London: Divided Britain, Divided Europe: How Do We Build a Vision of Hope?
Transeuropa Open London presents an afternoon of art, politics and spoken word. Join us to discuss how we overcome the divisions of our fractured societies and build hope in a better future.
read morePresentation of the Athenian issue of Krytyka Polityczna
This book contains the contributions of people who have recently moved to Athens from the Middle East, of Athenians who have lived there a long time, as well as of those who are based in Berlin but frequently visit Athens; brought together, they form a de-elitized and de-colonized remix of knowledge. The authors are all united by their portrayal in anti-phrenological drawings.
To be presented by Joulia Strauss, artist, editor (Avtonomi Akadimia), Katja Ehrhardt, cultural scientist, organizer (AthenSYN). Further information in impressum, preface and texts about the presented projects in the book.
read moreMaribor: Maribor of the Globe
Roundtable with main organizational actors on migration and integration in Slovenia followed by networking lunch and session for Europe as a place of sanctuary for refugees and of human rights protection both inside and at its borders…
read moreSpotlight Sessions
Everyone is invited to share their story! We will provide a scenario for all our participants to present the initiatives, movements, art projects or organisations they belong to and present it to the audience of Transeuropa.
read moreMessina: Neighbourhoods in Motion – Participation and Urban Transformation at the Palmara
Within the projects aimed at promoting citizens’ participation and the shared use of the commons, the City of Messina has launched the participatory transformation of public spaces in some neighbourhoods situated at the outskirts of the city…
read morePUBLIC MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE
During a 20 minutes meeting a Public Movement Agents delivers an account of the group’s research about modern art made in Palestine before 1948 and the ways in which that research activates current politics. The private session draws out the performative relationship between nation-states and their cultural institutions. Access to Debriefing Session I: Transeuropa is limited, and a reservation is required
Public Movement
Opening Exhibitions ‘Europe as a Refuge’
Opening of ‘EUROPE AS A REFUGE’ group exhibition: the recent influx of refugees and migrants in Europe is often interpreted in media and political discourse as a crisis and a threat. TRANSEUROPA brings to Madrid a series of curated exhibitions by our partners Perpetuum Mobile and AthenSYN coming from the Athens Biennale…
read morePolitical Forum: WHAT’S AFTER THE NATION STATE? Thoughts for a future below and beyond the nation
The traditional form of the nation-state appears an insufficient vehicle to approach the challenges brought about by technological innovation, migration, climate change, or financial flows. And yet attempts to move beyond it, matching globalisation of the economy with a globalisation of politics, appear blocked or stuck in reverse gear. What’s next? This Forum is organised in partnership with the Kyiv Biennale 2017…
read moreArtists At Risk Exhibition
ARTISTS at RISK (AR) is a new institution at the intersection of human rights and the arts. AR is dedicated to mapping the field of persecuted visual art practitioners, facilitating their safe passage from their countries of origin and hosting them at “AR-Safe Haven Residencies”. AR also curates related artistic projects.
read moreUNIVERSITAS
A group exhibition on the subject of migration and learning with artists from Syria, Greece, and Germany, curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, based on artistic workshops curated by Katja Ehrhardt…
read moreBuilding a Local Artists-at-Risk (AR) Residency Network
This is a workshop by and for all who want to work with artists, critics, curators and theorists who have to flee their country of origin. These art practitioners are “at risk” for a reason – they are living on the rough edges of the permissible in their home countries: artistically, culturally, socially, politically…
read moreiHopP – workshop
iHopP is a creative project that aims at creating an intercultural dialogue platform to facilitate integration of new comers and local community members. The word “iHopP” is a mash-up of the Swedish words “ihop” (together) and “hopp” (hope). In iHopP, we used digital storytelling to get voices heard and give meaning and context to the participants’ experiences. We filmed more than 20 stories in Gothenburg and Malmö in 2017.
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Rasha Shaban
“Ave! Ave! Christus Rex!”: Report from the Culture War in Poland
Please, express your support for Polish people under the far right pressure, please join us in a struggle for defending the fundamental right to culture.
