Artist’s “domino 37,501” in Fresach

As part of his multi-year project “flotsam” Carinthian artist Gerhard Leeb has drawn attention again on the European tolerance talks 2016. The result was a performance under the name “Domino 37 501” – a fictional story about human flotsam on the beach of Lesbos and the failure of the European policy on the refugee issue.…

High praise for tolerance talks

Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Former Under Secretary General United Nations: This day I will keep surely long be remembered as a document that with the involvement of a few people great things can be put into operation. I cordially congratulate you that you had this great idea promoted so that therefore a sustainable institution has…

America’s Plan for Clean Power

Climate Reality: An Open Speech to the World by Marc R. Pacheco (Senator of Massachusetts, Democrates) Fresach, 12th May 2016 First, I’d like to start out by thanking Denk.Raum.Fresach for inviting me to speak to you all today. DRF promotes cross-border dialogue on issues of social, political and cultural coexistence in Europe and beyond. Their…

Fresach Declaration on Climate Change

At the conclusion of the European tolerance talks in 2016, the participants adopted a “Declaration on Climate Change 2016″ last weekend. Therein, Europe is called to take its responsibility. No community works without borders, but walls and fences do not solve problems. “Who wants to live in peace and prosperity, has to learn sharing,” reads…

Senator Pacheco in Fresach

Senator Marc R. Pacheco of Mass. Wednesday evening came to Carinthia in order to attend the opening of the European tolerance talks 2016. Pacheco on Thursday noon will deliver a keynote speech on the “Climate Reality Project” of forme US-Vice President Al Gore. Pacheco praised the iniative of tolerance talks at the opening in Villach.…

Capitalism intensifying climate change

Free market capitalism is a core problem of the climate change, believes civil rights and community organizer Stephen Bradberry, Executive Director of the Alliance Institute http://theallianceinstitute.org in New Orleans. Capital-dictations exacerbate negative impacts of disasters or simple are the reason for it. Bradberry will illustrate his opinion in the context of “European tolerance talks 2016”…

Art as a bridge to integration

He was not a parade Migrant, grown up in a modern school system and prepared mentally and emotionally to this new culture, the German-Turkish writer and translator Serafettin Yildiz explains in an interview. “After studying in Izmir I came to Austria – Vienna was first planned as a stopover, but it became a permanent place…

Program booklet now available

The program booklet to the “European tolerance talks 2016″ from 11 to 14 May 2016 in Fresach is available from now on. It will be sent to interested people also, the costs are 10 € plus 5 € for shipping. For those who are satisfied with the online version, it is also available for download.…

Welcome to Fresach 2017

With the first European tolerance talks 2015 the Think.Tank.Fresach has demonstrated that it is possible with genuine claim, true passion and the necessary will to put a big project in the world – and this “out in the country”. No less than to create a ‘European center of tolerance” has been our goal from the beginning.…