Smart and Fearless

Guidelines for Emerging Arts Centres

How to start your own cultural centre?

Trans Europe Halles is a network of grassroots cultural centres with members in 39 European countries. Members are converting abandoned buildings across Europe into vibrant centres for arts and culture, transforming communities, neighbourhoods and cities.

Check out their newest publication – “Smart and Fearless: Guidelines for Emerging Arts Centres in Eastern, Southeastern and Southern Europe”.

Full publication is here.

This publication sums up FOUR YEARS of experience and work with cultural startups on the European borders. It is a lessons-learned and discoveries-made publication that also features the programme participants: their success stories, challenges and insights. An useful tool for anyone daring to start their own project