Kyiv’s Strichka Festival reveals full line-up for 10th anniversary
The annual festival is due to go ahead later this month across seven venues
Ukrainian music festival Strichka is due to return to Kyiv’s Strichka Factory this month in celebration of its 10th anniversary.
The two-day festival is due to go ahead from May 18 - 19, marking its second edition during the war. The festival is split between seven venues and clubs in the Strichka Factory area, including Closer and Otel.
The seven stages include Dvir, the main stage featuring a large visual installation, 3-d Floor, a techno-focused stage, Mezzanine, a “contemporary disco stage”, Otel, a home for experimental dance music, Closer and Lisnyi Prychal, both house music stages, and Garden, an “ambient and meditative stage” hosted outdoors.
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Set to appear across the line-up this year is a number of local acts as well as 10 international artists, including Ben Frost, Vân Anh, Eversines and Marie K, Rouge Mecanique, ISH, Charlotte Benediks and Enrica Falqui.
Ukrainian artists including Foa Hoka, Si Process & Dennis Adu, The Against, Nitso Potvorno, and Jocki Druce also appear on this year’s line-up, each due to perform across the festival’s two days.
The theme this year is Fragments, the festival has announced this week. "In our memories, this festival, like our whole life, has turned into one happy dream, in which many smiling ghosts of the past have settled,” say the organisers.
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“We decided to gather them all together and tear them to fragments - without pain, but only with gratitude - and organize the next Strichka, which will be new in some ways, because times have changed, but still cozy.”
The theme will also be present in art installations at Strichka this year, with work from contemporary Ukrainian artists such as Oleksiy Say, Sashko Dolgyi, Vlad Plysetskyi and Maksym Poberezhskyi (BLCK BOX).
Strichka Festival 2024 will also feature art workshops, an area for merchandise such as stickers, prints, and t-shirts, and a food court.
Grab your tickets to Strichka Festival 2024 here, and check out the teaser poster below.
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