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Dear all, MO’s, partners and friend of BRC,
BRC has recieved a grant from Roskilde Festival Foundation designated to
create 4 so-called "light tower organisations" hosting and managing a
sustainable rehearsal room with all basic equipment and a small office
facility.
Description of the project, from the application document:
"Targeted capacity building of 4 strategically selected local music
organizations, which then becomes light tower organizations capable of
serving as a model for other organizations as well as governmental
structures.
As an outcome of the project the host organizations end up (as a minimum)
having an open and democratic structure, have their own premises including a
rehearsal room, simple office (one pc) and access to a local venue where the
musicians can perform concerts.
The estimated financial support from BRC for a complete rehearsal room and a
simple office is approximately 3.000,- EUR - After which the local
organization is self sustainable, as through a reasonable membership fees it
will be possible to maintain the equipment and pay a smaller rent."
What do we expect from potential host organisations?
- There is a need for rehearsal facilities in the local environment
- The host organisation has a known history of working from a democratic and
open platform with the local music environment and has a history with BRC
- The host organisation can, when selected for this project, provide a
sustainable space for the rehearsal room and small office
- The host organisation will produce a plan for the management and
sustainability of the rehearsal facility (can be written in English or local
language) and the host organisation is willing to develop this plan in
cooperation with BRC
- If the equipment bought by or with support from BRC is not used for the
designated purpose it must be handed back to BRC and will be used as
intended elsewhere
What can BRC offer?
- Support and assistance from competent BRC persons, both consulting the
practical process and assisting in negitiations with local authorities
through personal meetings, letters of support, etc.
- Up to 3000,- euros in costs for equipment and other establishing expenses
- Knowledge about ways to make your local music NGO stronger,
selfsustainable and a key player in the local cultural environment
How does it work?
All organisations who will candidate to be partner in this project and
hosting one of the 4 rehearsal rooms should send their official request to
BRC/Johannes Batzer, johannes.ask@mail.dk latest on the 19th of April 2009.
A committy of BRC boarmembers/advisory boardmembers who are not from
applying organisations will consider the applications and start the
selecting the 4 organisations from criterias of local needs, chance of
success and geographical/national diversity.
Looking forward to recieving your application!
Best regards,
Johannes Batzer, BRC's chairman of the board
Dear all, MO’s, partners and friend of BRC,
We are now running on the last bit of 2008. Winter is closing in on all of us, and cultural events and socializing all happen indoors. This is the latest news from Balkan Rock Council…
BRC is finally registered!
By 1st of October BRC was fully legally registered as an NGO in Serbia, enabling us to fundraise and administrate funds independently – also, opening branch offices in other countries is now an option. The registration has been a high priority for a long time to ensure sustainability and manoeuvrability and it is now reality. It is possible for groups of MO’s to fundraise for activities using BRC’s name and legal platform, just remember that any application in BRC’s name must be recognized by the board and don’t forget that mismanagement towards donors and partners in BRC’s name will harm all of us.
At the moment fundraising for BRC’s activities has the boards first priority – please see the strategy on www.balkanrockcouncil.com
Four sustainable rehearsal rooms will be initiated and co-funded by BRC
Lately BRC received a grant of 13.000,- euros from The Roskilde Festival Foundation to establish 4 self sustainable rehearsal rooms in cooperation with local MO’s in the region. The rehearsal rooms will be made after the same model as the BRC supported facility in Prijedor, where a recording studio and a rehearsal room serving the local bands is managed Manifest.
The idea is that the host MO’s is able to find a proper space and will receive most of the needed equipment from BRC – after ensuring that the place will be sustainable with minor income from users for rent and maintenance, and hereby creates a steady facility and turning point for the MO and the local music scene.
More is to come – all MO’s will receive a call for candidates to host these rehearsal rooms.
Use our website
Please don’t hesitate to publish the event on BRCs website, no matter if it is initiated by MO’s or other cultural initiators in the region. It is well visited, but it will only be a true info source on SEE cultural life if it is used to post the cultural events, big and small, local and regional. Send our info to mirefric@gmail.com
Come forward
Initiatives from MO’s and individual are most welcome. They can be addressed to the board or developed in independent groups of people with the same interest and focus, just remember to get a clearance from the board if You intend to fundraise or implement in BRC’s name. Also, good ideas, constructive criticism, questions and requests for help of any kind, please write BRC’s board!
