The Banco Sabadell Foundation, sponsor of a large number of prestigious musical initiatives, has taken another step in its contribution to the good health of the country's cultural life and its social impact, promoting collaboration between different leading entities on the music scene . The SumArte initiative brought together about twenty that Friday to share experiences, create spaces for reflection and establish alliances for collaboration and co-creation of projects in the sector.
The Liceu has hosted this day at the Saló dels Miralls, energized by Kubbo, a performing arts and social innovation company that seeks to promote change through artistic experiences. In this case it was about exchanging knowledge and looking for common elements in order to be more effective in social impact.
For Sonia Mulero, director of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, "it is necessary to promote models of social impact through collaboration, and we do this by facilitating connections and creating spaces to share, add and face challenges with sensitivity towards the collective. The musical scene is no exception and SumArte has been able to generate this meeting between directors of entities with which we collaborate to draw together new windows of opportunity”.
Thus, directors and representatives of the Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante (ADDA), the Maria Canals Competition, the Franz Schubert Association, the Camerata Garnati, the International Center for Early Music (CIMA), the Esmuc, the Euskadiko have been contacted Orkestra, the Bachcelona Foundation, the Liceu itself, the Ópera Catalunya, the Pau Casals Foundation, the Vallviva, the Teatro Real, the Sifu Group, Ibercamera, Joventuts Musicals de Torroella de Montgrí, the Palau de la Música, the Musical Quincena of San Sebastian and Xamfrà.
Kubbo has proposed dynamics to all of them with the aim of "reimagining the limits of our institutions to create a more collaborative cultural ecosystem".
"It has been enriching to share and learn about the criteria of other entities to establish collaborations", affirmed Daniel Tarrida, director of Bachcelona. "It is very positive to bring together people from the sector who otherwise would never interact and I have already had two concrete collaborations for the future," says Víctor Medem, director of the Franz Schubert Association and also of the Schubertíada. "The inputs in meetings such as This makes you get ideas, beyond the dynamics. And from the Schubertiada we are immensely grateful to the Banco Sabadell Foundation. In this sense, I positively receive everything they propose."
Jordi Pardo, director of the Fundació Pau Casals, also assures that "the possibility of breaking the ice and distances is very interesting, and having time to talk about these issues of collaboration. Because what they call the musical ecosystem, which already we would like it to be, it is characterized by a lack of collaboration and cooperation, which detracts from the enormous potential that Barcelona, Catalonia or Spain as a whole have, so this useful and practical initiative is to be appreciated, and I thank you to Banc Sabadell.
As part of the dynamics, the participants have been proposed to make a kind of proclamation against collaboration, a manifesto not without humor. For starters, collaborating limits the power of the ego; it is more difficult to maintain a dominant position in a project; it is more comfortable and saves time to avoid dialogue, agreements and collaboration; you save giving explanations; it implies more transparency when setting common objectives and strategies, and therefore, there is less room for empty words and grandiose concepts; it means less money for one, of course, for which we compete instead of collaborating, and "finally -concludes Pardo-, collaboration shows the mediocrity of many projects". "In short, the weakening of the cultural system has exactly a lot to do with this lack of collaboration."
