Nuanu Creative City, a 44-hectare development on Bali’s southwest coast, will host its largest running event to date: Nuanu Run, taking place on 1 June 2025. With 5K, 10K, and 21K routes passing through forest trails, ocean views, and large-scale art installations, this event offers something rare: a run through a car-free landscape designed around movement, nature, and creativity.

In the spirit of Global Running Day (celebrated worldwide every first Wednesday of June), Nuanu Run brings international energy into a uniquely Balinese setting. It's a chance for people to come together, locals, visitors, families, and athletes, to experience a city that prioritizes how people move and connect.

“We’re not building another city of roads and parking lots—we’re building something human,” said Lev Kroll, CEO of Nuanu Creative City. “Nuanu is designed with pedestrians as stakeholders, and we’re investing heavily in infrastructure to make that real—from safe routes for kids walking to school, to lush pathways for runners, strollers, and everyday movement. Our roads follow the golden ratio to respect nature’s flow, while pedestrian paths are designed for direct, comfortable access. Nuanu Run offers a glimpse of this vision—people moving freely, joyfully, through spaces designed for them. All of Nuanu's events are opportunities for us to learn and gather knowledge, and continue to refine a city where walking isn't just possible, it’s preferred.”

Since registration opened in April, Nuanu Run has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the running community, resulting in a complete sell-out before the third week of May. Capped at 2,000 participants, the event will bring together local running groups, families, and wellness communities to celebrate running as one of the most exciting sports.

But the race is just one part of the experience. The morning will feature local food stalls, music, wellness spaces, and kids’ activities, turning the event into a full-day celebration of movement and community.

Nuanu Run is made possible with support from regional partners, wellness practitioners, artists, and independent vendors helping to shape the experience on the ground.

Nuanu Creative City is set to launch one of Bali’s most exciting cultural events of the year: FOTO Bali Festival, an international photography festival dedicated to exploring the power of visual storytelling. Taking place from 26 July to 17 August 2025, the 23-day festival will bring together photographers, artists, storytellers, and creative industry professionals from Indonesia and around the world. Through exhibitions, panels, and hands-on workshops, FOTO Bali Festival offers a dynamic and immersive program that invites audiences to engage with photography as a medium for reflection, conversation, and connection. The festival strengthens Bali’s growing presence as a creative hub in Southeast Asia, particularly for photography and visual culture.

Anchored by the theme ‘LIFE’ this inaugural edition invites us to reflect on the human journey - of purpose, transformation, and presence, in a rapidly changing world. The festival acts as a platform for both emerging and established practitioners to share work that speaks to this moment in time, while offering space for discovery, collaboration, and exchange.

Through still and moving images, the festival will explore how ‘LIFE’ reveals itself through countless perspectives, bathed in both radiant light and quiet shadow. Photography serves as the medium for reflection, dialogue, and celebration — frame by frame — highlighting the shared human experience beyond borders, cultures and generations.

“Photography is one of the most democratic and poetic tools of our time,” said Kelsang Dolma, Festival Director of FOTO Bali Festival. “It invites us to slow down and look more closely - to see beyond the surface and engage with the deeper textures of place, identity, and memory. In a region as layered as Indonesia, and especially here in Bali where storytelling is part of daily life, photography becomes a powerful bridge: between generations, between land and ceremony, between the local and the global. FOTO Bali Festival was created to honour that connection. We’re here not just to present work, but to help nurture a thriving lens-based ecosystem that’s still in its early stages. This is about long-term growth, meaningful dialogue, and creating space for Southeast Asia’s photographic voices to be seen and heard.”

Through both still and moving images, the festival will explore how life reveals itself across cultures and generations—through light, shadow, ritual, and everyday moments.

FOTO Bali Festival is part of Nuanu’s broader mission to incubate creativity across disciplines. Often known as an open-air museum where art, nature, and technology intersect, Nuanu is committed to supporting photography as a vital art form, alongside a range of cultural initiatives spanning from Bali to international stages like Venice. This festival also serves as a lead-up to Art & Bali 2025, the island’s first international art fair, positioning Bali as a destination for both traditional and contemporary arts in Southeast Asia.

“There’s an incredible well of photographic talent in Bali and across the region,” Dolma added.

“We’re excited to see what the Open Call brings forward. If you have a strong visual voice and a deep commitment to the craft, we invite you to be part of this inaugural edition.”

Open Call applications will run from 2–31 May 2025. Full programming details and curator announcements will be released in the weeks ahead.

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Nuanu Creative City has unveiled Bus Stop Enam, the sixth official bus stop within its 44-hectare district and the first structure in Nuanu built using 3D printing technology. This prototype reflects Nuanu’s ongoing curiosity about emerging construction methods and how they can be meaningfully applied in the context of public, artistic, and sustainable spaces.

Bus Stop Enam was constructed using the L3D1 model, a single-arm construction printer, and completed in just four days. Key design features include pre-programmed solid segments that increase structural integrity and reduce future maintenance, as well as built-in slots that streamline transport and reassembly.

"We're fortunate to have the freedom to explore new tools and techniques like 3D printing," said Lev Kroll, CEO of Nuanu Creative City. "This bus stop gave us a chance to test its potential in a practical setting, to explore form, speed, and functionality while staying grounded in our design values. It’s still early days, but understanding this technology's possibilities and limitations is a step toward building more intelligently and creatively."

Bus Stop Enam now functions as a real, operational part of Nuanu’s internal mobility system. The learnings from this pilot will help guide how such technologies might be used to select features in future developments, always in balance with Nuanu’s broader commitment to craftsmanship, sustainability, and thoughtful design.

Nuanu is already home to a small 3D printing research lab focused on architectural experimentation, where new design forms, structural techniques, and sustainable materials are being explored. As part of its future plans, Nuanu aims to expand this lab into an educational hub where children can engage with emerging technologies in hands-on, imaginative ways. The vision includes developing creative learning modules around digital fabrication and design thinking, offering young minds a playful yet practical introduction to innovation. By combining experimentation with outreach, Nuanu hopes to inspire the next generation of thinkers and builders.

PHOTO CREDIT: Nuanu Creative City