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Trans Europe Halles – European network of independent cultural centres www.teh.net Mission Statement "Trans Europe Halles is a network of independent cultural centres offering a dynamic forum for ideas, collaborations, and mutual support in the pursuit of intercultural exchange, understanding and artistic freedom".
Trans Europe Halles is a European network of independent cultural centres. The network was founded in Brussels in 1983 by five cultural centres and today the network brings together more than fifty multidisciplinary and socially engaged member centres throughout Europe. Most centres are located in buildings from industrial heritage and have taken important action in challenging the established cultural policy. Some of the member centres are more or less run by volunteers and with only small subsidies from the city or the state, whereas others are quite big cultural institutions with even 100 people or more employed. Some are situated in the countryside, be it in a village north of Rome or in the Rhodopi mountains in Bulgaria, whereas others are in the city centres of the European capitals. Even though the centres work under quite different conditions, they all share some important features: • they are all multidisciplinary working with different art forms • they are all independent and not-‐for-‐profit centres initiated by grass roots • with the exception of two centres, all members have an industrial background such as dairies, slaughterhouses, warehouses, ships or trains. The network serves first and foremost as a meeting place and a forum. The network is a source of inspiration and exchange of experiences for the members and a birthplace for new collaborations. A lot of time and energy are therefore invested into making the two annual meetings hosted by different members as vibrant and dynamic as possible. Every meeting offers a guided tour of the centre, artistic performances, a project fair where members can develop joint projects, a training day with workshops and seminars as well as time for informal networking. Each meeting has an overarching theme; be it around governance, funding models, sustainability, new technology or about community arts as in the upcoming meeting in Bordeaux 27-‐30th of October 2011. Besides organising the meetings, TEH recently started a big European project called Engine Room Europe. The aim of this three-‐year project is to support the independent cultural sector with capacity building in various forms: staff exchange, seminars, artistic projects, leadership training, residency programs etc. It is TEH together with 11 other member centres in Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, France, Latvia and Germany that are organising the project open to all members of the network. The network is managed by the TEH Coordination Office situated at the member centre Mejeriet in Lund, Sweden. The staff consists of a Secretary General, and a part-‐time communication manager, office manager and project manager. The office produces a monthly newsletter and is in charge of all internal and external communication of the network as well as organising the meetings and managing the network projects.
“Independent culture is the research and development engine of European civic life and this project, Engine Room Europe, will contribute to its sustainability and vibrancy into the future.”