Festival Visit meets Flying Carpet Festival
“Flying Carpet is a source of buoyant energy and light in a world heaving with tragedy, destruction and loss. What a rare and beautiful example Flying Carpet sets for all those in search of a counterbalance to hopelessness. Long live Flying Carpet!” — David Harrington, violinist and founder of Kronos Quartet
Flying Carpet Children Festival is the first mobile festival for children living in difficult places and in conflict zones. The festival takes place in the Turkish-Syrian border, where many refugee children live, and it’s run by a volunteer-based collective of world-class musicians, performers, circus artists, visual artists, designers and visionaries who believe in the power of music and arts as a catalyst for positive change in the lives of children in war-afflicted regions. The festival visit will offer an immersive and meaningful experience, engaging with the artists, the team, and the local community of the festival, while studying and understanding firsthand the power and impact of festivals in extremely challenging contexts and how to bring back and apply the learnings of the experience to different contexts and communities.
Open Call for Alumni of The Festival Academy
The Flying Carpet Festival and The Festival Academy invite Alumni to be part of the group that will come together for 10 days (20-30 September 2024) to study in depth the Flying Carpet Festival, in southeast Turkey.
This ‘Festival Visit’ follows the experience in Giortes Rokka (Crete, Greece) and in ROTA Festival and & AADK (Blanca, Spain), about which you can read more about here and here, that aims to bring together, strengthen, and empower the community of alumni of The Festival Academy, to use festivals as catalysts for social change while studying the transformative power of festivals in caring for and revitalizing communities.
The Flying Carpet Children Festival is an intensive learning platform for artists and vulnerable children alike to create a harmonious experience through music, circus, dance, light, beauty and truth. The festival is organized specializing in forward-thinking design, music and art dedicated towards educating children who need it most. The festival selects artists, musicians and visionaries from all over the world with the common goal of creating the best possible educational experience for vulnerable children traumatized by war and conflict.
The festival headquarters are located in Mardin, where all the artists and staff are staying collectively. Throughout the festival, every day we will travel to different cities and village in the region, where the performances and the workshops take place engaging and inspiring children and local communities.
Deadline extended: 28/6/2024
Download all the details of the open call here.