Guadeloupe: le chlordécone empoisonne encore la vie quotidienne
Nathalie, 40, lives in Trois Rivières, a city in the French island of Guadeloupe. For decades, this overseas French ‘département’ have been facing water shortages. Why residents of this island do not have access to tap water? French authorities had been negligent in building and renovating water infrastructures on this island, as more broadly on […]
Punk is not dead! #straightedge
Meet Fekete Márk, a young punk musician of the band Still Cold. A regular of underground pubs and bars in the Hungarian capital, Fekete Márk is also “straight edge” punk. Meaning that during his gigs, he and his band members do not drink alcohol or does not take any drugs while encouraging their fans and […]
#Nextones aka the sounds of a quarry
Nextones is a unique festival in Europe. Taking place in late July in Val D’Ossola, in the Piemonte Region, it aims at being more than a place where people listen to music. This international festival of music and audio visual arts where, in an old quarry, you can listen and watch the most interesting artists […]
Going beyond the stage of the 2023 Athens’ Release Festival
Since 2016, the Release Athens festival is one of the biggest summer music events in Greece. A stone away from the Piraeus, Athens’ main port, this music event has, according to its funders “rejuvenated the local entertainment scene, believing in the liberating power of music – from which, after all, it took its name.”
Bullfighting festivities must be safe for everyone
The Sanfermines festivities in Pamplona are known worldwide for their nightlife, the “peñas” and the bullfights. But they are not so well-known for the feminist movement and activists who attend those parties to make visible and denounce sexual violence. Everything started in 2008, when Nagore Laffe, a nursing student was killed by José Diego Yllanes […]
Welcome to ‘Les Ardentes’, one of Europe’s biggest hip-hop and urban music festival
This is a classic for European rap fans. Every July, 200,000 people come to Liège, in the Belgian region of Wallonia for the festival ‘Les Ardentes’. Since 2006, festival goers across the continent are heading to this festival for three days of parties and music. Sphera member StreetPress was there and followed ‘Lulu’, a young […]
Can we party without alcohol?
In Poland, many health experts believe there is booze problem. As authorities started to promote beers over vodka two decades ago to reduce health risk linked to alcohol consumption, most recent statistics indicate that those both types of alcohol actually increased in the last 5 years. According to the OECD – the Organisation for Economic […]
Being a proud queer is not a question of age
For our “Generation Gap” series, Sphera Network member Popaganda met with Mochi and Dimitra. In this video feature, they are telling the stories of their lives as old members of the queer community in Greece.
Sisi and Mc Ducky: two generations of Hungarian female rappers
For our monthly series on ‘Generation Gap’, our Hungarian member 444 decided to profile two top Hungarian musicians. “Sisi”, 20, is an upcoming rapper and already an artists performing at various Hungarian festivals. She is for the young Hungarians, the face of the revival of the rap culture in the country. But when Sisi was […]
The life of young Italian shepherdess
Diamante is a young Italian from Tuscany. Before 2015 she was on track to become a medieval archaeologist. However, eight years later, she has now a goat farm. A business and career she has chosen herself and built overtime as she did not inherit neither the farm nor the goats. For our monthly series on […]
