Advantages for individuals:

• Filling lives with joy through creative participation in community life and its festivals.
• A feeling of renewal and of rootedness in one's culture, in harmony with the natural cycles of one's home. A fresh sense of the natural beauty of the environment.
• Rediscovery of one's village, re-creation of links among people. Better organisation of one's life and time through the professional and personal services offered by community members.
• Actively taking part in the creation of the cultural environment on personal, community and regional levels.

Advantages for the community:

• Reuniting residents at festival times and enabling them to be active participants in revitalising community life.
• Boosting the community's economy through the development of contacts among residents, leading to increased use of local professional services.
• Attracting members of other communities to take part in cultural events and help boost the economy.
• Fostering cultural exchanges between communities.
• Creating a basis for future developments.

Advantages for Europe:

• Reinforcing and promoting the great variety of cultural identities of communities and regions, and guaranteeing their vitality.
• Revitalising the feeling of common European cultural roots.
• The Dance Lime Tree makes a fine symbol of the links forged between twinned European towns and villages.

 
Collage, dancers of Bruegel
and modern Dance Lime Tree