The World Body Painting Festival has been occurring since 1998, framing a piece of the workmanship and social scene and the celebration period of the southern area of Austria. The WBF has been engaged with making the advanced body painting workmanship development, which has gotten around the world, and the occasion's media inclusion has persistently expanded. Throughout the years the celebration has been facilitated in various towns around the province of Carinthia, and in its twentieth year it gained another home in the capital city, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Connection with nearby workmanship activities and the social establishments of the area has furnished the specialty of body painting with open doors for development and systems administration.
The WBF is held throughout the late spring months as a rule in July. It draws in specialists from 50+ countries and pulls in 30,000+ onlookers. It comprises of a preliminary week followed by 3 fundamental days of the celebration/rivalry. The preliminary week comprises of workshops and side occasions.
The workshops offer numerous instructive projects and exercises by driving craftsmen in brush and wipe, enhance with Photoshop, embellishments, excellence make-up, head dressing including shading hypothesis and history. All workshops are run and dealt with under the WB Academy and are likewise planned during the time in different urban areas around the world. Side occasions incorporate gatherings, for example, the dreamlike Costume Ball (Body Circus) with worldwide DJs and melodic stage exhibitions. Likewise included are shows, social affairs, meeting focuses and industry conversations.
The three fundamental days are available to the overall population in a recreation center otherwise called "Body Paint City" where the World, Special and Amateur Awards are held.[3] The celebration is available to the two grown-ups and kids and is viewed as a family-accommodating condition. Onlookers and guests the same can step "into the strange" loaded up with a one of a kind universe of workmanship that energizes the faculties and the creative mind. Guests can likewise partake and communicate in different exercises all through Body Paint City. Craftsmen contend on each of the three days with a given topic in the classes of brush and wipe, artificially glamorize and enhancements for the World Champion Award and title declared on Sunday. Additionally included is the World Face Painting Award, Amateur Award, Installation Award, Special Effects Face Make-up, Make-up Battle Award and the Photo Award. All classifications have separate prizes and trophies. Craftsmen can utilize either male or female models. The celebration is open for the two grown-ups and kids, and numerous families come there together.
The three principle days of the celebration additionally plays host to a VIP region, a body painting produce and providers' market, style and artworks showcase, food and refreshment merchants, feature stage groups, entertainers and worldwide DJs all through different melodic zones of Body Paint City. "There is something for everybody" including the end Paint Party.
The celebration continues building up the fine art of body painting. The new area in Klagenfurt carries a lot greater chance to interface the craft of body painting with nearby historical center, workmanship displays and social organizations. The city display (Stadtgalerie), the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia (MMKK), the writing gallery (Musil Museum) theaters and private possessed displays offer space and open doors for body painting craftsmen to show and perform and open their spaces liberated from charges during the celebration week.
History
The celebration was first made and propelled in 1998 in Seeboden, Austria as the European Body Painting Festival so as to elevate summer the travel industry to the area by then the travel industry director Alex Barendregt. It was a little assembling of specialists and the main "boutique occasion" of its sort in the world. Also propelled related was the WB Academy, which in 2008 was offered around the world. As the Body Painting Movement was developing, in 2001 Mr. Barendregt propelled the World Body Painting Association followed by the dispatch of WB Production in 2010.
Because of the expanding participation of global specialists and supporters to the celebration, in 2004 the celebration was renamed to "The World Body Painting Festival" and in 2011 Mr. Barendregt left his situation at the vacationer office and moved the celebration to its new home in Pörtschach, Austria on lakeWörthersee. Today it is the greatest yearly occasion in the body painting society, network and industry on the loose. It has become the "Focal point of Body painting" and "Home" to many. Joined with Mr. Barendregt's endeavors, the WB Association, WB Production and the WB Academy are thought of and answerable for giving an overall stage and presentation into the Art of Body Painting.
In 2017 the celebration scene moved somewhat further down the lake to Klagenfurt, the capital city of the province of Carinthia. The new setting is the Goethepark, an open park encompassed by the social fortunes, for example, the theater, the workmanship house and numerous displays.
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