The Elevate Festival is an annual festival that takes place around the Schloßberg in Graz, Austria.
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
Austria
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03 · How it is doing
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Chapter Takeaways
HistoryThe starting point for the idea to combine music and political discourse was the Exit-Space event on local cultural policy making in Graz in 2003.
2005For the first time the Elevate Festival took place in 2005.
2006In 2006, the topic of the festival was "Elevate the Debate".
2007The topic of 2007's Elevate Festival was "Elevate Democracy!" In 2007, Cynthia McKinney and Danny Schechter were at the festival in Graz.
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What is Elevate Festival in plain words?
The Elevate Festival is an annual festival that takes place around the Schloßberg in Graz, Austria.
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The Elevate Festival is an annual festival that takes place around the Schloßberg in Graz, Austria. The aim of the festival is to create a better understanding of the most important issues of our time and to discuss groundbreaking alternatives, innovative projects, and various initiatives in the realm of civil society, social movements and dedicated activism. Elevate combines contemporary music, art and political discourse. The organizational body is a Nonprofit organization. All the discourse and film programme of the festival is free of charge. 1
History
The starting point for the idea to combine music and political discourse was the Exit-Space event on local cultural policy making in Graz in 2003. In 2005 the concept was expanded into an international festival around the Schloßberg in Graz. The founders and organizers of the festival - Berhard Steirer, Daniel Erlacher and Roland Oreski - had the idea for the festival's name during a ride in the elevator up to the top of the Schloßberg. 1
2005
For the first time the Elevate Festival took place in 2005. In this year, everything had to do with "Independent People/Independent Movements". Jimmy Wales was an invited speaker at the Festival. 1
2006
In 2006, the topic of the festival was "Elevate the Debate". The discussions mainly dealt with free media, live video streaming and basic income. 1
2007
The topic of 2007's Elevate Festival was "Elevate Democracy!" In 2007, Cynthia McKinney and Danny Schechter were at the festival in Graz. 1
2008
In 2008, "Elevate the Commons" was the theme of the festival. Percy Schmeiser was one of the guests. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Elevate Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Elevate Festival is Annual festival in Graz, Austria, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
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