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Kunstenfestivaldesarts is a festival dedicated to new creations, intended for artists with a personal outlook on the world and spectators willing to question their own views. Kunstenfestivaldesarts is a cosmopolitan city festival. We are increasingly becoming part of a complex net-work of communities that cross and redefine national, linguistic and cultural borders. The city is the environ-ment par excellence in which this cosmopolitan society can be seen. Kunstenfestivaldesarts features performing arts and visual arts, by Dutch- and French-speaking, Western and non-Western artists. Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in Brussels, the only city in Belgium where the country's two largest com-munities live together. Several Flemish- and French-speaking institutions are involved in the project. Funda-mentally conceived as a bilingual undertaking, it contributes to encouraging dialogue between the communities living in the city. Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in dozens of welcoming Brussels theatres and art houses for 3 weeks every May. EDITO8 In Brussels, some call them de kunsten. For others, they are les arts. There are many different names for the