Rototom’s green and musical universe turns with 202,000 attendees from 76 countries and was streamed live worldwide to 7 million people
Almost 300 activities sealed the cultural side of the festival. This year’s edition was enjoyed by 11,000 kids under 13; 3,400 over-65s and 3,800 people with disabilities
The final day of Rototom commemorates 40 years of the film Rockers and 10 years of the festival in Spain
The cast of the ultimate reggae movie put on a lively show, while Green Valley and Friends reflect on Spanish reggae’s incredible journey.
Rototom welcomes representatives of the Marley and the Selassie family
Ziggy Marley performs, Haile Selassie’s grandson speaks, Third World celebrate 45 years
Rototom celebrates Reggae, Dancehall, Cumbia and Mento
The Main Stage hosts Jamaican singing groups from the 40s, 70s and 90s, with enormous rhythmic diversity on offer throughout the festival.
Anthony B blazes for love on a Monday
Misty In Roots and the Selecter celebrate their 40th anniversaries on the Main Stage. Linval Thompson hypnotises on the Lion Stage
Rototom receives two Royal Queens
Marcia Griffiths celebrates 55 years in music, Queen Ifrica headlines the Main Stage
Movies, music and dancing dominate Rototom’s second day
From the Babylon Soundtrack to Busy Signal, the festival gives a place to reggae’s many forms.
Rototom begins by welcoming reggae legends across generations
Abyssinians celebrate 50 years, Chronixx delivers his greatest Main Stage appearance yet, Lila Iké and Eva Lazarus burn with friendly fire.
An inclusive and social festival
Collecting plastic glasses for social causes, a price policy that makes Rototom a more accessible festival and an area that a “safe harbour”. In its greenest edition, the number 26, the reggae festival continues to evolve.
The house of ‘rasta livity’ at Rototm
Rasta spirituality, culture and history has its own house at the reggae festival. House of Rastafari is a meeting place that promotes the rastafari movement with its own programming and a community made up of rastafari from all over the world such as Ras Julio.
Music that breaks chains
Green Valley, Macaco and Koers are added to the long list of artists that Rototom Sunsplash has taken to Albocàsser prison. Reggae music creates much stronger ties than than chains themselves.
Beyond concerts
The the other face, the ‘other’ side of Rototom Sunsplash. From the moment the festival area opens until the music kicks off, even as an alternative to the concerts. What can you do between concerts in the reggae festival area?
26 years roaring as a family
Workshops, activities and games, storytelling, concerts, street theatre, circus… Rototom Sunsplash: 26 years weaving a programme so that kids and teenagers can enjoy their own reggae festival.
The courage of social movements at Rototom Sunsplash
Movements for the defence of the environment, anti-racism, feminism and culture find a space at the international reggae festival.
The green festival that looks to Mother Earth
There are no plastic glasses to be found on the floor of the Rototom Sunsplash venue. It’s the most visible measure, but not the only one. The massive soaks up the philosophy of Greensplash.
PLASTIC FREE
With biodegradable material in the bars, the system of reusable solidarity cups, and corn starch straws reinforce the festival’s green profile. All catering services include bio-compostable materials. Their recycling along with organic waste allows them to be reused for compost.
MORE FOUNTAINS. THE END OF BOTTLES
The festival completely eliminates plastic bottles from its venue. As an alternative for the public, it broadens the number of water fountains (6 in the campsite and 7 in the venue) at an affordable price: a 3 euro card gets you six 40 cl glasses of water. Furthermore, Rototom extends the osmosis system to all bars. The plastic bottles have also been removed from the vending machines at the entrances. To ensure that the public has access to water, on August 15 and 16, there will a water fountain installed in front of the ticket office to dispense water for free. Cups and canteens will be on sale in the InfoPoint.
WATER REUSE
The festival is committed to the efficient use of water resources having installed two tanks to use, after filtering, the water from the shower drains to fill the toilet cisterns.
RECYCLING
All the containers installed in the venue and the campsite, are recycling points. They are small, to reduce the visual impact and to be easily distributed throughout. This has made it possible to reinforce selective waste collection thanks to public awareness and involvement.
NO MORE BUTTS
A cigarette butt takes between one and ten years to decompose. To avoid this and to help festival goers collaborate in keeping the festival clean the Rototom will install 40 containers in the festival venue and the campsite.
MINI GREEN LUNG
This winter, the camping received new inhabitants: 70 olive trees to shade, oxygenate the environment, counteract CO2 emissions and consolidate this small green lung in the festival. In total more than five hundred trees have been planted in the campsite.
CLEANING BEACHES
Solé Rototom Beach, the festival’s official beach bar, together with the NGO Exodus promotes different collective actions to clean the coast of plastics, cigarette butts and trash and to raise awareness about the need to care for the environment.
WE ARE 'GREENSPLASH'
The use of LED technology in the different areas; the commitment to sustainable mobility, with the promotion of public transport and bicycles to move around the site; and patterns of responsible consumption that prioritize local products are three other vertices of the ‘greensplash’, Rototom’s green philosophy.
INCLUSIVE AND SOCIAL PROFILE
In its effort to democratize the Rototom experience, the festival has a system of free tickets for children under 13, the over 65’s and people with disabilities greater than 65%, together with a companion. The unemployed can enter the festival one day for the symbolic price of 5 euros.
ADAPTED INSTALLATIONS
All the facilities are adapted: ramps at the entrances, a platform in the backstage and platforms in front of the main stage; there are accessible toilets throughout the venue, adapted bathrooms and showers in the campsite and a specific parking area for people with reduced mobility, who have a special window at the ticket office to enter the venue faster and more conveniently.
