A discussion about club culture as an act of resistance, between Laurent Garnier and the co-founder of Tbilisi-based club Bassiani, Zviad Gelbakhiani.
At the heart of the dancefloors of the world, the capacity of bodies to connect us through movements, contacts, co-presence and the way in which they allow some to claim their identities or their fights make them tools of individual and collective emancipation.
A discussion which took place at Unsound festival exploring the conditions of working as a black person in the music industry, diving into challenges and how things need to change for black people to survive and flourish.
For its online 2020 edition, Sónar+D looked at "hyper-local scene" through the lens of artists and actors who are shaping these cities.
Ksenia Ermoshina is an Internet freedom activist and researcher. We met with her ahead of Elevate Festival 2020 for a conversation around present and upcoming political, cultural and technological struggles.
Their voices and narratives are shaping the future of Europe: in this episode, we meet with journalist, editor and digital strategy consultant Despina Trivolis.
Irina Nalis is a psychologist, cyclist, reader and techno veteran. We met with her ahead of Elevate Festival 2020 for a conversation around the festival's main theme, "Human Nature".
Their voices and narratives are shaping the future of Europe: in this episode, we meet with photographer, filmmaker and anthropologist Stratis Vogiatzis.
We are embarking on the next phase of our project, with the launch of a new website and media platform. Aimed at reporting throughout the year on the cultural transformations shaping the Europe of tomorrow, it will feature stories from all over the continent, as told by the very people driving these changes.
We are Europe is launching a new series of articles to showcase and support European nightclubs. The nightlife sector is just one of those that has been hugely impacted by the pandemic, which is why we wish to show our support for all the people and teams behind these essential cultural venues. To launch the series, we caught up with Vidmantas Čepkauskas from Opium, the iconic club in Vilnius. As the club’s artistic director, Vidmantas shares his vision for the political role occupied by the club scene.