“Students Are Winning” Message Appears on Sea Dance Festival’s Main Stage

“Students Are Winning” was displayed on the main stage as EXIT’s Sea Dance festival concluded on the beach in Bečići, Montenegro. The slogan gave the festival’s final night a clear political and generational message alongside its music program.

EXIT organizers said they had used the same message earlier in July, during the first EXIT to Montenegro project at Ulcinj’s Velika Plaža. It appeared on a monumental sculpture that became one of the project’s symbols. The slogan also appeared on the walls of Valletta, Malta, before the EXIT-organized Spiral festival.

The organizers described the displays as a direct expression of support for the student movement. They also linked the message to EXIT’s student origins and to the values of freedom, protest and solidarity that they say have shaped the festival since its creation.

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Students Are Winning

The statement carried particular weight this year because the festival did not take place at Petrovaradin Fortress, its traditional venue, for the first time in 25 years. The Montenegro finale instead brought together 93,000 people over three festival nights.

The lineup included major names from the global electronic music scene, including Charlotte de Witte, Hugel, Boris Brejcha and John Newman. Dara, this year’s Eurovision winner, also performed, alongside numerous local and regional artists.

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EXIT once again directly expressed support for the student movement, while also recalling its student roots and the values of freedom, protest and solidarity on which it has rested since its beginning.