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- The period of application for\u00a0grants by AC\/E<\/strong>, for the logistic expenses of having a Spanish artists in your festival or program,\u00a0ends on 31st March. Check details below and discover a new proposal.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0new artistic director of Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>is Jordi Fosas. Find below his\u00a0profile and an interview with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Visa for Music\u00a0<\/strong>opens the application period for artists. Check below for more open calls.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nAnd, as usual,\u00a0we\u00a0continue the series of\u00a0little interviews with\u00a0festival directors<\/strong>, in this case with Bo\u017cena Szota from Ethno Port Pozna\u0144, and with\u00a0many more useful infos\u00a0<\/strong>for the community.<\/p>\n
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\nSummary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Jordi Fosas, new artistic director of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia de Manresa<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0AC\/E\u00b4s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>application<\/span>\u00a0for support is open – Mapamundi M\u00fasica introduces…\u00a0<\/span>Entav\u00eda<\/span>\u00a0– Mini interview\u00a0with festival director: Bo\u017cena Szota from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ethno Port Pozna\u0144<\/span>\u00a0(Poland) –\u00a0New (and still)\u00a0<\/span>open calls<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>– On tour<\/span><\/h5>\n
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<\/p>\nFLASH NEWS: DON KIPPER AND MELECH MECHAYA, 14TH APRIL IN COSLADA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Last WOMEX we have a super nice moment with Josh and Tim from the band from London Don Kipper<\/strong>. We are happy to bring them for our first collaboration, next April, on Sunday 14th, at the event M\u00fasica en Primavera, by the city council of Coslada. They will play in a double program with our\u00a0Portuguese combo\u00a0Melech Mechaya<\/strong>.\u00a0Details, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nWELCOME JORDI FOSAS, NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF FIRA MEDITERR\u00c0NIA DE MANRESA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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In the words of the Fira,\u00a0“Jordi Fosas has a long track record in traditional and folk culture, through his involvement with the Cercle de Cultura Tradicional i Popular (Marboleny Traditional and Folk Culture Circle) and Festival \u00c9sdansa de Les Preses (\u00c9sdansa de Les Preses Festival). Fosas was selected from seven candidates, and he will direct the artistic line-up for Fira\u2019s programme over the next three years. Not only was Fosas selected for his connections with traditional and folk culture but also for the artistic project he presented and his relevant experience.”<\/em><\/p>\nMapamundi is happy to share with you his answers and reflections in this little interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We wish you the best, Jordi. Thanks for the enlightening statements!\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nMM – Congratulations on your designation to this exciting position. What made you interested in it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nJF – Thank you! I come from the world of popular culture and I have been working for many years on traditional dance. For example, directing the \u00c9Sdansa Festival (ESdanza) and developing in it this \u201cES\u201d (that means \u201cis\u201d) in the present indicative, encouraging the public to dance traditional dance today and promoting the realization of contemporary proposals based on traditional language.<\/div>\nI have known the Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia from some of its possible viewpoints, as an artist, as a programmer and also as a collaborator. These last three years we have collaborated with the Fira in the development of the Premi Delf\u00ed Colom\u00e9, an initiative that we have promoted from the \u00c9Sdansa Festival to promote new dance projects created from the traditional roots.
