DK2024 is about to start, but the organizers are nowhere to be found. Thankfully, we have an inside reporter who uncovered them to be locked in the main festival hall. Read on to find out the real truth behind this exclusive story.
We have been waiting for a year to return to Rovinj and experience the magic of DK Festival once again. The time has finally come and we are ready to open the doors to thousands of communicators and creatives — but one door remains closed.
Members of the festival’s Organizing Committee, Dunja Ivana Ballon, Davor Bruketa, Anđela Buljan Šiber, Damir Ciglar, Jelena Fiškuš and Nikola Žinić have gone completely off the rails, became fully unaccountable and instead of leaving the building with a mic drop — they locked themselves in.
According to the hotel Lone staff, they decided to stay the night, taking even the new festival merch for themselves. The reasons behind their actions are still unknown. Do they want to enjoy the newly upgraded Hall AAA by themselves? Are they getting ready for talks after midnight, a novelty of this year’s festival? Maybe it’s fear of impressing the audience too much to manage expectations for DK2025?
The answer eludes us all.
“It’s like a dream in here,” exclaimed Dunja Ivana Ballon, Festival and Program Director, completely mesmerized by the new 360 production of the main festival venue. Damir Ciglar could be heard repeating the word “spectacular” whilst looking into 170m2 of giant TVs that were flashing before his eyes. Davor Bruketa was naked (again) and covered himself from head to toe with the new FUCK&LOVE merch. He thinks everyone got the message. Nikola Žinić and Anđela Buljan Šiber were seen climbing up the oversized trophies of industry competitions and messing with the festival AI assistant, the new DK sidekick.
The usually highly professional HURA and IAB team didn’t even try to reason with them, though some reports indicate that they are actually the ones behind all of this. The last and only one hope left for all DK festival goers is Jelena Fiškuš, as we heard she will open the main hall’s doors on Thursday at 3 PM.
At this point — on top of THE best program in this part of the world, it was said that the DK Festival has so far announced a midnight program session, sunny beach with beach loungers, beers after the program, sunset afterparties on the beach, the new 360 main hall extraordinary production, the usually unusual FUCK&LOVE festival merch, the new festival ŠŠŠumica hall (that is supposedly indoors?!), AI assistant, first of its kind that will premiere at this type of events in Croatia, and a whole myriad of other new and never before seen contents and activities.
What to expect from the DK Festival — no one knows at this point, and the responsible ones — aren’t responsible anymore, so we can’t even ask them. We are left with nothing except to come to the exceptional tenth edition of the typically untypical Dani komunikacija festival, which will be, by all indicators — the one to remember.
Photo: Vana Katančić