See Ya in 2009!
20. August 2008, Slovenia
The project “KULT 2009” is an exchange of “art mind, soul, thinking in the most open-minded way”. It will involve artists (music gropus) from Balkan countries and Slovenia as a hosting country. It will last for 7 days (including days of arrival and departure). And it will be realised during May 2009 with main theme: EU societies and cultural diversity. At the beginning of the project, every single of participating artist will be joined in the group of 4-5 people from different cultural background. The “multicultural groups” will choose the role of important national ambassador (for example: cultural ambassador political ambassador, etc.). During all exchange they will have to solve five major tasks, which will be connected with actual problematic in EU (for example: Culture Shock & The Problem Of Adjustment To New Cultural Environments, Intercultural communication (language as a barrier, cultural diversity and ethnocentrism), Art as a common dialogue among various cultures, Understanding the needs and cultural references of the “new inhabitants” by the “old ones” and vice versa could limit the effect of some factors leading to xenophobia, violence in the form of social discrimination due to different cultural references which can be transformed to violence in the form of criminality. These tasks will be part of the project, where the participants will take the role of ambassador, they choose and try to think and act as these ambassadors in a way to solve the task in te best matter or all EU citizens. After their roles will be determined and before first task, they will have an opportunity to get through discussion and with information materials about EU policy. At the end of the fifth day of the project, after the last task will be solved, participants will prepare presentation of their project.
The exchange will include units of empirical learning where, for example the detection of fear towards the “Stranger” and the “Foreigner” will be supplemented by the empirical approach to the values and important matters to every day life which probably connect cultures. It will be expressed through artist who should be opened against other cultures.
During all stay, they will live together in a big tent or near-bye hotels. And during their “free time” they will perform music. Other also involved will perform literature, theater, music performances, body art, exhibitions etc. - to express their culture through different performances with same goal: raising understanding and tolerance beetween cultures.
The project aims at the connection of all the points of view of this multifactor social problem and their transformation into a unified functional sum, emphasizing on the problems of the national community.
The INTER-CULTURE project aims at offering a modern tool expressed through art to face problems and enhance the co-existence of different cultures in the same community (immigrants, refuges, minorities, etc.), based on interdisciplinary approach and responding to real social needs.
The expected result of such an approach is that tolerance and understanding of the different, will be strengthened in the conscience of citizens, so, then, they can proceed, exchanging and cooperating in order to develop in common their community.
Whole project will be documented with photo and video camera and with sound recording devices. So, after the the seven days, we (organizers) will prepare DVD and the wepage about the EU works camp, its activities and results. Both,the DVD and the webpage will be available to all participants of tje project, so after the actual project perido, they will multiply the results of the exchange among artists in their communities.
If you are interested to participate Please get in contact with us till 20th of August. For further questions contact us.
If you are interested to participate Please get in contact with us
till 20th of August. For further questions contact us.
Mateja Gerjevic
direktorica
Mladinski center Brezice
Gubceva 10a
SI - 8250 Brezice
www.mc-brezice.si
mateja.gerjevic@mc-brezice.si
tel.: + 386 7 49 900 70
fax.: + 386 7 49 900 71
Trenchtown festival 2008
1-2-3 Maj - Etno kamp, Palić
Velika mi je čast da u ova teška vremena najavim bar malo pozitive...Trenchtown "line up" se polako popunjava, a ono što za sigurno možemo reći je da nas očekuje stari dobri Trenchtown na Etno kampu sa brdo dobre muzike, krejzi nastupa i pre svega najopuštenijom atmosferom na planeti Zemlji tokom 1.2. i 3. Maja. Pripremamo mnoštvo zanimljivih i atraktivnih dešavanja preko dana (pozorišta, net1zen radio...). Očekuje nas i posebna scena sa istočnjačkim fazonima - nargile, čajevi, ćilimi...
Reggae stage će ovaj put krasiti i redovna bina na kojoj će se preko dana održavati koncerti...
