History

We are Europe has emerged in 2015 through a Creative Europe cooperation between 8 festivals across Europe, and was led by French non-profit organisation Arty Farty. Originally designed to enhance co-curation activities notably in terms of festival programming, the cooperation evolved with the creation of a media platform in order to put the spotlight on inspiring change makers, who are shaping the future of European culture.

While the cooperation ended in 2022, Arty Farty keeps using We are Europe as a media platform able to formulate and advance a new vision of culture in Europe, based on the contemporary challenges that we are all facing: independence, inclusion and diversity, youth and transmission, resources and financing, as well as sustainability.

Why We are Europe?

We are Europe was created out of a will to formulate and advance a new vision of Europe, powered by its activists, change makers, artists and citizens. In just over five years, the events we have organised around the continent and further afield have enabled hundreds of people to meet, share ideas and collectively rethink our present and future.

Considering that as cultural players we must address and respond to these changes, We are Europe claims to be the European content aggregation media, powered by European cooperations, platforms, networks, and by their contributors.

Dwelling on the lack of common channels to exchange and share our concerns, We are Europe is designed as a convergence space for collective advocacy for the European independent cultural and media projects.

What we do?

As a European digital media aggregation platform, we aim at creating a new space to share the cultural transformations that are shaping the Europe of tomorrow. This platform features written, talked or visual stories throughout the year, from all over the continent, and from different European projects, as told by the very people who are driving change in all areas of society.