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May 29, 2026
Moldova probably isn’t on your festival map yet. The Festival of Creative Industries (FIC) is here to fix that, with five themed days of gaming, design & animation, music, culture, media, and public policy.
FIC 2026 gathers hundreds of professionals and a global guest list under the theme “Senses.” Translation: hands off the prompt box, hands on the work. The whole edition leans away from screens and toward the tactile.
Three exhibitions anchor the city for the week: a poster retrospective from Milton Glaser, Nicolas Wieërs’ photography documenting tattoo culture inside Eastern European prisons, and a show of illustrations by Moldovan icon Lică Sainciuc. Paradiso Institute also lands in Eastern Europe for the first time with a collective art workshop.
When: June 3-7, 2026
Where: Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
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Event details HERE
Andy Sinboy – British-Spanish illustrator and designer
Benoit de Fleurian – Head of Ogilvy Consulting Paris
Pedro Allevato (aka Sugar Blood) – director and visual artist in London
Gus Karam – creative director, executive producer, and co-founder of Final Frontier/Le Cube
Nadejda Ghilca – creative director and brand identity designer
Ralph Karam – director and creative leader, co-founder of Le Cube and Final Frontier
Dalia Bologan – artist, designer, and learning facilitator, founder of Future Jobs Design
Monica Irina Garcia – cultural strategist, formerly at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gabriela Lungu – founder of WINGS and a creative leader in advertising, PR, and social media
John Goodale – games industry veteran, Vice President, Asia-Pacific at Nura Studios
FIC 2026 is organized by COR with the support of strategic and institutional partners backing Moldova’s cultural and creative sector.
