European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC)

TURBA

Arts of the Working Class
Germany
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Across Europe, cultural spaces are closing, solidarity movements criminalised, communities displaced by war and polarisation. These are pressures Mediterranean spaces have navigated for years. The knowledge of how to survive and visions of what to build after collapse exist. Not circulating. A space in Tunis kept its doors open when funding collapsed. A space in Berlin is trying to do the same. Between them: movements carrying knowledge neither space has heard. Arts of the Working Class and Space of Urgency host the first node of TURBA, reclaiming space for cultural resistance, seed by seed.
Once a month a space in Berlin opens. Grassroots movements, artists, and cultural workers gather, and a screen connects them live to a space in the Mediterranean already through what Berlin fears is coming. Someone shares how they kept their doors open when funding collapsed. Knowledge that took years to earn moves across the room in an evening. This is the heart of TURBA: a mutual aid network and independent media platform connecting cultural spaces and grassroots movements across Europe and the Mediterranean, so the knowledge of how to survive, resist, and build starts circulating. A filmmaker documents six practitioners, three from European spaces, three from the Mediterranean: what have you figured out? What are you building after systems fail? Filmed portraits unearthing buried knowledge and visions of what comes after collapse. They introduce the people the network mobilises around. A movement that needs a lawyer finds one. A space that needs a filmmaker finds one. Emergency support gets named and the network responds. Everything learned becomes a practical guide any space can use to build their own node. The soil is being fertilised.

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