POLL: What are the most exciting festivals in 2017, Romania?

UPDATE: Here are the top 10 most exciting festivals in 2017.

You helped the feeder bear find the freshest venues in Bucharest, and it looks like you did a great job.

The number of festivals is growing year by year in Romania. In 2015, we counted 77 festivals, while in 2014, 35 of them appeared in the yearly poll.
What festivals do you look forward to in 2017? Vote below and share your latest findings in the comments section.

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3 Smoked Olives

3 Smoked Olives Island itself is a new adventure every time! It is located on the Danube River, away from the busy life of the city, right on the border between Romania and Bulgaria, more precisely, near the ferry crossing point Calarasi (RO) – Silistra (BG), an hour away from Bucharest.

 

Airfield

Let your mind and soul wonder! Get to a universe of dreaming, magic, love, tolerance and big hearts from an airfield. Embrace the silence and the afternoon sun. Let your ideas fly and enjoy Airfield Festival 2017. Get your tickets here.

 

ARTmania Festival

28 – 29 July 2017.

Save the date & join ARTmania Festival Sibiu 2017. Stay tuned for news and updates!

 

Blaj aLive Festival

3 – 5 June 2017

The preparations are beginning for a new edition of Blaj aLive Festival.

 

Creative Fest

Creative fest means three days of cool music, space&urban art, graffiti, extreme sports, street dance, and freestyle. Don’t forget free entrance.

 

Dakini

Expect 30+ class Psy, chill and microhouse artists to cover a more varied spectrum of a musical adventure than seen before in Eastern Europe.

 

Dor de Munte

Techno party in the middle of the Romanian mountains, just what the doctor ordered for the summer.

 

Dorna Art

Theater workshops. Concerts. Architecture school. DJ. Cocktails. Skate Park, Video Mapping, Films, Guided Tours, Street Food and other interesting stuff await you at Dorna Art.

 

Electric Castle

12 – 17 July 2017

Electric Castle is a unique festival experience that takes place on the amazing domain of Banffy Castle, in Transylvania. It shakes up the way people interact with a festival by combing an eclectic musical lineup with arts, technology, and a visually innovative concept.

 

Bucharest GreenSounds Festival

The Bucharest City Hall through Creart – The Centre for Arts, has been organizing since 2014 the international festival for music Bucharest GreenSounds in Herăstrău Park.

 

DENEUITAT

The memories are kept alive because we provide welcoming warmth and we invite participants to have a personal connection. This is what we achieve through #deneuitat series.

Folk You

Folk Festival that takes place on the beach in Vama Veche with regularly performances by Iris, Vița de Vie, Taxi, Omul cu șobolani and others.

Gărâna Jazz Festival

6 – 9 July 2017.

Garana Jazz Fest is proud to announce its 21st edition, taking place July 6-9 in the Semenic Mountains, Caraș-Severin County. After celebrating two decades of live music, Gărâna will continue to nurture the passion for jazz and nature along with the freedom of bringing these two elements together in a unique festival experience.

Festivalul George Enescu

Festivalul George Enescu este cel mai mare eveniment cultural internațional organizat de România și este cotat în primele zece festivaluri de muzică clasică din Europa. Un adevărat brand cultural de țară, Festivalul Enescu are loc la fiecare doi ani, în onoarea compozitorului George Enescu. Prima ediție a festivalului a avul loc în anul 1958. În fiecare septembrie, unii dintre cei mai apreciați muzicieni de muzică clasică ai lumii încântă Bucureștiul. 

JEMF

Jimbolia Electronic Music Festival (JEMF) is a Romanian music festival that takes place on the west side of our country on the breathtaking lands of Jimbolia.

 

Jazz in the Park

Jazz in the Park is one of the friendliest music festivals in Romania. Their goal is to give new meaning to forgotten or less used public spaces, using music in order to attract the audience. The festival is organized in public spaces in Cluj-Napoca: the Central Park and the Someș River bank and also in other locations that can be brought back to life through arts and music.

Magura Wave Festival

Feel. Live. Dream.

Metalhead Meeting Festival

24 – 25 June 2017

In 2017 the festival will also take place at Arenele Romane in Bucharest on the 24th and 25th of June! The first headliners announced are Sepultura, Behemoth and Bucovina.

 

Mioritmic

Mioritmic is an avant-garde electronic music festival with a selection of innovative and trend-setting artists.

 

Murmur Festival

The fortress that was never conquered. Until now! Surround yourself with vibrant electronic, deep house and live music, while discovering authentic fashion, decorations and food, traditional workshops and a scenery like no other. Stay tuned for more information!

 

Musai Fest

Musai Fest takes place on the beach in Vama Veche and previous guests include: Barac, Kozo, SIT, Macanache, Subcarpați and others.

 

Music Travel Festival 

Music Travel Festival takes place in Herneacova, about 30 km away from Timișoara. Enjoy the music in the middle of nature and let it vibrate with you.

Particles Festival

Particles is a 48h interdisciplinary and urban regeneration festival taking place in alternative venues in Arad.

PLAI Festival

PLAI is music, it is art and many cultures! It is diversity lived in every possible way,it is learning from the ones around us and from each experience.

 

Shine Festival

1 – 2 July 2017 @ Arenele Romane

 

Sound and Vision

Electronica, indie, electro-pop, nu-disco, soul, alternative rock, indie rock, hip-hop, freestyle rap – you can find it all at Sound and Vision.

