Incubate is a cultural network organization on Independent Culture. It encourages cutting edge encounters, explorations and engagements from artists, audiences and partners. Established by a group of young artists in Tilburg it started as a music festival, but soon broadened its horizon to other disciplines like visual arts, contemporary dance and experimental film. Incubate is driven by artistic development.
With a passion for the unknown the festival serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where artists, who explore artistic questions and try to find the limits within the established methods of production, distribution and consumption, meet and engage with each other and the local environment.
Incubate champions a mix of new and emergent talent alongside established practitioners who already had an defining impact on Independent Culture. With 250 performances during one week and a mash-up of visions, backgrounds, venues, (media-)partners and crowds, the festival questions the concept of the peculiar and the familiar, and manoeuvres between kicks and contemplation.