- The world championships in
bodypainting presented by "Kryolan"
- Night contest for UV effects
- World Facepainting Award
- Special Effects Make-up Award &
Amateur Awards - WBF-Academy with more than 35
different workshop classes, demos and lectures
- BodyCircus, the shrill and magical
fantasy ball in the legendary venue "Fabrik"
- Extensive exhibition area & market
- International photo contest
- Huge music synchronized fireworks
- "Bodypaint City TV" with interviews,
live broadcasts and web streaming
WBF Institute of Sound presents: - Music concerts of national and
international bands - International DJ Acts
- Dance Music Stage
- Music & show performances
- DJ & music workshops
- "Ministry of Sound" events
- DJ Contest presented by "ForceFM
London" - Londons Pirate radio station "ForceFM"
presents Radio Bodypaint City
- new:
"Radio Bodypaint
City" hosted by the Young Generation department of the state of
Carinthia and London's radio "ForceFM"
WBF - Fashion Department presents:
- BodyArt Fashion Show "Farbkrieger"
(Color warriors)
- Styling Zone
new: WBF Fashion Park, the fashion
boutique of young designers
new: WBF Couture Award, the young
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Since 1998,
the world’s most colourful event has taken place every year in Austria.
The “World Bodypainting Festival” is the biggest art event in the
bodypainting theme and ten thousands of visitors admire the wonderful work
of the participants. Aritsts from 40 nations worldwide come to this unique
event and put body art into the mountain and lake scenery.
Pörtschach at the lake
Wörthersee near the state capital Klagenfurt is the new
location for the next years. The festival week
is held from 27th June - 3rd July 2011.
The new "Bodypaint City" offers easier travel access plus great
socializing possibilities and inspiration.
The town Pörtschach,
the most impressive location in the state surrounded by turquoise water,
is the perfect backdrop for the art form. The very compact town locates
all programs within just a few hundred meters. The Congress Center offers
space for most of the workshop classes and the "Fabrik", an old factory,
is the new BodyCircus location. Festival setup:
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- WBF Academy with workshop
classes and lectures from 27 - 30 June 2011
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The teachers
of the WBF Academy are the best ones in their fields.
Many workshops are supported by our partners like Kryolan, Fantasy
Worldwide, Brennig, Mehron, Diamond FX, BodyFX, Vargas, Charles Fox or
Nikon and Adobe to mention a few.
The WBF Academy offers an extensive program
for beginners, intermediate and advanced. Group arrangements for schools
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We offer workshops in the areas of
bodypainting, airbrush bodypainting, facepainting, special effects, body
deco, beauty and fashion make-up, HD-Make up, colour theory, uv effects as
well as photography and digital artwork.
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- Meeting places and party
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Pörtschach is
the hot spot in the state carinthia thoughout the summer. Many cafés, bars,
lounges and entertainment facilities are just within a few meters.
The official "WBF
Institute of Sound Lounge" is placed in the brand new build "Lake's"
directly on the promenade or just next to it at the stylish bar Jilly
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The party
spot on the festival Wednesday, 29th June, is of course the traditional
fantasy ball “BodyCircus”.
The new location for the shrill ball is a legendary place, the old factory
"Fabrik", just a few minutes outside of the town.
<p>The Thursday evening, June 30th,
is the portfolio night for artists and the meeting place for all
interested visitors, photographers and models. This time we will have a
boat cruise on the beautiful lake Wörthersee. At the pre-glow after the
boat cruise we present the winners of the last years World Bodypainting
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- BodyCircus, the shrill
fantasy ball in the old factory "Fabrik"
29th June 2011 - presented by Snazaroo
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The fantasy ball “BodyCircus“ is the main
attraction in the festival week side events.
The old factory in the village Saag, just a few minutes away from
Bodypaint City, will be turned into a magical and mystical surrounding.
The venue is open for just very few occations throughout the year.
The visitors show up in fantasy costumes combined with bodypainting,
decoration and masks up to extreme make up and fantasy fashion.
International Dj’s from Ministry of
Sound, ForceFM London, live music, visuals, circus artists, costume
prizes, percussion, shows and entertainment are provided for visitors
till the early morning hours.
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- 6.30 pm: Styling Jam Session in the congress hall in
Pörtschach.
Get ready for BodyCircus with other people in the styling jam.
- from 8.30 pm: the free bus shuttles will bring you to the venue "Fabrik.
- free shuttle busses will be provided
from Klagenfurt, Villach and Seeboden/Spittal.
Details and tickets for BodyCircus
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The festival main days in "Bodypaint-City" 1st - 3rd
July 2011
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The main days of the festival are from Friday to Sunday, 1st
- 3rd July, daily from 10.30 am in “Bodypaint City”. The
artists start painting in the public park and later in the day the artwork
is judged by a professional jury. The models are then presented to the
audience on the main stage. During the day, lots of music and show acts
are presented. There are music concerts on program till late.
Themes 2011: Friday and Saturday:
“Renaissance - Rebirth“
Sunday, Final day:
“Haute Couture - the world of high fashion"
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The new
Bodypaint City streches from the town center via the
promanade to the peninsula. The artists are working on the shore of the
beautiful lake Wörthersee.
