Festival
The Music Village is Europe’s longest running festival of world cultures.
A huge thanks to all those who attended and participated in the 2010 World City Music Village. The 12 day festival featured over 60 world class London groups and soloists. We are now planning Music Village 2012 and are keen to hear from potential volunteers and sponsors. Email info@culturalco-operation.org to get involved.
See Press from 2010: Evening Standard, Time Out, Camden New Journal, fRoots and East End Life...
See below for details on all of the artists and venues we worked with in 2010:
OCTOBER GALLERY LUNCHTIME TALKS AND EVENING PERFORMANCES ;
FAMILY SUNDAY at the HORNIMAN MUSEUM
at the NEHRU CENTRE, MUSEUM of LONDON and GOODENOUGH COLLEGE
at the MUSEUM of LONDON and LO NDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM 1,2, 8,9 July
LISTEN TO LIVE RADIO BROADCASTS
Recorded live from the festival 30 June & 5-9 July on RESONANCE 104.4 FM
- The 2010 World City Music Village festival features more than 60 outstanding London-based music groups and other artists in a range of free public events across the city.
- This superb selection of world artists joyfully reaffirms the enduring importance of intercultural engagement as an essential foundation of a free and fair cosmopolitan society.
- The festival launches Cultural Co-operation’s ambitious new 5-year project - WORLD CITY - that explores the quest for common good in the cosmopolitan centres of world culture.
- Each Music Village has had a unifying theme, to enable greater in-depth engagement either with particular world cultures in particular parts of the world, or with global themes that transcend geography and nation.
- Where the earlier festivals (1983-96) focused on particular territories - regions or countries - more recent ones have addressed transnational issues and trends, like Culture & Worship (1997-2006) and Culture & Migration (2002-8), often using two or more consecutive festivals to explore these worldwide themes more fully.
- The 2010 festival builds on the extraordinary popular interest generated by the recent Diaspora Music Villages. A 2nd World City Music Village is planned to take place 2 years later (27 June-8 July 2012) as part of the nationwide celebrations to welcome the London Olympics later that summer.
- The Music Village was created in 1983 by joint Artistic Directors, Prakash Daswani and the late Robert Atkins, during their time at London’s Commonwealth Institute, 1980-87. In 1987, they left to set up Cultural Co-operation, which has continued to organise it to this day.
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