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TANIA BRUGUERA

Artist

DAPHNE BÜLLESBACH

Executive Director of European Alternatives

Daphne Büllesbach is the Programme Director at European Alternatives and a member of the Transnational Board. She coordinates and oversees the annual events of EA, the Transeuropa Festival and the Campus of European Alternatives, alternating each year. In 2012 she founded the Berlin office after having been an activist with EA for a couple of years. She is also a member of the board of the German think tank Institut Solidarische Moderne which looks at the potential and pathway of a red-red-green government on the federal level in Germany. Previously, she worked in social science research and the evaluation of government programmes. She also has a background in international humanitarian and development organisations in Kenia, Morocco, Argentina and Belgium. Her studies in European Studies and Social / Political Sciences brought her to London, Paris and Cambridge.

MARCELO EXPÓSITO

Artists and politician

Is an artist and political activist from Spain. He is the vicepresident of the Spanish Congress for Barcelona en Comú and the secretary third of the table of the Congress of Deputies.

Hou Hanru

Art Curator and Artistic Director of MAXXI

MARIA HLAVAJOVA

Founder and artistic director of BAK

Maria Hlavajova is the founder and artistic director of BAK, a platform for art, theory, and politics based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, since 2000. At BAK and beyond, Hlavajova has organized many collaborative international research, discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects, and edited numerous publications on art as public sphere and political space.

KINKALERI

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KEN LOACH

Film Director

Ken Loach is an English director of television and independent film. He is known for his socially critical directing style and for his socialist ideals, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty, homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966) and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001). Loach’s film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice.

Niccolò Milanese

Director of European Alternatives

Niccolò Milanese is Chair of European Alternatives, where he chairs the transnational and advisory boards. He is also part of the elected steering committees of the Cultural Innovators Network – a trans- Mediterranean network of cultural activists and hybridizers – and the Europe+ campaign for a more democratic European Union. He has consultancy experience with the British Council, the Goethe Institute and with the Open University, and prior to starting European Alternatives worked editing poetry and literature magazines, as a freelance writer and as an academic researcher. He was educated in Cambridge and Paris, where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar.

CESARE PIETROIUSTI

Artist and co-founder of the Research Center Studi Jartrakor

Barbara Spinelli

 Political theorist

JONAS STAAL

Visual artist

Jonas Staal is a Dutch visual artist. His work deals with the relationship between art, democracy, and propaganda and has often generated public debate.

Paul Laverty

Screenwriter