“The concert I would like”: the path that for the first time involves the public, artists and professionals together to plan and concretely change the approach on and off the stage.
Conceived by KeepOn LIVE – the associative network of live music spaces – “Il Concerto che vorrei” is realized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the support of Equaly (the first Italian organization to deal with gender equality in the music industry); Uildm (a reference association for people with dystrophies and other neuromuscular diseases); CSV Milano (agent for the development of volunteering and active citizenship); Revelland and BAM! Cultural Strategies.
A two-year work that analyzed, through questionnaires and interviews, the different needs of the actors in the field and today wants to create an ideal but not utopian concert, offering concrete solutions based on three pillars: diversity, or rather an inclusive programming and communication dissemination; gender equality in programming, in professional roles and in communication dissemination; disability, or rather the accessibility of spaces and the adoption of an inclusive code of conduct.
A project that will take shape as a preview on Thursday 26 September at 10pm at I Candelai, in Palermo, the first of four concerts scheduled in Bologna, at Dumbo, on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 October during the Robot Festival, in Rome at Monk on Thursday 17 October and in Milan, at Santeria as part of the Milano Music Week, for a final event whose precise date will be communicated in the coming weeks.
THE STAGES
In the Sicilian capital, for the inaugural stage, the spotlight is turned on a multidisciplinary and experimental live that closes the 2024 edition of the annual meeting KeepOn LIVE FEST. On stage the Dutch electro-pop duo CUT as part of Revelland (2023 – 2025), the European collaborative network determined to create accessible shows. An initiative that has already landed on prestigious stages such as the Sziget Festival (Hungary), ESNS (Netherlands), Roskilde (Denmark) and presented here for the first time in Italy.
CUT are Sebastiaan Dutilh and Belle Doron, and they go on stage with “The Ritual”: an immersive and multisensory experience guided by a “divine voice” that crosses taste, smell and touch, to create a strong emotional bond in the audience.
They are anticipated by the Italians One eat One, the first electronic music band in the world composed of able-bodied people and people with disabilities: a unique and well-blended entity accustomed to blending individual personalities and characteristics as they do in their sound between guitar riffs, minimalist rhythms and melody. The evening opens with Giorgina Lo Nardo, an artist and LIS performer from Palermo who has already been on stage with Pinguini Tattici Nucleari.
A first live event created to highlight some of the characteristics that “The concert I would like” should have: attention and care of the musical programming and a communication that does not only promote the use of photos or images representing the majority, also including non-Caucasian people or people with physical disabilities.
For people with disabilities, the “fenced off” area far from the stage and their friends should be reviewed, as well as the obligation to have a companion or even, in some cases, the requirement of 100% disability to be able to use dedicated spaces and services.
The importance of staff training then emerged, the need for staff to be adequately trained both in welcoming and in the possible management of delicate situations. The transport issue is also relevant: you feel safer if there is a network of public transport to reach the venue, a shuttle service or a taxi station; while in the case of car parks, they should be well lit and monitored.
“Il concerto che vorrei” aims to undermine the assumption that some changes are too difficult in terms of economic expenditure, time, skills and human resources, demonstrating that concerts like this one in Palermo, rather than being a source of concern, can instead stimulate a new approach and generate satisfaction both in the team of those who work in music and in the public.
THE DATES
PALERMO, I CANDELAI – SEPTEMBER 26 – KEEPON LIVE FEST
BOLOGNA, DUMBO – 11 AND 12 OCTOBER – ROBOT FESTIVAL
ROME, MONK – OCTOBER 17
MILAN, SANTERIA – MILAN MUSIC WEEK
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