\nI thought that I could contribute my experience to the artistic direction of the Fira and for that reason I presented myself to the call.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/cbf698c4-2cc7-4c6b-a405-09ca88be9fdb.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMM – The Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia has an international recognition as a fair where exciting proposals in the different disciplines that it includes are a<\/strong>lways discovered. How are you guys going to face this stage with you in the direction? Are you going to change something, are you going to give more weight to any subjects, any change of format, locations…?<\/strong><\/p>\n
JF \u2013 The Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia has done a good work in these more than twenty years of trajectory. For this reason, we will continue building from the bridges already drawn by the previous directors. I believe that the projects are enriched and strengthened when a new director contributes from the experience of the previous directors.<\/p>\n
In the next years we will try to reinforce our brand positioning to help us articulate a circuit and generate discourse, essential elements to achieve our goal: market for proposals with traditional roots. We want to normalize that proposals that work from the traditional root are programmed.<\/p>\n
The basic principles or strategic lines that we will develop have the objective of achieving a creative, reflective, complicit, committed and unique Fira, and we will do it in a 360 approach, that is to say, all the time and looking for complicities. We will work from three keys:
\n\u2022 weaving, that is, promoting and helping new creations and productions and making intersections and pairings between creators and popular culture;
\n\u2022 drawing packages of meaning that help the public and professionals to visualize creative realities,
\n\u2022 and getting a Fira in first person from the formats that generate new forms of participation and educational projects.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/31404e18-2a2b-410c-be34-73ae98365408.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMM – Which will be at this phase the evaluation criteria to select the artistic proposals?<\/strong><\/div>\nJF – At Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia we want to show a tradition with no complexes, that works in the present and in excellence and this will be our criterion to draw the Fira’s programming. We conceive a Fira that works intersections with the 360 degrees of the tradition, from the heritage and all that corpus of testimonies that form the cultural heritage of society, passing through the entities of popular culture that connect this heritage with their society, until reaching the professional sector that creates from this tradition. We are especially interested in the intersections, relationships and exchanges between all these agents, especially, how artists and professional companies drink from heritage, tradition and popular culture.<\/p>\n
MM – What will be the balance in number of shows, in terms of concerts and other traditional culture shows?<\/strong><\/p>\n
JF – We will continue backing an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary Fira that gathers proposals from all the performing arts, from theater, dance, circus, visual arts, music … whether they are indoors or outdoors and in any of their formats. Our axis of programming is the traditional Mediterranean tradition in any discipline and format and we do not set a percentage for each of them. We will follow approximately the criteria that have been considered in recent editions.<\/p>\n
MM – In recent years, the Fira has included proposals from outside the cultural field of the Mediterranean. Will this line be maintained?<\/strong><\/p>\n
JF – Yes, we will continue to program exceptional international proposals that stimulate the work of our artists and help us articulate discourse. We will focus on concrete proposals, but also on cities, territories, cultures … to see how the dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity works. We will work on it within the Fira\u2019s State and International Action Plan. We will show and see other ecosystems, to see how a territory a structure, a project… is organized, works and creates.<\/p>\n
Pictures<\/strong>: Jordi Fosas’s Facebook profile;\u00a0Llotja profesional, by Anna Brugu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/div>\n\n\nDO YOU WANT A SPANISH ARTIST<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0IN YOUR PROGRAM? AC\/E’S CALL FOR SUPPORT\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>IS\u00a0OPEN DURING MARCH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Acci\u00f3n Cultural Espa\u00f1ola (AC\/E)<\/a>\u00a0is a public entity dedicated to promoting the culture and heritage of Spain. In March they open the call to request\u00a0support for the logistic expenses<\/strong>related to Spanish artists and experts in cultural issues, for events abroad taking place in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>The application must be done by the foreign institution\/programmer and Mapamundi M\u00fasica has supported some clients in previous editions to fullfill the procedure, that in fact is not difficult. The results are usually published quite soon (around the 3rd week of April).<\/div>\nWe can offer you our band\u00a0Vig\u00fcela<\/a>\u00a0(in the picture) and\u00a0Entav\u00eda<\/strong>. Check the next news, at the Mapamundi M\u00fasica introduces….<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDo you like our newsletter? Tell us! To sign up, click HERE.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nMAPAMUNDI M\u00daSICA INTRODUCES…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Entav\u00eda, from Salamanca province, in Castilla y Le\u00f3n community\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAs a proffesional working with folk music since 2002, I think I am very discriminating about the proposals, even more if they come from my own country.\u00a0We have had great experiences with Spanish bands, like El Na\u00e1n, with whom we are not working now but we keep a deep friendship and mutual admiration. Apart of them and our beloved Vig\u00fcela and associated acts,\u00a0I don’t use to get often excited enough to start a collaboration to promote a\u00a0Spanish folk band. It has to be very very special.<\/p>\nAnd… I first payed attention to this band, Entav\u00eda,\u00a0in this videoclip for a\u00a0panaderas\u00a0<\/em>style song with a poem written in 1931 by\u00a0Miguel de Unamuno<\/a>. It was like a premonition to a catastrophe that would happen some years after: the breaking down of the\u00a0dam of Ribadelago<\/a>, in 1959, that killed 144 of the villagers, of which only 28 bodies where found.<\/p>\n
Entav\u00eda puts music to this thrilling poem in a tribute to the victims and a claim for the unfair treatment that Franco’s government gave to the survivors.<\/p>\n
- The\u00a0new artistic director of Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>is Jordi Fosas. Find below his\u00a0profile and an interview with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n