ZAYA is open.
Enter after dark.West Africa · Edition 001
An African festival that behaves like another world. It begins in West Africa. What happens inside is not announced.
An African festival that behaves like another world. By day you only see the outside of it. The rest of this site changes when the sun goes down in Lomé.
Request an invitation →Something joyful was born from something dark. Come as yourself. Leave as something else.
Everything you can see from here is the daytime. ZAYA keeps its other half for the night.
Change the hour
Drag across the peach, or use the arrow keys. The festival runs from late afternoon until the sun comes back.
The public world
- The MarketFood, fashion, objects, artists
- The GardenDense green, sculpture, hidden music
- Peach DistrictWhere everyone arrives
The inner world
- The VoidDark electronic, almost no light
- The TempleSlow sound, ritual, projection
- The UnnamedNot on any map
A place with its own civilisation
It's night, so you can see more. Zones light up here when they would be open at the festival.
You don't walk into a field with stages. You see an enormous peach in the distance and walk toward it. Some of this list stays dark until sunset.
- 16:00
Peach District
Arrival. Red earth, dark wood, curved concrete, huge fabric.
- 16:00
The Market
Makers, cooks and designers from Lomé, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos and Dakar.
- 18:30
The Garden
Planted, not decorated. Music you find by walking into it.
- 22:00
The Void
Dark electronic music. Minimal light. Industrial weight.
- 00:00
The Temple
Slow music, performance, sound and projection until first light.
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The Unnamed
This zone is not shown in daylight.
Never signposted. Follow the gold seam after one in the morning.
- Always
The Peach
The centre of the world. You'll understand when you're inside it.
The ordinary rules end at the entrance. Ours begin.
Ask first, every time. Anyone who ignores it leaves, whoever they are.
Phone cameras are covered at the door. What happens inside stays with the people who were there.
Trained care teams walk every zone, day and night. Find anyone wearing the gold seam.
We invite people who add to the world. Money alone doesn't open it.
One peach. Many places.
Each city gets its own edition. The peach stays the same.
Ask for the door.
There are no public tickets for Edition 001. Tell us who you are. If the door opens for you, we'll write with the city, the date and your guest code.