Art Festival Yogyakarta

The Art Festival in Yogyakarta includes a wide array of artistic performances like dance, music, mask dancing and puppetry. The festival is also known as "Kesenian" in the local language.

Venue of the Yogyakarta Art Festival:
There is no particular venue where the Art Festival is celebrated. The celebration takes place in many venues throughout Yogyakarta.

Timings: The festival is held annually and usually takes place in the middle of the year.

Features of the Art Festival, Yogyakarta:

  - The Art Festival has innumerable active participants and foreign tourists often visit Yogyakarta at the time of the festival to witness the various traditional activities and learn much about the various cultures in and also around Indonesia.

  - There are various kinds of artifacts sold in the art exhibitions that take place during the festival. You can buy traditional Indonesian items and carry them back with yourself as souvenirs that emanate the very essence of the place you have visited.

  - The visitors also get to meet the various artists and craftsmen in person and learn from them more about their performances and skills.

  - During the Art Festival, there is also an exhibition held at the city's Vredenburg Fort that used to serve as the home of the Dutch Colonial Army and was refurbished to its former glory in 1980.

  - There numerous activities and brilliant performances that will keep you engaged for the entire day. The puppet shows and the Topeng, Anguk and Kuda Lumping dances are really interesting to watch. There is a lot to learn about the artistic ideas of the community and the interaction between the artists and the general people helps in exchange of valuable ideas. The Yogyakarta Art Festival aims at making Yogyakarta the cultural hub of Indonesia. It brings out all the hidden talents from the most obscure areas. The Art Festival truly does a lot to help preserve and promote Indonesian culture.