LOVE DIFFERENCE FESTIVAL COMES TO NORTHAMPTON
LoveDifference Festival forms a part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue organised by a group of artists, writers and activists called European Alternatives European Alternatives is committed to a Europe of cultural inclusion and innovation hosting events in the UK as well as events and campaigns throughout the continent.
The event, taking place on the 20th September at the Fishmarket Gallery, will involve political and cultural discussions, poetry readings, film and video during the day and a free concert in the evening featuring the intercultural line-up of Budapest’s eastern folk electronic cut n paste outfit The DJ Bootsie Quartet and hot London electronica sensation Christopher D Ashley.
LoveDifference Festival promotes the exchange of cultures and interest in Eastern and Central European cultures which have recently arrived so markedly in the Northampton region. With a political as well as cultural edge, the LoveDifference Festival is a long overdue, updated take on an old-fashioned debate to promote a new European ideal of culture, travel, youth and exchange. It pulls European discussion away from the grey corridors of Brussels into exciting fresh and young venues such as The Fishmarket Gallery in Northampton.
In the firm belief that cultural diversity is something to be celebrated and cherished, LoveDifference Festival aims to promote the benefits and inspirations that a diverse and unique community can have. Creating a stepping-stone for UK understanding of European cultures and arts, food and lifestyles LoveDifference Festival is at the forefront of understanding across borders and The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
Other local civil society members active in promoting cultural exchange are being invited to represent themselves at stalls, and several national organisations such as the cultural institutes of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic are involved in the project. The Festival also has the support of the European Commission Representation in the UK.
Agenda:
12:00 – onwards: Throughout the day video art by acclaimed French-Hungarian video artist Judit Kurtag will be screened in The Fishmarket Gallery
12:30 – Discussion, topic ‘Migration, Immigration and Equal Rights in the European Union’ featuring Annie Bruzzone from the Policy Network thinktank, Judit Kurtag, and the Northampton representative of the GNB trade union
3pm – Poetry Readings and Discussions:
Featuring readings by East Anglian-based, Hungarian poet George Szirtes to be followed by a Q&A and discussion with Warsaw-based international curator Kuba Szreder.
4pm – Short Film Screening:
In partnership with local film festival, The International Community Film Festival, LoveDifference is delighted to be screening ‘The Migrators’, a short film about migrant communities in different EU countries.
4:30pm – Occident Film Screening (At the Arena Cinema)
Only a few minutes from The Fishmarket Gallery the Arena Cinema will be screening 2007 Palme d’Or winning director Christian Mungiu’s early work ‘Occident’. The Arena is part of The University of Northampton.
8pm – midnight – Party
LoveDifference Northampton’s exciting crescendo is a celebration of our cultural diversity through music, featuring Budapest’s eastern folk electronic cut n paste outfit The DJ Bootsie Quartet, playing alongside the UK’s Christopher D Ashley, who will be entrancing the crowd with his unique brand of dark, broody and melodic electronica.
SATURDAY 20th SEPTEMBER 2008
THE FISHMARKET GALLERY
BRADSHAW ST
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 2HL
Entry to the event is free
www.festivalofeurope.eu
www.fishmarketgallery.co.uk
Above - Still from Polyglotte grace a Babel (2002) by Judit Kurtag
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