Tour de Moon

Tour de Moon is a cosmic adventure, a nationwide large-scale public festival of immersive experiences and live events developed in collaboration with our “universal satellite”: the Moon, seen as a character, a landscape and a prompt for radical imagination. The festival, composed of 8 programming strands, aims to reach millions of visitors across the UK and the world in 2022, through live and virtual experiences, supporting youth, nightlife creators, scientists and digital creators through cooperation. With Tour de Moon, we seek new beginnings, to empower others to create, to initiate, to innovate with new thinking and pluralistic practices so that history does not repeat itself on and beyond Earth.

Tour de Moon will showcase its wonders in Leicester, Newcastle and Southampton during May and June next year. In these three host cities, Tour de Moon will collaborate with local bars, venues, cinemas, and spaces with interactive, immersive experiences, talks and performances that question our current world and new ways of living on future worlds - like the Moon. During May and June of 2022, Tour de Moon will also tour the UK via Moon Convoy, a mini parade bringing experiences to town squares, parks, and open spaces. More details on what is on in each city will be revealed as we uncover the world of Tour de Moon…

GET FUNDING TO MAKE YOUR CREATIVE PROJECT

Tour de Moon is all about collaboration between scientists and nightlife creators so as to prompt radical imagination and new beginnings. Through our creative grant scheme, we are committing to redistribute wealth - with funds we received from our grant - whilst offering to empower others to create, to initiate and to innovate with new thinking and pluralistic practices so that history does not repeat itself on and beyond Earth.

With creative grants ranging from £100 to £25,000 there are a range of opportunities to push your practice and have your work showcased in Tour de Moon festival (and to the Moon!). Whether you want to write, sing, speak or create, there is bound to be something for you to do during Tour de Moon. We also have secured collaborations with the SETI (Seach For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, NASA SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute), the African Astronomical Society, The Ghanean Planetarium, NightTime Industries Association, and many other international institutions and youths clubs alongside the creative grants to support the development of global cooperative efforts beyond borders.

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