Trans Europe Halles

Please welcome a new TEH Full Member: Carpintarias de São Lázaro 🌞

During the General Assembly at the Conference in Marseille in April, our network voted in a new group of members to join Trans Europe Halles network. Today, we will introduce you to another one of them! 👇

Carpintarias de São Lázaro is an independent contemporary cultural centre in the heart ❤️ of Lisbon, in a historic area with a vibrant multicultural community.

From visual arts to music, performing arts, cinema, debate and gastronomy, the centre aims to give the city a space that complements the existing cultural offering, through an ambitious and avant-garde approach, where creativity, innovation and multidisciplinary intersection create opportunities for bringing together people, communities and knowledge. 🫶

How do they feel about joining ?

💬 “TEH feels like a group of friends you’ve had and known for a long time, that you’ve been collaborating with, and have shared stories and adventures from the past. Except that we’ve only just met, and in fact the friendships and collaborations have only just started. Thanks for welcoming us into the network!”

Warm welcome from the whole TEH community indeed! 🫂

🔗 Read more about our new members through a link in the comments!

📸 Carpintarias de São Lázaro team

Say hello to our new TEH Full Member: AKC Attack! 🔥

In April, during Conference in Marseille, our network welcomed a new group of members to join Trans Europe Halles network. Today, we will introduce one of them! 👇

Distributing quality punk, rock, rave, dub, arts and education since 1997 🤘, Autonomous Cultural Centre Attack (AKC Attack) is a grassroots cultural organisation based in Zagreb, Croatia. 🇭🇷

Established by members of the Zagreb Anarchist Movement and the Anti-War Campaign Croatia, Attack has grown into one of the country's most important hubs of independent culture.

Today, Attack operates within the former Medika factory complex 🏭, a 900 square meter space transformed in 2007.

Attack supports and develops the independent cultural scene with a particular focus on young people, emerging artists, and socially engaged cultural practices by programming concerts and events within the independent and DIY music scene, performing, visual and experimental arts, film screenings and production, festivals, artist residencies, as well as a wide range of educational, participatory and discursive programmes.

How do they feel about joining ?

💬 “We joined the network because it brings together organisations that share values close to our own. For us, being part of this community means having the opportunity to learn from colleagues across Europe, exchange experiences and good practices, and build new partnerships and collaborations. We look forward to contributing our knowledge while exploring the many new opportunities that emerge through a strong and supportive international network.”

Warm welcome from the whole TEH community! 🫂

🔗 Read more about our new members through a link in the comments.

📸 AKC Attack team

Are you ready for GRINTA? 🦷

If you answered yes, wait no more!

Early-bird tickets 🎟️ AND family tickets 🧸 for are now live for TEH Members & non-members!

This October we will gather in Silandro, a village in Italy of approx. 3,000 people surrounded by mountains, for the TEH102 Camp Meeting. 💙 We will be hosted by our member centre BASIS Vinschgau Venosta!

The theme of this year's Camp Meeting is "GRINTA! Under Ground: Grass Root Organisations between Persistence and New Narratives". In Italian 🇮🇹, and also in the German dialect spoken in South Tyrol, Grinta means:

👉 persistence,
👉 grit and
👉 fighting spirit.

It carries the image of someone stubbornly baring their teeth 🦷 – not out of aggression, but out of conviction. At we want to focus on the bite of underground organisations and the persistence of grassroots communities.

Whether you’ve joined us 100 times before, or this will be your very first: come be part of the story!

🎟️ Early-bird tickets and this year also family tickets are now live for TEH members & non-members!
📅 22–25 October 2026
📍 BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Silandro, South Tyrol, Italy

Don’t wait too long, early-bird spots go fast!

