Rocanotherworld
Pentru anul 2025, ne propunem să maximizăm implicarea noastră în aceste proiecte, punând accentul pe acțiuni civice, cu influență majoră în dezvoltarea tinerilor, ajutorarea comunităților vulnerabile și defavorizate, promovarea culturii și deprinderea unui comportament responsabil față de natură.
Rocanotherworld
Music. Community. Sustainability.
Pentru anul 2025, ne propunem să maximizăm implicarea noastră în aceste proiecte, punând accentul pe acțiuni civice, cu influență majoră în dezvoltarea tinerilor, ajutorarea comunităților vulnerabile și defavorizate, promovarea culturii și deprinderea unui comportament responsabil față de natură.
Rocanotherworld is an exploratory festival of music, art, thoughts, people, and ideas, organized in Iași since 2016. It represents an authentic collective journey, a state of mind, a celebration of life through (re)connecting with the values we resonate with— a cultural effervescence we need in shaping the way we are and the way we feel.
Volunteering is a dimension to which we dedicate special attention, both during the festival itself and throughout the entire year. New generations and the skill sets they carry into their professional lives as a result of the experiences gained through volunteer activities— the causes they engage in, the practice and experimentation— chart an essential path for their personal development.
The festival focuses its efforts on supporting communities, opening a stage and a space for exposure, listening, and experimentation for underground, indie, and alternative music, as well as for electronic and acoustic sounds, offering artists the opportunity to meet new audiences and vice versa.
With our hearts wide open 🤗
Across the nine editions organized (2016–2024), we have discovered bands and artists, thoughts and ideas; we have been moved by stories and we have met people. These nine years have meant, in numbers:
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Participants
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Supported Causes
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Be For Others
Its values are “be curious”, “be different”, and “be for others”, and this last belief has generated an important component of the festival: the causes we have joined and supported with solidarity at every edition—whether it involved shelters, homes, and a better life for those in need, independent artists and performance spaces for them, creating outdoor areas for recreational activities during the warm season, local clean-ups, equipping hospitals with supplies and devices, and many more.
Each year we have chosen an initiative to engage in together with our participants and partners, and this solidarity-driven and socially impactful component will always remain an essential part of the festival.
Zero Waste
With this zero-waste concept and ideal in mind, we set short-, medium-, and long-term objectives across several general directions, increasing progressively over the course of five years, starting with the summer 2021 edition.
By 2025, we aim to eliminate 100% of the plastic used in the festival’s food and beverage area and replace it with sustainable materials, to use renewable and alternative energy sources up to 75%, to reduce our carbon footprint, and to ensure separate waste collection. Thus, based on principles of prevention, reuse, redesign, and recycling, we will shape a festival that is as responsible as possible toward nature.
Cause Aftermovies
Backstory
Gathered under the sign of balance, over 18,000 participants enjoyed the ninth edition of Rocanotherworld, held between June 20–23, 2024, in Iași. Across four festival days, the three stages hosted more than 120 invited artists, while our audience explored a variety of educational and recreational activities: workshops, yoga and ecstatic dance sessions, debates, guided meditations, specially designed relaxation areas, games for both children and adults, a food court area, and much more.
In line with the mission adopted since 2021—to be an environmentally friendly festival—we have encouraged and will continue to implement sustainability principles, full waste recycling, the avoidance of wastefulness, and responsibility toward nature. Within the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign, 508 kg of dog food (wet and dry), 60 kg of cat food, bags of sand, cat litter, cleaning products, blankets, litter boxes, and toys were donated.
We were delighted to have 150 volunteers with us, all resonating with the festival’s three core values: #becurious, #bedifferent, #beforothers.
4 festival days, 29 bands, 17,000 participants, 2 cultural debates, and a climate collage workshop.
The second Zero Waste edition: separate waste collection, elimination of single-use plastic in the food and beverage area, textile customization through bio-dyeing, removal of traditional OOH promotion (banners, billboards, posters) and replacement with digital city screens, use of sustainable materials for furniture and signage, and the use of green, renewable energy for ambient lighting.
Cause: through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign, over 260 kg of dry and wet food for dogs and cats, 450 lei, cleaning products, litter boxes and cat shelters, bowls, and many other necessary items were donated for the stray animals in Iași’s shelters.
4 festival days, 144 artists, 15,000 participants, 2 cultural debates; the second Zero Waste edition: the use of sustainable materials in the food & drinks area, separate waste collection (560 kg of plastic, 440 kg of cans, and 770 kg of glass), and the use of renewable and alternative energy (90% of ambient lighting was powered by energy produced through photovoltaic panels).
Causes: 230 kg of food for the furry friends in Iași’s shelters, as well as monetary donations through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign. Through La cald and the Donors’ Fund, medicines and medical supplies were donated to the Emergency Hospitals in Cernăuți, and over 10 tons of hygiene products, food, and 10,000 portions of hot meals were donated to the refugee camps in Iași. Festival access was free for all Ukrainians, and 12,000 euros were donated to Ukrainians in Iași, a platform aimed at integrating Ukrainians into the local job market.
5 festival days, 15 artists, 5,000 participants, three conferences on events and sustainability; the first Zero Waste edition, with over 2 tons of separately collected waste and 85% of ambient lighting powered by photovoltaic energy.
Cause: over 700 kg of dry and wet food for dogs and cats; toys, blankets, and medicines collected through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign; the launch of the rehabilitation and modernization campaign for the school in Zmeu village, Lungani commune, Iași county.
Winter Edition: online streaming of the concerts from the 2020 edition.
Cause: over 7 tons of food, hygiene and sanitary products, and 50 cubic meters of firewood distributed to 500 disadvantaged families in Lungani commune, Iași county.
5 festival days, 15 artists, 2,500 participants.
Cause: 915 kg of dry food and 137 kg of wet food for dogs; 210 kg of dry food and 41 kg of wet food for cats; toys, blankets, and medicines collected through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign; 9.5 tons of food, sanitary and hygiene products, and 2,500 liters of disinfectant distributed to 500 disadvantaged families in Lungani commune, Iași county.
4 festival days, 70 artists performing pro bono, 6 cultural debates, 40,000 participants.
Cause: revitalization of the ski slope in Iași; 1,720 kg of wet and dry food for dogs and cats, 700 lei, blankets, bleach, and toys donated to the Iași shelters through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign.
3 festival days, 77 artists performing pro bono, 30,000 participants.
Cause: we supported the Iași animal shelters through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign; 14,000 lei donated to independent artists; 23,300 lei donated to Hala Fix, the largest independent theatre in the country.
3 festival days, 57 artists performing pro bono, 25,000 participants.
Cause: 13,800 lei donated to the Iași animal shelters; 14,000 lei donated to Casa Share.
One festival day, 4 bands performing pro bono, 2,000 participants; we supported the Iași animal shelters through the “Do you happen to have a blanket?” campaign.
Ioan Dan Niculescu („Roca”)
The festival was inspired by Ioan Dan Niculescu (“Roca”) — designer, traveler, DJ, gourmand, entrepreneur, and soul-opener — and all its activities are shaped around the intention of giving.
In celebration of his life, Rocanotherworld is organized around June 23, and each summer edition of the festival hosts the food and supplies collection campaign for shelter animals, initiated by Roca: “Do you happen to have a blanket?”.