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Bodypaint City is seperated in 4 zones filled with:
- Main and side stages
- Artist pavilions
- Fashion park
- Photo award areas
- Exhibitors and market
- Catering
- VIP Lounge
- Art exhibitions
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- The World Bodypainting
Awards, the world championships for body painting artists <p style="text-align: center;">sponsored
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At the world
championships during the main days, artists from 40 nations worldwide
compete. The World Awards are given in the categories:
- Brush/Sponge
- Airbrush and
- Special effects, as well as one
- World Fluoro Award, the night contest
for UV effects - Facepainting
<p>Additionally, there will be the Amateur
Award contest in the category
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World Fluoro Award Beside the main categories during the
day, the night contest “World Fluoro Award“ will be presented.
Fluoroscent colours are used on the models and they are lit with
backlights to glow on the stage when presented to the audience.
Spectacular effects are guaranteed.
There are 15 selected artists who will tell a story of colours, dance and
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World Facepainting Award
and Special Effects Make up Award
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Also in 2011, the World Award will be
presented in the Facepainting category.
For participants with special effects ambitions, we have a special
category: the “Special Effects Make Up Award”.</div>
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- "WBF - Institute of Sound"
Music and Show Highlights
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Music bands
<p>The highlights of the festival are of
course the show presentations of the artists work. Before and after these
presentations, we present a full day program from 10.30 morning till after
midnight.
International music groups, top DJ’s, a whole show program around the
bodypainting art form are presented. |
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The Dance Music Stage,
a WBF Electronic Art Project<p>
The last year's Electronic Dance Music Hall
will continue in 2011 as the special Dance Music Stage.
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The Dance Music Stage is going to be the
center of the electronic music community. DJ's will perform, visitors can
dance, newcomers can learn.
A huge program including ForceFM DJ contest, workshops, radio "Bodypaint
City", open decks and much more will attract visitors and artists to
combine the creative energy of both - music and bodyart.
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Radio Bodypaint City<p>To
extend the activities with Radio Bodypaint City is one of the projects in
this section for 2011. Our partners such as the Youth Activity
Section of the government, partners from the industry and the music
community will put the radio on air.
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Music workshops and DJ tricks<p>
Many musicians and DJ's meet up at the
festival and offer the public possibilities to learn from them. The active
program for visitors is held in various locations in Bodypaint City. Learn
how to didgeridoo, moderate and the tricks of our DJ's.
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Program schedule >
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- The "WBF Fashion Department"
Fashion, Styling, Shows - all parts of the WBF Fashion
Department
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New: WBF Fashion
Park - the boutique of young creative designers
<p>The cross over to styling and fashion is
very close in the middle of an event that uses the body as an art object.
One of the zones in Bodypaint City will
host the "WBF Fashion Park". It is an attempt to offer a presentation
possibility for newcomers such as established fashion desigerns to show
their collections in the middle of one of the most popular Austrian summer
destinations. Urban style and
glamour, street wear, extraordinary or simply new is ready to be sold.
Details are available under the section "WBF Fashion Department".
(Designer Lisa Pek)
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"Farbkrieger" (color
warrior), the new Body Art Fashion Show for 2011
<p>10 make up artists and
designers directed by Karala B. will present a 30 minutes special show
under the title "Farbkrieger" looking deep into the themes body art and
fashion.
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New: WBF Couture
Award - the fashion contest for young designers
<p>The WBF Couture Award is
a new highlight at the World Bodypainting Festival. Young fashion
designers get the opportunity to take part in the contest for the WBF
Couture Award. The guidelines for participation were
carefully elaborated and stand for highly-qualitative requirements placed
on the designers. The WBF Couture Award represents a high level of
professionalism and supports the young designers in their carreers. News
about the WBF Couture Award can be found under the section "WBF Fashion
Department".
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(Designer Birgit Mörtl)</div>
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Styling zone in Bodypaint City
Bodypaint City will have a styling
lounge for festival visitors with various partners such as hair dressers,
nail designers and make up artists.
A photo studio will be available to
produce your own model sed card.
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(Photo Anabel Vargas)</div>
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- The trade show area and the
market |
In the trade
show area, most of the biggest brands in the bodypainting industry as well
as airbrush, special effects and bodypainting accessories show and sell
their product range. Here you can find the latest product lines to test
and of course to buy.
The market offers products such as jewellery, hand craft and more.
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- The photo ticket with the
international photo contest
"World Bodypainting PHOTO Award” presented by NIKON |
Bodypainting
is art and before this kind of art disappears it should get captured for
the future. There are 250 limited photo tickets. For the participants of
the photo contest we provide a special restricted area with different
photo sets. The most fantastic creations are born here and sent to the
photo contest.
<p>All photographers, models and artists
receive a free photo catalogue after the photo contest. |
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The “World
Bodypainting Photo Award” will be given in the categories “Photo Classic”
and “Digital Art”. <p>
On the festival main days, there will be an
Adobe Photoshop demonstration. Adobe developer Christoph Kaltseis will
show you the latest tricks on Photoshop, with a daily program from 11.00
am to 12.30.
(Photo Michael Hartmann)
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The days
before the main days are very interesting for photographers as well. The
WBF-Academy offers photo workshops, classes for digital artwork and
everything around the body and body art.<p>
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- "Bodypaint City TV“
supported by Red Bull Media House
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Our
festival TV crew presents the bodypainting presentations from different
perspectives and includes show acts, live music, interesting interviews
and visuals.
Festival TV is broadcasted on the festival grounds via the big video
wall, TV screens and a signal via our website as a video streaming can
be viewed by people who can not attend the festival.
Last year we got support by Red
Bull so that we were able to produce great reports in high definition
including 3D movies. <p>Many innovations will come in 2011 as
well!
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See you in
Austria,
<p>Alex Barendregt
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