wochenkonzentrat

dienstag, 22.11 ... femous: 360° women in music präsentiert. unser ziel: inklusion. aktive vernetzungs- und kulturarbeit,  music - schnittstelle,  mit-entwicklen einer sozialen skulptur. more

mittwoch 23.11 : femous: review - forward -play. diskutieren, reflektieren, ideen finden. vernetzen. ein netzwerktreffen im MICA - music austria. more

donnerstag 24.11 : célia mara band: aus der reihe tanzen in linz, am mensafest - femous brazilian bastardsound. more

und freitag 25.11 : ein thementag zu kulturkooperationen zwischen anspruch und realität. politische strategien, UNESCO konvention zur kulturellen vielfalt. diskutieren. für vielfalt, kooperationen auf augenhöhe, gleichen zugang zu den ressourcen eintreten. IG world music & femous vertreten. more

global grooves against the global crisis

Networking is my real passion… and WOMEX is the right place to do it.
This year, I spent only two days in Copenhagen, but I was able to meet a lot of my friends from the international world music scene. It was so good to see them - to exchange ideas - and to establish stronger bonds for going on together in the future.
To say it frankly - I guess that we have to expect hard times coming. Our South European colleagues soffered the crisis very hardly, many venues & clubs had to close, many festivals - mainly the smaller ones - are not able to continue. Our greek friends are still optimistic… and focussing on international cooperations, whilest Portugal closed the doors and has no money anymore to invite international artists. Italy is simply a pre-post Berlusconi disaster, most of the cultural funds are gone… and Spain is affraid of what the next elections will bring…In the meantime, the big business is going on… viva los multis and the globalized "mono-taste".

Anyhow, we are a resisting clan! People is still interested in World Music made in Austria - so I could open some very interesting cooperations:
EPPAX - european plattform for perfoming arts exchange in Amsterdam is waiting for our contributions (artists, send your videos!) - a good platform for international exchange (14/15.march 2012)

babel med is probably the hottest upcoming spot for world music affizionad@s - we will organize an Austrian delegation to go there - who is interested in joining us is mostly welcome! (end of march 2012).
An other highlight is the cooperation with the magazine Songlines, where we are preparing showcases and a special CD-issue about Austria!

Otherwise, I presented  femous: 360° women in music - our platform for famous female culture to my colleagues, established good partnerships in many European, South- and North American countries,  had great meetings with the ladiezz from the Women of the World network…The result is amazing!

We will have femous nights all over Europe! An exchange concept that will open new markets for female artists and feature new and known talents! Check out our Website www.femous.at & - if female leaded - submit your projects!
And that's not enough. I will work more on Brazilian music in the future, joining forces with the Brazilian Exchange Offices and bringing great Brazilian artists to Austria. Célia Mara entered in a partnership with Orquestra Voadora from Rio de Janeiro, working on old Carnival songs… and!!!! in a partnership with amazing Elza Soares - I admire this lady so much!

so… keep on groovin'- we're ready to confront the global crisis with global grooves!

april. schlechtes wetter und viel arbeit.

und der märz verflog im nu...
Célia Mara Tour "Meus Amores" with Benjamim Taubkin & Margarethe Deppe was wonderful… emotional, tender… everything in a mood of love... adoramos!! We discovered Austria (and Slovenia) from north to south & east to west - with a lovely tourstart in Gutenbrunn beim Juster… so ein wunderbarer Platz und lieber Gastgeber - and intensive shows in Remise Bludenz - Cankarejev Dom in Ljubljana & Konzerthaus Vienna (sold out!!!). Here is the link to the austrian news talking about it … I'll post the press-clippings soon… check out the MICA-News here…

Next is  Washington DC and New York ::: with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forums, we will present parts of the new program Meus Amores… and have a Brazilian bastardsound Club-Debut in Joe's Pub - New York City!

… IG Worldmusic Austria:
Frauen/Musik Österreich Handbuch - gemeinsam mit dem bmeia und einer Gruppe von Expertinnen arbeiten wir an einem Ziel… musizierende Frauen in die Welt zu schicken. Die künstlerische Vielfalt Österreichs aufzeigen. Wir haben so viele hervorragende Künstlerinnen, die in unserem Land leben…Eine Zusammenarbeit mit den Kulturforen und Kulturabteilungen der Botschaften ist in Vorbereitung. Ich freue mich besonders, das Buch in Washington DC, im Österr. Kulturforum, am 30.4. vorstellen zu dürfen.
SOS MUSIKLAND ÖSTERREICH und Österreichischer Musikfonds: Staatsbürgerschaft ist kein Auschlußkriterium mehr! Sowohl die historische Musikcharta, die zwischen ORF und Österr. Muskwirtschaft abgeschlossen wurde, wie auch der große Produktionsfördertopf haben unsere Forderung nach Gleischstellung von MusikerInnen nicht österr. Staatsbürgerschaft anerkannt und in den Statuten umgesetzt. Es lebe die Vielfalt!
Überhaupt... Vernetzung läuft auf allen Ebenen... mehr dazu später.

