In less than 24 hours we will open gates of Pohoda 2019.For many attenders it already begins today with packing for the festival.That is why we have prepared a brief overview of useful information for you. → read more
Last night, last parking lots and seats in special festival trains sold out. In co-operation with ZSSK (Slovak railways), we have added 50 seats for the train departing from Košice and 50 seats for the train from Bratislava. As to the means of transport for arriving at the festival, we recommend using the shared transport #spolunapohodu via our webparty, any public transport (there are festival shuttle buses operating between the Trenčín bus & train stations and the festival) or our special buses. Tickets for special transportation can be bought here: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop → read more
Minaret (from the Arabic word manarah, manarat) means a lamp, beacon. The installation has the ambition to present the symbol of an open society as well as solidarity in the light of events related to the refugee crisis. Last year the installation was also a part of the Hungarian Festival Sziget. → read more
In cooperation with Slovak farmers, we will prepare a gastro specialty, so called farmer’s breakfast. It will take place on Friday and Saturday from 8.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. in a tent in front of the Street Food Zone. Simple and tasty self-produced breakfast will be sold by small farmers and producers. Vegans, people preferring meat products as well as those with intolerances will find homemade delicacies there. Producers will sell vegan and gluten-free pastries, breakfast muesli, beef and vegetable broth, meat products, sausages with eggs or drinks from their own fruit juices. → read more
You will find everything and everyone and you will be everywhere in time. With the interactive festival app Pohoda powered by Orange, you will know everything instantly, get updates on the weather, quickly find your way around the area, be everywhere, and find your friends under the stage, when the “Friends” function will show you their current location on the map. It also helps you build your own festival programme that you can share with others on Facebook. The app is now available for download for Android and iOS devices in the Slovak and English languages. www.pohodafestival.sk/orangeapp → read more
There are last 100 parking spots available for sale - after that, parking places will be sold out. Therefore, we recommend you to use shared transportion to the festival (#spolunapohodu), or any other public transportation (there is a regular shuttle service from the bus and train station in Trenčín) or our special buses. Special festival trains are sold out at this point, but we are working with the ZSSK on adding another wagon. We will keep you updated on the situation. → read more
The flag is based on the 1969 proposal by J. McConnell designed to celebrate the Earth Day. It has a round hole in the place where the Earth image should be. The sky that can be seen in the cutout resembles the Earth observed from the space. Instead of the unchanging picture, the flag is always different depending on the weather, reminding us of the fragility of the natural systems, which we, as mandkind, have disturbed. → read more
The first ecumenical mass took place at Pohoda in 2010, partly as a response to the collapse of the tent. We were actually planning on doing it a long time before, and Anton Srholec helped us make it true. The tenth ecumenical mass at Pohoda will be dedicated to all those who were impacted by the misfortune in 2009, it will be a remembrance of both Martin Kašák and Nikolka Kapková, and also a reflection of people who have been part of Pohoda: António, Juraj Kušnierik, and Marián Varga. The meditations will be presented by Anna Polcková, Daniel Pastirčák, and Róbert Bezák. The theme will be the liberation of a woman, the story of Mary and Martha. Mary sits among the disciples (where she “is not supposed to”), she takes on the male disciple role, while Martha serves disciples and performs the “traditional” role of a woman. → read more
Interactive project; a newsstand and newspapers from the era of socialism, set of postcards, performers. Send home a postcard and remind yourself and your loved ones of what we had here before November 1989. You will become part of the “living memorial” of the past not-good-times. → read more
Pohoda 2019 will have, in addition to the ecumenical mass, also a new form of spiritual service. It will be offered to festival visitors by Jozef Haľko, Bratislavaʼs Roman Catholic bishop and the professor of church history at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology at Comenius University. For those interested in a debate or confession, he will be available in a wooden hut in the centre of the festival grounds (opposite the NGO passage) on Friday from 10.00 AM to noon and from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM, and on Saturday afternoon from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM. → read more
