Mapart
Monday, 3 December , 2007 – 16:05http://www.mapart.it
Contact: Marcello
Mapart got off to a good start in 2006 following to a profitable meeting among Marcello, Antonio and Paolo with the aim to bring cultural activities to life and promote public places for socialization.
Activities and Projects
Main Activity: SMART Music Festival – Competition of Bands without a recording agreement, playing own tunes. 25 bands from all over South Italy attended to the first edition (July 2007) attracting about 2000 spectators in two days. The competition awards two prizes:
1. Jury Award. The prize awarded by jurymen, a team of musicians, journalists and a producer, and consisting in a Video Clip production at care of Blue Video, audio-visual services provider and a video and cinema production company, is the reward for the winner.
2. Mapart Award. The prize awarded by Mapart is a “demo tape” production supervised by an artistic producer, given to the band valued with the best composing talent.
Other Activities: Mapart is currently involved in cultural exchange with Afrika and Argentina.
Programmes are supported by Terragnora, AfricaPeacePoint and common people. Mapart will also develop two training and promotion’s projects in assistance to the Centro Servizi al Volontariato di Basilicata.
Market and Income Sources
Our Association received contributions from Regione Basilicata, from Comune di Matera and some private sponsors. Mapart members and partners contribute to the fulfilment of its projects by own resouces and self-financing.
Problems and Obstacles to Growth
According to the members, the local and neighbouring cultural policy clearly shows antiquated methods and is completely disconnected with its products. The total lack of professionals in the area leaves much room for improvisation with insubstantial short-term results which hinder the medium/long term planning.
Chronic lack of information about legislation and management of cultural events represent the hardest stumbling block to overcome in order to improve the design and implementation of activities.
It is necessary that all players in the cultural market, strengthening the knowledge of the rules, clarifying all its aspects, collaborate to spread / distribute local culture as much as possible and support the promotional and / or commercial programming.
Further but congenital obstacle to cultural production is the difficulty in finding funds to carry out projects.
