Festa dell'Europa.
Non-stop days of European citizenship

The Antenna Europe Direct di Firenze with the Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le Arti Contemporanee present two full non-stop days dedicated to European citizens for the Festa dell'Europa. The programme for the 8th and 9th of May consists of a rich variety of debates, conferences, information points, film screenings, gastronomic events, encounters with artists and happy hours together with a feast of international productions by European companies in theatre, music and dance. The Festa dell'Europa examines themes such as immigration, cooperation, world trade, communications, institutional reform and culture, suggested by the Tavolo del Forum Regionale per l'Europa della Società Civile della Toscana. Its aim is to make a constructive critical contribution to the development of the process of European integration.

Tuesday 8th May

ENCOUNTER
10am- 1pm
Welcome by Luca Dini, President of the Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le Arti Contemporanee and by Riccardo Nencini, Assessor of European Union funding and programmes for Florence City Council 

European Culture: Contemporary Creation
Coordinated by Fondazione Fabbrica Europa
Roberto Bacci, Artistic Director, Fondazione Pontedera Teatro
Trevor Davies, Director, Copenhagen International Theatre
Giovanni Gozzini, Cultural Assessor, Florence City Council
Andrés Morte Terés, Founder, Fabbrica Europa
Paolo Russo, Cultural Editor, La Repubblica
Rick van der Ploeg, Professor of Economics, Istituto Universitario Europeo
Chairman: Bernard Micaud, Director, French Institute of Florence

3.30pm - 5.45pm
Europe 2009, what future for the Union?
The European Constitution and proposals for renewing European politics
Coordinated by Fondazione Rosselli, the Movimento Federalista Europeo and the Forum per i problemi della pace e della Guerra
Ariane Landuyt, Historian - Specialist in European integration
Piero Tani, Economist
Furio Cerutti, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università di Firenze
Valdo Spini, Parliamentarian
Antonio Sabatino, MFE
Elena Paciotti, President, Fondazione Basso, already a member of the European Convention
Chairman: Giovanni Gordiani, External Speaker DG  EAC European Commission

FLAVOURS OF EUROPE
6 - 8 pm
Europe Happy Hour. European wine routes (Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Hungary)

DANCE
9.30 pm
Sinfonia Eroica
Choreographer: Michèle Anne De Mey
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix,
Production: Charleroi Danses (Belgium)