Europe needs all of us to build its future.

Transeuropa Festival is at once a cultural festival and a political event. It is the first transnational Festival happening in 12 cities simultaneously: not twelve different festivals at the same time, but one festival throughout Europe promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. Transeuropa creates a common political and cultural space for exchange, debate and action.

Using a plurality of mediums, from debates, lectures and congresses to art installations, projections, and music, the festival promotes innovation, experimentation and radicalism both in its politics and in its cultural production, and sees the visualising of a new community through the arts as an inalienable component of building a new society.

Transeuropa Festival does not shy away from the most pressing and difficult topics confronting European society and the rest of the world. In 2011 the main themes of the Festival will be migration, Roma and traveller rights, media freedom, and a more just economy for after the crisis.

These main themes will be discussed and explored in all twelve Festival cities, conclusions and experiences passed from city to city until the closing weekend, when transnational forums will take place on each theme.

The Festival is coordinated by European Alternatives, and is organised by TRANSEUROPA Network: a team of over 50 activists, writers, thinkers, artists and curators from throughout the continent. You are welcome to join the festival in any one of its cities or online, and to join the Network no matter where you are or are from.

 More information on www.euroalter.com/festival