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The Sounds of Stone – MaterArmoniae

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Co-produced by
Ateneo Musica Basilicata

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Project Partners:

Finisterre srl, Italy
Fondazione Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy
Fondazione Musica per Roma, Italy
Associazione culturale D'Orfeu, Portugal
World Music Festival, Slovakia
Accademia d'Ungheria, Italy

Artists:

Ambrogio Sparagna, Italy
Carlo Goldstein, Italy
MaterOrchestra, Italy
Ensemble Meridies, Italy
Gianvincenzo Cresta, Italy

The Sound of the Spirit: Nicola Campogrande, Valya Balkanska, Caterina Pontrandolfo, Mirna Kassis, Sainkho Namtchilak & Actores Alidos, Orchestra Filaminica Federiciana, Orchestra della Basilicata, Coro Giovanile Italiano, Cori ABACO

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/76/suoni_di_pietra_materarmoniae/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

Matera is the only place where entire neighbourhoods are created out of cave dwellings. And from now on, it will also be the home to timeless music. Embark on a journey to rediscover folk music from Lucania (the old name for Basilicata) and bring it into 2019. 

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The countdown begins for the 'Open Future, Together!' celebrations

The year of Matera European Capital of Culture is coming to an end, but the special events are not over yet.

19 days, 19 hours and 19 minutes of theatrical entertainment, musical and digital dance performances, workshops organised by Samsung, exhibitions and a festival dedicated entirely to the crossover of culture and the digital world, one of the central themes of the candidacy dossier that looks to the future as a legacy of this extraordinary journey.

The Open Culture Festival includes a series of initiatives dedicated to digital culture and technological innovation, hot topics for the cultural offer of the future with interactive experiences, multimedia games, entertainment and testimonials from the most important players in the digital market.

Every day until 20 December we will be counting down to the big Open Future, Together! party, featuring famous international musicians who will perform in Cava del Sole in the presence of a welcoming and festive audience.

For more information on everything that is happening between 1 and 20 December, see the 'special countdown' schedule on Matera Events and follow Matera 2019 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Gardentopia, artistic residencies to reflect on shared heritage

There are 32 artistic residencies that awakened the curiosity of, and continue to interest Basilicata, within the wider framework of the Gardentopia project. Individual and collective artists are embarking on a journey through the gardens, the vegetable patches and, more generally, the region's public areas to reflect, together with the citizens, on their function, trying to translate into virtuous practice the concept of an asset that is no longer just public but communal.

The artistic residencies have taken on various formats, from short workshops to longer investigations into the region's intangible heritage right up to the widespread initiative that has seen public places become areas of interest from the artists' viewpoints.

Following the residency model, workshops were held with specific targets that did not invest in the aspect of physical space. Knowledge was transferred or networked by the artist to the citizens, who, in turn, transferred their own knowledge to the artist. One example of this is Otobong Nkanga's residency at Casino Padula, in Matera, and in Pietragalla.

On the other hand, a different format was used for the residencies of Martina Muzi and Nomedas and Gediminas Urbonas, in Sasso di Castalda and Vaglio Basilicata, respectively. The residencies were longer than the previous ones, in which field research was carried out by citizens, focusing not only on the communal garden or vegetable patch, but on the entire surrounding area. The study and re-working of the physical and intangible heritages have been a means of restoring centrality to the region, leaving citizens the legacy of a constantly evolving and never completed common space.

The third, and final, model of Gardentopia residencies reflected on the transformation of public spaces. Landscape artists and architects have imagined new forms of managing shared assets and opened up discussions on the sustainability of spaces. Two examples of this approach were the residencies of Volumezero in Montemilone and Lavello and Luigi Coppola at Casino Padula in Matera.

Gardentopia's cycle of residencies is coming to an end. However, reflection on the new ways of thinking about communal spaces will certainly continue.