With Festivals for Compassion, European festivals show their hearts full of compassion and solidarity with everyone who has been affected in any way by Corona and express this by sharing a specially written solo composition by the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki. The piece will have its premiere on the Dutch radio station NPO Radio 4 on the 20th of June in 2020, after which the Flemish Klara will take over one day later. Thereafter, like a compassion relay, the work will travel from festival to festival crisscrossing through Europe and will be shared online. Each festival selects its own artist and instrument to perform the composition.