A B R FESTIVAL (2025)
Lefkosia
19-20-21-22
June
2025
TY-CO
TY-CO is the heartbeat of a movement — a space where art, community, and sustainability collide. Born out of the former AfroBanana Festival's ever-evolving vision, TY-CO isn’t just an archive or a media hub — it’s a living, breathing platform for change.
With the ABR Festival's evolution, we’re expanding the pulse beyond its summer days. TY-CO marks the next chapter: a year-round creative engine driving audience engagement, transnational collaborations, and radical community-building — all with sustainability at its core.
This is about more than celebration. It’s about transformation. TY-CO channels the festival’s energy into an evolving network of plug-in events, initiatives, and ideas that ripple through communities across borders — giving back while pushing forward.
Here’s what powers TY-CO:
Audience Engagement, Year-Round
Through intimate pop-ups, partner country activations, and interactive storytelling, we build ongoing conversations — not just crowds. It’s a living narrative that leads to the festival and beyond.
Creative Expression—Plug-in Projects
We reimagine what a festival community looks like. Through research-driven collaborations with local and global initiatives, we expand the AfroBanana ethos into new formats, places, and publics.
Networking & Policy-Shifting
TY-CO connects a global web of like-minded festivals, collectives, and creators, creating fertile ground for collective resilience and culture-driven policy change.
TY-CO is not just a continuation of the festival — it’s a transformation lab. It’s where we transfer ideas across space and time, transform creative methodologies, innovate for sustainability, and remain endlessly open-minded — to new audiences, new voices, and new ways of thriving in a challenged cultural landscape.