Projects | YEAD Festival – Youthquake for culture

July 2019, Brussels, Belgium |
A Youthquake for Culture: Young Europeans filming Cultural Democracy

Final event of the project, this festival is meant to open up the ongoing questionings of YEAD to a wider European audience while tackling the issue of “Cultural Democracy”.
For 12 days, 66 youngsters coming from 11 countries, will explore and question how the principles of “Cultural Democracy” are at work in a set of European cultural institutions and suggest their ideas/recommendations/understandings to concretely develop audiences among their peers.
They will explore it through a filmmaking process, benefiting from the mentoring of the group leaders and Belgian professional filmmakers and editors.

Six organizations from Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, and The Netherlands, all working on social and cultural issues, brought together their experiences, networks, and skills to give young Europeans a chance to question their interaction with culture. From 2015 to 2019, young people 18 to 25 from underprivileged backgrounds will examine the ways in which they feel included, recognized, or rejected by certain cultural institutions.

YEAD’s goal is to encourage these young people to play an active part in European culture — as spectators, by developing their appetite for culture, but also as creators, by producing art pieces themselves. Our six associations strongly believe that the hands-on experience of artistic practices is a tool for social inclusion that helps explore self-knowledge and strengthens willpower.