The 2024 installment of Brave! Factory Festival by Closer crew will be held on August 24-25 in Kyiv. For the second year in a row, the festival is changing its traditional in 2017-2021 from the location of Metrobud factory to a new one. This year, the event will be held at the iconic Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio.
It will include five venues: Depo, Avtotzeh, Pavilion, the Auditoria concert stage, and a location that does not yet have a name (should be revealed a few days before the actual gathering). Several large installations, a space for recreation, a food court, etc. are also planned, as usual.
The biggest foreign guests of the festival are Reade Truth (USA), Heith and VSK (Italy), Mari.te (Venezuela-Spain), PRZ, and Spencer Parker (Germany).
“Our location is the territory of the Kyiv Film Factory. The place where films were shot since 1927. That’s why we decided to hold the festival in the form of one large film set, and the announcements were made in the form of movie teasers (some refer to Dovzhenko’s film “Earth”). We hope that the festival will be a great adventure youth musical comedy.”
The issue of security in Ukraine in 2024 was also not overlooked: festival guests will have at least 2 and a maximum of 4 bomb shelters at their disposal.
There are still some tickets available, also you can check our reviews from the 2021 and 2023 editions of the festival.
The full poster of the festival is below and the full line-up is next (highlights were made by Trommel):
Aestetik Combination (live)
Aku Aku & On Vogue
Alex Savage
Bellis
Bitlo (live)
Bogdan Zaiets & Elijah (live)
Borys
Crem & Serhii Matiushenko
Figurat (live)
Gapon
Haathi b2b Nota Yanvarska
Heith (live)
Human Margareeta
Hyphen Dash (live)
Igor Glushko
Klimbeats (live)
Lucas Bird (live)
Ma-Gooch (live)
Mari.te
Mara Angmas
Mortal Person & detunesaw (live)
Monotronique
OCHII
Potreba Group (live – score) Resonance of Time
PRZ (live)
Pymin (live)
Radiant Futur (live)
Recid & Roman K
Reade Truth
Rustam & Domnitsa
Seba Korecky (live)
Shatalow
Ship Her Son (live)
Shults.sashaa
Spencer Parker
Stars and Mellow (live)
Stas Koroliov (live)
Svarog
Theo
Ujif_notfound (live)
Vera Logdanidi
VSK (live)
Wieloroman
Yana Ponura
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