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Banlieues d’Europe (European Suburbs)

Banlieues d’Europe

271, rue Vendôme - 69003 Lyon
banlieues.deurope@wanadoo.fr
France
Phone : +33 4 72 60 97 80
Fax : +33 4 78 95 28 15

http://www.banlieues-europe.com/

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[en]Non-profit association[fr]association à but non lucratif

History

  • A resource centre of cultural and artistic innovation in Europe, Banlieues d’Europe brings together 300 international active partners and 3000 contacts in Europe.
  • The network is constituted of cultural actors, artists, militants, social workers, local councillors and researchers.

Organisation/collective objectives

  • Exchange practices and information
  • Respond to isolation
  • Valorise cultural action projects in deprived neighbourhoods with excluded communities.

Main activities

  • Every year, Banlieues d’Europe organises the Annual Meeting of the network in a different European town (Brussels, Glasgow, Belfast, Antwerp, Munich, Lyon…). Acting as a European exchange platform, the network meetings enable professionals from the cultural, town policies, social work, town development and research sectors to meet together and to reflect in depth on the problems linked to their practices.
  • The network also organises seminars on themes such as: - New Urban Festivals; The Relationship Between Cultural Venues and Inhabitants in a Given Territory; Hip Hop Dance, History and Perspectives; The Inter-Cultural Dialogue in Actions in the Euro-Mediterranean Space.
  • Since 2008, on the last Monday of each month, Banlieues d’Europe invites a European partner to its headquarters in Lyon for a meeting/debate with actors from the region, followed by a convivial moment: urban renewal, memory and immigration.
  • Banlieues d’Europe participates in different research projects at European level. The network supports the identification of practices in European cultural institutions and artists, and provides an interface with university research. Banlieues d’Europe is also solicited for expertise in Europe: - Urbact programmes, DG Education-Culture, DG Social Affairs.
  • Training courses offered by Banlieues d’Europe are aimed at professionals in the social and cultural sector, enabling them to acquire the necessary tools for cultural and inter-cultural mediation through different theoretical bases and practices. The courses alternate between university researchers, field actors, and public policy officials, chosen at European level.
  • Through its new Resource Centre in Lyon, Banlieues d’Europe welcomes cultural actors and enables co-operation at European level for the setting up of innovative projects implicating inhabitants. The network also replies to requests for exchange propositions at European level.
  • Banlieues d’Europe supports the development and the activities of the antenna of the network in Romania.

Strong points

  • Linking artistic innovation and social - political utility.
  • Being present on the poorest areas of european cities.
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