Fusion Festival

For the UK festival, see Fusion Festival UK.

Fusion Festival
Fusion festival logo, rendered in Cyrillic
Fusion Festival area at Müritz Airpark in Lärz near Mirow, Mecklenburg, Germany
GenreTechno, Electronic, Trance, Dance, Hip Hop, Reggae
Dateslast weekend of June or first weekend of July
Location(s)Lärz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Years active1997–present
Websitefusion-festival.de
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The Fusion Festival is a music and arts festival with a countercultural character. It takes place at a former military airport called Müritz Airpark in Lärz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in northeastern Germany. The festival name is often depicted in Cyrillic letters as Фузион, but pronounced like the English word fusion ['fjuʒən]. The annual festival was started by the Kulturkosmos organisation in 1997 and is described by the organizers as a place to practice "Holiday Communism" (Ferienkommunismus).[1] It lasts four to six days, usually at the end of June. In 2016, the Fusion Festival event took place from 29 June to 3 July and which has attracted some 70,000 attendees for each year's festival, since the 2013 event, which the comparable American Burning Man event only matched in 2015.[2]

Different musical styles are represented at the festival, but the line up is not released beforehand. Mostly electronic music is present, but there is no stylistic restriction for the various live music acts, and the festival attendees may bring their own instruments. The festival also holds its own film festival and features different scales of art installations. Attendees may bring their own art and appear in artistic costumes. Only vegetarian food is sold at the festival grounds.

The festival gears to create a Temporary Autonomous Zone and a transformational environment. Due to its avantgardistic attitude and the variety of art, the Fusion Festival has been described as a "European Burning Man".[3]

  1. ^ "Fusion Festival, Official Website: Festival".
  2. ^ Meadow, Matthew (14 September 2015). "Arrests at Burning Man 2015 up 600% from previous year". youredm.com. YourEDM. Retrieved 7 August 2016. The event has come under scrutiny in recent years for its "radical self-reliance" principle, considering the sheer number of participants at the event is growing every year, and was expected to have reached nearly 70,000 this year.
  3. ^ "Fusion Festival". fest300 Review of Fusion Festival. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2014.