FLUCTUATIONS

🌊 Exciting news! 🌊 Fluctuations will have a stand at this year’s Most Wanted: Music Berlin (MW ) event in Berlin today November 13, 2024! Join us at the Kulturbrauerei, where we’ll be alongside other inspiring NGOs and initiatives from the music industry. MW:M has become one of the top gatherings for industry innovation, creativity, and collaboration. This year’s theme, "Monetize!", focuses on achieving financial sustainability while championing fairness and efficiency within the music sector. It’s the perfect setting for Fluctuations to showcase our work around sustainability and the creative use of waterways as spaces for music and culture.🎶 Stop by our stand to learn more about our latest projects and engage in conversations on how we can shape a more sustainable and inclusive music industry together! Looking forward to connecting with industry professionals and enthusiasts alike. See you in Berlin! Gracias Danaja Antonija Volk Maybe see you around Rob van Wegen Eva Balaban Laura Kleber Alba Fieira Vilariño Katharina Wolf Patrick Daniel Mia Heresch GICA Impact Network Mauricio Lizarazo Prada Matthieu Brismontier Christophe Knoch Robert Stolt Linnea Elisabeth Vågen Svensson Eilidh McLaughlin

🌍 Insights on the 20th Berlin Conference on November 7-8, 2024! #aSoulForEurope Held at the Allianz Forum near the Brandenburg Gate, this event brings together cultural and political leaders from across Europe to explore the powerful role of arts and culture in shaping a united, forward-looking Europe. 🇪🇺 It started off yesterday with moving talks, such as Stephanie Bonnici and Ana Benavides Otero reminding us the privilege of attending such an event. Key moments of the conference include: Discussions on the role of culture in today’s political debates. 🎨 Breakout sessions on decolonizing European culture, creativity for social change, and other vital topics, led by cultural voices from across Europe. 📢 A final plenary where policymakers commit to translating ideas into action for cultural and civic resilience in Europe. ✍ Fluctuations, a festival along European rivers, aiming at bringing people and territories together for a more sustainable and fair future, being a member of New European Bauhaus and European Festivals Association, is happily attending this insightful conference. 🎉 Stiftung Zukunft Berlin Florian Hauer Farid Tabarki Michael Roth Natalie Giorgadze Dr. Dr. h.c. Markus Dröge Christophe Knoch Nicolas Bertrand Lars Ebert Adelheid Feilcke Elena Polivtseva Paweł Zerka Kathrin Deventer Barbara Gessler Gilles PELAYO Sarah Wedl-Wilson

🌊✨ Fluctuations 2024 Aftermovie Release ✨🌊 We are thrilled to share the aftermovie of our 2024 edition, made possible by Creative Europe! This incredible journey took us through Lambersart (Lille), Anderlecht (Brussels), and Utrecht, where we navigated with the URBAN BOAT. 🚤 Collaborating with this remarkable project allowed us to embody the values we cherish and connect with diverse communities. We also organized an impactful event in Budapest even without the boat! Key Highlights: 4,500 festival-goers 🎉 3 artistic residencies 🎨 50+ artists 🎸 50+ panels, workshops, and stands focused on social and environmental solutions. 🌍 All of this aiming at uniting people, territories, rivers, nature, and art. A huge thank you to volunteers, everyone who participated and partners that supported us along the way. ❤️ Bruxelles Mobilité - Brussel Mobiliteit Fondation Bouygues Immobilier Green Deal Circular Festivals One Resilient Earth ACCRO | Alternatives végétales LA VIE™ Radio Nova HARi&CO Bioviva HANK Restaurant European Festivals Association GICA Impact Network and all the other ones we can't type in. Our devoted consortium Besign School VibeLab European Alternatives Subjective Values Foundation SMMMILE Festival Relais Culture Europe Watch the breathtaking aftermovie made by Lost Panton and relive the magic!

