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“Feria de Fronteras” is a party at the border.

It is a crossroad between cultures and people, where we meet and share, inquire and offer answers about physical borders and borders unseen. “Feria de Fronteras” is a platform for artists coming from different disciplines and cultural workers who will jointly perform creating a creative space for presenting, questioning and erasing borders between people and cultures. “Feria de Fronteras” invites Europeans, and also those who will soon become Europeans to think about the impact of borders in their own lives.

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“Feria de Fronteras” has 4 corners and each represent organizations from Belgium, France, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. From each corner different activities will be created and creatively connected. In order to ensure that borders are revealed “Feria de Fronteras” will offer a set of solutions and views on borders while at the same time celebrating the potential of individuals, citizens, and artists to be actors of change through a multicultural band “Tijuana Tango”, visual art exhibition "High-Wire Act", photo exhibition "Break-on-Through" and a documentary film "Borders".

Project will last from May 2011 to April 2013

The four corners are 4 cultural partners coming from Belgium, France, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Belgium

Via Lactea is an organization that promotes “cross-border culture” in Europe. The organization was founded in 2001 and is based in Belgium, but the concrete activities of Via Lactea are developed in different European countries as well as in Balkan countries. Via Lactea is working in the cultural field, setting up concrete projects with artists in the field of “alternative world music”. We would like to convince people to cross borders and experience other cultures and to examine specific regions in Europe. Via Lactea is managing artists such as the French-Belgian “Orchestre International du Vetex” and the Spanish singer “Amparo Sanchez”. Since 2007 Via Lactea has also been coordinating the Interreg IV-project “Vis-a-Vis” which aims to stimulate the social employment in the French-Belgian cultural sector and to promote popular and festive music in both countries.

France

Culture et Flonflons Flandres is a French association located in Lille, North of France. We are specializing in the organization of cultural events, in production of musical bands. Culture et Flonflons Flandres realizes every year in May an international accordion festival called “Wazemmes l'Accordéon”, which celebrated in 2011 his 13th rendez-vous. Moreover, Culture et Flonflons Flandres is part of the culture transborder network “Vis-à-Vis” with Via Lactea, supported by the Interreg IV program. Culture et Flonflons Flandres has works with partners in Poland (Krakow, teatr KTO), Vietnam (Hanoï, Vietnam National Academy of Music), Canada (Montmagny Accordion Festival).

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Association for Culture and Art CRVENA (meaning “red”) is a community of unique individuals gathered around the idea that art and culture provide an open platform for social change. Our mandate is to act as transformers and mind triggers and to offer different and more critical ideas on the world around us and the world in which we wish to live in. We will act with full responsibility towards our constituencies and share the words of unity, solidarity, freedom, feminism, ecology, human rights, contemporary culture and arts.

Serbia

Etnofest – World Culture Association from Palić, Serbia is a cultural operator which is permanently working on the development of intercultural dialogue, and the promotion of contemporary cultural expressions which present the elements of local, regional and global intangible cultural heritage. Activities conducted by Etnofest gather representatives of different generations, and mostly refer to organization of separate or integrated events such concerts, exhibitions or workshops are. Two of most prominent associations events are:
1.“Etnofest - World Culture” festival which is being organized since 2004 during the month of June just next to the Lake Palić and in Subotica, and is dominantly dealing with current and up-to-date world music trends, and
2.“Jazziré” – the contemporary November jazz festival which gathers eminent artists of new, experimental and progressive musical genres.

ART RE-ACTION

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“Tijuana Tango” band

“Tijuana Tango”?! Tijuana or Tango? Tequila or Rumba? What is this about? It’s quiet simple. The musical project “Tijuana Tango” brings together different musicians, from different countries, with different musical backgrounds. A wide variety of musical styles and songs come together, from sevdah or flamenco, passing by tarantelle or rumba, up to cumbia or fado. Old songs and new songs. “Tijuana Tango” is a musical invitation for people to think about borders and differences. Or so called borders and differences...

Jelena Milušić, Bosnia Herzegovina/Germany (vocals), Nathan Daems, Belgium (saxophone, clarinet), Filip Vandebril, Belgium (double bass), Sebastian Wiesner, Germany (percussion) and Thomas Morzewski, France (piano, trumpet).

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Exhibition “High-Wire Act”

The exhibition will focus on the following statement “Within and on the outside we vote for other manners and actions - for overnight shift of ratio-patriarchal capitalism to temporary feminist and experience based socialism, consumerism to modesty, repressed regulated individual to affirmative self-sustained social being, direction sign-marks instead of borders.”

It will gather various visual artists in one exhibition that will have different versions according to the country and the place where it will be presented. Each version of the exhibition will be adjusted for the context specifics like geographical place, exhibition space, lead event, etc. The adjustments will be made on at least two levels: selection and number of local artists which will result also in the so called message of the exhibition.

Photo exhibition “Break-on-Through”

The photo exhibition will invite young photographers to share their ideas on cultural identity inside New Europe and across existing or non-existing borders. Photography as a perfect creative tool would invite people to think about those European regions they are less familiar with, in order to encourage openness toward differences and to reduce existing prejudices.

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Documentary film “Borders”

A result of the two year long collaboration between documentary filmmakers, journalists, musicians, artists and cultural workers will be presented in a documentary film about “Borders”. Following activities and different steps of the project, documentary will not only show the making-of the “Feria de Fronteras”, but also to enable wider European and Balkan public to inquire, reflect and contemplate on physical, mental, geographical and other borders. Documentary film will be presented on different regional TV-stations.

Serbie avec Claude et Dejan au dessus de la Tara par Leteux

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Feria de fronteras - third meeting - Sarajevo - juillet 2011

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