Serbia’s EXIT festival cancels 2020 event amid new coronavirus spike
Organizers still hope to hold a 'symbolic' event with live stream to call attention to environmental project.
The four-day festival, which was scheduled for August 13-16 at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, the second largest city in Serbia, could not ultimately withstand a new flare-up of coronavirus infections. The festival will be rescheduled for 2021, the festival’s founder and director,“There was no indication that this [virus] will disappear soon enough in order to continue to the festival,” Kovacevic says.
Then last week, amid a spike in infections in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, which is about an hour away, the organizers decided to drastically reduce the festival capacity from 55,000 a day to under 10,000 -- and they were prepared to limit attendees to a few hundred if virus conditions worsened. Kovacevic says that hospitals in Belgrade, including temporary hospitals, are almost 100% full. “We would have had a lot of people from Belgrade [attending Exit],” he says.
Even without a music festival, EXIT is considering options to mark the 20th anniversary with a “symbolic event” in September which would focus on a livestream emphasizing the LIFE Stream and Green R:Evolution platform, the festival’s environmental project.
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