On March 1st the festival program starts with the vernissage of Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan (ad.watch) at the esc medien kunst labor.
From Monday 2 March, Elevate the Campus will start a two-day program with the motto "Confronting Climate Breakdown - From Discourse to Action" at the Karl-Franzens-Uni Graz, at schubertNEST and at the Literaturhaus. Conference, panel discussions, lectures, workshops, readings and a documentary film offer an extensive pre-programme for the actual festival start on March 4th at the Orpheum in Graz.
Already in the week before the festival, Elevate recommends a visit to the conference "Barricading the Ice Sheets" by Oliver Ressler at Camera Austria from Friday 28.02. John Jordan and Nnimmo Bassey, who are also guests at Elevate, will take part in the conference.