Business Report on the Realisation of the Seviqc Brežice Festival in 2012
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BUSINESS REPORT ON THE REALISATION OF THE SEVIQC BREŽICE FESTIVAL IN 2012 Ljubljana, 12.12.2012 2 / 29 3 / 29 I would like to thank my co-workers Žan Cimerman, Lucija Podbrežnik and Neža Zagoričnik for their help in preparing this report. Klemen Ramovš I. PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION Seviqc Brežice is the abbreviation of the Latin expression Semper Viva Quam Creata, always alive as created. In the summer of 1982 we began by organising international master classes of early music, which turned into the Radovljica Festival a year later. In 1997 the location was changed to Brežice and over the next few years the Brežice Festival was held at various historically important locations in Slovenia. In 2003 we changed the name into Group Brežice Festival (Skupina Festival Brežice) and in 2007 into Seviqc Brežice. In 2011 we organised concerts in eighteen Slovenian municipalities. The Seviqc Brežice Festival is the synonym of early music in Slovenia and one of its most important cultural events. We invite the most distinguished artists, paying great attention towards young talents, education, the development of professional criticism and cultural tourism. We are one of the most important early music festivals in Europe. We are an active1 member of REMA2 - European Early Music Network. REMA includes 69 members - early music festivals from Europe. Being a part of this organisation is of great importance to us and it also contributes to new connections between highly esteemed European cultural producers. The membership is given based on the excellence of an organisation and the recommendation of an active member. We are the coordinator of the national committee for Southeast Europe3 and have a seat on the administrative board. We have developed (and are still developing) new approaches towards the marketing of the cultural programme and are working on the collaboration in the production with our field partners and the development of cultural tourism within our country. We focus particularly on the accessibility to our visitors, especially to young people and vulnerable social groups. This way we successfully contribute to the decentralisation of the Slovenian culture and the development of cultural events outside the main centres. The programme is based solely on HIP4 (historically-inspired performance) and is set exclusively at venues of Slovenian cultural heritage. It was from the beginning that we have been including international cultural concepts, which are so popular today in Europe. Our aims and intentions are to bring together the most exceptional production of the world’s early music scene, to systematically stimulate the performing of Slovenian composers from previous centuries by the best internationally acclaimed artists and to insist on the authenticity of production of early music (classical music with authentic instruments and performance). Each year the carefully selected programme shows the colourfulness of musical styles from different European countries, from the middle ages to the beginning of the 20th century, thus breaking the stereotypes on the average opinion on classical and early music. The accessibility of the programme to the public is high and we see it as the basis of our business and programme policy. It is defined as: the information process (publications, webpage, e-news), the ticket prices, discounts, discounts for members of Klub prijateljev Festivalske Dame (Friends of the Festival Dame Club), family discounts, special prices for students and underprivileged groups, special prices for local co-organisers, discounted pre-sale tickets and box office tickets before concerts, special transport from Ljubljana (where a third of our visitors comes from if we include the outskirts, over a quarter if we include the city centre) to each concert venue, which strongly encourages cultural tourism within Slovenia. Our goals are to keep the high quality of the programme at the historic locations, to promote Slovenia on the global cultural and tourist map, to bring together Slovenian artists and the international scene, to support and promote young talents, to make way for Slovenian composers to Europe and beyond, to develop cultural infrastructure and tourism, to help international dialogue and the reciprocal exchange of European and non-European cultures, to stimulate innovation and creativity, to improve the accessibility and participation in the culture and add value to the Slovenian and European cultural area. 1 The Statute acknowledges active, joined, individual and honorary memberships. 2 Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne, http://www.rema-eemn.net/fr/ 3 REMA formed seven national committees: 1) Benelux and the UK, 2) France, 3) Italy and Switzerland, 4) South East Europe, 5) Scandinavia and the Baltics, 6) Spain, 7) Viségrad. 