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15:00: Join us today at Helmut-List Halle for the grand opening of the 22nd edition of Elevate Festival, presented by Kleine Zeitung.

Tickets are available in our ticket shop and at the box office at Helmut-List Halle. 

Free entry to the opening ceremony (from 19:30 to 20:30). The evening is hosted by Austrian molecular biologist, author and science cabaret performer Martin Moder. Discourse curator Irina Nalis and Elevate co-founder Bernhard Steirer provide an outlook on the remainder of the festival programme.

 The opening address is delivered by freelance journalist and author Şeyda Kurt, whose bestselling books Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Warum Liebe Politisch ist (2021) and Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion (2023) explore the political dimensions of love and hatred.

The music programme will continue at Halle B with Bendik Giske and Theresa Baumgartner, followed by Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians” by the PPCM Ensemble. 

At Halle D, the audiovisual night starts: From 22:00 you can look forward to Amnesia Scanner, Zora Jones, PLF, Klimentina Li, Zlata and Inou Ki Endo. 

Tickets for the music programme (Halle B + Halle D): https://elevate.at/tickets/
Doors open at 18:30. Opening ceremony starts at 20:00.
 

12:00: At 13:00, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook opens the afternoon with her keynote “The American Wake-Up Call” (DE). The panel “Everybody Shaking: Resistant Vitality, Loving Ways of Relating to the World” follows at 14:30 (EN), before the film screening “Yanuni – The Amazon is a Woman” closes the day at 16:30 (EN).

Running parallel from 12:00 to 18:00 in the Garten im Heimatsaal, the augmented reality film “The Tent: An AR Story”, presented in cooperation with Digithalia, invites visitors to an immersive experience (DE/EN).

LIVESTREAM: The Elevate Livestream broadcasts all events from the festival's discourse segment, including discussions, panels, and lectures. It also features the opening ceremony today!

Stream now on the Elevate Website: https://elevate.at/live/
or Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@elevatefestivalgraz/streams
 

09:00: Hello and welcome to Elevate Festival 2026! The sun is shining and we cannot be more excited to welcome you to the 22nd edition of Elevate in Graz!

The discourse programme at Elevate kicks off today at 10:00 in Heimatsaal with the workshop and listening session “Radio Amnion: Oceanic Listening as Transcendental (t)Ec(n)ology”, presented in cooperation with the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (DE/EN).