Linea has been organizing since 2003 its own festival entitled Champs Libres (Litteraly : “Free Fields”, a french expression meaning an idea of freedom in action, open ways…) each year in June at Strasbourg.
The event serves first of all as a display window for the work of the Ensemble, which presents several concerts focusing on artistic, political or social themes (art and new technologies, young creation, geopolitical dialogues through musical works, etc.). The concerts are performed with special light-shows and stage settings. They are often conceived on an interactive way, making the spectator being active and stimulating his curiosity.

Alongside these concerts, the Détours de Champs Libres (“Detours of Free Fields,” the off-festival) open up original links to other art forms and to other types of music, by bringing together numerous cultural and associational partners. It features concert-debates in local pubs, musical intermezzos in public library, workshops, video-art projections, DJ’s set and live-acts…

A “nearby” artistic rendezvous, Champs Libres is spotted in Strasbourg station quarter, a space « in progress » undergoing a lot of mutations : a place that fits to be experimented in.
Champs Libres is a different sort of festival which reinvents itself every year, attracting an audience which is ever more numerous and diversified.

In 2008, Champs Libres reinforced his place in musical landscape. He was one of the first french event proposing a complete tribute to Stockhausen, and offered an original week-end devoted to Japan music, in frame of the french-japanese cultural season.

Check the websites of the past editions (in french) : 2008 , 2007 , 2006