BRAVE! FACTORY 2026

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Brave! Factory is an independent festival of bold music and art, taking place for the seventh time on the eve of Ukraine's Independence Day. August 22-23, 2026, we meet where courage is a way of acting. A national holiday of ridiculousness that we created for ourselves: with a dream, space and the best forms of human self-expression. August 22, the day before the country's main holiday, music, space and people around are formed at the beginning of a special weekend - for some it is a familiar feeling, for some it will happen for the first time. This is Brave! Factory. For the seventh year in a row. “In seven years, we haven’t tried to become the biggest festival or put together the most expensive lineup. We’ve been building a space where courage is a way of acting: experimenting with music, trusting curatorial taste, remaining ourselves when it would be easier to become something else. In 2026, the festival moves on. More live performances, a separate artistic program from and more points of intersection — between artistic disciplines, between the local scene and world names, between those who came to Brave! for the first time and those who have been coming back here for years. The date remains the same for good reason. Independence Day and Brave! Factory share a common DNA, and every year this connection feels more and more natural: the courage to celebrate, the courage to gather together, the courage to look to the future — despite everything. Brave! Factory 2026 is an invitation to live two days the way only this festival can: at the intersection of culture, generations and disciplines, in the space of freedom, which we have been building with you for seven years.