On May 27th, 2017 far right activists supported by religious groups had sparked riots in front of Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw – a municipal, public, cultural institution. They have also broken into the building and spread gas injuring one person who was taken to hospital with poisoning symptoms…
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Igor Stokfiszewski
Emergency Turned Upside Down
“Emergency Turned Upside-Down” confronts the cynical and inhuman discourse that calls refugees; presence in Europe “emergency” when that word should be applied to the war, terror and economic strangulation that forced people to move…
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Oliver Ressler
There are No Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Refugees attempting to enter the European Union play a specific role in the relation between the EU and Turkey. The same European powers that routinely invoke “human rights” to justify military action in Africa and Asia (including the “Middle East”) deny all protection to survivors fleeing the slaughter they order…
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Oliver Ressler
Belgrade: Towards new models of Commons in Europe
Still on the small door the notion of shared good, Commons, makes its way to European life. More and more, initiatives and exemplary practices shows up to stop processes of privatization of shared goods in order to dedicate them to real needs of the communities – who would take care about the given resource and manage it…
read moreBerlin: Our political party! Common – Critical – Crypto
A “political party” offering different types of workshops and space for exchanging ideas. The central topic is related to the “common” as an encompassing vision to explore in the local context with a transnational outlook. Spatially and temporally the party will start even before the party! People can join us on foot, by bike or on the S-Bahn to collectively reach the location where common action, critical discussion and crypto talk will be possible.
read moreiHopP
iHopP is a creative project that aims at developing an intercultural dialogue platform to facilitate integration of newcomers and local community members. The word “iHopP” is a mash-up of the Swedish words “ihop” (together) and “hopp” (hope). In iHopP digital storytelling was used to get voices heard and give meaning and context to the participants’ experiences. 24 of these one minute stories are shown here…
read moreValencia: Escola d’innovacio Civica – Kick off and Civic Talks
Escola d ‘Innovacio Civica (Civic Innovation School) aims to create a co-learning space for civic innovation in Valencia. As first session of the school, participants will be part of a “Civic Talks”, a CivicWise format to develop Collective Intelligence for the productive activation of territories. Participants are will share challenges and difficulties of their projects. These challenges will mark the first objective of a collaborative learning process with the aim to propose collective solutions.
read moreTax evasion, a European issue
Walter Palmetshofer
Registration of Participants
Participants of Transeuropa coming from across Europe and the city of Madrid will come together for the first time to register for the activities of the week, get their info package. Material and useful resources from our partners will available.
read moreBlack Lives Matter Denmark
Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged as an historic movement for civil rights.* One of the outflows of the BLM movement has been the exposure of a rift between mainstream, often white, progressives and a growing group of activists who feel racial justice issues are not prioritized within many progressive spaces…
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Bwalya Sørensen
Opening exposición ‘Textos de Mujeres: Arte Feminista desde el Este’
Opening of the exhibiton ‘Women’s Texts: feminist art from the East’ with Oksana Briukhovetska.Since the first revolution in 2004 contemporary art in Ukraine has become socially and politically engaged. After Maidan revolution (2013) now with the war, art actively reacts to traumatic social experiences. The questions of women and migrants rights, in particular, are exacerbated. With her exhibition curated for TRANSEUROPA, Oksana Briukhovetska will contextualize feminist and gender issues in the art field and society in general, providing a comparative perspective on the current Ukrainian situation together with other post-Soviet and Eastern European countries. The exhibition “Women’s Texts” is a collection of works by artists from Ukraine, Poland, Czechia and Russia, who use different mediums and a feminist optic to represent various issues affecting women in post-soviet/post- socialist countries…
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Oksana Briukhovetska
Criminalisation of life saving in the Mediterranean
Politicians, governments and also media across Europe have been accusing non-governmental organisations and individual activists carrying out search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean of undermining efforts to reduce the number of people entering Europe…
read moreOpen Assembly on Commons and radical urban politics.
Welcome to TRANSEUROPA
Welcome to Transeuropa 2017 – Convergent Spaces! The team of Transeuropa welcomes you to the city of Madrid. We will present our objectives for the week, how we plan to make of Transeuropa a point of convergence for political and civil society actors to exchange ideas, concepts and alternatives for a Europe in turmoil.
read moreScreening: ‘When Paul Came Over the Sea’
Paul is a migrant from Cameroon. He has made his way across the Sahara to the Moroccan coast where he now lives in a forest waiting for the right moment to cross the Mediterranean Sea. This is where he meets Jakob, a filmmaker from Berlin, who is researching a film about Europe’s borders…
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Jakob Preuss
Herceg Novi: Why waitin’?
