Regenerate Europe
with music festivals.
This is not just one festival.
We are building a series of regenerative festivals across Europe.
Each one restoring a different landscape.
Each one strenghtening local communities.
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Ten Lives is regenerating Europe, one festival at a time.
For this, we use a special kind of festival: regenerative festivals.Our regenerative festivals bring together music, culture, and collective action: participants spend part of their time restoring the land through hands-on, low-tech natural infrastructure, and the rest dancing, creating, and celebrating freely. Dig holes, move rocks, plant trees... then... party, learn, discover.
Morning
Save the land from becoming a desert.
Our Guardians will guide you.
Afternoon
Enjoy cultural activities in a little village built just for you.
From workshops and talks to off-site surprises.
Evenings
Dance on groovy techno, nostalgic house, and traditional Portuguese sounds.
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About
Ten Lives is a collective of skilled citizens regenerating Europe with music festivals.
The question is: How deep do you want to go?
Level 1 : Regenerative festival
TEN LIVES is a seven-day festival where the main idea is to gather thousands to make a difference.- In the morning, everyone does meaningful hands-on restoration work.
- In the afternoon, one can rest, participate in workshops, talks, or music shows.In the end, hundreds of hectares and thousands of people should be regenerating
Level 2 : What’s beyond the festival
The festival is the visible part of the iceberg, there are two sides to TEN LIVES
Festival
The festival combines regeneration camps, workshops, music, and celebration into one transformative experience. It creates ideal conditions for applied research and testing regenerative practices with communities. By pairing joy with learning, the festival makes people more open to new ideas and connection. This celebratory atmosphere introduces communities to hands-on regeneration work while building the relationships that sustain long-term change.
Awareness & Education
We teach through experience, not lectures. Participants learn by doing, creating training content grounded in real application. The festival becomes a living classroom where communities discover how regeneration works in their specific context. This hands-on learning builds the knowledge and confidence needed to continue the work independently. Action also helps relieve the ecoanxiety that 9 in 10 people feel.
Community Strengthening
Strong communities drive lasting environmental impact. Through hands-on regeneration work, we connect team leads, participants, local residents, and partners into supportive networks. Beyond that, the festival offers a reason for communities to connect to attract one of the events in their towns. The conditions for TL to come creates bonds which act as social foundation communities need to perpetuate and also expand.
Research
Working with universities and communities, we study how regeneration drives behavior change and informs governance for healthy communities. The festival provides real-world conditions to test practices, gather data, and observe outcomes. Research helps in finding terrains in the best possible places to regenerate. This directly shapes where and how we design future festivals and builds evidence for what actually works in creating lasting transformation.
Level 3 : It’s systemic
This project is an interconnected system where every elements feeds and contributes from each other.
Regeneration : reversing the vicious circle of water to make it virtuous again
Concentrated rainfall creates destructive water power that erodes soil and rushes away unused.
Why is digging holes and moving rocks important?
By digging holes also called bunds and strategically placing rocks, we slow water flow, allowing it to infiltrate the ground. This simple intervention transforms the vicious circle into a virtuous one: water recharges aquifers instead of causing erosion, vegetation returns, soil rebuilds, and the land regains its natural capacity to absorb and store life-giving rain.A sequence of what will happen below
TEAM
We're a group of passionate people who've been fortunate to bring different visions to life, from documentaries that touched hearts to festivals that brought thousands together in celebration and sustainability. Some of us have built online communities and platforms, others have shared scientific knowledge with the world, and many have dedicated themselves to organizing and connecting people around causes that matter.Each of us has walked our own path and learned along the way. Now, we're coming together with a shared dream: to regenerate Europe with music festivals.To make this a success, we need more friends to be part of this journey.
Founders
Nastassia Gumuchdjian, Community development
Nastassia spent 15 years at BCG before realizing the real work happens on the ground. She's mobilized 6,000 villages across India in water conservation with the Paani Foundation, and she knows how to turn strangers into communities that actually get things done. She is also a professional photographer, a baker, a farmer, and rescues animals in her spare time.
Louis De Jaeger, Networking & Regeneration
Louis has created over 1,500 hectares of edible landscapes and built a community of 39,000+ people on LinkedIn around regeneration. He doesn't just talk about healing land, he's actually done it at scale. As an award-winning filmmaker and author (see here: https://louisdj.com/en/home-2), he knows how to tell the stories that make people believe change is possible.
Nathan Stranart,
Project development
Nathan spent 6+ years developing infrastructure projects, from green festivals gathering over 4,000 people to complex renewable energy projects. He makes things happen from festival direction to permitting process and investment decisions. He teaches entrepreneurship at Solvay Brussels School and has built a full course on regenerative entrepreneurship.
Core team
James Barrett, Regeneration lead Portugal
Founded of Decent Water Company, and a hydrologist who actually understands watersheds. James knows Portuguese land, water systems, and what regeneration looks like in practice, not just in theory.
Elisabeth Holt, Festival production lead
Founded Navu Events, a regenerative festival in Denmark, and has 10+ years building festival infrastructure. Elisabeth has already done what we're attempting, she knows where things break and how to prevent them.