… global bastards… outlaws im karibischen Raum
Natürlich, Brasilien - der Nordosten. Salvador lässt mich nicht los, mit "Die Königinnen vom Salgueiro haben relative Bürgerrechte" - der Doku über das Selbsthilfeprojekt Nika Jaina in einer Favela in Rio de Janeiro. Wie sie entstanden ist. Was Dona Ivete wichtig war. Und ich werde ich aus meinen brasiliansichen Wintern erzählen…  dem Projekt, ein Kulturzentrum in einer Favela aufzubauen - Alltag geprägt von Rechtlosigkeit und Gewalt. Gedanken zu institutionellem Rassismus und seinen Folgen. Aus weiblicher Sicht. Zwischen 7. und 9.5 in der Wiener Urania
Hier gibt's ein wenig zum "Einstimmen und Vorschauen": vimeo.com/channels/favela

roots in migration: presenting célia mara & la banda di piazza caricamento

While our old continent is transforming itself into „ fortress Europe“, excluding intercontinental migrations, closing borders and featuring racist policies in many of our countries, a new initiative with an extremely high musical and social potential is born:
Célia Mara & La Banda di Piazza Caricamento.
Fresh global bastardsound. It’s fun. It’s easy. It’s today’s urban Europe.
Made between Vienna and Genoa. Viva la globalisaXion cultural!

This is music for peace and social justice – the voices and sounds of migration, the musical and energetical melting of a globalized world. No borders to cultural expression!
It is a big multi-ethnic band full of energy, great grooves and dance performances… with powerful lead singer & guitar player - Diaspora-Brazilian - Célia Mara.
Célia Mara makes music with a big smile. Singing about new, interesting times.
She is a 21st. century singer – songwriter and guitar player, a real Brazilian groove lady, a jazz singer full of emotion, a screaming rock star, a sensual seduction, simply – a firework on stage. The international press calls her the Brazilian Manu Chao, compares her energy to Carlinhos Brown, her voice to Vanessa da Mata and her musical concept goes along with Tom Zé… She is considered one of Europe’s most impressive Brazilian artists, her “bastardsound” conquered the World Music Charts all over the continent, she performed at huge and prestigious festivals in Eastern and Western Europe and was awarded various times.
La Banda di Piazza Caricamento, directed by Davide Ferrari, is a collective of young artists in migration – bringing their “world”-backgrounds in the urban life of a new Europe. It is the babel of Genoa – young people immigrated from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan – brought together in 2007… different percussion and voices are dominating, DJ-sounds are integrating traditional sounds. The musicians mix, in a bursting and pressing sound, the rhythms of Cuban congas, African & Arab percussions of djembe and darabouka, the magical riffs of kora, street rap, Indian dance, lyric melodies from eastern Europe, India and Italy …
They are performing strong songs in many different languages, many of them written by Célia Mara: Brazil going funk, Samba mixed with Cumbia and Rap, Electric-Tango, Punk and NuBossa… The musical show is integrated with elements of urban and traditional dance, it is pure joy to watch these young, dynamic artists in their continuous improvisations…

But that’s not all: the projects stands symbolically for a new Europe, for cultural diversity in it’s best expression: there is no question of integration – everybody brings in his or her cultural backgrounds and information’s, creating something new, powerful and reflecting our actual, urban culture.
Considering the fact that today’s European cities are in a continuous process of transformation, stating that culture is flexible, always adapting itself to what it happening around, the anthropologists and cultural manager Davide Ferrari and Silvia Jura Santangelo decided to join forces in music management combined with anti-racist politics. They are offering this great musical project with an amazing live-show – fitting into any type of festival - completed by creative and social workshops & conferences in the fields of migrations and cultural diversity.
Davide Ferrari, since 25 years director of the “Festival del Mediterraneo” and Echo-Art in Genoa, started in 2007 the multi-ethnical project “La banda di piazza caricamento” – an Italian concept of joining musicians of different cultures and nations to big local orchestras. Davide, who is, besides being a musical director, a music therapist and a visionary, formed this big band of young artists with at least 10 different nationalities, respecting gender balance as well! Their first album “babelsound” was awarded with the “prêmio amnesty international”.
Silvia Jura Santangelo, president of the IG World Music Austria, director of globalista, the Vienna based label, Célia Mara management and NGO, is the other conceptionist of the project. Silvia is working a lot on questions of gender and race, running different projects in social and cultural fields. Actually, she is building up, together with Célia Mara, a socio-cultural center in Salvador Bahia. To combine the work of Davide and her’s is a way to bring forward new, interesting perspectives in a global European cultural work.

More infos: Silvia Jura Santangelo & Davide Ferrari / Echo-Art