At 14:00 CET the British documentary film In Transition opened yesterday’s discourse programme Change! and showed examples of the worldwide Transition Movement, which is still quite unknown in Austria. Instead of waiting for a change coming from national politics, the inhabitants are working on their own to reorganize their cities and communities. Their goal is to fight the climate change and the danger of peak oil with creative, positive ideas, which work on a local level.

The following workshop Transition Austria tried to clarify in what way this concept could be implemented in Austria.

In order to delve even further into this topic, Rob Hopkins was talking about the urgently needed change of energy production and explained the concept behind the 250 Transition Towns worldwide. An audio download of the talk is available here.

Thereafter the panel discussion Good food for everyone? raised the question, if it is even possible to buy the right things in a world with a wrong economical system. Many companies stress their responsibility for environment, but use this image in order to sell eco-lifestyle-products, which damage just that environment. Among others Kathrin Hartmann, Irmi Salzer and Franziskus Forster were discussing this paradox. An audio download is available here.

In contrast to eco-illusions evoked by major corporations the concluding documentary film The 4^th Revolution – Energy Autonomy showed real solutions for a sustainable change.

At 20:00 CET the new format Elevate Music Talks started. De Babalon, Pursuit Grooves and Oneohtrix Point Never discussed about their individual approaches to music production and their adoption of ideas.

At the same time the music and literature programme began and offered artists like Oswald Egger, Christof Dienz, Mount Kimbie, Claro Intelecto, Joy Orbison and many more.

Here are photos of the second festival day.

A video roundup of the opening event is available, too.

Here the newspaper Kleine Zeitung is covering the second day of the festival.

Friday´s programme starts at 8 pm at the Dom im Berg with the writers and musicians of hörGerede festival. After their experimental literary-music performance Graz´ resident DJ cheever will warm up the dancefloor with his eclectic mix of various electronic music styles.

Then, London´s post-dubstep innovators Mount Kimbie, who have recently released their debut album "Crooks&Lovers" will perform a Live Set. Pursuit Grooves, the next act on stage offers a fresh mix of Cosmic Soul, Smooth Tropical House, Hip-Hop and Dubstep. Another innovative artists, Jamie xx, former member of the famous Indie-Electronic band The xx, will take over the truntables. His newly released tracks have been hailed by BBC radio 1 and Fact magazine, as well as those of the following young artist: Joy Orbison. His first single Hyph Mngo was rated one of the best dance tracks in 2009, and still, Peter O´Grady continues to create a new sound that innovates the musical realms of the Post-Dubstep era. The last DJ spinning his vinyls at the Dom im Berg will be Felony Flats, whose style varies between many genres.

At 6 am F. Pushmann and Florian Scheibein start off with their After Hour DJ Sets at Parkhouse.