The Overkill festival HEAL ROYALE

The Overkill festival 2022, HEAL ROYALE. A gathering to reboot your (digital)-self

The Overkill HEAL ROYALE investigates the way in which technology and digital culture, while exposing people to a constant flow of input, also can provide spaces for online expression and beneficial practices. The festival has named three narratives, following gaming archetype to create a collective, transformative and sensorial experience.

The first chapter, the Healers, explores how technology and spirituality are connected. Within this narrative there will be attention for traditional care, meditative technology and liberating sessions in which the expression of pain, frustration and discrimination are also given a place in the healing process.

The second narrative Gathering of Witches, we link digital commoning the Witches archetype. In this narrative, we are looking for empowerment through online games, online rituals, glitches and indigenous traditions, alternative and radical ways are sought to replace the prevailing capitalist and binary systems.

Within the third narrative Crowds of Sinners, The festival focuses on the possibilities of multi-sensory play, including a reflection on the problematic sides of digitization and inclusion.

Weekend schedule (all the info here)

Monday 30-10
14.00 to 22.00 EXPO open
19.30 Film The Wicker Man (english with subtitles) , multi sensory screening + Breadsoil performance from Yeast.computer + Samhain inspired ceremony
19.00 to 1.00 XP Halloween party (sold out)

Tuesday 01-11
14.00 to 22.00 EXPO open
20.00 Film Cryptozoo

Wednesday 02-11
14.00 to 18.00 EXPO open
17.00 Hybrid dinner symposium
17.00 to 19.00 online cooking show
19.30 to 22.00 Hybrid dinner

Thursday 03-11
14.00 to 22.00 EXPO open
14.30 to 18.00 Master Class creative writing with Albert Birney, film director and creator of Tux and Fanny
19.30 preview screening of Tux & Fanny 2
21.00 Film Birds (or how to be one)

Friday 04-11
14.00 to 22.00 EXPO open
16.00 to 20.00 Performance Ginevra Petrozzi "A Funeral for Digital Data"
20.00 Film Sibel
21.00 to 02.00 Electric Fortune (almost) closing party with Pien, Kar!n and Julien Hristof

EXTRA NIGHT MUSEUMNACHT
19.00 to 00.00 EXPO open + mask making workshop
22.00 live act |grens| in cinema
23.00 The lost skeleton of cadavra film screening