KRAAK festival is the annual expedition to the outer edges of new music lands and the transforming habitats of avant-garde pioneers. Led by the idea to create an extended festival experience and flip the accustomed patterns of playing and listening to the music, this year we are launching a 24- hour journey kindly hosted by our friends from Beursschouwburg.
Bring your beautiful bodies, open your minds and sharpen your most delicate senses for this intense celebration of the visionary tendencies in today's music universe.

Next to extensive music programme, the festival features the experimental film screening Spatialised latency (inbetween the acts), curated by Nathalie Papillon, the pop-up expo Smugglers Bureau by Maarten Raskin, and the label market. To accommodate 24-hour festival experience, we have provided a zone out space, as well as the festival breakfast. Amber Meulenijzer will host the programme and guide you through this off-stream music adventure.

This year's festival is curated jointly by the KRAAK festival committee, a group of close collaborators and D.I.Y. stakeholders: Ernesto Gonzalez, Dieter Durinck, Gustave Demoen, Lizzy Vandierendonck, Maarten Raskin, Matthieu Levet, Niels Verougstraete, Sebastiaan Willemen and Victor Van Wassenhove.

Supported by the VGC, the Flemish Government and the Polish Institute.

*Due to the limited capacity, a guestlist is not possible.