EAST IS THE NEW WEST IS THE NEW EAST...

Following the impact of «  Bombaysers de Lille  », the new edition of lille3000 endeavoured to discover the new Europe as redefined since the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years before 2009:Istanbul, Berlin, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Moscow...

In the city of Lille and on both sides of the cross-border region, events, exhibitions, artworks installed in the urban environment, shows and « Midi-Midi » weekends took the visiting public on a series of day and night journeys to different cities and cultures from the far flung and sometimes mysterious edges of Europe.


MAJOR EVENTS

OPENING PARADE:
14th MARCH 2009

More than 200 000 people were transported to Central and Eastern Europe, from the Baltic States to Istanbul: parade, choirs, dj’s, vj’s, fireworks... The public has plunged in mysterious atmospheres and discovered the splendour of Topkapi, a Klezmer orchestra, the Bulgarian choirs or moved to the rhythm of Balkans brass bands...

THE MIDI-MIDI:

Midi-Midi Berlin: 27-29 March 2009
Midi-Midi Baltic States: 10-12 April 2009
Midi-Midi Warsaw: 22-24 May 2009
Midi-Midi Moscow: 05-07 June 2009
Midi-Midi Budapest/Bucharest: 26-28 June 2009
Midi-Midi Istanbul / Balkans: 3-5 July 2009

AND ALSO:

lille piano(s) festival : 12-14 June 2009
Grand finale in Kortrijk (B) : 11 July 2009