It takes us approximately 4 weeks of work onsite to make it happen and at least 10 months of planning!
Our amazing location is a wood situated directly on the beach, the event production is not easy because we need to bring pretty much everything on location for those 5 days!
In order to bring high quality artists to Barbariga, we have to take into account paying their fees, buying flights or travelling by car couple of thousand miles to reach the paradisiac istrian peninsula.

Our minimum expense to make the festival run is 6000€ (not counting ANY artists fees, strictly infrastructure, electricity, workshops, materials, security, etc..)
All of the people involved in the core crew volunteer.
We obtained a little help from the city council so we put the minimum goal of our campaign to 2000€.
The better feedback we get more quality we bring to the festival: more workshops, artists and better infrastructure..

Funds will cover:

generator and fuel needed to run the whole content of the festival
security
artist fees
renting quality stretch tent to keep all the visitors safe also during the worst storms (let’s all hope that won’t happen!)
covers for kitchen area and the entrance
drinkable water for all the visitors
chemical bathrooms (yes, they are going to be cleaned every day - we know they are nobody's favorites, but if kept clean and with just a little bit of attention they can do serve us well for these 5 days)
different material for workshops (although we recycle a lot of stuff we still need to buy material to make constructions and things properly, reusable cups etc..)

Photo by Denis Tabakovic

PROGRAM

MUSIC

Photo by Eyedin

Our idea is to book around 35 artist playing roots, reggae and dub music from all over Europe and host them for the first time on the Croatian coast.
Some of the artists we brought in the previous editions visited Croatia for the first time and had an amazing time playing sessions that are going be remembered for a long time.
To name a few artists: Gussie P ft. Errol Bellot, Kibir la Amlak, High Elements, RDH Hi-Fi, Rockers Dub Master, Resistence in Dub, New Era and many more regional and international artists.

Photo by Davor Jugovac

For this year edition some of the artists we want to bring are the legendary sound system operator, selector and producer ABA SHANTI I straight from London UK, the great Sista Habesha from Italy ft. Saralene from Germany on the mic, one of the most innovative artists of the dub/dubstep world scene Egoless from Zagreb Croatia, the balkan veteran dub defender Digitron sound system bringing his 8 scoops, Lion’s Den from Germany, Haspar from France, local Munchies sound system full sound and the best producers of the balkan region: Jah Forcefield from BIH, Dr. Obi ft. Anja G, Boombar Dub, Homegrown sound and Dubar Sound from Croatia.
Once we have your feedback from the campaign more fantastic artists will be announced.

WORKSHOPS/LECTURES

Photo by Leon Ivic & Denis Tabakovic

In the past editions we offered different workshops collaborating with local associations dealing with slackline, circus, aerial silks, fire show, sea-diving, ecology lectures, recycling, sound system equipment workshops, DIY music equipment etc.. That had an important impact on the families and children making this festival a place where all generations can have fun and learn something. There is a kids area and different workshops for them. To run all these activities there is a big effort by all the participants and by us, the production team.
As we said, the better feedback we get from you people the richer program we will bring you to Barbariga.

Photo by Denis Tabakovic

We hope you understand what kind of vibe our festival is and we want to keep developing. We sincerely believe you are going to join and support the festival through this campaign.
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APPLICATION FORM

FIll this form and suggest us artists that you want to see, or if you want to become part of Escape the city family. We will get back to you.

HOW TO GET THERE? BUS/TRAIN/FLIGHTS/TRANSFERS

Barbariga is a small Istrian sea village near Vodnjan, easy accessible by car, bicycle, bus or airplane.
The nearest (bigger) city is Pula, where you have a good connection between national and international buses (Check https://global.flixbus.com/).
For those of you who reach us from far, the nearest airports are Pula (PUY - 20 min ride), Rijeka (RJK - 1.30h ride), Trieste (TRS - 1.30h ride) and Venice (VCE/TSF 2.30h ride), they all have low-cost companies operating and a good connection from all over Europe - UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain etc. - check the best deals on www.skyscanner.com.
For transfer offers and car sharing connections please post in our festival event -> http://bit.ly/ETCFESTIVAL.

FESTIVAL TICKETS

To be part of Escape the City 2020, it is simple: CROWDFUND THE PROJECT!
What does that mean?
We will start the campaign with a very limited number of early bird tickets for 25€, then gradually increasing till 45€. After that, the regular tickets will cost 60€ for 5 days of sun, sea, music and fun for all the friends and family.

We offer 10 special group ticket promotion where you can have 4 tickets for 140€, after that the group ticket price is going to be 170€. Group tickets are available only till 30.04.2020.

Escape the City festival 2020

Escape the City festival 2020