Balkan Trafik

The festival welcomes over 6000 visitors every year. The programme covers many artistic genres, including local traditions, contemporary brass bands, rock & jazz, film & theatre, workshops & debates, wine & gastronomy. Each year more than 100 artists gather from Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Slovenia but also France, the Netherlands and Belgium. The diversity of the Balkans is at its best at the heart of Brussels, the European capital. And Namur, the capital of Wallonia.Genres: Dance - Film - Heritage - Inter/multidisciplinary - Literature - Music - Photography - Theatre - Visual arts. Additional Activities: Conferences - Exhibitions - Lectures - Master classes - Round tables

From its beginning in 2007, the aim of the Balkan Trafik festival has always been to increase the public understanding of the Balkans by stimulating an informed public debate and to familiarise people in EU member states with the contemporary reality of the Balkan countries. Culture in its broadest sense (mainly through music, dance, cinema and educational workshops) has been the means to pursue these goals. In this framework, each year Balkan Trafik has produced two to three artistic residences, between artists from South East Europe, the Balkan diaspora in Belgium and artists from Western Europe in order to create concerts and productions which have taken place for the first time on one of our festival stages