KAMS - EFWMF tour grants

The KAMS-EFWMF Tour Grant was launched in 2010 by the European Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals (EFWMF) and the Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS). The EFWMF‘s member-festivals can apply to KAMS for the grant, and the Korean performance groups invited receive the grants including airfare and freight.

We hope that this program will contribute to promoting interaction between the EFWMF and Korean music groups by helping Korean performers establish a presence at EFWMF events and by supporting festival programs that feature Korean music.

Eight EFWMF festivals applied for the grant. The invited Korean groups include “Sonagi Project,” “Gut Performance - Mr. Dong-ho Choi,” “Dulsori,” “Be-Being” and “Ahn Sook-sun.”  

“Dulsori” has been invited to four festivals – the Czech Republic’s Colors of Ostrava (slated for July), the International Petra Festival and the Heraklion Festival in Greece, and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark – and should enhance the efficiency of Korean performers’ European tours through joint program at all four festivals.  

Sfinks Mixed of Belgium requested “Gut Performance - Mr. Dong-ho Choi” and “Ahn Sook-sun” after two years of research conducted by its art director Patrick De Groote, who visited Korea in 2009-2010. The related programs will likely be based on the director’s well-rounded understanding of Korean music and performers. “Ahn Sook-sun” will be also presented at the Brave Festival of Poland under the auspices of Sfinks Mixed.  

“Be-Being” has been invited to the Uppsala International Sacred Music Festival. Part of a Buddhist music project, it will introduce unique Korean religious music to European audiences.

Austria’s Festival Glatt&Verkehrt has invited “Sonagi Project.” The Korean production was designed specifically for this festival, which celebrates world, contemporary and jazz music. Glatt&Verkehrt promotes collaboration among musicians from all over the world through joint projects with local cellists.

The 2010 KAMS-EFWMF Tour Grant will support the aforementioned festivals and performers to contribute to their co-prosperity.

Jury:    

Hee-Sun Kim (Professor, Kookmin University, School of Education)

Woo-Chang Hwang (World Music Journalist)

Yeon Woo (Director of International Dep. Korea Arts Management Service)

Korea Arts Management Service www.kams.or.kr

New EFWMF members in 2010

FESTIVAL MEMBERS

Brave Festival in Wroclaw, Poland (2 – 10 July 2010) Brave Festival, organized since 2005 by The Song of the Goat Theatre in Wroclaw, Poland, is a festival of brave people, people who speak about where they come from, what their values are and what their tradition and spirituality is. It is a festival about a world which is vanishing and will die if we do nothing to hold this process back, at least a bit. It is not about works of art, but about art through which it is possible to save and protect thousands of forgotten, abandoned and forlorn cultures and people. That is why we called it "Brave Festival - Against Cultural Exile". More info: www.bravefestival.pl

Esperanzah in Floreffe, Belgium (6 – 8 August 2010)
Esperanzah! is an invitation to dance, to dream, for people of all colours to come together with open minds, in the unique, prestigious setting of the Abbey of Floreffe, near Namur in Belgium.
Three stages will host more than 30 groups from all over the world, artists with recognised talents as well than some to be discovered.
Esperanzah! is also a friendly place to wander between the “Place aux Possibles”, the cinema festival, works of art, conferences, a kids’ village, craftsmen and world restaurants, street performers, 24-hour Radio Esperanzah!… two camping sites.
Esperanzah! is a festival which, through the mobilisation of numerous NGOs and partner associations, is committed to a different world. More info: www.esperanzah.be

Uppsala International Sacred Music Festival in Uppsala, Sweden (4 – 7 November 2010)
The Uppsala International Sacred Music Festival is a completely new element in the Swedish and Nordic world of music - a festival which ignores genre boundaries and looks for other points of intersection in our inward musical being, a festival devoted to spiritual music and the spirituality of music, whether sacred or profane, a festival open to music from all religions, cultures and ages. The Festival takes place at All Saints, at the end of October and beginning of November. More info: www.ukk.se

ASSOCIATED MEMBERS

Australasian World Music Expo in Melbourne, Australia (18 - 21 November 2010)
Now in its third year, AWME is the Australia-Pacific region's premier music industry conference and showcase of Indigenous, roots and world music, and a major event which cements Melbourne's reputation as Australia's live music capital. Bringing together musicians, industry representatives and festival audiences from across Australia and around the globe for three days of the finest music from the Australasian region and beyond. 
By day, AWME is a trade fair which attracts some of the world's most prominent and influential festival bookers, talent agents, record labels and media for workshops, panel discussions and industry networking.
By night, AWME transforms a variety of Melbourne venues into a festival showcase in which delegates and music fans rub shoulders and sample some of the most exciting world, Indigenous, roots and folk music the planet has to offer. More info: www.awme.com.au 



'Le Kolatier' African Music Market in Douala, Cameroon (17 - 20 November 2010) 
Every two years at Douala (Cameroon), the best musical groups from Africa and Indian Ocean, selected by a committee of professionals perform at the African music market.
Le Kolatier welcomes professionals from various countries and from every level in the music business (labels, publishers, festivals, venues, agents, institutions, journalists…). Additionally, other activities are organized during the event: tradefair, conferences, workshops, networking. The city of Douala, major entry harbour for Central Africa, offers an incomparable and wide range of cultural and culinary activities. Between two editions, Le Kolatier helps the musical groups by featuring a professional framework (promotion, training, search for opportunities of touring), in order to make them more capable of arousing the interest of festivals and venues. More info: www.lekolatier.org

 

Babel Med 2010 in pictures

EFWMF MEETS @ BABEL MED MUSIC

The European Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals will hold its annual general meeting and members meeting in Marseille in collaboration with Babel Med.

The EFWMF will be very present at this year's edition, please come and meet us at our stand, especially at our "5PM Informal International Meet&Greet&Drink".

We will also co-host two special sessions on saturday march 27th.
At 10AM there is a session on international collaboration and networking,
followed by a meeting for all festival directors at 12.00hrs

We do hope to see you all there!

more information: http://www.dock-des-suds.org/#babel