Wind Art Festival Europe 2011-2012
Start date: Aug 1, 2010,
With Wind Art Festival Europe 2011-2012 we aspire festival editions in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and in a big number of other European countries during the season 2011-2012 for the first time. The overall need to renew organ repertory and ways of performance, as well as local needs to increase audience for organ performances meet our goals in order to give the organ a natural role in cultural life.Going back to former functions of the organ (circus, theatre) and renewing them into creative events, we invite artists from many art disciplines to integrate the organ and the organ venue in their artistic works. With our successful experiences of several festival editions in the past, Wind Art will inspire local organists and other artists in towns all over Europe to promote the organ, calculating with local interests, cultures and possibilities.The core of Wind Art Festival Europe will be made by six important organ towns of various characters:- Utrecht (NL), representing Western Europe;- Copenhagen (DK) and Malmö (SE), representing Northern Europe;- Toulouse (FR), representing Southern Europe;- Brno and Ostrava (CZ), representing Eastern Europe.Many other European towns will join this European festival with productions from these towns and by producing own productions in Wind Art style: programs that combine the organ with dance, film, theatre, poetry, visual arts, literature and all kinds of music. Artists and new artistic works from all over Europe will tour along many towns in Europe during the whole season 2011-2012. We intend to reach 40.000 people with ca. 80 performances by ca. 200 artists from all over Europe at 50 venues at least. By exposing new applications of art disciplines with organs, churches and other venues on a high artistic level Europeans will be aware of the diversity of their common European cultural heritage. Artists will discover new possibilities of interdisciplinary art forms.
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