Europe knows too little about its artists. We want to make voices, works and stories visible and audible across borders.
In Brighton, young people turn discarded toys into imaginative monsters. After hands-on workshops and digital animation, their creations will appear in a projected film at B.fest.
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At Drogheda’s Lú Festival of Light, historic walls glow with Irish legends, Balor’s eye, Samhain traditions and a delightfully spooky street parade.
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For the opening of the Viennale, Johann Lurf’s “Forever…Forever” compresses 22 months at Austria’s Ottenstein Reservoir into 21 minutes: a film about light, time and perception.
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Berlin presents a restored version of “Cyankali” (1930). A film about poverty, abortion law and censorship returns, with live cello music in passages where the original sound is missing.
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A river connects, a border divides: the Tornio Valley tells of Meänkieli, a shared past and the voices of Europe’s border regions at Voices of Europe in Oulu.
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In Antwerp, the Metropolis Academy invites young people to imagine 2126 through art and technology. A journey from Jules Verne and Fritz Lang to artificial intelligence.
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Rick Wakeman, once the keyboardist of Yes, premieres music inspired by black holes in Tenerife. Stephen Hawking’s unmistakable voice is part of the performance.
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At De Betovering in The Hague, visitors trade personal information for chewing gum. With GUMLAB, Atelier ARI turns the hidden cost of sharing data online into something tangible.
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Fifty years ago, Manel Armengol photographed police violence at a Barcelona demonstration. Now Revela’t, an analogue photography festival in Vilassar de Dalt, is honouring him as the region recovers from heavy rain.
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A new production, “Romany Face – Romengi faca”, premieres at Müpa Budapest. The Duna Art Ensemble brings dance, music and poetry together to explore the rich variety of Roma traditions across the Carpathian Basin.
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In Paris, an actor and an Irish violinist celebrate 300 years of Gulliver’s Travels. Beneath the adventure lies a surprisingly timely story about power, changing perspectives and what makes a person truly great.
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In Burgas, young artists are turning the harbour into a place to create. The Deep Blue Sea festival brings together painting, film and literature, with Eurovision 2027 on the horizon.
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Marcsi Tóth’s first prose book took a long road to the Margó Prize. In Budapest, her story shows how writing can find a public – and why a literary prize can be more than a trophy.
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In Athens, a digital museum has gone haywire: images have lost their stories and labels have been swapped. Young people have 75 minutes to save cultural memory.
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Gernika was bombed on 26 April 1937. Almost immediately, a struggle began over what had supposedly happened. Nearly ninety years later, young people from four European countries are searching for their own response through rap, voice and movement.
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Twenty-eight young people are planning their own literature festival in Waterford. They choose guests, develop events and help run the festival themselves. “The LIT does D&D” is one of their ideas. By young people, for young people – an idea worth copying.
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What does a person say when they say nothing at all? At the Sconfinare festival in Bellinzona, actor Fabrizio Gifuni and language scholar Stefano Bartezzaghi meet to explore what silence can mean.
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First their workshop travelled to young people. Now Christian Zöllner and Sebastian Piatza are turning an almost 300-year-old Baroque palace into a place where young people can spend more time making, designing and experimenting.
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Nine young actors and performers, one young director and a training journey they have shared. Tonight in Rome, their work opens to an audience for the first time. The programme published so far does not yet reveal what has emerged from it.
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For centuries, people have watched bird migration with amazement. Today it can be tracked by satellite and yet it remains fascinating. In Sagres, a festival turns attention to these masters of orientation.
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An old figure from Estonian folklore becomes a ballet, is reimagined by more than 400 young dancers – and even lends its name to artificial intelligence. What remains the same through all those transformations?
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Can a heart keep working outside the body? At the Erasmus MC science festival in Rotterdam, questions that sound impossible become concrete research problems.
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Smetana can make a river appear in our imagination through music. In Tallinn, the TubIN Festival asks a harder question: can music also reveal something of a person?
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What disappears down the drain has not necessarily disappeared. At the R.o.R+ festival in Brda, art and science follow the journey of microplastics through water.
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