🌊 Exciting News! Tomorrow at Amsterdam Dance Event – FLUCTUATIONS x VibeLab Presents "Rivers as Creative Spaces"! 🌊 We’re thrilled to invite you to join us at Café De Ceuvel tomorrow, October 17th, for a full day of inspiration, creativity, and powerful discussions centered around the theme of "Rivers as Creative Spaces." 🚤✨ This event, co-funded by Creative Europe, brings together a diverse group of speakers who will explore how rivers can act as both cultural and ecological spaces. From thought-provoking roundtables to interactive presentations and energetic DJ sets, it promises to be an unforgettable experience! 🎶 Agenda Highlights: Engaging Roundtables: Exploring rivers' roles in art, culture, and sustainability. Special Guests: Including speakers from Fluctuations, Le Bateau, Liquid Becomings from espaço agora now, SAIL Amsterdam 2025, Drinkable Rivers and Lastkahn. 🎵 DJ Sets: 17-18: Vince Fueg, 18-20: Dim Browski, 20-22: Megatronic 🗓 Date: Thursday, October 17th 📍 Location: Café De Ceuvel, Amsterdam ⏰ Time: 13:00 - 22:00 👉 RSVP Now: Spots are limited! Click the link in the comments to secure your place. We can’t wait to see you there! Let’s reimagine the creative and sustainable future of our rivers together. 🌍💧

Hello, LinkedIn community! We are Fluctuations, a festival celebrating culture, sustainability, and social innovation along European rivers. After a successful 2024 beta season (Lille, Brussels, Utrecht, Budapest) gathering over 4,500 attendees, we’re now preparing our 2025 edition and are looking for partners in the Upper Rhine region. 🌍 Where? We're focusing on the west part of Baden-Württemberg, the French regions along the Rhine, and the Basel region. 🎯 What? We’re applying for Interreg funding (21.10 deadline) and want to connect with organizations interested in culture, ecology, social impact, and cross-border collaboration. We’re planning an event between Strasbourg and Kehl in late August 2025. 👥 Who? Cultural venues, alternative art collectives, environmental organizations, social enterprises, and impact-driven businesses—join us in shaping this transformative festival! At this stage, minimal commitment is required, and we’d love to explore how we can collaborate. Interested? Let’s connect and create something meaningful together! 🎉 #Partnerships #Culture #Sustainability #SocialInnovation #UpperRhine #Interreg #CrossBorderCollaboration #FluctuationsFestival #EcoFriendly

Taking a deeper dive into Saturday's talks and workshops programme at De Nijverheid Utrecht 🏊 ✦ SATURDAY ✦ ✧ TALKS ✧ 13:30 – 14:30 How to move towards circular textiles and sustainable fashion ? With Lucie Ladigue (C2CPII), Kasja Oostindie (nlmtd [unlimited]) & Francesco Sollitto (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) An interactive workshop that aims to raise awareness of circular fashion. The aim is to educate while staying interactive so there will be many questions asked to the audience and keep time to reflect on them. 14:30 – 16:00 Radical Optimism: There are alternatives - Discussing Drug policy, Housing, Policing. With romain lanneau (Statewatch), Ann Fordham (International Drug Policy Consortium) & Melissa Koutouzis (Organiser het Woonprotest) Together we will show that in conflicting subject such as migration, asylum, police, drug policies, trade and taxation there are alternatives. Being critical means acknowledging that the best solution is most often not the quickest one or the most popular. Optimism is hard. But it is necessary to bring others at the table and engage together in discussion for a future where citizens play a key role in the political debates. 16:15 – 17:15 Waterways: Traversing biodiversity, democracy and culture With Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers, Emma Hanny (Pop The Vote, Kabkgreenoffice) & Thomas Scheele (VibeLab) Rivers, canals and waterways represent life sources, transport routes, leisure platforms, fueling and linking citizens and territories. Let’s navigate on those intertwined topics. ✧ WORKSHOPS ✧ 12:15 – 13:15 Embodiment mouvement by Playgrounded 17:30 – 18:30 Drinkable Rivers’ Citizen Science measurement 18:00 – 19:00 7 Billion Presidents workshop 7 Billion Presidents is a global movement on a mission to build an inclusive and just society on a healthy planet, by replacing capitalism with a regenerative economy. You’re invited to join in co-envisioning and building our common future together! We Build the New To be WE, we need YOU! 19:00 – 20:00 Food transition talk with Grounded Utrecht What is the role of communities in the just transition to regional and regenerative food systems? How can we organise ourselves as nature and co-create lively regions with happy people? Let’s find out during this workshop!

