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| dates and duration = 1 week, end of August
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| festival dates     = 5.9.2014 - 7.9.2014, 23.8.2015 - 30.8.2015, 10.7.2016 - 16.7.2016, 3.8.2017 - 5.8.2017, 26.7.2018 - 28.7.2018, 26.8.2019 - 31.8.2019
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Established in [[established::2014]], the [[Floating Castle Festival]] takes place in the picturesque surroundings of the [[Snežnik Castle]], in July 2016 again. This congenial meeting of artists and various communities is an open ended project from start to finish, and could best be described as a "folk-puppet-music-theatre site-specific event". 

Its charismatic initiator and organiser is [[Matija Solce]], a prolific musician, puppeteer, activist, actor, and director who lives in a nearby village of Kozarišče.
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Though established in [[established::2014]], the [[Floating Castle Festival]] actually started  a year earlier as a Burning Castle Festival in the picturesque surroundings of the [[Snežnik Castle]]. It derives from the experience of the [[HISTeRIA Festival]] (held in Istria) and mirrors its concept of the "folk-puppet-music-theatre site-specific event". It retained the character of a meeting of artists, opened up to other people, inviting the general public as well as the local community. Both festivals share also a charismatic initiator and organiser [[Matija Solce]], a prolific musician, puppeteer, activist, actor, and director who lives in a nearby village of Kozarišče.


==Concept==

The one central idea behind the festival is of incorporating. It tries to involve people from the local village by setting up performances and workshops in the village itself; it tries to be friendly to children, to the elderly, and to the disabled; it is international and multilingual; it encourages visitors to be involved in the realisation of the festival; and it hosts numerous types of artists and other creative spirits, who bring a variety of art forms and methods and who throughout the whole day and night allow for both mindless as well as thoughtful and reflective entertainment.     

An important part of the festival is the make and the design of the atmosphere. It takes place before the official festival starts and is yet still a part of it, as the artists and volunteers gather for a conceptually-minded set-up of the site. Land-art, the usage of ''in situ'' materials, and also the already existing "spots", environment-friendly practices and place-specific allusions are the principles by which the location is manipulated and transformed into the festival grounds.

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==Principles==

One of the underlying modes of production which allows for all of this to happen is volunteering. Not only do the organisers and their team of helpers work for free, so do the artists and others involved in the festival, and only some of the mentors for specific projects get paid for their travel expenses. This not only enables the festival to happen and draws the people that really want to be there for the social and cultural experience, it also makes it possible to invest the profits into expanding and enriching the next year's edition. 

Last but not least is the principle of sustainability. All the waste produced is recycled, the festival goes for minimal energy consumption and the participants are encouraged not to litter the grounds, not even with cigarette stubs.  

==Programme==

The vast programme involves different performances, concerts, puppet shows, circus acts, street theatre, workshops for adults and children, poetry readings, exhibitions, a forest funfair, film projections, and more. The 2015 edition, for example, involved more than 300 artists and numerous volunteers from 24 countries. 

The festival also lives before and after the festival, and in the week before it happened, some of the artists were already warming up and performing in various cities and towns of Slovenia.

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==See also==
*[[Snežnik Castle]]
*[[HISTeRIA Festival]]
*[[Teatro matita]]

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZdPYoRL3dA A video explaining the festival] (in Slovenian)

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