Lista bendova-DJa koji su za sada potvrdili učešće na festivalu:
LET 3
KORAI OROM / http://www.myspace.com/koraiorom
DISCIPLINA KITCHME
WIKLUH SKY
MARCHELO AND SHOCk ORKESTRA
STRAIGHT JACKIN
Narco Polo
Coyote + Mc Milovan + Martinees selecta
MKDSL
Flip
Dee face
Rahmanee
i još mnogi drugi...
http://www.trenchtown.org
http://www.myspace.com/trenchtownfestival
SOUND.ING Workshop
11. - 13. Mart 2008. - Klub FEEDBACK, Niš
Poštovani,
BRC aka WIRED network, poziva vas na učešće u:
Radionici produkcije zvuka
Radionica je namenjena ljudima sa prethodnim iskustvom, ali i onima koji žele da nauče nešto novo. Moderatori ovih predavanja bice Vladan Lilić ADVL sound & light (inženjer zvuka, “tonac” Van Gogh-a 7 godina) i Nikola Vranjković studio Berar (“tonac” Bajaga, Darkwood dub, Darko Rundek, Masimo Savić, Eyesburn, E-Play….). Predavanja će nakon prvog dana upoznavanja, otići u pravcu interesovanja i iskustva učesnika i nadogradjivanju istog.
Tehnička produkcija teme:
- Elementi i komponente razglasa
- Zvučnici i zvučne kutije
- Vertikalni i linijski zvučni sistemi
- Postavljanje i odredjivanje pravilnog pokrivanja prostora zvukom
- Refleksije, dilej zvučne skupine
- Skretnice aktivne, pasivne
- Pojačavaci
- Princip rada zvučnika, problemi, horne
- Mikseri, analogni, digitalni
- Prikaz jednog kanala miksera
- Put audio signala kroz ulazni kanal miksera
- Praktični saveti, analize većih koncerata koji su održani kod nas, EXIT festival i sl
- Setovanje zvučnih sistema
- Korišćnje poznatog materijala kao uzorak ili suma
- Korišćenje analajzera
- Softveri za analizu SIA SmaartLive
- Uvod u monitore i monitoring na bini
- Monitorske kutije, pozicioniranje na bini i njihova funkcija, PM monitori
- Praktičan rad sa klubskim sistemom, povezivanje, provera faza, podešavanje frekventne karakteristike, ekvalizacija
- Povezivanje monitora na bini i njihovo podešavanje
- Mikrofoni, vrste mikrofona, pravilno postavljanje
- DI ili mikrofoni, Odabir mikrofona prema polarnim karakteristikama
- Multikori i distribucije
- Praktičan rad sa više vrsta mikrofona, prezentacija
Nikola Vranjković će se paralelno sa teoretskim delom baviti praktičnim savetima i “rider” listama većih bendova sa kojima je radio i preneti iskustva iz svog rada.
Molimo Vas da pošaljete vaše podatke vezane za rad na produkciji zvuka, kratko pismo motivacije za učešće na radionici, kao i Vaše kontakt brojeve telefona i e-mail adresa na mail adresu wiredbalkan@gmail.com. Poslednji dan za prijem Vaših aplikacija je 09.03.2008.godine do 14 sati. Istog datuma bićete obavešteni o statusu Vaše aplikacije.
Učesnicima koji dolaze iz regiona putni troškovi (uz dokazivanje istih putem autobuske karte) do 60 eura za oba pravca, troškovi smeštaja, kao i troškovi hrane biće pokriveni od strane Balkan Rock Councile.
S Poštovanjem,
Balkan Rock Council
Kontakt: Marko Pejić
wiredbalkan@gmail.com
+381 62 224828
Prvi Anarcho Punk festival u Sarajevu
17. 18. & 19. Januar '08.
Lokacija je Kino Bosna, eX Kino 1. Maj - Sarajevo
Grupa pojedinaca/ki je za ovaj period za sve nas pripremila nekoliko situacija koje bi nas sve trebale barem dobro zabaviti, pa vas pozivamo da dodjete da skupa blejimo i rokamo kako vjera anarhistička nalaže. Sva tri dana festivala imat ćemo priliku uživati u projekcijama filmova sa anarhističkom i pank tematikom, slušaonama koje će za nas sve pripremiti dobri Dj Gabudo, te izložbama koje će nas zapitati u kojem svijetu živimo i Žasto je to tako.
