PRAGMA Festival
PRAGMA Festival is an event-based platform for exchange between different practices. It is open to people from across a wide range of fields: arts, music, crafts, business, politics, law, science, engineering, etc. The participants are invited to formulate and present their practices, as well as to get influenced and changed by the practices of others. It's a festival of cultivation, exchange, and alterity, with a particular focus on concrete actions (PRAGMA), which inscribe imaginary into the real. It's not so much about the artists learning how to do accounting or politicians learning how to cook (although this may also happen). The main focus is on bringing something back into your practice from another practice. An artist may learn something about accounting, which may inspire their own artistic practice and compel them to do a totally different piece of art. A politician may learning something about cooking, which will completely change their way...
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