From Dave McKean's anniversary cover for “Arkham Asylum”. McKean visited the festival in 2020.
From Dave McKean's anniversary cover for “Arkham Asylum”. McKean visited the festival in 2020.


Creative Minds are Welcome!

CREATE Festival is your festival too, and now you have the chance to leave your mark on it.

With Creative Minds, we open up to give you the opportunity to run your own event during the festival. Perhaps you are passionate about older comics and would like to make a swap booth, or maybe you have some experience in making board games that you would like to share? Or perhaps it is something different altogether?


Many Options

There are many options, and we want to help you along the way. At the same time, it is important to understand that we can’t agree to every idea. Below you can see some of the considerations you need to make if you have a good idea that you want to share with others.

Concept art by Tuomas Korpi who visited the festival in 2020.
Concept art by Tuomas Korpi who visited the festival in 2020.
Pokémon card swap meet during the 2019 festival.
Pokémon card swap meet during the 2019 festival.


What Does it Take?

There are various questions that you need to consider the answers to if you want to become part of the festival’s official programme. There will always be a dialogue prior to a possible decision but you are very welcome to consider the following points before you apply:

  • Is it something that everyone can benefit from, or is it aimed at a niche group?
  • Does it have anything to do with games, animation or comics? For example coding, storyboard, drawing or dissemination of one of the three media?
  • Can you plan and run the event by yourself? If not, do you know anyone who can help you?
  • How much space will it require for it to be implemented?
  • What will it cost to run? And can you raise funding for it yourself?


Dialogue About Your Event

It’s fine if you are unable to answer all these questions. This is just to get you to start thinking about it. The next step is always to enter into a dialogue with us in Team Create. With a view to approving your idea, we will need to assess whether it is a good match for the festival. This means that we need to discuss possible challenges and opportunities.

Start by Sending Us an Email

When you are ready to tell us about your idea, feel free to take the first step by sending us an email. It is always easier for us to get things started when we have something in writing. If you have any questions, you are of course welcome to give us a call.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Head of Program Asbjørn Rune Bourgeat +45 51545858