DARK SKIES, BRIGHTER LIGHT
DARK SKIES, BRIGHTER LIGHT
The theme for Lost Farm Festival 2025 is Dark Skies – Brighter Light, where a diverse and varied program has been co-created with artists, locals and the landscape.
The program navigates Lostfarmers along a flow of different energies that reflect the contrasts and complexities of our shared world, as they meander through the rugged beauty of our natural landscape.
We invite you to move between ecstatic hyper-pop parties and intimate meditations with plants and other non-humans, and to float from bodily experiences like outdoor nudejazz or intimate saunagus into distorted nu-metal and hardcore bass performances that beat in the rhythms of our collective hearts.
We hope our cultural compatriots will be inspired to share personal stories from the margins, exploring the ways that joy can be a form of resistance.
And we encourage you to stumble beautifully through traditional lamentations at dawn... all in an attempt to collectively encourage human connection through the live (art) experience.
Oh yeah — and have lots of fun!
"I am interested in contrasts and how all the feels that can happen at once - joy, rage, humour, sadness can be very conflicting and confusing.
Through Dark Skies - Brighter Light, I want to bring together a program of artists who give their unique and differing perspectives on how to navigate these bewildering mixed emotions, and share with us their raw, honest, warm expressions so we can get inspired and reach out for the brighter now - together."
— Jude Bennett, Program Head