🔜 Utrecht we’re coming! We are thrilled to share the full timetable for our weekend at De Nijverheid Utrecht 💫 We are once again presenting a programme of workshops and talks all weekend long, touching on topics as diverse as waterways, sustainable fashion, art in social struggles or climate injustice, amongst others. Thanks to the fantastic speakers and workshop organisers who are joining us ❤️ Lucie Ladigue, Kasja Oostindie, Francesco Sollitto, romain lanneau, Ann Fordham, Melissa Koutouzis, Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers, Emma Hanny, Thomas Scheele, Union of Justice, Aurélia Joly... – 📍 De Nijverheid, Nijverheidskade 15, Utrecht 📅 Saturday 20 (12:00 till 01:00) and Sunday 21 July (12:00 till 21:00) 🎟 Admission to Fluctuations is based on a pay-what-you-can system. It’s up to festival-goers to decide what they want or can pay from €0 upwards! Secure your tickets via https://lnkd.in/dyGYR4iq

✧ CONFÉRENCES / TALKS ✧ 𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒔 ✧ After a first high-energy day, we are back today at FLOW for a full Sunday of music, debates, workshops, fun vibes and even more. Join us from 12:00 onwards 👇 ✦ 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗠𝗘 ✦ 13:00 – 14:00 | Nouveaux récits urbains : imaginer des villes épanouies, durables et solidaires – 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴  with Fatima Zibouh 💫 (Brussels2030), Sâm Rosenzweig (Communa ASBL), Marek Hudon (Université libre de Bruxelles) & Alexandre Lefebvre (La Ferme du Parc Maximilien ) 14:15 – 15:15 | Sortir de la course à la croissance : des alternatives pour un avenir souhaitable – 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩: 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 with Céline Bouton (BE.IMPACT), matheo GABON (Climatosportifs) & Emmanuel MOSSAY (EcoRes) 15:30 – 16:30 | Comment la sobriété peut-elle soigner nos démocraties ? – 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴? with Yamina Saheb & Adélaïde Charlier 16:45 – 18:45 | 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘺: 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 with Leila Bensalem (Marais Wiels) & artists in residency 📸 © Olivier Costier Photography

✧ CONFÉRENCES / TALKS ✧ 𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒔 ✧ Sharing, learning, creating tomorrow’s world together and with joy 🙌 Fluctuations promotes activism through celebration and offers a programme of conferences at the heart of the festival. All with contributions by committed and inspiring speakers whom we admire 💚 ~ Échanger, apprendre, créer ensemble et dans la joie le monde de demain 🙌 Fluctuations prône l’activisme par la fête, et vous propose de participer à des conférences tout au long du week-end au cœur du festival. Le tout en compagnie d’intervenant·es engagé·es et inspirant·es 💚 ✦ 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬'𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗠𝗘 ✦ 14:15 – 15:15 | L’eau en partage : une nouvelle vision de la ville ? – 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯: 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 with Paul Steinbrück (POOL IS COOL), William Schoofs (Sur le pont ASBL), Mirik Milan Gelders (VibeLab) & Charline Albericci (FLUCTUATIONS) 15:30 – 16:30 | L’Europe en mouvement : quel pouvoir pour les citoyen·nes ? – 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦: 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴? with Alexis Prokopiev (Make.org), Amandine Crespy (Université libre de Bruxelles) & Edouard Gaudot 16:45 – 17:45 | Comment faire de l’écologie un vrai mouvement populaire – 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵? with Magid Magid (Union of Justice) & Nadim Bellallahom 🕊️ (Diversidays) 📸 © Olivier Costier Photography

TODAY FLUCTUATIONS AT FLOW, BRUSSELS, WITH ☀️ 🔥💕 - 12:00 The impact festival Fluctuations opens today for its second episode at midday at FLOW, in Anderlecht, the swimming pool will be open and we expect 22°C and sun so bring your swimming suit! Inspiring round tables on the themes of Water, Europe, Social Justice, and Ecology with Union of Justice, Yamina Saheb, Alexis Prokopiev de Make.org, Céline Bouton, Adélaïde Charlier , Mirik Milan Gelders and many more! Fantastic music with GUTS, Deborah Aime la Bagarre, Ucci Why, Gael Faure only to name a few. 🎶 And our village of solutions with NGOs and ethical creators. Join us to dance with purpose!! https://lnkd.in/evGJQ7E4 Pay What You Want Tickets https://lnkd.in/eBrVraU5 Charline Albericci Nicolas Dhers Anouk BARRIERE