Ali Bin Shahid, Climate Repair, Head Scientist
Founded of PSKL Water for All, and author of R3Genesis newsletter. Ali brings the scientific rigor that keeps us honest, making sure our regeneration work actually regenerates.
Ioana Voicu, Creative lead
Founded Vanna.io, a collective of creatives, with 5+ years in creative direction. Ioana is the reason this festival will feel like something you've never experienced, beautiful, intentional, and real.
Arno Lambermont, Partnership lead
Founded HUNGER the food show & BKYDproductions, owner of a YouTube channel with more than 30,000 followers. He also helped expand TooGoodToGo in Belgium and the USA! Now he is finding partnerships and sponsoring at Ten Lives.
Jeff Cornelis, Partnership lead
First employee and expansion lead at TooGoodToGo in Belgium and the USA! Now he hacks growth at Ten Lives.
Extended core team
Marius Müller, Bruno Göbel, Florencia Jaurequi, Riccardo Aulico
For the community team, managing human aspects and training.
Manuel Velasquez, Andre Poon, Romain Deboulle, Luis Miranda
For the festival production team, making sure an off-grid, full-fledged, and creative festival can happen.
Arthur Levy, Isabel Marasco, Kailey Beckwith, Liane Ojito
For marketing, legal grants, regeneration, and others.
Advisors
Darren J. Dohrety, Founder of Regrarians
Philippe Birker, Founder of Climate farmer
John D. Liu, Ecologist & filmmaker
Stijn (Stino) Verheyden, Founder of Stinofix
Wessel van Eeden, Former Global Marketing Director and Executive Board Member at Justdiggit
Harald Friedl, Founder of Circular Economy Innovation Agency
Robin Ibens, Founder of Shaved Monkey
Jorn Craeghs, Founder of Think Elders
Marie Geneste, Founder of The C collective
Ten Lives Genesis is our awakening.
An edition for the pioneers.
30 APR - 3 MAY 2026Opening Ceremony - 18pm on 30/04
Closing ceremony - 12pm on 3/05
CIDADELHE, PINHEL, PORTUGAL
Regeneration
7:00-11:00
Learn by doing
Our guardians are trained to guide your during the regeneration sessions.
Your learn by doing.
And you save the land.
Know why you do it
Before arriving on the land, each participant gets a full description of the design we will implement together.Therefore, you are not only saving the land, but you also know why you do it.
Musicians
14:00 - 24:00
Speakers
12:00 - 17:00
Practical
◢ FOOD
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Expect local food providers available all day long.
Your can bring your own food and drink at the camp site or in your room but no external food is accepted in the festival village.
Small controlled camping stoves are authorized on the camping site.
No waste policy.◢ BAR
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Expect local drinks providers with a full menu available all day.
Water will be available for free at the festival ground so make sur to bring your flasks.◢ ACCOMMODATION
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There are 4 types of accommodation.► CAMPING
The standard ticket includes a place for your tent or your in our camping with access to adventurous showers (non potable water).
Electricity is not yet assured in the camping.
Drinkable water station will be available.
Small controlled camping stoves are authorized
No open fire and no waste policy.► ROOM IN THE NEAREST HOSTEL
Includes private bathroom with warm water, several set up of beds, air conditioning, and fridge.
10min walk from the site.► 1 BED IN A SHARE ROOM
Includes 1 bed in a shared room with access to shared bathroom with warm water, several set up of beds, air conditioning, and fridge.
10min walk from the site.◢ GETTING THERE
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Access to the festival is from Porto by car (2h30)
Check the FAQ for more info.◢ LOCATION
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Entrance of the village https://maps.app.goo.gl/t6QfmnWoaUMoJMUN6Entrance of the festival and parking https://maps.app.goo.gl/VUsffpcGJZpEX5em6◢ PAYMENT METHODS
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TAP & PAY at the bar or use the app at your disposal (communicated on site).
Top up your wallet whenever you want or go at the cash desk.
MBWAY, VISA, MASTERCARD, BANCONTACT⚠️ DISCLAIMER: site in a Natura2000 zone.
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We ask participants to be respectful of nature around the site: strictly no open fires and zero waste policy.
All grey water will be collected and discharged in a secured area according to the law.
Join our waitlist
28 SEP - 4 OCT 2026
| ► first edition event | ► Regeneration work & talks |
| ► 1st week of October 2026 | ► International & Local Music |
| ► Cidadelhe, Pinhel, Portugal | ► Camping, Food, Drinks |
Get Involved
At Ten Lives we envision that with thousands of us joining in, we can stop Europe from desertifying. We are dreamers, doers, and creators united in one collective. Together, we're building a movement that regenerates our communities and planet through creativity, self-leadership, and collective joy.
Here are already three ways to join the movement:
Musicians
Speakers
Practitioners
We are always seeking musicians, speakers, facilitators, healers, educators, and practitioners who bring value that aligns with Ten Lives experience. We will reach out if we see fit with the experience we want to provide to our attendees.
Volunteers
Guardians
Advisors
If you don't find a position, fill in this form, indicating “open application”.
Can't be there?
Still want to help
This is your chance
Not everyone can come to dig and dance.
That's why we created the Smiland adoption campaign. You fund a Smiland. We dig it. The land recovers. You stay connected to it.
