Spread around Europe, Freiraum member institutions organise local events addressing issues particular to their localities and audiences, while engaging with global audiences in the festival's live broadcast. Their contributions offer best-practice examples for community engagement and hands-on cultural action that aims to bring a lasting impact on societies, while taking into account that our world has become more digital and at the same time more local. Critical issues are addressed and explored, such as the performative and the political, digital politics, invisible infrastructures, politics of bodies and emotions, commons, remediation and the new digital public sphere.
Cities are listed in alphabetical order. All times are local times.
For the times of events live-streamed during the Festival's live broadcast, please check the programme.
Athens19/11, 15.00-18.45
Deree, 6 Gravias Str., Agia Paraskevi, 15342 |
FREIRAUM FESTIVAL BROADCAST & WORKSHOPOrganised by Deree - the American College of Greece
The Visual Arts program of Deree - ACG is participating in this year’s edition of Freiraum by organising an event on Friday, November 19th in the NPS painting studio on campus. The event will feature the live broadcast of the Freiraum online programme for instructors and students. Discussions will be initiated on the topics of the panels. Τhe issues raised through the different panels will also be used as educational material for a number of courses, currently taught through the four-year program. |
Basel20/11
Live-streamed from Basel during the festival’s online broadcast |
ON THE COTTON ROAD AGAINOrganised by Hyperwerk Lab on Process and Experimental Design
A short discussion on creating communities through culture and creativity, in the context of Chemnitz Cultural Capital of Europe 2025. |
Belgrade19/11
Live-streamed from Belgrade during the festival’s online broadcast 
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SCHOOLLABORATORY, artistic documentary by Miloš TomićOrganised by Škograd Škogled and Schoolartcity
By play we explore, practice and conquer freedom. With children in Belgrade's deprived neighbourhood Ledine, the Škograd team creates spaces of freedom by creating spaces of play. We ask a simple question: what would democracy look like if children would define it by their play? I Imagine. I dream. I remember. It is the play that made us come together. We created playscapes for flying, sleeping, whispering but also screaming. Schoollaboratory documents the summer school organised by Škograd in July 2021. Photo: Dijana Konjuhovac |
Berlin20/11
Live-streamed during the festival's live broadcast |
DISCUSSION ON ART IN THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE
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Brussels19/11
Live-streamed from Brussles during the festival's live broadcast 
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ESPACE FXMME: TALK WITH THE WALLS
Workshop and spatial intervention
Organised by Globe Aroma and Goethe-Institut Brüssel ESPACE FXMME - WOMXN SPACE, created shortly before the pandemic, is a time-based space that takes place every Thursday at Globe Aroma Art House. It is a platform for female/non-binary artists and creatives to establish a safer space in an environment previously dominated by male presence. In the last year, Espace Fxmme has been developing the TALK WITH THE WALLS trajectory, as a reflection, design exercise and action on how space best reflects Globe Aroma’s values (intersectionality, solidarity, participation, creativity, inclusion, care). From February to July 2021, Espace Fxmme participants collaborated on the design and construction of a multi-use modular furniture and a mural, based on the personal empowering stories of the wxmen who came to the weekly meetings. Since October, Espace Fxmme has been working on the last iteration of the trajectory, based on different techniques and cultures of textile design (weaving, batik, embroidery and more), aiming to create softer vessels of hospitality for the whole community. During the Freiraum Festival live broadcast, participants of Espace Fxmme share observations and snippets of their experience from the overall trajectory, reflecting on the fragile balance of what it means to be free, safe or included. Photos: Elli Vassalou |
Copenhagen20/11
Presented during the festival's live broadcast |
COPENHAGEN ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
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Dublin19/11
Live-streamed from Dublin during the festival's live broadcast 
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REFORMING OUR FREEDOM: EXPRESSIONS OF YOUTH VOICE FOR OUR COVID-19 ERAPodcast and discussion, live-streamed from Dublin during the Festival
Organised by Trinity Access in Trinity College, University of Dublin The world has re-opened, right? We’re able to do anything now, yes? We can go anywhere! Wait - but was this ever possible before? Maybe but not really for Gen Z! Our podcast explores youth participation and reformed ideas of freedom as we transition from the COVID-crises to our COVID-era. Daniel McFarlane from Trinity Access in Trinity College Dublin is joined by two student participants, Dove Curpen and Reece Sheridan as they discuss their paths through education, their access to freedom spaces and the limits COVID-19 placed on such pathways. This discussion also includes the influence COVID-19 had on their involvement in art and political spaces and how we all have a part to play in this brave new world. This podcast focuses on re-formations of freedom and the bifurcation of youth participation in social and global democracies while Generation Z come of age via social media as they contend with issues such as Black Lives Matter, political upheaval and the looming climate crisis. Please join us for our two-part podcast as we place