Transeuropa Open Herceg Nova’s event “Why waitin’?” aims to present and promote innovative practices coming from grassroots initatives fighting for women rights. Through discussions about feminism in Europe and reviewing the status of women in Montenegro, as well as through workshops, we want to show that micro actions to improve gender equality are still possible through creative bottom up citizen initiatives.
read moreOpening exhibition ‘The Voice ________’
Opening of the exhibition ‘The Voice of _____’ A Collection of electoral materials designed by the artists who have no right to vote. Exhibition curated by Vladimir Palibrk, in collaboration with European Alternatives…
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George Bodocan
Audiovisual Source Code: “If I were a black character in a movie”
Moha Gerehou will perform an Audiovisual Source Code titled “If I were a black character in a movie”. This format is about sharing the audiovisual and personal imagery of a person…
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Moha Gerehou
Site visits to places of commoning
On the background of urban commoning, we want to do a city tour to discover some of the most emblematic spaces of sharing economy and social experiences in Madrid. This activity is organised together with the European Commons Assembly.
read moreClosing party
Even if it cannot be a summer season party, our closing party will be open to everyone who wants to join us to for dinner, music and dancing!
read moreIdrissa: Fronteras de la cotidianidad
With the idea that the story can be started from the beginning of the project, this Work in Progress is presented as a narration in itself, almost an advance of the documentary Idrissa, which will mix live music, sound effects electronic and reading texts and poems, as a narration…
read moreMoto Kiatu DJs
Moto Kiatu, that means “hot shoes” in swahili, it’s a bet to spread out the new sounds and rhythms from Africa and its mix with electronic sounds. Our vision is to promote these fresh music scene, unknown in Spain but followed in other European cities such as Berlin and Lisbon, into the clubs, shows and music meetings…
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Moto Kiatu
Intersectionality in Practice
Here is a chance to move beyond the theory of intersectionality by finding ways to practice social justice organising with more rigour and competence. We will think about how better connect our struggles in our fight towards long-term change, and take steps to make your activism -and your life- more intersectional…
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Guppi Bola
(DIY) Cybersecurity for Activists
This is a workshop about digital privacy and security with a critical and holistic approach. The workshops is specially tailored for people who work in social action groups, wishing to improve their digital routines and to think through these topics. We will…
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Marta Mojica (Martu)
Funding the Cooperative City
This workshop aims at exploring the emerging landscape of collaborative economy initiatives: Faced with austerity measures, privatisation and financialisation community groups and citizen initiatives started to organise their own services and spaces…
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Levente Polyak and Daniela Patti / Eutropian
The Brexit Crisis: Building TransEuropean Perspectives
This workshop will seek to develop dialogues between activists across Europe, sharing experiences and perspectives. It starts from the analysis that three interconnected dynamics led to Brexit: the triumph of British/English colonial nostalgia, the interconnected cultural rejection of multiculturalism and immigration…
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Luke Cooper
Community Strategies against Institutional Racism
Though migration policy and citizenship tend to be competencies of the State and not municipal governments, cities can provide major instruments through which to protect the civil and political rights of immigrant communities and minorities…
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Xavier Artigas
Transnational Solidarity at times of crisis
The economic crisis in Europe has placed solidarity at the top of public and policy agendas. But how strong is solidarity amongst Europeans, after almost 60 years of European integration? What do we know…
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Maria Grasso
Data analysis and visualisation
Data literacy workshop driven by open and free software tools to get free knowledge. Data Visualisation is a transversal discipline which harnesses the immense power of visual communication in order to explain, in an understandable manner, the relationships of meaning, cause and dependency…
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Adolfo Antón Bravo
THE VOICE OF_________
A Collection of electoral materials designed by the artists who have no right to vote. Exhibition curated by Vladimir Palibrk, in collaboration with European Alternatives. Today, a great amount of artists are living and moving all over Europe. Multiple travel, education and working opportunities have allowed for relatively networked artist communities to grow, sometimes without interactions with local political realities or spaces…
read moreWomen’s Texts: Feminist Art from the East
The questions of women and migrants rights, in particular, are exacerbated. With her exhibition curated for TRANSEUROPA, Oksana Briukhovetska will contextualize feminist and gender issues in the art field and society in general, providing a comparative perspective on the current Ukrainian situation…
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Oksana Briukhovetska
Turku: CHA(LLE)NGING THE OTHER
The event explores various facets of imagining, narrating and physically manifesting ‘the Other’ in contemporary European context. By the use of different community arts tools we invite our audience to challenge the topics of social injustice and inequality in everyday narratives and practices and encourage them to rewrite, reconstruct and finally to draw the concrete plans for transformations and changes in a form of live community dialogue.
