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Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.

After 19 years, Baltic Circle Theatre Festival continues to be a meeting place for theatre professionals still, as well as a showcase for contemporary trends. The festival questions what theatre is and what it could be, and this year it has seen a wide international representation.

The Film Festival week has been running for 13 years and is a chance to change the narrative after the war in Yugoslavia.
It has brought not only festivals but also rock music concerts to Vukovar, Crotia and attracts international visitors.

Frie Leysen and Dieter Kosslick were selected by an international jury and will receive recognition for their careers as festival directors at the EFFE Awards Salon on 26 September in BOZAR, Brussels.

Poland's largest international literary event, Conrad Festival, this year chooses 'realities' as its theme and focuses on contemporary literature.

Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival is bringing chamber music concerts during July in the idyllic setting of the lake and unbelievable northern lights.

Afropolitan looks each year to a different pair of African arts practitioners already operating in Brussels who are familiar to the diaspora audience.

BBC Proms, the 125 years old famous classical music festival, keeps bringing new composers and maintains its quality & wide audience.

Karina Canellakis becomes the first woman to conduct the First Night.

Every year Highfest brings together Europe's most daring programmes of contemporary dance and radical performances in Yerevan.

Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.

For a week in May Prague is host to the sights and sounds of Roma culture. An event that started small 21 years ago has become, it claims, Europe's largest gathering of the Roma arts in all their vibrancy, both traditional and contemporary.

Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.