students and youth-voice at the centre of our Freiraum platform. Dove Curpen Dove recently graduated from Law in Trinity College and is an aspiring barrister. On the side, she writes poetry and plays, one of which was published in The Irish Times and produced in The Abbey. Dove says she “was born in Mauritius but bred and buttered in Ireland” and considers Dublin her home after living here for 15 years. She is a Trinity Access student and is passionate about access to education for under-represented groups at third level. She is especially interested in representation of minority groups in the arts. During the pandemic, Dove taught herself how to cycle, swim and bake banana bread! Reece Sheridan Reece Sheridan (natively Rhys Ó Seireadáin) is a third-year student of European Studies at Trinity College Dublin with a wide range of expertise and experience in arts, education and social justice. At twenty years of age, Reece has achieved an impressive portfolio of expertise and experience across various sectors such as civic and social groups, non-governmental organisations and public sector bodies. At the time of recording, Reece studies abroad as part of the Erasmus+ programme at Sciences Po Paris – the most prestigious university for politics and international relations in Europe. As a result of his academic and cultural activities, he was selected to undertake a nine-month residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris – the flagship cultural centre for Ireland on the continent. Driven by progressive values such as inclusivity and innovation, Reece would like to pursue a career in politics and society with a special focus on arts, culture and heritage. Podcast producer and editor: Daniel McFarlane |
Ljubljana19/11
Discussion with the director, live-streamed from Dublin during the festival's live broadcast 
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THE GAME
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Nicosia18/11, 20:00-21:30ARTos House
64 Ay. Omoloyites Avenue, 1080 And live-streamed as pre-event of the festival broadcast 
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MOVING SILENCEFilm and music event
Organised by ARTos House Moving Silence is a platform which creates collaboration opportunities for musicians, composers and filmmakers, and gathers musicians and composers to perform live soundtracks for silent video and film works by contemporary creators of their choice. In the context of the Freiraum Festival, ARTos House presents an evening dedicated to contemporary "silent" moving images and live experimental sounds. The event is hosted at ARTos House and also live-streamed as a pre-event of the festival online broadcast. |
Prague20/11, 13:00-14:30
Online discussion 
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NEW TRENDS IN YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAK REPUBLICOrganised by Decision 21
This online discussion examines the new trends in youth participation in the Czech Republic and abroad. The focus is on the question of how the pandemic has contributed to the utilisation of online and digital technologies to encourage youth involvement in the decision-making processes that directly concern them. Speakers Dominika Bellová works at the Office of the Plenipotentiary for the Development of the Civil Society, which falls under the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic. In the national project PARTICIPÁCIA, she is responsible for the introduction of participatory budgets in the school environment. Dominika was also researching the process of introducing participatory budgets in the local government area. Petr Franc is a former project manager of participatory budgeting at the city of Kutná Hora, the honorary president of its municipal student committee, and an elected representative of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions. Helga Hrabincová is the manager of school participation at Decision 21 and the author of School participatory budgeting app (Pébéčko) that has been utilised to involve over 20,000 pupils and students from the Czech Republic and Slovakia in decision making processes. Tomáš Rákos is the co-founder of Participation Factory and a leading participation expert with experience working on projects in countries such as the US, the UK, France, Tunisia, Colombia, India, Zambia, or the Czech Republic. |
Regensburg20/11, 19:30
Live-streamd from Junges Theater during the festival's live broadcast 
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TIME.PLAYS: MARIA MILISAVLJEVIĆMaria Milisavljević, author, in conversation with Laura Mangels, dramaturg
Organised by Theatre Regensburg Theater Regensburg opens its new series "Zeit.Stücke" (Time.Plays) with an interactive conversation with in-house author Maria Milisavljević, who recently opened the theatre season with her work "Peer Gynt (she/her)" after Henrik Ibsen. What topics does she pursue as an author and what role would she like to take on in a production? Between art and care work, we talk about newly established writers’ solidarity networks and the question of what it means to write for theatre - today, in Europe and beyond. About Maria Milisavljević Maria Milisavljević was born in Arnsberg in 1982. After studying English Literature and Cultural Studies and Art History, she worked as a director at theatres in Germany and in London and wrote her PHD on the London Royal Court Theatre. She lived in Toronto, Canada from 2013 to 2015, where she worked as dramaturg and director at the Tarragon Theatre, where she was also International Playwright-in-Residence in 2013/14. She won the Kleist Young Authors’ Prize for her play Brandung in 2013. Her play Beben was nominated for the Mülheim Playwright's Prize 2018, and it won the Author’s Prize of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2017, as well as the Else Lasker-Schüler Playwriting Prize 2017. Alongside her work as an author, Milisavljević also works as a translator. She lives in Berlin. Photocredit Maria Milisavljević: Jochen Quast Photocredit Theatre am Bismarckplatz: Stefan Effenhauser |
