During the 400th anniversary weekend of the city of Liepāja, the UNDER electronic music festival will be held in the city. This time the festival is organized in cooperation with the Berlin radio station Refuge Worldwide. The project consists of two parts: the first part includes two night dance events on March 14 and 15, as well as a DJ workshop for beginners, which will be held on the second day at the cultural center "Veranda"; the second part is dedicated to a special project in which the Refuge Worldwide radio station team will record the sounds of Liepāja in the streets, shops, public transport, bars and clubs, later assembling it in the special hourly program "City guide show". The night's events will feature Berlin artists Gramrcy and BB, Argentinian techno-producer Juan Evangelista, as well as local DJs Ksenia Kamikaza, Aniri Chan, HP-82 and Existal.
Refuge Worldwide is a community radio station based in the Neukeln district of Berlin. It runs educational projects, offering workshops and mentoring in mental health, journalism, DJing, music production and many more. From their studios, the radio station team broadcasts a whole series of live shows, weekly workshops, performances and events with some of the world's greatest journalists, artists and activists. WIRE magazine named Refuge Worldwide among the 100 most influential radio stations in the world.
The goal of this cooperation is to promote Liepāja as a cultural center, to show the world its diversity, raising the interest of the world's target audience in the city. The audio guide "The city guide show: Liepāja", which will be available to the entire Refuge Worldwide audience, and will also be able to be quoted and referenced in all other media.
The event is held with the support of the Liepāja Culture Board.