Brave Festival - Against Cultural Exile

Brave Festival – Against Cultural Exile is a festival organized since 2005 by Song of the Goat Theatre Association. It takes place in Wroclaw and in Lower Silesia. For over 10 years artists from all over the world are invited to present their traditions. It is a festival of brave people, people who speak about where they come from, what their values are and what their tradition and spirituality is. Therefore, they help to save and protect forgotten, abandoned and forlorn cultures. Brave Festival has also very important project which is called Brave Kids – its aim is to meet, integrate and start a collaboration of artistic groups of kids from different continents.
Each edition of our festival focuses on a different aspect of either humanity or region of the world. Previous ten editions have been titled so far: Magic Voices, Asian Voices, Drowned Songs, Rituals: Out of Africa, Prayers of the World, Enchanters, Mask, Women Initiating, Lost Rhythm, Sacred Body and this year – Griot.
An extremely important element of our work is to take up brave artistic initiatives of high social value which are based on the attitude of tolerance, openness and exchange of cultural experiences. During the concerts, performances, rituals, cinema screenings and meetings with artists we present output of different cultures from very distant and diverse parts of the world.
Moreover, since the very beginning of existence of Brave Festival the revenue from ticket sales is designated to support humanitarian activities in Tibet led by the international charity organization, ROKPA. Following its motto: “Helping where help is needed”, ROKPA brings help to people in the poorest regions of the world where other aid agencies rarely operate. All proceeds from ticket sales for Brave Festival 2015 were designated to support the victims of the earthquake in Nepal. Together we collected 31.000 EUR net.