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Join a unique project of young journalists!
On www.we-swarm.org young journalists from all over Europe are looking for the people that shape the communities of today. We share our stories about outstanding initiatives, unusual forms of community, new ways of engagement with society and all the awesome people that take our world by its roots.
Everyone can join in -
and everyone is invited to invite others.
We are experts on community, because we live them.
Ask your granny, your neighbors, your friends!
Everyone has a story to tell.
www.we-swarm.org is part of the European festival for theater and performance >>transeuropa2012, which takes place in Hildesheim, Germany, in 2012.
Young and amazing artists from the borders of Europe will come together with Germans to try out new working methods, discuss in experimental formats and celebrate the exchange among European citizens.
Speak up. You are very important!
about transeuropa2012
Something has changed. Instead of large constants we organize ourselves in flexible networks from which our temporary relations evolve. We leave the big utopias behind and replace eternal loyalty by sequential monogamy.
We are the independent inventors of our authentic personality which becomes a staged trademark in the working sphere. Always on- and offline at the same time one cultivates its relations treasure and weaves its network. Nothing lasts forever and that’s the way we like it.
The urge of the isolated ones to meet again turns public events into places of temporary collectivization. We long for the feeling of being connected to a greater whole; but without obligations, please! We prefer to stay independent.
In theatre we also demand to dissolve the gap between spectator rows and the stage for a tiny moment of fusion. In the theatre, which we will show, rituals of community are reactivated, reinvented and playfully experimented with. The postmodern individual is being seduced to join a community for a given time and to question its own behaviour. After all, to be secluded but together can be done most beautifully in theatre. Or in Europe.
In the crisis of the monetary union it becomes apparent that Europe is a federation of states without citizens and with a ruined image. A European public sphere with transnational discourses and media, where we could communicate about common dreams, is missing. Who actually lives in the states, which do not belong to core Europe?
Let us interlace into all directions with transeuropa2012 and create ourselves a festival full of encounters. We celebrate the exchange, the temporary community and us. We play with rituals and reinvent them. We design an experimental ground for temporary communities and leave gaps, in which the community becomes active. In constantly new constellations the festival establishes exceptional circumstances in which communities invent themselves and create the unexpected.
Dieses Projekt wurde mit Unterstützung der Europäischen Union durch das Programm JUGEND IN AKTION finanziert. Der Inhalt dieses Projektes gibt nicht notwendigerweise den Standpunkt der Europäischen Union oder der Nationalagentur JUGEND für Europa wieder und sie übernehmen dafür keine Haftung.