Sva tri dana u prostorijama Kina Bosna bit će postavljena i distribucija materijala svih vrsta (knjige, fanzini, linux distribucija, bedževi, majice i ostale zeze) koje će sa sobom donijeti dragi/e prijatelji i prijateljice iz Freedom Fight-a, AnFeme, Sto čitaš?, KomiKaza i drugih kolektiva.
Ovim mejlom vas sve toplo pozivamo da se pridružite veseloj raji kojoj granice i nacije nisu bitne i koja na jedan kreativan način želi pokazati da je drugačiji svijet moguć!
Program dešavanja:
Dan I Četvrtak
18:00 - otvaranje kolektivne izložbe (doomsday graphics, shaved woman, kre(a)ktiva, komikaze) + otvoreni DIY distro
19:30 - projekcija filma: punked and disorderly
21:00 - punk slušaona (dj_Gabudo, ZG)
Dan II Petak
11:00 - sastanak Anarhopunk saveza - Svi/e koji/e ste zainteresirani/e mozete se pridružiti. Lokacija je Kino Bosna
12:00 - radionica "Hrana, ne oružje" (teoretski dio) - Ko je za, neka upada! Lokacija Kino Bosna
13:00 - "Hrana, ne oružje" - sakupljanje hrane po pijacama
15:30 - kuhanje "Hrana, ne oružje"
17:00 - " UličTna akcija ispred sarajevske Katedrale
18:00 - projekcija filma: "You can't be neutral on a moving train"
domunetarac, režiser Howard Zinn
20:30 - KoNcert (Unutrašnja Emigracija- Pd, Život piše drame - BL, Rapa nui- Sa, Kapetan Kasim - DV)
Upad # 3KM
Dan III Subota
12:00 - sastanak Anarhopunk saveza - Svi/e koji/e ste zainteresirani/e možete se pridružiti. Lokacija je Kino Bosna
17:30 - projekcija filma - The power of community - How cuba survived oil pick
20:30 - Svirka (Vitalni organ - Grebnice, Veliko slovo - Niš, Ofsajd - Sa, Ljubisa Samardzic- Zg, Aktivna propaganda - Ljubljana)
Upad # 3 KM
(A) je to! ali i još mnogo toga...
creACTive
Dear partners & colleagues,
The Youth Association creACTive from Skopje, Macedonia (www.cre-act-ive.org) is preparing 3 projects for the 1st of February deadline.
2. Youth Exchange for Young Musicians
Project Name: "The strings of our traditions"
This youth exchange is aimed at exploring intercultural learning through music. It tends to give an opportunity to young musicians to experience an intercultural environment and to get involved in a process of non-formal education – with music as the main theme. Music will be used
as a common medium that connects all of the participants, and also as an appropriate technique for exploring the culture and traditions of the other countries.
Target group:
Young rock musicians aged 15 to 25. Preferably, they should be a music band that already works together, containing 4 to 5 members. The participants are expected to have some experience in performing, since they will need to prepare a couple of songs and perform them at three concerts.
Dates and Venue:
Kavadarci, Macedonia; second half of August, 2008.
Activities:
The activity program will consist of two main elements: workshops of non-formal education and music workshops. The non-formal education workshops will be on subjects such as prejudices and stereotypes, intercultural learning, active citizenship and others, while during the music workshops the participants will be exploring the traditional music from the other countries. They will be preparing together for the concerts, and will also try to create rock versions of old traditional songs from each of the countries. As a preparation before the project, the participants should have 2-3 songs already ready for performing; and should also bring with them a couple of traditional songs, which will serve as a material for the workshops. The final events of the project will be 3 rock concerts taking place in different cities.
Partners: The project will involve 4 project partners, two from South-East Europe and two from Programme countries (European Union + EFTA + Turkey).
More about other creACTive projects and how to participate on www.cre-act-ive.org
Team of creACTive
fax number +389 2 20 36 910
e-mail: contact@cre-act-ive.org