4 HIP: historically-inspired performance 4 / 29 The high artistic quality of our programme and its historically important venues present Slovenia on the world’s cultural map as a developed European region with centuries old traditions and as a trustworthy partner to the international cultural, business and political world. The festival programme includes Slovenian artists who we introduce to foreign ensembles and producers, thus helping them make their way on their career paths. Through the cooperation with esteemed music competitions, other European festivals and personal connections we especially try to help young artists who are new to the global scene, this way reinforcing the position of an established festival, which insures our active role in the formation of the European early music scene. The programme restores and develops the early music scene with clearly set goals: to maintain the high quality and the reputation of one of the most important cultural events in Europe as in Slovenia, to promote cultural tourism, to found early music departments in music schools and academies, to contribute to a higher level of professional criticism and affirm an inetrnationally acclaimed artistic, pedagogical and scientific centre of early music. We expect to form a critical approach towards art, to raise the demand of the listeners of early music, affirm early music as regular classical music performed the correct way, to improve the quality of life of Slovenians and improve the environments where the concerts take place. All concert venues are part of the Slovenian cultural heritage which the programme promotes to the international public via its publications. The programme presents the artistic accomplishments of past generations, presenting them to its visitors by supporting young musicians and giving the highest quality performances and drawing attention to the centuries-old origins of European culture, an intertwined organism of mutual contacts from the middle ages onwards. The Seviqc Brežice Festival is a programme of a vast international extent which: - internationally represents the Slovenian cultural heritage as the cultural identity of the country and successfully promotes it on the global cultural and tourist map - encourages international dialogue and exchange between European and non-European cultures - supports the mutual learning about the culture and history of European peoples, the creativity and trans-national expansion of culture and the mobility of artists, especially the young and underprivileged - encourages the development of cultural infrastructure - encourages the development of tourism - develops international cultural tourism within national borders - encourages creativity and innovation - presents the best early music artists from Europe and beyond - pays special attention to the involvement of Slovenian artists on the European scene - systematically perform works by Slovenian composers - supports and promotes young Slovenian artists at home and abroad (within the REMA National committee for Southeast Europe and a broader international scene) - improves the accessibility and involvement in cultural events for all Slovenian nationals as well as foreign nationals - in cooperation with libraries and music, primary and other schools it promotes a higher cultural demand by the population and educates a future concert public - works towards improving the locations of the concerts - assures an actual Slovenian and European added value in the culture area Culture is an economical factor and a factor social integration and nationality. It represents one of the key elements in the encouragement of creativity and recognition in an economy. As well as creating new job posts, the development of a cultural network equally spread across all regions is also important for the education of a work force through non- formal educational contents that lead to creativity and competence. More at: http://www.seviqc-brezice.si/ 5 / 29 II. FINANCIAL REPORT Table 1: Financial Construction 2012 I. EXPENDITURE I.1. GENERAL OPERATING COSTS 28.408,18 6,00 % I.1.1. Financial costs 4.789,45 1,01 % I.1.2. Costs of communications 13.995,90 2,95 % I.1.3. Costs of energy 2.700,83 0,57 % I.1.4. Rent of office 6.408,40 1,35 % I.1.5. Communal costs (water, services etc.) 513,60 0,11 % I.2. LABOUR COSTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STAFFING PLAN 70.992,20 14,98 % I.2.1. Employees 11.007,46 2,32 % I.2.2. Temporary workers 0,00 0,00 % I.2.3. Part-time workers 42.000,00 8,87 % I.2.4. Students 17.984,74 3,80 % I.3. PROGRAMME MATERIAL COSTS 355.043,43 74,94 % I.3.1. Travel by employees 5.658,65 1,19 % I.3.2. Subsistence by employees 245,00 0,05 % I.3.3. Stationery and photocopies 2.823,61 0,60 % I.3.4. Publications and internet 16.336,34 3,45 % I.3.5. Translation costs 5.520,55 1,17 % I.3.6. Postal costs 7.087,07 1,50 % I.3.7. Advertising costs 29.347,63 6,19 % I.3.8. Conferences, seminars, etc. 0,00 0,00 % I.3.9. Artists' fees 163.822,58 34,58 % I.3.10. Insurance 400,00 0,08 % I.3.11. Premises costs 5.532,80 1,17 % I.3.12. Equipment hire 5.456,54 1,15 % I.3.13.