We Are Europe - Festival Cooperation

We Are Europe has set out to draw eight European festivals together in an effort to foster European music culture, cultural innovation and creativeness.

Aside from Elevate, festivals like Sónar (Barcelona), Reworks (Thessaloniki), Unsound (Krakow), c/o Pop (Cologne), Nuits Sonores (Lyon), Insomnia (Tromsø) and TodaysArt (The Hague) are collaborating on the development of programmatic visions and are making great strides creating new cultural possibilities.

From 2019 to 2021 We Are Europe will be putting a significant amount of work into funding and mobilising artists as well as utilising the culture itself to further the European dialogue. The platforms and spaces to conduct this conversation will be provided in the form of festival stages, conferences, workshops and discussion panels. All within the frame work of the collaborating festivals.

In 2020, partner festivals from Cologne (c/o pop) and Lyon (European Lab/Nuits Sonores) will enrich the programme and attract additional international attention. Both in the field of music and art as well as in discourse, the partners work together on content and will invite outstanding artists and lecturers to Graz. Elevate will visit and cooperate with c/o pop in April and TodaysArt in The Hague in September.

DISCOURSE

Lecture: Human Nature
Panel: Quo Vadis Humanity?
Workshop: brAIncandy: A warp drive through the world of creative AI
Panel: Machine Creativity
Panel: Music: A Universal Language of Humankind?
Performance: Moon Ribas - Cyborg Foundation

Panel: Using Blockchains to save the Commons
Panel: We are Nature Defending Itself
Panel: End Game against Climate Breakdown

2020 We Are Europe Pool Personalities/Speakers:
Vincent Moon (FR)
Jacob Sylvester Bilabel (DE)
Irina Nalis (AT)
Tamara Ehs (AT)

2019 We Are Europe Pool
Jovanka v. Wilsdorf (DE)
Xenia Ermoshina (RU)

MUSIC

Nuits Sonores:
Vincent Moon (FR) - Collabo w/ Hatis Noit & Short Film Screening
3Phaz (EG)
Bambounou (FR)
Sacha Mambo aka MZKBX (FR)
Casual Gabberz (FR) | Pool

CO-POP:
Booty Carrell (DE)
The International Nothing (DE)
Gudrun Gut Live (DE) | Pool
Kelly Lee Owens (UK)
Michael Rother Live (DE)

We Are Europe 2020 Pool:
Conny Frischauf (AT)
Alllone (AT)

We Are Europe 2019 Pool:
Dorian Concept (AT)

DISCOURSE

And the truth will set you free? - Srecko Horvat (HR)

Disinformation Refugees Welcome - Xenia Ermoshina (RU)

Die Daten, die ich Rief - Katharina Nocun (DE)

Leave it in the Ground - Co-Curated with the Insomnia Festival and the Unsound Festival

Facts vs. Fictions - Deena Abdelwahed (TN)

MUSIC

Bendik Giske (NO) - Co-Curated with the Insomnia Festival

Sunn O))) (US) - Co-Curated with the Insomnia Festival and the Unsound Festival

Puce Mary (DK) - Co-Curated with the Insomnia Festival

Robin Fox (AU) - Co-Curated with the Unsound Festival

Ewa Justka (PL) - Co-Curated with the Unsound Festival

Slikback (KE) - Co-Curated with the Unsound Festival

Astrid Sonne (DK) - Co-Curated with the Insomnia Festival

Deena Abdelwahed (TN) - We Are Europe Pool

Dorian Concept (AT) - We Are Europe Pool

Miss Red (IL) - We Are Europe Pool

Nazar (AO) - We Are Europe Pool

DISCOURSE

New Activists for European Culture - We Are Europe annual topic 2018

Risk: Art and Activism: Taking Matters Further - Co-curated with TodaysArt Festival

Changing the Narrative - Co-curated with Reworks Agora

MUSIC

Concerts at Mausoleum / Thursday  - Co-curated with Reworks Festival

A/V Concerts / Friday - Co-curated with TodaysArt Festival

Kasematten Stage / Saturday - Co-curated with Reworks Festival

DISCOURSE

From Smart Cities to a City of the Commons / with Sónar Festival

The Role of Culture in the City of Tomorrow / We Are Europe Annual Topic 2017

Nature for Sale? / with Insomnia Festival

MUSIC & ART

Opening Night at Dom im Berg - presented by Sónar Festival

Jenny Hval - Friday Night - presented by Insomnia

Paranoid London - Saturday Night - presented by Insomnia

TCF - Saturday Night - presented by Insomnia

DISCOURSE

Unchain My Art - co-curated by Resonate Festival

Fair Trade Music - co-curated by c/o Pop Festival

5 Years after the Arab Spring - co-curated by European Lab / Nuits Sonores

Cultural Entrepreneurship? - We Are Europe annual topic 2016

MUSIC/ART

Opening Night: Saul Williams + Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Stage presented by c/o Pop Festival

Mount Kimbie, LONE, DJ PayPal, DJ Earl - Friday Night  - presented by Resonate

DVS1, FunkinEven + ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - Saturday Night  - presented by Nuits Sonores