🔗 Get your ticket now – link in the comments!

for initiatives in the Alpine region! 🏔️

Duct Tape & Dreams (DTAD) is a grassroots mentorship programme for young cultural initiatives and collectives looking for support to take their next step. 💜

With this new 2026 mentorship call, we’re looking for four initiatives that:
👉 Are based in rural, suburban or peri-urban areas in the Alpine region (Alpine parts of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland).
👉 Are two years old or younger as an independent cultural centre or collective.
👉 Already have, or are in the process of gaining access to a repurposed building.
👉 Are committed to cultural and social impact in their local context.

The programme offers:
▪️ A friendly, experienced peer mentor from the TEH network.
▪️ Inspiration, input, and honest feedback.
▪️ Access to TEH’s Europe-wide network.
▪️ A workshop (on site) during the TEH102 Camp Meeting in Silandro, Italy.
▪️ Visibility through TEH communication channels.
▪️ A piece of duct tape and some brilliant people to brainstorm with.

Apply or encourage someone you know who might benefit from the programme to apply — we’re here for you!

⏰ Deadline to apply: 31 May 2026 (extended)
🔗 Find the link to the call in the comment section.

Trans Europe Halles in 2025: a network of 181 member organisations 🏭 from 43 countries 🌍 – connected through shared spaces, projects, gatherings, learning and collective work across Europe and beyond.

Our 2025 Annual report is now online 🔥, bringing together some of the activities, collaborations and projects that shaped the year across the network.

Some snapshots from 2025:

📍181 members
📍43 countries
📍26 new members
📍100 TEH Meetings
📍70,000 followers, visitors and subscribers across all our communication channels
📍710 854€ total turnover
📍603 363€ in projects and operational grants
📍290 000€ direct flowing to our members
📍40 members supported as beneficiaries and engaged in projects

Beyond the numbers, the report documents some of the reflections, developments, and shared efforts that shaped the network throughout the year.

Read the full report, link in the comments. 🔗

Browse the pictures for selected highlights. ↔️

📸 Photos: Léo Lethielleux, Stan Baranski, Teodora, Fedya Tsanova, Philip Horst, Martins Grauds

After a well-deserved time to rest and reflect, we’re still carrying the sunshine of Marseille with us and reliving the moments of ! ✨

For four inspiring days we came together to imagine, question, connect and celebrate around this year’s theme: “Imagining Within Limits: Cultural Centres and Planetary Boundaries.” 🌍

With more than 70 sessions, countless conversations, shared meals, new encounters and late-night reflections under the Marseille sun, reminded us once again of the strength, creativity and care that live within the TEH network.

A huge THANK YOU 💛 to everyone who made such an open, warm and energising gathering:

👉 our incredible host Friche la Belle de Mai for your generosity, collaboration and inspiring spaces
👉 all participants, speakers, artists and contributors for sharing your experiences, practices and visions
👉 our TEH Members and hubs for continuing to co-create this network through exchange, collaboration and solidarity
👉 and everyone who listened, reflected, danced, debated, connected and simply showed up, you made this gathering unforgettable.

We also came together for the General Assembly, where we welcomed new members and ambassadors into the network. 🎉

We are thrilled to welcome three new full TEH Members:

📍 AKC Attack – Zagreb, Croatia
📍 SODAS 2123 – Vilnius, Lithuania
📍 Carpintarias de São Lázaro – Lisbon, Portugal

With these new spaces joining the network, TEH now connects 180+ independent cultural centres across 40+ countries. 🌍

We are also proud to welcome two new TEH Ambassadors, our long-time supporters of the network who have contributed to our growth, resilience and development over the years:

✨ Gerard Lohuis
✨ Irena Boljunčić Gracin

A warm welcome from the whole TEH community! ❤️

To continue to relive the magical moments, we’ve gathered a selection of photo highlights capturing the people, places and moments that made our days in Marseille so special. 📸 Please find the pictures on our Flickr, link in the comments!

Big thank you to our photographers Caroline Dutrey, Pierre Gondard and in TEH team! 💛

Hope to see you in Italy! 🇮🇹 PS: ticket sales is now open, link in the comments!

