A musical experience inclusivewithout gender discrimination, that can protect every form of disability and diversity. A live accessiblewhich can give everyone – equally – an identical opportunity to enjoy and share.
It was born with these assumptions “The concert I would like”: the path that for the first time involves together public, artists and professionals to design and concretely change the approach on and off the stage.
PALERMOTHE CANDELAISERS – SEPTEMBER 26 – KEEPON LIVE FEST
BOLOGNADUMBO – OCTOBER 11 & 12 – ROBOT FESTIVAL
ROMEMONK – OCTOBER 17
MILANSANTERIA – MILAN MUSIC WEEK
Designed by KeepOnLIVE – the associative network of live music spaces – “The Concert I Would Like” is created in collaboration with the Ministry of Culturethe support of Equally (the first Italian organization to address gender equality in the music industry); Uildm (reference association for people with dystrophies and other neuromuscular diseases); CSV Milan (volunteering and active citizenship development agent); Revelland And BAM! Cultural Strategies.
A long-lasting work two years which analyzed, through questionnaires and interviews, the different needs of the actors in the field and wants to realize today an ideal but not utopian concert, offering concrete solutions based on three pillars: diversityor an inclusive communication planning and dissemination; gender equality in programming, professional roles and communication dissemination; disabilitynamely the accessibility of spaces and the adoption of an inclusive code of conduct.
A project that takes shape in preview Thursday 26 September at 10pm at I Candelai, in Palermo, first of four concerts scheduled in Bologna, at Dumbo, Friday 11th and Saturday 12th October during the Robots Festival,to Rome at Monk Thursday 17 October and Milanat the Santeria within the scope of the Milan Music Weekfor a final appointment whose exact date will be communicated in the coming weeks.
In the Sicilian capital, for the inaugural stage, the spotlight is turned on a multidisciplinary and experimental live event that closes the 2024 edition of the annual meeting KeepOn LIVE FEST. On stage Dutch electro-pop duo CUT in the context of Revelland (2023 – 2025)the European collaborative network determined to create accessible performances. An initiative already landed on prestigious stages such as Sziget Festival (Hungary), ESNS (Netherlands), Roskilde (Denmark) and presented here for the first time in Italy.
The 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 passes through taste, smell and touch, to create a strong emotional bond in the audience.
The Italians are ahead of them 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 Georgiana Lo NardoLIS artist and performer from Palermo already on stage with Pinguini Tattici Nucleari.
A first live performance created to highlight some of the characteristics that “The concert I would like” should have: attention and care of the music programming and one communication that does not only promote the use of photos or images representative of the majority, also including people who are non-Caucasian or have physical disabilities.
For the people with disabilities, the “fenced off” area away from the stage and their friends needs to be reviewedthe 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 the then emerged staff training, the need for staff to be adequately trained both in welcoming and in the possible management of delicate situations. The issue is also relevant transport: you feel safer if there is a public transport network to reach the venue, a shuttle service or a taxi rank; while in the case of car parks, they should be well lit and monitored.
“The concert I would like” aims to undermine the assumption that some changes are too difficult in terms of economic expenditure, time, skills and human resources., proving 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.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
