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Tour de Moon, the feature length documentary about the nationwide festival Tour de Moon, has been selected for the British Urban Film Festival 2023. The 70 min film is a hyperenergetic and unapologetic ride inside the festival. Join Nelly Ben Hayoun…

Listen to the full episode here.   Join Nelly and podcast host Ollie Palmer as they discuss Nelly’s work and teaching, the University of the Underground, working with large teams on multi-year projects, Hannah Arendt, Michael Jackson, and couscous.  …

Nelly was interviewed in the latest article “Porsche manifests artist-driven reimaginings of electric future” on the Porsche redesign she imagined for Soho House. The article can be found here. 

Tuesday 9 May 2023  By Soho House read the full article here   The No Passengers film series – a joint endeavour by Soho House and Porsche – highlights key creative visionaries who are leading the charge to push culture…

Nelly features in an interview by Kim Laidlaw in issue 25 of Dapper Dan on “Shiny Gold” her solo show at Gaité Lyrique- an immersive experience designed to inspire curiosity through non-linear learning and Tour de Moon- a free festival…

Nelly features in an article by Time Out on “Shiny Gold” her solo show at Gaité Lyrique- an immersive experience designed to inspire curiosity through non-linear learning. Read more here.   

Tour de Moon sounds like something Lance Armstrong might have attempted before the whole cycling scandal took place… Tour de Moons finale in Hackney, London.  Read more here.   

Nellys touring festival Tour de Moon features in news article ’20 outdoor artshows to see this summer’ by The Times   

Nelly features in an article by The Red Bulletin, exploring her designs on improving life on our planet, using the wonders of cosmos as her inspiration.  

Nelly features in It’s Nice That article on Tour de Moon:  With its retina-boggling installations and parade floats, and mind-broadening workshops and events, Tour de Moon festival could only come from the brain of Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun, founder of…

Nelly features in dezeen article  Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has unveiled Tour de Moon, a Uk touring festival of live events that was created to champion nightlife and youth counterculture in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Created as part of the government-funded Unboxed: Creativity in the…

What if love were connected to the cosmos? Or if bacteria could communicate and define borders? What would life look like on the moon? Founder of the charity and postgraduate University of the Underground and Nasa’s International Space Orchestra, Dr. Nelly…

Nelly was featured in an article alongside the Avalanches for the Nme about a track created & sent to the moon !!!!  More details can be found here.  Ben Hayoun has previously worked with The Avalanches on other projects and…

Nelly Ben Hayoun features in article with Guap, exploring the meaning of  Tour de Moon.  ‘A Festival Committed To Plurality, Decolonial Practices, Social Justice, Solidarity And Equity’. [@Nellybenhayoun] The full content of the interview can be found here.   

Tour de Moon taking over Newcastle, arts festival Tour de Moon is celebrating nightlife and encouraging radical imagination in order to find solutions to life’s complex problems. “Being in these rooms where the visions of what is going to happen…

Nelly was delighted to talk about Tour de Moon and Moon Music and the importance of nightlife culture with Dummy Mag. Tour de Moon’s Nelly Ben Hayoun and World Headquarter’s Geoffrey Kirkwood give us the lowdown on the festival ahead…

In their shared search for sustainable innovation, Ikea have created a unique opportunity to prototype and test new ways of interacting with your nearby nature through designing a temporary nature dwelling. International and young creative minds have been invited to…

You can read the full article here From the conception of the idea by Therese May of a ”year-long festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland“, the time has come to witness the culmination of the Unboxed festival, one of…