Europeade 2023 | Gotha | 12.-16. July 2023
Dear Europeans,
EUROPEADE is coming back to Gotha and you... hopefully you will be there.
In 2013, the residential city of Gotha and the Thuringian State Costume Association e.V. were outstanding hosts of the European festival of folk art, dance and music. Now, we are daring to tackle this huge project a second time.
But the world has changed! Our only consolation: The people look forward to the togetherness, the camaraderie and the cohesion.
We have great efforts ahead of us and we need the help of everyone who loves EUROPEADE, so that in 2023 we will again be able to experience encounters in Gotha that will carry us for a whole decade, give us strength and advance the ideals of EUROPEADE.
See you soon in Gotha
Your
Knut Kreuch
Mayor of the city of Gotha
and state chairman of the Thuringian State Costume Association e.V.
Dear friends of the Europeade,
the memories of the last Europeade in Gotha are still fresh – even if it was around ten years ago. We are happy to return in 2023 and look forward to a wonderful celebration of European culture with many unforgettable moments.
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the Europeade has focused on international understanding and European friendships. The common motto "Unity in Diversity" therefore not only stands for five days of dance, song and music, but for the wonderful Europe in which we live.
Year after year in a different city, we send a strong signal for peace, freedom and cultural diversity in Europe. In addition to the colourful costumes, fascinating dances and songs, it is above all the people who make Europe and the Europeade what it is. Their close friendship is an expression of the European spirit and has made the Europeade the largest folklore festival on the continent.
Experience and enjoy this friendship and diversity of European cultures with us in Gotha – warm invitation!
Rüdiger Heß
President of the International Europeade Committee
Tickets for the opening and closing events
Helpers wanted!
Between 4,000 and 5,000 participants are expected in Gotha in 2023, who will sleep in community accommodation, hotels and guesthouses, but also with private individuals. So that the world feels at home in Gotha, around 200 volunteers are needed as group supervisors, who take care of the well-being of the groups for five days.
It means greeting groups, escorting them to quarters, blowing up air mattresses, overcoming language barriers, visiting venues, showing sights and pubs in the evening or solving problems. Of course, the guests are not only in the capital of the Gothaer Land, but also in about 20 communities and towns between the Thuringian Forest and Fahner Höhe.
If you want to be right in the middle of it and experience a unique event with friends, you can register as a helper at helfer@europeade-gotha.de. Responsible for the timing of the volunteers and their preparation is Marcel Andreß from the German EUROPEADE Committee. He has been representing the Free State of Thuringia in this honorary association for a number of years and is particularly pleased to be able to contribute his knowledge from all the Europeades since Gotha, which were at least eight. He is proud that he has once again succeeded in bringing the world to Gotha. In addition to the guest groups from various European countries, Gotha's partner cities will also be represented, so that Americans will also enrich the festival.
Programmvorschau
Wednesday 12 July 2023
Thursday 13 July 2023
Friday 14 July 2023
Saturday 15 July 2023
Sunday 16 July 2023
* Please note that this is an initial rough program overview. Subject to change.
Impressions EUROPEADE 2013 in Gotha
