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Brezice 4 July 2008

The REMA members from Slovenia, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and France, participating in the meeting organized in Slovenia  by REMA all signed the Declaration on Intercultural Dialogue established by the European Festivals Association (EFA-AEF).

The ceremony was held in the Brezice Castle in the presence of the Minister of Economy - Mr. Andrej Vizjak - the Mayor of the Brezice Municipality - Mr. Ivan Molan - The Ambassador of France in Slovenia Mrs Chantal de Bourmont and the Director of the French Cultural Institute , M. Dominique Geslin and the host of the evening Mister Klemen Ramovs, Director of the Seviqc Brezice.

The Board elected a new member at the meeting in Brezice on July 4th : The Festival Cantar di Pietre represented by M. Giovanni Conti. It is the first Swiss member of REMA.

REMA presented a study of its members audiences in Brezice. You can consult the results of this Study in the Files.

The REMA members are invited by the Brezice festival from the 4 to 6th July in Slovenia for three intensive days.
Key moments : Meetings in national committees, presentation of our study on early music audiences in Europe, presentation of the strategy for the next years by our new president and the executive committee and the official signatures of the Arts Festival declaration, initiated by EFA-AEF.
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- Bart Demuyt new President of REMA

- New Board

- Meeting EFA-REMA on EU year of Intercultural dialogue

 

On April 3 2008 Bart Demuyt (Belgium) was elected President of REMA.  

He succeeds to Jan Van den Bossche, Director of the Holland Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht.

He will work with Marie Koefoed-Gouy, Administrator of REMA and with the new board :

Vice-Presidents :

Patrick Lhotellier, Director of the Festival Baroque de Pontoise,

Enrico Bellei, Director of the Grandezze et Meraviglie, Festival Musicale Estense, Italie

Janos Malina, Artistic Director of the Festival Haydn at Eszterhazy, Hongrie

Secretary:

Anne Hallet, Director of the Philharmonique de Namur, Belgique

Treasurer :

Albert Recasens, Director of the Ciclo de conciertos del Museo de San Isidro, Espagne

--- After graduating from Louvain's Lemmens Institute, Bart Demuyt began his career as musician, researcher and programme maker for the Flemish Radio 3. For a considerable time he has worked as artistic coordinator for Musica, Impulse Centre for Music and successively he has been the artistic director for Cappella Pratensis, Flanders Festival Bruges and Bruges' Concertgebouw. Currently he's in charge of the Alamire Foundation, the International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries.  On the 1st of September 2008 Bart Demuyt will become the artistic director of AMUZ and the Flanders Festival Antwerp Laus Polyphoniae.

EFA-REMA MEETING on the EUROPEAN YEAR OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

A meeting was organized between EFA and REMA during the Musicora Gathering in Paris on April 4th. This meeting allowed Kathrin Deventer, Adjunct Secretary General EFA, to make a presentation of the EU year of Intercultural dialogue and especially of the Arts Festivals’ Declaration that EFA has established. It was decided that a signature of the Charter will be organized in July in at the next REMA meeting. All the REMA members also decided to organize events which could increase the awareness of the year of intercultural dialogue during 2008.