Different Strokes, Different Folks in Colours of Ostrava 2023:

There are over a dozen stages. The largest accommodates about 15,000 people. Otherwise, expect dance tents, Brutalist structures, and renovated industrial sites. Each location reflects the nature of the programming: vast outdoor settings for barnburner pop balladeers, dark interiors for film, and cozy spaces for poetry readings. Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Colours is that very diversity, the fact that artists from various disciplines gather together in wondrous spaces, affording attendees the opportunity to hear their favorite film-maker in a panel discussion, for instance, before decamping towards the alien sounds of an indie chanteuse.

Indeed, earlier years involve busking stages, kids’ stages, workshop stages — intended for crowd participation with, say, tightrope walkers and jugglers — and even “discussion stages.” The schedule on the latter might resemble more of a TED Talk program, with prominent thinkers addressing topics such as the state of media, architecture, artists’ rights in the digital age, and other such urgent, contemporary matters. Which isn’t to say that attendees can’t flock towards escapist EDM heavyweights as well, only that the options for intellectual and aesthetic engagement are legion.

Colours of Ostrava 2023 Styles and genres:

• Rock
• Electronic
• World music
• Pop
• Electro swing
• Jazz
• Blues
• Folk
• Punk
• Reggae
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