📢 Dear TEH Members: Are you interested in experimenting with commoning practices 🫂, hosting international artists 🌍, or exploring community-driven digital media 📻?

If yes, we have good news for you: Three new open calls are now live for TEH Members! 👇

1️⃣ Commoning experimentation pilots:
This call supports practice-based experiments that explore how independent cultural organisations can act as commons: as shared infrastructures, collective governance processes, and relational ecologies that resist extraction, cultural commodification and all forms of enclosure.
📅 Apply by 10 May 2026!

2️⃣ Support for TEH Members' artist residencies 2026–2027:
Through this call we are looking to support existing residency programmes and artists who explore DIY-related research and experimental formats. We are offering support for residency hosts to host two international artists (outside the EU)!
📅 Apply by 15 May 2026!

3️⃣ Working group on Internet community webradios (relaunch):
TEH is reactivating the working group/hub in collaboration with RESET! Network, on digital community media regarding community webradios advocacy. The goal is to develop collaborative projects among TEH Members working in digital community media and to contribute to the advocacy work in the sector.
👉 Apply by reaching out to TEH Coordination Office.

🔗 More information and application forms on our website, link in the comments!

That’s a wrap: has come to an end! 💛

What an incredible few days filled with laughter, shared ideas, and new connections. A big thank you to our wonderful host Friche la Belle de Mai , all contributors, and every participant who made this experience so special – and to Marseille for the sunshine that made it even brighter. 🌞

Stay tuned… the photos are revealed soon! 👀

Next stop: at Vinschgau Venosta – hope to see you there! 🇮🇹

Radical imagination and structural responsibility – how can we do both? 🧠

In preparation for the famous Marseille sunlight 🌞, we want to give the spotlight 🔦 to another session happening at Conference – in fact, two sessions! 👇

and TEH Members–led project, Culture Transformation Movement (CTM), invites you to explore radical imagination and shared accountability in Marseille across two sessions. From speculative futures to real accountability, these sessions move from vision to action.

🗺️ Workshop: 2056 radical cartographies of future

This workshop invites participants to practice radical imagination. Not as escapism, but as a grounded, act of hope. In a moment marked by ecological crises, political polarization, shrinking cultural funding, and institutional fatigue, imagination itself becomes a contested resource.

Through embodied mapping, dialogue, and collective experimentation, you will get to explore the ethical, political, and ecological stakes of imagining futures.

🤝 Workshop: From Reflection to Responsibility - Sharing Transformative Practices through CTM Project

This session is intended to represent a movement from recurring talk to shared accountability within the TEH network. Drawing on recurring worries expressed at conferences, the session addresses two specific but systemic entry points for change:

📍 The question of accessibility as an organisational practice
📍 The question of structural concerns over human resources and representation as a question of who gets to stay in, and to grow within the cultural sector of the arts.

The session moves beyond discussion to action: from brief provocations to collective challenge-mapping.

🔗 Follow the link in the comments to browse and sign up to these two and 70+ other sessions!

❗ sale to Conference is closing Wed 15 April at 18:00 CET
💥 The full TEH101 programme has been launched, make sure to sign up for your favorite sessions before they’re full!
📍 TEH101 Conference hosted by Friche la Belle de Mai
📆 16–19 April 2026
🇫🇷 in Marseille, France

📸 Photo: Léo Lethielleux

Are you...
🏔️ based in rural, suburban or peri-urban areas in the Alpine region (Alpine parts of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland)?
🎂 2 years old or younger as an independent cultural centre or collective?
⚙️ in the process of gaining access to a repurposed building, or already have one?
🫂 committed to cultural and social impact in your local context?

If you answered yes, this call might be for you. 👀

Duct Tape & Dreams (DTAD) is a grassroots mentorship programme for young cultural initiatives and collectives looking for support to take the next step. 💜

⏰ Deadline to apply: 15 May 2026
🔗 Find the link to the call in the comment section.