Acroatia 2025: 10th Anniversary Edition
Our 10th edition! We are so proud and excited to have made it to the 10th time that we will be hosting you in our wild wild Croatian acrobatic festival.
In our humble beginnings in 2016 we envisioned a festival that is a unique blend of nature and acrobatics. (Re)connecting to the ground, the trees, life itself and yourself as well, has been something we love to combine with movement and the acro community.
The highlight of that is what will happen in 2025 for our anniversary edition.
What does this mean?
New river camp location with new facilities including showers and toilets, sleeping arrangement from wild camping to comfortable apartments with bathroom and kitchen, a grand gathering of the acro community and a representative teacher line-up, our village in the sky and hammocks between every tree we can find, day-and nighttime parties, sauna and bond fires, kids world, experienced Croatian & Italian chefs to make our stomachs happy, and of course, acro!
But not just acro, we also have circus and juggling and aerial and slackline and yoga and pilates and floor work and thai chi and dance and handstands. And whatever else one of you wants to share with the community.
Hot tip: Sign up to our newsletter to get early access to the festival tickets. You can choose 1 week, or 2 weeks, or 3 weeks. And we have 20 tickets that will go for an insanely low price.
Community event: We love to welcome new faces to the festival every year and are equally happy about everybody, that is finding their way to us already for many years. To celebrate our community, we will be giving out 10% discount for those who have attended once, then 20% for those who have attended twice, then 30% for those who have attended three times…. You get the idea!
Just send us proof of your attendance when you register and you will receive the discount (* not to combine with the early bird price).
Registration opens, early access via newsletter: 11. November 2024
Tell you friends, tell your neighbours and your grandma because our 10th will be worth it.
Festival Location
From the very start one of our core values is Acroatia’s location. It needs to be in absolutely beautiful nature and luckily, Croatia has plenty to offer. It has to be secluded, reduced to a minimum in modern living, breathtaking, and some hippie vibes can’t be missing either.
Our 10th anniversary edition will be held in a river camp that is in the last steps of construction. We will have brand new facilities for refreshing showers and comfortable toilet sessions. We are right next to the river Kupa and our two beduin tents are beautiful training spots under the blue sky.
The remote and pristine location of the River Camp gives us the chance to dive deep into the training, build a community, and detach from the buzzing of the cities. It’s an extraordinary experience that can sometimes feel intense, so make sure you take a moment to charge your battery when needed.
Teacher Line-Up
All three weeks are open for all levels, beginner to advanced! We will be offering the full range of partner acrobatics including standing and L-base static and dynamic tricks.
Three workshops will be offered simultaneously, covering different topics and levels. Our teachers will also give coaching sessions in smaller groups in and out of the longes where you can come up with something you’re already working on and need a bit of knowledgeable guidance to make it safe and smooth.
There are morning yoga workshops to get your day started, a floor work or handstand workshop to get you groovin’ in your body, and therapy sessions after dinner to relax you and soothe those hardworking muscles.
In addition to the pre-set workshops we encourage community classes to be held. These workshops can, but don’t need to be, acro-themed. The sky is not the limit, so bring your instruments, props, topics you are nerding on, and hidden passions with you.
Teachers at Acroatia are always people who inspire us, whose work we know first-hand, and who take their craft to the next level. It’s a colorful box filled with acrobats, facilitators, circus artists, and movement lovers.
We are in the process of the teacher selection for 2025…
Pri
Italy
Icarian, Whips, Pops, Whip Pops
Jelena & Nenad
Serbia
Dance Acro, Creative Flows, L-base & Standing
Jef Kinds
Belgium
Floor Work
David
Spain
Base & Fly, L-base Flows, Slacro, Thai Massage
Juampi
Argentina
Handstands, Group Acrobatics, Acroyoga
Sara
Germany
Handstands, Pilates
How to get there
When finally the time has come for you to travel to Acroatia you want to aim first towards Zagreb. The festival location is about one and a half hour by car. We will be organising a shuttle from strategic spots to facilitate your arrival.
We strongly encourage you to share rides and offer one if you have a spot in your car. For that, we will have a Whatsapp as well as Facebook arrival group to connect you to others!
Schedule
Daily activities
Fire and coffee
Yoga
Breakfast
Handstands/Floorwork Acrobatics
Acro Workshops & Coaching
Lunch
Partner Acrobatics & Acroyoga Workshops & Coaching
Dinner
Therapy
Fire and music
Food
Two Croatian chefs (Neven and Aleksandra) and one Italian (Andrea) chef will take care of us with three vegan meals daily, using fresh and local food.
There will be as well vegetarian options (eggs, cheese, honey, etc.) offered at every meal. Snacks will be available throughout the day.
We offer meat options 2 times in every 7 days.
Please bring your cutlery, cup, and plate/s.
We can’t offer you a space in a fridge, so if you bring food, make sure it doesn’t need to be fridge-stored.