Oltre la musica

Rototom 2010 also offers an 'Off' programme during the day with free activities in the public squares in the village of Benicàssim. At midday everyday there will be acoustic concerts at different public squares, which will vary from reggae music to street bands interpreting different musical traditions such as samba and Argentinean murga. There will also be shows in the street, from theatre to circus, which will amuse the public and will take Sunsplash 2010 outside the venue of the festival.

Every year Sunsplash becomes mores Greensplash, meaning the festival pays more and more attention to the environment. For the 2010 edition Rototom Sunsplash is going to take even more steps to improve the sustainability of the festival and insure the least possible impact on the environment with the aim of implementing a totally sustainable festival.

In the last couple of years, the team of our photographers has prepared various exhibitions: collecting the best shoots of the people at the festival, and all the artists who have left an indelible trace in our hearts with their shows and music.

This year Rototom Sunsplash has decided to broaden the offering to 2 different projects which aim to promote creativity and communication through art:

- The creation of sculptures or installations in specific designated areas of the festival grounds
- The Painting Symposium

Exodus Cultural Association will promote all the initiatives through its website and all its communication channels

Oltreconfini is an area at the heart of the festival which proposes Didgeridoo courses, Belly/Fusion Dance, Batucada and some other dances, run by well-experienced masters, with live partecipations at night (we would like to mark the masters of Batucada from Brincadeira!) and performances on the beach (held by Tannì - Walter Mandelli).

Project founded by the association "Exodus-Ethiopian Cultural service" and by "F.AR.I" ("Federazione delle assemblee Rastafari in Italia")

House of Rastafari, by now at its seventh year taking part at Rototom Sunsplash, is the place where people from the festival can find the answers to their questions about the Rastafarian faith, thanks to a wide cultural programme that shows us the skills of the Italian Rastafari Community.

We have got numerous tools at your disposal:

At Rototom children and education have a fundamental role in our future just like in the real world. This is the reason why this space was created, the Magicogioco, which will be ten years old in this edition.

The Magicogioco will be inside the festival a place for exchanging knowledge and experiences where through the games, the creation and the experiences we can learn from each other.

This area will have the support of a group of educators who will be in charge of supplying this exchange through workshops, traditional games from all over the world, debates, non-directed activities and many more experiences shared by all those, especially the children, who will come to enjoy them.

The activities at the Magicicogioco will always have a place inside the venue of the festival and entrance will be free for all children under 12 years old.

Living energy is an old project which this year, thanks to the collaboration of Dharma Village (Italy) and Un Altre Espai (Castellón), will take up and develop activities from previous editions with the aim of recreating a tribal village that will welcome some activities closely related to ancient traditions and ancestral knowledge. It is an area dedicated to well-being professionals offering holistic re-balancing treatment bio-energetic massage, seminars, physical exercise, meditation, yoga, tai chi, ect …. What's new this year? Every night musicians propose ethnic music ensembles alternating with chilled out DJaying accompanied by video projections. There are also courses and workshops of capoeira, Indian dance, persussioni and more

The area of the festival where the African roots appear with the sunlight and cultures meet and mingle.

Everyday, from morning till evening, there will be drumming courses (Djembe and Dum Dum), cookery, African dance, traditional chanting plus musical performances, talks and conferences about culture and African history

By Time for Africa, Bolo Don Been, Hermanos Thioune.