A special edition on TRUST
September 27–October 4, 2020
This year, UNFINISHED Festival transforms itself into 8 days of talks, conversations, art, music, workshops, and happenings about TRUST.
The multidisciplinary event based in Bucharest will take place online on a groundbreaking, new platform designed around the UNFINISHED community, which is spread out around the globe. This year’s guests include authors Priya Parker and Anand Giridharadas, journalist Adam Davidson, artist and Kickstarter founder Perry Chen, head of World Economic Forum 1T.org Gill Cassar, and trust & relationship-economy-expert Jerry Michalski.
Attendance is limited and participants—who pay with their time to enter—are selected by application only. Apply here.
#UNFINISHED20 will take place between September 27 and October 4, 2020.
Held under the patronage of the European Parliament, UNFINISHED is a festival that mixes all fields, all ages, all social and geographical backgrounds, and all forms of exchange. The goal of this model is to encourage non-stop learning (as the name says... unfinished!) and encourage people to more simply appreciate the true value of each other in their respective lives.
Reinventing the way we gather, #UNFINISHED20 is creating a completely new online ecosystem for real connections, ideas, and emotions. With bites of content spread throughout weekdays and storms of it during the weekend, UNFINISHED is building a highly adaptable experience, designed to bring meaning to participants' daily lives over an entire week.
Experience designer Ida Benedetto, chief data scientist at The New York Times Chris Wiggins, change expert entrepreneur Ariane de Bonvoisin, Love & Magic Company co-founder Oshoke Pamela Abalu, Dr. & former UN assistant secretary Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Euronews editor-in-chief Peter Barabas & journalist Yasir Khan, Dr. & imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, the musician byron, artist & cyborg activist Moon Ribas, artist, Dr. & writer Jason Hoelscher, musician & edutainer Jurgis Didžiulis, foresight strategist Lydia Caldana, Yogilates founder Carlos L'Abbate, violoncellist Tavi Lup, Mesa Company & their founder Barbara Soalheiro, wine & spirits expert Marinela Ardelean, and musician & ecologist Zoli Tóth are also joining the festival line-up amongst many others. Conversations will be moderated by New York Times author & scribner Patricia Cohen, Live Nation head of brand strategy Ian Daly, future strategist Diana Stafie, and experience designer & Love is in the Cloud founder Isabella Nardini.
Don’t Take Them for Granted, a public project from the UNFINISHED community, will also be part of this year’s experience. Shaped as a collective call to recognize the invisible labor of this pandemic’s frontline workers and, most specifically, the Romanian healthcare staff, the project was created by artists Cristian Movilă (1983, Bucharest) and Capucine Gros (1989, Zürich) after documenting the emergency wards and COVID-19 sections of Bucharest’s main public hospitals.
The project will be included in #UNFINISHED20’s online exhibition and also take the form of a large-scale photo, video, and sound installation, featuring a voice-over by actor Benedict Cumberbatch (1976, London) and two additional short films, created during the pandemic, by artist, photographer, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar (1956, Santiago).
This installation will open to the public on September 20, 2020 as an open-air experience in Piața George Enescu, in Bucharest.
Find out more & get involved in Don’t Take Them for Granted HERE.
Other artists will contribute to the online exhibition with other works related to trust, truth, and to the pandemic, including Tehching Hsieh (1950, Nanzhou), Marina Abramović (1946, Belgrade), Lia Perjovschi (1961, Sibiu), Dan Perjovschi (1961, Sibiu), Antoine Bertin (1985, Paris), and Masahito Ono (1983, Tokyo).
Updates about #UNFINISHED20 are constantly shared on the festival’s website and social media channels – Facebook, Facebook Group, and Instagram.
This year’s edition is possible with the trust of Raiffeisen Bank, Mastercard, Trencadis, Kaufland, Facebook, The European Parliament, Orange Romania, Nuclear Electrica, The Ministry of Culture of Romania, Leroy & Partners, E.ON, DS Smith, ProTV, Radio Guerrilla, and Cărturești.
UNFINISHED, the first multidisciplinary festival in Romania, was created by the Eidos Foundation as a constantly evolving experience. Notable previous guests include fashion designer Virgil Abloh, relationship therapist Esther Perel, psychotherapist Jack Saul, Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith, futurist Jason Silva, DJ and soundmaker Nicolas Jaar, New York Times correspondents Rukmini Callimachi, Daniel Jones, Patricia Cohen, Matthew Anderson & Farah Nayeri, Obama administration strategist Duncan Wolfe, performance artist Tehching Hsieh, photographer Brigitte Lacombe, 2x4 founder Susan Sellers, Centre Pompidou curator Florian Ebner, and many more.
For any press requests or further information, please contact Dona Teșcovschi [dona@conanpr.ro].
