Name of the project:
Music Art Tabor - experimenting with new spaces to open the boundaries between professional artists and amateurs through the synthesis of arts and interpretations of traditional topics related to Roma culture
Operational programme:
Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation
Priority:
Access to Arts and Culture Improved
Name of procedure:
Second call for project proposals under Outcome 2 “Access to Arts and Culture Improved”
Deadline:
19 months
Short description of the project
Music Art Tabor has a main goal is to increase people's access to arts and culture, by experimenting with new spaces to open the boundaries between professional and amateur artists and interpretations of traditional topics related to Roma culture.
The main activities of the project are:
- Project management;
- Training of expert staff
- Development and implementation of a plan-strategy for attracting audiences;
- Experimenting with new spaces outside the city center -the outermost districts of Sofia inhabited by Roma -Organization and holding of a traveling event/festival;
- Activity for publicity and visualization.
The activities aimed directly the needs and requirements of the target groups: artists, representatives of minority or ethnic groups and young people, aiming to solve the problems of the respective geographical areas.
The project is in line with the objectives of Result 2 Improved access to arts and culture. The synthesis of the arts-various artistic and creative events, performances, exhibitions and initiatives, will revive the peripheral areas (the extreme districts of Sofia with a concentration of Roma population) by attracting new audiences. A traveling event will improve access to arts and culture and breathe new life into remote smaller towns and villages in northern Bulgaria. The project will contribute to the promotion of cultural initiatives among Roma and improve their access to culture through successful bilateral cooperation and exchange between Association IME Bulgaria and NOPA Norway.
The expected results from the implementation of the activities are:
*Improved access to arts and culture, measurable by the number of people attending cultural activities.
*Support for audience development, measurable by the number of trained professionals; the number of performed artistic events and the number of performed artistic traveling events.
*Improved entrepreneurship in the field of culture, measurable by the number of developed and implemented plans to attract audiences.