Brave! Factory Festival

Kyiv · UA

Brave! Factory is Kyiv's independent festival of bold music and art, staged every year on the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio. The 2026 edition runs 22 and 23 August across six stages with more than 50 artists and a large art programme curated by Oleksiy Sai. The bill leans heavily on live sets and mixes Ukrainian names like Andrey Sirotkin, Bogdan Zaiets, Nota Yanvarska, SI Process and vesnavoseny with international bookings including DJ Masda from Japan, Eric Cloutier from the USA, Sweely from France, Wallace from the UK, DUST from Lithuania and K not K from Romania. It runs an epilogue on the following two weekends at Closer with Acid Pauli and Viken Arman, free to anyone holding a festival wristband. Best first contact is the Instagram account, which is where they post lineup waves and answer artists.