Culture and Art

Yearbook

    The Left Alternative – The Search for a Subject of History
  • Globalisation is increasingly influencing us. On the one side, it opens up new forms of a networked internet civilisation; on the other side, it entails irresolvable contradictions. The events of the recent period show that today, both for the West and for Russian society, it is not the challenge of...
    ‘Transformance’ as a New Genre of Political Theatre
  • What is popular theatre? – There are two theatre perspectives. Theatre is for the people when it sees the world from the perspective of the people, i.e. understood in constant transformation, with all the contradictions and movements of these contradictions, when it shows roads towards the...

Blog

    7th Nicosia Book Fest
  • Chrysostomos Pashiardis from the Research Institute "Promitheas", an observer organisation of transform! europe, reports on the successful book festival held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 13-14 and 22-24 October 2022, which has been organised by "Promitheas" Research Institute since 2016.
    XII Race and Walk Llluís Companys: Commemoration of the Peoples' Olympiad of 1936
  • On Saturday, 19 October, transform! europe’s member organisation Fundació l’Alternativa celebrated the XII edition of the Race and Walk Lluís Companys – an event that bundles historical memory, giving voice to republican values, sports and culture. An active and festive way of claiming peace culture and solidarity between peoples and nations.
    A New Left Party Needed More Than Ever!
  • Eva Brenner in conversation with the Lithuanian scientists and activists Andrius Bielskis and Jolanta Bilskiene, co-founders of DEMOS Institute of Critical Thought.
    Report From Vilnius
  • Activities accompanying the lecture on Bertolt Brecht and Brechtian Theater, „Performing Politics & Community Building: BRECHT for our Age“ (Lecture Demonstration), and a recent Vienna based theater production of Brecht’s „Refugee Dialogues“ (2018) by Projekt Theater/FLEISCHEREI_mobil, Nov. 29th 2018, Lithuanian State Youth Theater;
    Resume of the XI Race and Walk "Lluis Companys"
  • The Race and Walk “Lluis Companys”, organized every year as an exercise of historical memory by Fundació l'Alternativa, commemorate this year, the 80th anniversary farewell of the International Brigades in Barcelona.
    Launching “Colours of a Journey”
  • A new cultural and memory project on migration was launched on 20 June. The platform was designed to collect and exhibit paintings and illustrations – or “stories” – of refugee and migrant children who are now living in different countries of Europe.
    Occupy, Resist, Produce
  • We recommend: The 3-channel video installation “Occupy, Resist, Produce” by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler, available next at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (GR) from 11 - 26 March 2016.
    PROJEKT A - A Journey to Anarchist Projects in Europe
  • We recommend an interesting film project, "PROJEKT A", a documentary about anarchist projects in Europe, which has its premiere at the Volksbühne in Berlin on 2nd February and its theatrical release in Germany on 4th February.

Calendar

    2021 MICAR
  • This year’s edition of the anti-racist international film festival MICAR focuses on decolonisation and memory, to make visible the voices and bodies of those whose memories and visions have been kept in the fringes.
    Desobedoc International Film Festival
  • Due to the times of confinement we are living, this years' edition of DESOBEDOC – co-organised by transform! europe and Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal) – had to be postponed. Nevertheless, DESOBEDOC international film festival will still celebrate soon, adapted to pandemic times.
    What About Democracy Today?
  • On the occasion of the symposium The Middle East at Historical Crossroads, organised by transform! europe, the exhibition What About Democracy Today? brings together 30 artists from Israel and Palestine, raising questions about the contemporary state and understanding of democracy in the region and the world.

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