Smolyan20/11, 19:30
Аtelieto, ul. "Tsar Samuil" 50, 1000 Sofia Center, Sofia Εntrance free Language: Bulgarian and English 
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PIANOCEAN - UNDER THE WESTERN SKYFilm screening and discussion with the directors
Organised by Rhodope International Documentary Film Festival This is the story of a 50kg bird, a dark-haired, green-eyed girl. A pianist, singer, composer, sailor… a bird you don't mess with! It's the story of a piano, a boat, and a mildly crazy dream which tenacity and hope allowed to exist. Pianocean is a cry from the heart that tells us that it is possible to make our dreams come true, despite the crowds that yell at you to give up on these childish things and stop dreaming, to take life seriously, and yet… yet, starting from a dream in your head, created by the verses of a drunken boat and the legend of the ocean pianist, when one is only just 18, until its final realisation, whatever the cost. To face up to doubts and struggles and to welcome with open arms and to never, never give up, give yourself body and soul and fulfil your dreams, that is "to take life seriously". France, 2020, 40’ Writer: Anne-Lise LePellec Directors: Pierrick & Anne-Lise LePellec DOP: Pierrick Le Pellec Editor: Pierrick Anne-Lise le Pellec and Vincent Prête Discussion: Katerina Lambrinova and Hristo Bakalski (live presentation), Pierrick and Anne-Lise LePellec (video presentation). About Anne-Lise and Pierrick LePellect After studying philosophy in the south of France, Anne Lise starts traveling on her own for about ten years around the world with a simple camera and a notebook. Year after year, she built her own personal and poetic geography made of images and words. In 2013, she helped her best friend, Marieke, the captain and pianist of Pianocean project in her task. Since then, she has been the reporter of this incredible project, which sails around the world with a piano on board. She is also a Radiophonic podcaster and a puppeteer in an Occitan (south of France culture) musical project. After a master’s degree in Sociology, Pierrrick starts traveling around the world for several years. In 2012 he moves to Germany to study cinematography and documentary. Since then, he has worked for the Bavarian television, creating artistic documentaries. In 2019, he spends two months filming the Pianocean project. |
StrasbourgWorkshop Songs and Musics of Here and Elsewhere, 19/11, 17.30
Médiathèque Cronenbourg Strasbourg A message for Europe: learn to play together, learn to live together presented during the Freiraum Festival live broadcast (19/11) |
Songs and Musics of Here and Elsewhere (music workshop)
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Thessaloniki19-20/11
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COMMON LAB: STATE OF THE ARTS, TALE OF X CITIES, MOBILE STUDIOIn collaboration with project Common Lab and 24 Institutions from Northern Greece
The Freiraum Festival’s live broadcast is hosted by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and ArtBOX in the context of their project Common Lab, realised in collaboration with TIF-Helexpo. Common Lab aims to create a manual for social innovation through art and includes two sub-projects, State of the Arts and Tale of X Cities. State of the Arts looks into the current challenges the art world is facing, in relation to the production, circulation and reception of the art work. Tale of X Cities looks into ways of developing communities through art as a way to empower both cultural institutions and citizens through participation and creativity. Tale of X Cities was launched last March and is realised in 12 cities across Northern Greece, in collaboration with 25 institutions, and with the participation of more than 100 participants from the area. Moreover, Common Lab investigates the opportunities offered by technology to connect and communicate beyond standard teleconference applications, providing the mobile studio thanks to which the Freiraum Festival’s online broadcast takes place. The studio is set within the Freiraum mobile stage -a light installation/tool that activates (public) spaces and communities, providing a common ground -a safe space- for participatory performative and collective actions. |
Torino21/11, 21:00
Teatro San Pietro in Vincoli Turin 
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GLOVELive performance of Glove and debate between youngsters from different youth organisations
Event organised by Associazione Arteria with the support of the Municipality of Turin Glove produced by Il Mutamento Born from the local work with young second generation migrants of the Aurora zone in north Turin, Glove is a deviation, another way of seeing the world. Precisely, Glovo becomes Glove. Idris is a young second generation migrant, wears a large backpack on his shoulders and rides to deliver orders. The scene takes place in a Turin of markets, the one from Porta Palazzo, with its products, its ethnicities, its languages. And also in the neighbouring area, the Balon and old suk (now moved), the old stuff, the new stuff, everything a bit vintage. The look of the old southerners at the migrants, the same one that Piedmontese addressed to them fifty years ago. The look of the piazza, the remains of a market that was cleaner, but doesn't renounce its historical characters: from drug users to gypsies, Porta Palazzo is like a port. Glove gathers testimonies from "Il Signor Gesù sta arrivando", Max Liotta's first play about Porta Palazzo. On stage: Max Liotta (main actor) and Marco Piccirillo (double bass player and sound designer) Director: Giuseppe BIsceglia |
