What can music be today? In search of answers to this question, this year’s festival invites you into the world of deaf people. Can music be felt? How can one communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language? What can facial expressions and body language express? What alternative forms of communication are there?

The exhibition HANDS UP is an interactive experience that gently and humorously brings visitors into the world of silence. The beauty of sign language and the practice of nonverbal communication are explored on this journey, and audiences learn how deaf people experience music.