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Europes cultural festivals spotlight history and migration: Barcelona, Tallinn and Bratislava host major events

Europes cultural festivals spotlight history and migration: Barcelona, Tallinn and Bratislava host major events
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Europe’s cultural calendar is in full swing this week, with major festivals and exhibitions drawing attention across the continent.

In Barcelona, La Mercè festival is showcasing its visual history through an exhibition of 48 posters, tracing the event’s graphic identity from 1979 to the present . Meanwhile, Fotografiska Tallinn opens its season with *Vivian Maier: Unseen Work*, the first retrospective of the French-American photographer’s work in the Baltic and Nordic region. The exhibition, running from this week, features selections from Maier’s vast archive of over 120,000 negatives, including her street photography and self-portraits, discovered posthumously .

In Bratislava, the Fjúžn festival, focused on migration and Slovakia’s foreign communities, is set to begin on Sept. 19, though its organizer is still awaiting public funding . The event runs through Sept. 30.

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