Dark Skies, Brighter Light is this year's theme of Lost Farm Festival and the name of the free public program that takes place on the Saturday during the festival. Visitors and locals alike are invited to leave the car, and by bicycle, boat, or foot – take the journey through multiple scapes on the coastal edges of Denmark.

On Saturday, 9th August, the program expands beyond the Lost Farm Festival site to create a free public program in Havnebyen with a vibrant network of collaborators such as local businesses, society organisations, cultural initiatives, and the Mackerel Masters fishing competition.

The artists and artworks are working together with the local humans and non-humans, the land and sea to create an engaging, fun, and thoughtful program that considers diverse identities and celebrates contrasts and differences, inviting into other worlds and dimensions to gather together, grieve and make some collective sense of hope, while celebrating the uniqueness which Sjællands Odde and it's inhabitants has to share.

"I am interested in contrasts and how all the feels can happen at once – joy, rage, laughter, and sadness can be very conflicting and confusing, Through Dark Skies – Brighter Light, I wanted to bring together artists who give their unique and differing perspectives on how to navigate these numbing and bewildering mixed emotions, and share with us their honest, raw, fun, intimate and warm expressions through a series of live performances – a chance to reach out for a brighter now – together."

— Jude Bennett, Program Lead

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IF THIS BOAT COULD SPEAK by MOCHARA/REFUGEE RESCUE ART COLLECTIVE is a collaboration between Refugee Rescue and volunteer artists and filmmakers. It tells the story of MoChara (My Friend in Gaelic), a rescue vessel central to humanitarian efforts in the Mediterranean sea. From 12th July there will be fragments and memories of this ongoing tragedy are brought to the community led Havbanken space in the harbour. For over a decade, Refugee Rescue’s international crew has saved over 25,000 lives in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.

Creatures from the deep have been washed up on the shore in artist ANNA BAK's installation Fatal Waves at the abandoned Old Fishing House at Odden Harbour. Anna Bak is a Danish artist and curator who explores the connection between humans and nature, focusing on the stories we've created to relate to it. Here at the Old Fishing House, the sea meets land, crashes on shores, and is influenced by the moon and planetary constellations.  

The award-winning musician and composer JULLIE HJETLAND AKA LUKKIF has composed a sound piece, especially for one of Anna Bak’s sculptures as part of the installation. She will be performing the work live on Saturday, 9. August afternoon at The Old Fishing House in Odden Harbour. 

Raise your fist and rebel through laughter as the artists from the Irish Turner Prize-winning ARRAY COLLECTIVE use humor as an artistic and activist tool to involve the Lostfarmers in creating something which will undoubtedly be a fun and chaotic celebration for a better future and a more just society.

DELAINE LE BAS draws on her English-Romani heritage to explore themes of trespass, nature, and togetherness amid challenges like climate change. The outdoors is her studio, and her transdisciplinary work spans grief, identity, and mobility through fashion, music, art, and performance. In Havnebyen, she will offer a sneak peek into her exploration of water with Rinkleni Pani ("Beautiful Water" in English-Romani), a performance first commissioned for Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool in 2022.

At the junction of Havnebyen’s main road and the old harbour sideroad is KIOSKEN PÅ ODDEN – a hyper-local-meets-global natural wine bar and deli. Brothers Matthew Francis Parker (chef and preserver) and Sean Roy Parker (award-winning artist and writer) will show how food serves as a historic tool for social change under late capitalism. During Lost Farm Festival, with a small team of cooks, artists, and local producers, they’ll expose the toxic food system and propose slow, seasonal methods that challenge our palates.

Throughout Lost Farm Festival there is the opportunity to experience the Turkish visual artist HILAL CAN in various contexts. On Saturday afternoon, she will be in Odden Harbour to open an art tattoo studio where you can either get a tattoo on transfer paper or get one poked for real.

ODDEN SAUNA FESTIVAL will take up its usual residence in Havnebyen community sauna by Bigga's Bro to spread welcoming and intimate togetherness and a calming space of reflection to connect body, nature, and community. (There will be refreshments at the LFF bar next to Biggas Bro).

From 17:00 on Saturday, the festivalgoers (Ticketholders only) will return to Lost Farm Festival HQ in Yderby, where the day's activities will culminate with a series of rituals and a 'wild' party with DEBBIE SINGS (DK), FELIX HAVSTAD ZISKA (SE/DK), IHAB-IBI (EG), LIVIA RITA (CH), SIKSA (PL).

Dark Skies, Brighter Light by Lost Farm Festival's public program is kindly supported by Ny Carlsberg Foundation.

There are many more performances and concerts to experience over the 3 days at Lost Farm Festival- a small gathering of art, performance, and music on the margins. A place to explore, have fu,n and experience the unique landscape, locals, and international artists on the last days of summer.