Le Manif Biennale Européenne d'Art Contemporain, is organizing the European Meetings of Contemporary Art from July the 1st to the 14th. It will take place throughout the town centre of Nîmes. The theme is « Taboo or not taboo? ». The purpose of the event is to support exchanges and intercultural connections between European artists and viewers. The audience and the success of the event (more than 8000 visitors for the itinerant editions in Edinburgh and Porto in 2002) attracts an increasing number of viewers and participants. This year, more than 250 artists from all over the world (Europe, Canada and America) made proposals on the theme « Taboo or not taboo /eurob@se.arts». In the end, forty artists will turn the city into a vast space of artistic research and experiment open for a large audience. Faithful to its intention to put art in the street, LE MANIF proposes to explore spaces and non-conventional exhibition places in order to transform the street into an object of artistic action, where the sharing and the interaction with the audience contribute to the creation process. The route will bring the visitors towards the college Alphonse Daudet, recently renovated (and where LE MANIF will inaugurate a superb showroom), the SNCF railway station, the House of District Richelieu, the FNAC media store, the showroom of the newspaper La Semaine de Nîmes, and the art galleries La Salamandre, Les Allégories, 4 Barbier… This event will be open to all expressions of contemporary creation, without any division of artistic fields. During the 15 days of exhibition, visual arts will invest the urban landscape, galleries, and unexpected public places. To this mind, night multimedia demonstrations, dedicated to living arts, will propose another viewpoint on contemporary creation: music, dance, cinema, video, experiments around new technologies… Thanks to the professional technical facilities offered. these open stages will allow young artists the possibility to show their work to a large audience. Positioning art as an object of economic, social and cultural development, LE MANIF continues its project of integration and solidarity offering a free access to the whole event for everyone and accessibility for handicapped people. This major event of the region’s cultural season will also propose amazing and spontaneous artistic interventions in the area then will start its itinerancy towards other European destinations.