SOLA FESTIVAL RETURNS

Building a Long-Term Model for Conscious Festival Culture

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SOLA Festival returns to Sri Lanka's south coast as an evolving cultural movement, continuing its mission to redefine festivals through community collaboration, sustainability, and conscious design.

The festival will take place on the 30th and 31st of January at The Doctor's House, Madiha.

Developed in close partnership with the local community in Madiha, near The Doctor's House, where the festival has established its home, the SOLA Festival was conceived as a response to the increasingly extractive nature of tourism, which too often takes more from local communities than it gives back. The festival is guided by the core values of Respect, Inclusion, Sustainability, Creativity, and Collaboration, bringing people together through music, workshops, immersive experiences, and community-led initiatives.