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How culture and media can play a role to reduce poverty and increase social cohesion in cities?

In 2009 the founder and director of Big Bang Lab, Sergio López Figueroa, received an award from the British Council, part of the Cultural Leadership Programme.  He worked in Delhi with Prayas an NGO supporting  underprivileged children in Delhi. Other partners involved were the Public TV channel, Media training facilities, cultural venues and music organizations.  The output was Delhi City Symphony, a contemporary silent film  produced  with the children with a live music performance. They also participated in the creation of a documentary about social and environmental issues in the city. This project engaged underprivileged children through music and digital media, with their own musical heritage in an imaginative solution to urban challenges.

Delhi City Symphony had many positive outcomes achieved in a very short time, breaking preconceptions and encouraging Sergio to continue further  to bring a solid framework of Cultural Social Resonsibility and a the programme Global City Symphony, looking at culture heritage and the intangibles in the regeneration of cities and community cohesion.

Global City Symphony is a three year programme combining culture, digital media  and music in the context of the urban regeneration and community development. This  framework is an opportunity  for a private and public sustainable model looking at outcomes towards a common goal.

FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION CD FOR Un Chien Andalou (1929) HARLOCK AWARD 2006

We are looking for sponsors to support Global City Symphony. The funds will cover the costs and expenses of promotion of Global City Symphony at key international conferences and the design of a website and social network for Global City Symphony project. For the sponsorship purposes we are using the recording of Clonic Mutations, the original music score for Un Chien Andalou (15′18″). We are requesting the support of £30.60 per CD of this limited edition.

You can listen to samples of the music here

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Option 1 Sergio is offering the limited edition of the music for 9 strings, piano and percussion written for the silent film by Buñuel and Dalí Un Chien Andalou (1929), winner of the Harlock award at Rimusicazioni Film Festival, 2006, a festival dedicated to new music for silent films. The outcome was the release of a limited edition of the music on CD. At a rate of £2 / min = £30.60 You will get in return a free ticket in the next Big Bang Lab production and a credit on the Global City Symphony website and the first future documentary as a supporter (unless you prefer to remain anonymous)

Option 2 a donation of your choice towards the site design aiming and a credit as supporter on the first City Symphony created (unless you prefer to remain anonymous)

DELHI CITY SYMPHONY AND THE MEDIA

“A sound vision” The Hindu “Tughlakabad fortissimo” Time Out, Delhi “We are creating Heritage right now” Kamalini Dutt, Doordarshan TV archives Resurgence magazine

We have been in this locality for so long but we never thought about the kind of issues like water and sanitation. Now we feel the issues alive and breathing around us.

 

Bridging the Urban Divide

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities, it is projected that in the next 50 years, two-thirds of us will be living in towns and cities. A major challenge is to minimize burgeoning poverty in cities, improve access of the urban poor to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation and to achieve environmentally friendly, sustainable urban growth and development.

To watch other videos showing the work of Big Bang Lab in action, check this video channel. Building Fragments, the making of the Delhi City Symphony 2009 project.

Speech of the founder of El Sistema, Mr Jose Antonio Abreu, a true source of inspiration.