The platform Office for Contemporary Art is organised by Studio IN (AFAD) and is a place for direct contact of the audience with artists. Artists and students of art will open the communication channel with the visitors of the festival about the great questions of contemporary visual art, all of this through performance, dialogue, and art works. → read more
Mowing of the festival site is being finished today. Five geodetic groups have measured out the entire site and will hammer over 1000 geodetic stakes into the ground. The volunteer tent is also being set up, as well as the external store and shade zones in front of the office. In addition to the truck from the office in Svätý Jur, other stores from Trenčín are already being moved to our headquarters at the airport. → read more
It’s here. We’re packing the office and moving to the Trenčín Airport. The production crew left yesterday and have been working hard since morning. Soon we’ll send them a truck full of equipment from our office. The rest of the team will leave for Trenčín tomorrow and the first artists and attenders will arrive in 13 ;) → read more
For the fifth year, Julius Meinl will bring the best of their coffee and Viennese café culture to the unique Poetry Café at Pohoda. The bar will offer a darker roasted blend Vienna XVI with hazelnut aftertaste and a fruity refreshing taste in the form of light roasted Fruity Red Door. There will also be a refreshing Cold Brew lemonade and Ice Tea Tea on the Rocks offered. We would like to invite you to the café on Friday and Saturday between 10:00 am – 11:00 am when you’ll be able to take part in Poetry Hour – paying for your coffee with an inspirational poem of yours. If you dream about a poem just for you, the street poet Šimpe Ondruš will write one for you right at the spot. → read more
The Dutch Embassy will introduce Holland Circular Market zone at Pohoda. In this space you will find sustainable local brand products, eco workshops and see how the circular economy works in practice. The following brands and initiatives such as BAGBET + Fashion Recycling Lab, Waki-vaky, Localhand, Včelobal, EatGreen, TwoCosmetics, Ponio and Umelohmotné will be presented here. → read more
The Hungarian band Csángálló, who will please fans of the Pannonian Basin world music, will make NAY tanečný dom dance as well. Their work combines folk music from Gyimes and Csángó regions with the Balkanian temperament. They reach an entirely new sound thanks to improvisation and the end result is a kind of psychedelic experience. Their performance is not just a virtuoso show, but there is also consciousness of the origin of their music. → read more
Mobil dole #hlavahore (Mobile down #headup) – Slovak musicians encourage their fans to enjoy concerts. In doing so, they support our main partner's campaign, Orange, that wants to motivate fans to watch festival concerts live and not through the screen of their smartphone. Join this idea, enjoy unique musical moments and leave your phone in the Orange Zone. You will thus support this challenge and if you are an Orange customer, you will also get 5 GB of extra data. → read more
Mazagrande will bring coffee lemonade with lemon flavour to Pohoda again, and their bartenders will prepare a great mixed drink Mazagrande Spritz. Their bar with a chill out zone will, in addition to drinks, offer a photobox, a virtual reality game, and space to charge your mobile phones. → read more
HALA, in cooperation with Tansart Communication, organizes Performance Box 2 at the Pohoda Festival 2019, which is a follow-up to last year's activity, when 8 performers from Asia presented themselves at the space of the box. Based on a positive audience response, our dramaturg, the visual artist Rokko Juhász, addressed the interdisciplinary artists from Latin America. This year at Pohoda, in an area of 6 m2, they will allow viewers to experience an unconventional, conceptual show and to recognize the thinking of artists' from other cultures. You will find Performance box at the area of airport, at the main runway on Friday and Saturday, from 11:30 to 21:00. → read more
The reason is the injury of the band’s singer Sophie Hawley-Weld singer injury. Although she recovers quickly, doctors say she must skip the tour at least in the first half of July, which unfortunately also affects Pohoda and festivals Exit, Balaton Sound, and Down the Rabbit Hole. Get well soon, Sophie! We will keep you updated on the edited programme. → read more
