The architecture of the seed festival — an academy, an agora, a commons, and a climax, bound together by workshops and a year-round digital storytelling project.
Physical theatre, movement, voice, and martial arts. The athlete–artist–citizen pathway.
A symposium of scholars and practitioners. Practice-based, not paper-based — workshops, not lectures.
Shared meals, ritual, youth participation, public life. Hospitality as artistic practice.
Immersive community co-creation directed by David Glass, across the Marathon landscape.
A global project inviting young filmmakers, writers, illustrators, and performers to chart the world of 2072. A fictional online resistance emerges in coded messages and story fragments — the boundary between fiction, warning, and activism becomes porous. Audiences enter the mythology long before the live event begins.
Workshops and practice-based intergenerational learning run through all strands — the connective tissue of the whole programme.
A thirteen day pilot at the Marathon Olympic Centre. Every element of the full festival in pilot form — performance, symposium, workshops, Agora, Commons. Local, national, and international.
Planning, management, fundraising, and governance put in place, building directly on the lessons of the seed festival.
Establishing Apocalyptica as the annual international festival of embodied democracy in the landscape of Marathon.
Pedagogy, not improvisation.
The body as a living system of perception, ethics, and civic capacity.
Workshops woven throughout the programme.
A rehearsal of attention, responsibility, and care.
All bodies, all abilities, all ages at the centre.
Legal clarity, financial openness, professional scaffolding.