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
The great advance sale exceeds the last year and only 2,000 tickets are currently available for sale in our shop. Last call to order printed tickets via our e-shop. You can order printed tickets and our merch by 6 PM today. After this date, you can still purchase e-tickets on our website and printed tickets will be available via our partner points of sale (the list is available for you to see on our website in section “Shop”). The old as well as new merch will be available at the festival. Please make sure not to buy tickets via unofficial channels. Otherwise, you might not get to the festival site. We are looking forward to seeing you in two weeks. → read more
The construction of Pohoda will begin by marking out its area at the Trenčín airport as early as in two days. In addition to the art festival, there will also be a festival of services held in almost three hundred facilities, with our partners making a significant contribution to it. Without them, Pohoda could not be such an interesting place to meet music, literature, theatre, dance, debates, and visual arts, and it would not be able to offer this very wide range of services. Recently, a strong scientific programme has been added to all of that. → read more
In cooperation with our environmental partner, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (Slovak railways), we’ll dispatch a special festival express train from Košice to Bratislava this year, too. The capacity of each train is 350 seats. The train arriving from eastern Slovakia will also have a party coach with a DJ. Tickets are available only via our shop at www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop. You can find festival trains departure times below. → read more
The Martinus bookshop, in cooperation with the OZ Literárny klub, will offer Pohoda attenders two days full of quality reading and interesting guests. You can look forward to Simon Mawer, the author of the successful novel Glass Room. A film of the same name was based on the book. Czech journalist Jan Urban, Hungarian writer Ferenc Czinki, authors of popular Čierne diery, Milan Lasica, Dano Majling, Michal Hvorecký, Dorota Nvotová and SND actors will read excerpts from the latest book by Dušan Mitana. In addition, a selection of great books, excellent coffee and other goodies from the Foxford Café await you in the Literary Tent Martinus. → read more
