Ololo Creative Week + Creative Bus Tours

In August–September 2023, TransforNATION took part in Ololo Creative Week — a festival program to develop the creative industries in Kyrgyzstan. The format combined a classic festival component with Creative Bus Tours — on-site tours of creative spaces across the country, where participants studied firsthand how the neighboring country's working creative-industry venues are set up.

For TransforNATION, this participation continued the regional logic begun with «Креативный Павлодар» (Creative Pavlodar): not just developing the creative economy within Kazakhstan, but exchanging experience with Central Asian neighbors who have their own working models. The bus-tour format — studying spaces in person rather than through presentations — echoes the approach TransforNATION later applied in its own program studying France's «third places».