read moreLudwigshafen am Rhein: My LU-Love for Europe
Be part of a transnational Ludwigshafen of common development and create with us a city of change in 2017. Celebrate with us a transnational festival of arts, culture and politics. Debate current political challenges with other young adults. We invite you to spread out your visions and address your opinion to local politicians by attending our workshops and outside event.
read moreGhent: Commoning Sport and Leisure
Transeuropa Open Ghent’s workshop will bring people together across sport/art/activism fields around the theme of the commons, exploring the concept through a best practice in football. KAA Gent is the first and only club in Belgium, and one of the few around Europe, to have taken a commons approach to ownership, governance and structure. We will explore this commoning practice through the lens of sport to get us all thinking about the commons in and beyond the field of football.
read moreTop Manta – struggle and activism of the street vendors in Spain
This workshop proposes a space for reflection on the struggle of the groups of “Manteros” and other street vendors in Spain, who are in almost all cases migrants without documentation. The starting point of the workshop are…
read moreLousame: Common Land and Emancipatory Rural Politics in a transborder perspective
Transeuropa Open Lousame will gravitate around Common Land and Emancipatory Rural Politics in a transborder perspective. The festival will take place in the Froxán Common Woodlands, recently recognized by the UN Registry of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas.
read more#StopIslamofobia
The workshop aims at supporting the development of the capacities of young activists working from within and outside the newcomer communities to fight for human rights…
read moreTalk Real – Art Real shooting
Talk Real is a nomadic political talk show for the web that offers a space for dynamic discussions that explore issues in depth from a radical perspective. In this new episode of Talk Real in the series ART REAL, recorded live with a public in Madrid…
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Dans Off Proyect
Open Assembly of European Alternatives
Every year, European Alternatives organises its Open Assembly, a dynamic and lively gathering inspiring members, board and staff to continue working towards democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation-state and chart the strategic orientation of European Alternatives for the year to come.
read moreTranseuropa Open Amsterdam
Transeuropa Open Amsterdam invites you to an afternoon full of workshops, games, inspiring speeches, debates, reading-corners and fabulous food @Plantage Doklaan. In cooperation with partners like DiEM25 Nederland, Fair City Amsterdam, Bring Them Here, Europese Beweging and Transnational Institute our event will focus on the commons, transformative cities and refugees in Europe.
read moreMapping Cities of Change
After a short introduction we will discuss on how to use and further develop a digital mapping tool for cities of change which has been co-created by European Alternatives. How can we understand the mapping itself as a process of commoning and use synergies between existing networks to gather information on examples of new municipalism?…
read more¿Integración o eurosplaining? [SPA]
Explorando las blanquitudes sudakas, aquí y allá, los puentes, el privilegio (OMG), los espacios no mixtos, el poliamor, las ciudadanías inexistentes y las secuestradas, los memes de White tears y otros conceptos a tomar en cuenta en la construcción de una horizontalidad posible desde algo distinto que la integración.
Confirmed workshop facilitator: Elisa Fuenzalida.
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Elisa Fuenzalida
Victims, perpetrators and the collective self
The workshop aims to take a closer look at experiences of the people of poland, spain and germany. the workshop is designed as a platform for exchanging experiences and trigger a debate among all participants…
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Stanislaw Strasburger
De-patriarchalisation of politics
This workshop will be an opportunity for the international public to learn from Spanish social movements and municipalist experiences and discuss what it means to “feminise politics”. We will…
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Carmen Castro
CIVIC GAMES / NEXT LEVEL
Participants will create civic games concepts using the new formats and interactive mechanisms offered by digital games. Building on political theatre, simulations, board games and animation, the key concepts of game designs…
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Victor Fleurot