 

Sunwaves

The start is on Thursday, 27th of April and we go on till late Monday, 1st of May 2017. The location of the festival is in Mamaia North, same place as last year. If you are looking for accommodation look around Crazy Beach or Summerland Apartments as a point of interest. The tickets will go on sale after mid-January.

 

Summerwell

12 -13 August 2017.

A festival like a holiday: Register to get your early bird ticket for Summer Well 2017 here.

Sunset Festival

 

Untold Festival

3 – 7 August 2017

Discover the Untold Story. 4 days and 4 nights full of magic, sound, and image. Featuring some of the best artists in the world.

 

UR.BASM

UR.BASM is a new music and urban happenings festival. The first story was made of a series of musical events beaded along 5 nights, events that took place in different locations from Bucharest.

 

Waha Festival

Waha means celebration, manifestation, vibration, dancing, cooperation, sharing, harmony & love. Waha sounds joyful, tribal and resonant. Waha aims to be more than a party, but an expression of existence.

 

Delahoya

Delahoya is the oldest electronic music festival in Romania. From 1997 till this day, electronic music fans from all over the country and also foreigners come to Cluj-Napoca every year to dance to their favorite music, presented live by well-known DJ’s and bands and also by newcomers.

 

Rockstadt Extreme Fest

ROCKSTADT Extreme Fest is right now Romania’s biggest open air metal fest, held in the beautiful mountain side of Rasnov, right in Transylvania, very close to one of Dracula’s Castles, 160km away from Bucharest and very close to the city of Brasov.

 

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Anim’est

The only Animation Film Festival in Romania.

 

Anonimul Film Festival

ANONIMUL IIFF is quite an extraordinary place, far from the “red-carpet syndrome” in this world full of film festivals, taking place in Sfantu Gheorghe, where the Danube meets the Black Sea, reachable only by water or air. People from all over gather here every year in August, watching films all day and all night long in the fully equipped indoor cinema in Green Village and on the huge open-air screen in Dolphin Camping.

 

Astra Film Festival

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL (AFF) Sibiu, is well-established Romanian International Documentary Film Festival, dedicated mostly to a creative documentary from Central and Eastern Europe, has started in 1993 and is currently the oldest international festival running in Romania.

 

Filmul de Piatra

Filmul de Piatra is a festival created by the young for the young. 100% based on Volunteer Power, the festival’s main goal is to offer a platform for young short film directors. That said, the festival is known for its’ youthfulness and friendliness, unconventional locations, and very long nights of partying. Check it on Facebook!

Luna Plină – Festivalul Filmului Horror @ Biertan

Luna Plina brings to the public the best horror and fantasy productions, both classic and modern, films that are already milestones in cinema or are about to become ones.

NexT Film Festival

NexT International Film Festival celebrates innovative and creative filmmaking from all around the world. Its mission is to discover and support emerging international film talents by promoting their works locally, nationally and internationally.

 

Marele picnic ShortsUP 

Fiction, experimental films, documentaries that changed ways of thinking, animations, and an urban and eclectic atmosphere – in short, the ShortsUP atmosphere. The people at ShortsUP want to make short films more visible and increase their value, in the long term.

 

PIFF (Ploiești International Film Festival)

Every year Ploieşti International Film Festival brings to screen the newest and most captivating short films from around the world. It has become one of the most relevant international cultural events in Ploieşti.

 

Pelicam

8 – 11 June 2017, Tulcea.

Documentaries, action and animation films  – all dedicated to the environment. Competitive sections, workshops, debates and open air concerts, everything just across the Danube.

 

TIFF

During these ten years, TIFF has become a well-known brand in Romania, not only due to the outstanding films screened every year, but also for the effective organization, sparkling atmosphere and density of events, from seminars, workshops, and panels to fabulous concerts and crazy all night long parties.

 

UrbanEye Festival

UrbanEye is a platform for ideas, that started from the connection between films and cities and it opens the discussion about the places we live in.

 

Timishort

The organisers thought that the 340.000 people of Timișoara need more quality films so the best introduction would be with short films because it is a more light form of the cinematic art.

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Amural

Coming out between the walls. Taking down the art from the walls. Amural Festival is on.

 

Balkanik Festival

Balkanik Festival has proved its status as an event dedicated to new experiences, cultural exchange and discoveries that go beyond continental borders to its Romanian and international audiences. It is an annual festival of concerts, art exhibitions, crafts and performances of different artists belonging to a variety of cultures, who meet in this cultural melting pot in the heart of the capital city of Romania.

 

Femei pe Mătăsari

Closing the streets for cars and opening them to the talented women who dedicate themselves to the arts. That would be the festival in a nutshell. They expose the feminine universe in all its diversity. Fashion shows, concerts, live visuals on walls, open air cinema, and street theater – you can find it all.

 

Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor

The White Night of the Art Galleries, the project initiated and organized by Ephemair Association, extends its night programme in art galleries, alternative spaces, creative hubs and cultural institutions in other nine cities across the country.

 

Noaptea Caselor

Recently, the most interesting things in Bucharest happen in the houses and apartments, where communities have gathered to play with daring ideas.

 

Rokolectiv Festival

Rokolectiv Festival is part of SHAPE, a three-year platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

 

Street Delivery

Street Delivery stands for a city that provides joy to its inhabitants, one in which pedestrians partake of the streets at least as much as drivers do. Our main goal is to reclaim the public space and make it fun, livable, live.

 

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