STANDING OVATIONS

The entire Elevate team would like to thank all our cooperation partners, sponsors, media partners and public funders. Thanks to your support, your sense for the importance of independent cultural institutions and your understanding of contemporary festivals, we are able to realize an extensive music-, discourse- and art-program at affordable conditions in the middle of Graz. We say thank you for the great cooperation!

Special thanks go out to legero united - the shoemakers around Stefan Stolitzka. For years they have been supporting diversity and quality of contemporary art with the ConTempus platform. For Stolitzka and his team its important to promote the independent work of cultural institutions. That's exactly how cultural sponsorship works!

Special thanks also to Red Bull Music. For years the music institution has been a smart and prudent partner of festivals around the world. As a platform for the exchange of musicians, they provided important impulses for current music creation since 1996. Red Bull Music is once again presenting a stage at the Elevate: The Day-Time Stage at the Orpheum on Saturday afternoon!

Also of particular importance for the design of the program are our international program partners, with whom we set new impulses for europe-wide cooperation. Thanks to our two Creative Europe Culture projects We Are Europe and Re-Imagine Europe. This year's highlights include the Todays Art from The Hague and the Reworks Festival Thessaloniki.

We would also like to thank our media partners for the good cooperation and the high quality coverage: Kleine Zeitung, FM4, SPEX, OKTO, Vice, Resident Advisor, Groove, Malmoe, Radio Helsinki, Village TV, crack, The Gap, g24. at, Noisey!

We would also like to thank the great sound and stage technicians and our production partners Lambda Labs and sonible, who supply their high-quality equipment for the pure sound at the festival.

A great round of applause also goes out to our public sponsors. Without their trust and support all of this would probably not be possible: Land Steiermark - Office for Culture, Europe and External Relations, Creative Europe Program of the EU, Graz Cultural Office, Styrian Provincial Youth Council, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Graz Tourism, AKM, Kunst in public space Styria, Graz Science, SKE.

And, of course, thanks to our many other important sponsors and partners: Citycom, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Makava, Absolut Vodka, Murauer Beer, Grazer Venues, Ginko Greenhouse, Pagan Fun, Forum Stadtpark, Weitzer Hotels, Grazer Spielstätten, Hunger on Art and Culture (Styria), ÖH Graz, Expose Facts, Blue Tomato, Parks, The Graslerei, Dux Records.

We look forward to a successful cooperation in the next years!