had you asked us a month ago what would be preoccupying us mid March 2020 ...

Caldo Verde

Arriving at Waking Life is always a reminder of how interconnected our existence as ...

Bapuro

This year Apuro flows into two branches: Mapuro and Bapuro ...

Mapuro

Apuro, Mapuro, Bapuro... Last year Apuro gathered many of you to ...

Orquidea

Social scientists would say that we cannot live isolated from context ...

A taste of Apuro

Apuro - the act of sharpening one’s reflections and self communication ...

What do you think?

Waking Life is a playground for more than the celebration of music and the arts ...

A walk in the park

Dear everyone, a good festival for us is a free and inspiring place, where ...

Waking Life 2017

music: vril - riese - video: cameltown.

Medical report

Dear people, firstly we’d like to thank you for your patience. It has taken ...

The Eco Massage

By participating in Waking Life you are taking part in an experimental adventure ...

The Road Ahead

Encounters that define a journey by Maxim Meukens.

Waking Life

music: giegling video: cameltown.

Os Bombeiros

A few weeks ago, in preparation of our first Waking Life adventure, we ...

… And so it all started.

Over the past two years we’ve been working steadily towards what will be ...