Programmes

Three boutique festivals Yosigrock (Italy), Haldern Pop (Germany) and Taksirat (Macedonia) have partnered up with Music Estonia (Estonia), APS Nous (Italy), BJCEM (Belgium) and Vitatiim (Estonia) to develop a unique capacity-building program that will be implemented around Tallinn Music Week 2023. 

The boutique festivals contribute significantly to the local communities by creating a cultural and social impact by introducing new talent, involving the locals, translating social values from theory to reality and creating unforgettable moments on and off stage. Through volunteering, festivals offer a first insight into a potential professional career, an alternative to the daily routine. Festivals can foster diversity by including everyone, especially the most fragile of our societies, in a joint creative endeavour where the sum is much greater than its parts. That is why this project is directed towards the locals that do not have any (or have very little) experience in volunteering but would like to start. 

Through specifically developed capacity-building activities, SAFEPLACE gathers best practices in a pilot program, designed to subsequently share the outcome with the community of event organizers. Project speaks with the next generation of European festival organizers and professionals, about values, empowerment, inclusivity, accessibility and the positive madness needed to create the extraordinary. Project is funded by Agenzia Nazionale Per i Giovani “Erasmus+. EU programme”.

More info: https://www.safeplaceproject.eu

 

Look here the training programme in Tallinn.

 

SAFEPLACE partners are:

Associazione Culturale Glenn Gould has been active for over twenty years in Castelbuono, Sicily, with the aim of promoting public cultural initiatives, mainly musical, with a strong international connotation, amongst others Ypsigrock Festival. The association supports specific policies and projects for territorial infrastructural enhancement as well as accessibility and social inclusion.

APS Nous has been active in the cultural field and in the promotion of European opportunities science 2016.  Their aim is to combine different experiences to create a new center for youth in their area. Something young people can look up to, regarding both the promotion of EU programs and opportunities and the inclusion of new local artists and cultural promoters in a national and international network of partner associations, festivals and institutions. 

Raum 3 promotes two festivals: Haldern Pop, which has been held since 1984 in Rees, Rhineland (Germany), and Kaltern Pop, which takes place in Caldaro, South Tyrol (Italy), and also runs a label and booking agency.

Vitatiim is a youth organization whose mission is to create a supportive and inspiring environment so all of us could be a better version of ourselves, discover our own role in the global world and become flexible in an era of constant change and uncertainty.

Taksirat is the biggest music festival in Macedonia and the only winter music festival in South Eastern Europe. It is organized in late November and early December and it hosts approximately 15 000 visitors every year. 

BJCEM was founded in Sarajevo in 2001 and aims to foster mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and collaboration in the arts among young creators, around the Mediterranean. Their projects and activities provide training, mobility, and exchange opportunities that, in turn, support artists’ creative processes, through personal and professional growth.

Music Estonia is a music industry development centre and export office in Estonia, aiming at developing the Estonian music industry into a profitable and innovative sector that exports its services, products, and trademarks worldwide. In addition, Music Estonia is the conference partner of Tallinn Music Week and also develops cross-sector collaborations, organising seminars and workshops and participating in international projects and organisations.