Luxembourg and Lorraine. Carnival, concerts … More than 2,000 events for Esch2022
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The European Capital of Culture is located at Luxembourg for the year 2022. With the municipalities of Kaunas in Lithuania and Novi Sad in Serbia, Esch-sur-Alzette shares the title.
The latter soberly baptized the project Esch2022. Managed by the association “European Capital of Culture 2022”, it is based on the slogan “Remix Culture”.
But beyond the municipality located on the border, Esch2022 brings together ten other Luxembourg towns and eight French municipalities.
A cross-border region in the spotlight
These are limited to the Pays Haut Val d’Alz community of municipalities, straddling the departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle. These are Audun-le-Tiche, Aumetz, Boulange, Ottange, Rédange, Russange, Thil and Villerupt.
On the Luxembourg side, ten other municipalities in the south of the country join Esch-sur-Alzette: Bettembourg, Differdange, Dudelange, Käerjeng, Kayl / Tétange, Mondercange, Pétange, Rumelange, Sanem and Schifflange.
In this way, “Esch2022 celebrates the history, present and future of a cross-border region at the heart of Europe”.
Over 2,000 events for 160 projects
This region will become a “breeding ground for culture, sustainability, tourism, exchanges and meetings through around 160 projects with more than 2,000 events “.
The whole constitutes a program reflecting a balance between the diverse cultural potential of the region and the international scene. This ranges from dance to theater, including music, literature, architecture and even cinema.
On its own, Esch-sur-Alzette offers 80 projects at the National Museum of the Resistance, the Rockhal or even at the Kulturfabrik.
But the other participating cities will be honored for one month each.
Major popular festivals
The first two will be Pétange and Käerjeng.
The latter will open the ball with its large market-show of regional products and its Fire Festival, organized on March 5 and 6, 2022. The opportunity in particular to see fire sculptures made of cut and dug tree trunks.
Will follow Pétange where son carnival will start on March 27, 2022 and will take place over a 6 km course. Beginning with a grand ball, the cavalcade plans to attract 30,000 visitors next year.
Big names in music in concert
A Dudelange, as part of the Esch2022 festivities, the festival USINA22 will be held over two days, right in the historic Neischmelz site, on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June 2022. A musical encounter with the American group Kings of Leon headlining.
Other artists will cross the Atlantic to reach Luxembourg, but this time in Esch-sur-Alzette. The Rockhal square will host the Black Eyed Peas on Wednesday June 15, 2022, as part of the Open Air Belval.
In addition to these various events, the kickoff of this cultural year will be given on February 26, 2022 with multiple events in Esch-Belval and in the town center of the municipality.
You can find the whole program on the site from Esch2022.
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