There are moments when what you're going to matters less than where you're stepping. WiFič VEN!_na poli isn't just about the programme. It's about a place where what grew here meets what we've brought in from elsewhere. Exhibitions, music, conversations, installations, movement, design, and the ordinary moments in between. This year, this emotional harvest takes place on 28 and 29 August. At the Design Field campus, Bílovice 519.
There are situations where what you're going to isn't as important as where you're stepping. WiFič VEN!_na poli isn't just about the programme. It's about a place where what grew here meets what we brought in from elsewhere. Exhibitions, music, conversations, installations, movement, design, and the ordinary moments in between. This year, this emotional harvest takes place on 28 and 29 August. At the Design Field campus, Bílovice 519.
What awaits you
Concerts: Prago Union, Ohm Square 30, Midi Lidi and 11 more
Conversations: Lucie Výborná and her 6 guests
Exhibitions: Doba sádrová, Design Harvest and 3 more
Dance: Michal Heriban, Spitfire Company and 3 more
Theatre: Bečva and possibly more
Kids' programme: Tornádo Luuu, The Franta, Mary C and 13 more activities
Interesting people: you and 1,999 more
These numbers may change before the event begins.
Our field. What did this year's harvest bring us?
Festivals offer a programme. We offer that too, plus the place it's rooted in. That place is Design Field. Once an agricultural brownfield among the fields beyond the village, now steadily transformed into a place where manufacturing, education and culture meet. Industrial space steeped in greenery. What can you taste from our harvest?
- the industrial exhibition Design Harvest
To map the current landscape, to raise awareness of the quality of designers and makers. That was the ambition behind the industrial exhibition Design Harvest. After three years of searching, this year we've found the ideal content and form. We'll be presenting a selection of everyday products from across Central Europe.
- the exhibition Doba sádrová
An era when form wasn't born on a screen but directly in the material. The blueprint of a product's future proportions was first shaped in a neutral white plaster model – under the hands of sculptors, or those who learned from them. This is exactly where Egoé designers arrived when searching for the DNA of their design approach…
- Idea Market by Egoé
A showcase of how products can shape experiences in both the public and private sphere. A cross-section of everything Egoé designs and makes at Design Field. Street furniture, station canopies, campervan conversions, skis or outdoor furniture. It's not a showroom, but a theatrical stage with atmosphere.
- the Minipole space
A space created to let imagination grow. A place to play and to create. A playroom where you can take a train to visit grandpa. Take a friend on a road trip. Climb the highest peaks of the White Carpathians. Draw on the wall reliefs without anyone minding. Minipole brings its own view of the world of childhood.
- the Bistropole space with Polní jídelna
Speciality coffee or craft beer. A light dessert or a hearty soup. At a table inside or on a lounger outside. A place to work or to unwind. Bistropole doesn't fit into any one box. What you experience there depends on what you bring with you. It also includes a canteen, which will operate as a restaurant during WiFič VEN!_na poli.
- Kempus na poli
A place for tents, caravans, campers. It's all here, yet it doesn't look like a campsite. Comfortable apartment-style cabins, terraces, beds under the open sky. It doesn't fall into the resort category either. This is Kempus na poli. A place where, against a unique backdrop, simple earthiness meets rich comfort.
A marketplace of experiences. What did we bring in from elsewhere?
Music
Design Field's music programming pays no attention to genre or popularity. But it's never been this varied before. We'll offer legends, something more demanding for connoisseurs, and a showcase of the up-and-coming generation. It's not about everyone finding something for themselves. We want to show that different musical worlds can naturally exist side by side – and that it's precisely their collision that creates an atmosphere you can't plan according to neat categories.
legendary parties
- Prago Union live band
- Ohm Square 30
- MIDI LIDI
- Puding paní Elvisovej
alternative for connoisseurs
- Iva Bittová
- RUDIŠ & KRUŽÍK U-Bahn
girl power
- SJU
- Terez Frecerová
- Krupicafaja
young guns
- MAT 213
- YASHA 96
- WYFE
- MIND MINE
Conversations, dance, theatre
Many genres thrive here. Alongside conversations with striking personalities, we'll offer contemporary dance, movement performance and theatre on the edge of physical experience. From intimate storytelling through new circus to experimental movement – the programme brings together disciplines that don't usually meet, yet make perfect sense side by side here.
conversations
- Lucie Výborná and her guests
- Richard Vodička – on the exhibitions Design Harvest and Doba sádrová
movement performance
- Michal Heriban
- Spitfire Company
- Jedným dychom
- Cirk La Putyka
- Vanda Kavková
theatre
- Bečva
Kids' programme
As ever, our kids' programme is thoroughly grown-up. It combines playful, creative elements with movement. Children will build their own sound rig, make pinwheels and masks, or dive into creative workshops and play installations that rely more on imagination than on a screen.
workshops
- Tornádo Luuu – making ice cream and pinwheels
- The Franta – build your own sound rig
- Mary C – acoustic playroom
- Řev na hřišti – little recycling yard
- Brukev – making paper masks
- Art Reformatory – creative workshops
And how do you get to be part of it? The easiest way is to buy your tickets…
