Tour de Moon

The brain child of Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, Tour de Moon is a nationwide creative tribute to our shared satellite, the moon, seen as a character, a landscape and a prompt for radical imagination. Commissioned as part of the 2022 festival UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, Tour de Moon aims to bring together nightlife artists, performers, creatives, makers of new worlds, digital artists, musicians and writers aged 18-25 to amplify their voices, ignite imaginations, and shine a spotlight on the plurality of possibilities for positive alternative futures for humanity.

Tour de Moon is making over 800 bursaries, from £100 to £25,000 available for applicants to realise lunar-inspired creative projects in multiple disciplines and across eight programming strands: Moon Sports, Moon Press, Moon Music, Moon Cinema, Moon Bar (a forum for discussion), Moon Hotline (online content), Moon Convoy (a nationwide parade) and Moon Experiences (live events). Whether it’s a piece of music, a film, a DJ set, a live performance, a digital installation or something else entirely, Tour de Moon is prepared to make it happen.

The tour will travel the UK in summer 2022,  incorporating immersive four-day experiences in Leicester, Newcastle and Southampton, alongside a ‘Moon Convoy’ of satellite events visiting Dover, Coventry, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Bristol and Hackney.

We’ve been fans of and friends with Nelly Ben Hayoun for years, so we were very happy to support her in her most brilliantly wild and ambitious project to date (and given she’s the founder of the International Space Orchestra and the University of the Underground, that’s saying something). Zetteler is supporting the launch of Tour de Moon’s project bursaries, aiming to ensure that the festival’s programme is as thrilling, diverse and creatively radical as it promises to be.

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