Three festivals. Two countries. One journey.
Musical Bridges through Cultural Entrepreneurship is an ambitions project that brings three festivals together: ARTmania Festival (RO) as the project leader, Inferno Festival (NO) and Midgardsblot Festival (NO) as project partners.
To the audiences, this project will look like an incredible trip through two exciting cultures, Old Norse and Transylvanian, coming together and making appearances in all three festivals. To the industry, the three of us hope it will show a way to internationally cooperate, to give our first love, the audience, great, louder, better festival experiences.
Norse Gods make an appearance
Hel is overturned on ARTmania’s poster
Represented on our key visual, are the goddess Hel, ARTmania’s own Okionom – the friendly alien, and the city of Sibiu, where most of the magic in this story takes place. Stay tuned for the rest of the story.
Nordic Music on stage
All the way from Wardruna to Vulture Industries
The Nordic lands have so much to offer in terms of mythology and riotous, moving music. However, that’s not all Nordics have to offer. Cheeky humor and joy of life are also on the menu, as illustrated by both the story and our lineup.
Concept stages
Viking mysticism and Transylvanian legend
The audience will be able to make their own journey between three concept stages and an interactive installation, with lineups to cater to ARTmania’s dissimilar rock music explorers out there.
Cornucopia for the rock & metal art enthusiast
All organizers of all three partner festivals hope that our project brings more than festivals together. We always hope to bring people together, as they explore eclectic artistic journeys of the genre.
Music
At the center of everything we do, this project revolves around the culture and communities that rock music has created over the ages.
Visual Arts
No rock concert is ever complete without its over the top aesthetic, forever pushing the boundaries of well known tropes and rules.
Community
Before it put on a corporate coat, networking was the one thing grew rock communities everywhere. Remember the fan clubs of our teenage years? Like that, but better.
Fun
Far from the halls of evaluators, from critics who never sing, or paint, or draw, we’re putting this project together to explore the limits of imagination. We hope you’ll come along.
Musical Bridges Events & Shows
Stay tuned and check back as we add more shows and events to the project.
DorDeDuh
at Inferno Festival 2023
Dordeduh create the most mesmerizing, beautiful and hunting black metal with a touch of Romanian folk music. This will be Dordeduh’s first time at Inferno Metal Festival!
Wardruna
At ARTmania Festival 2023
Experience classic Nordic magic in the wonderful city of Sibiu. This will be Wardruna’s second time at ARTmania.
Vulture Industries
At ARTmania Festival 2023
Vulture Industries, a Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band, formed in 2004 is bringing a show recognized for its scenography and theatricality to Sibiu.
Emperor
At ARTmania Festival 2023
Emperor (NO), the band which pinned the Norwegian symphonic black metal on the international music scene and which made history in more than 30 years of existence, will be playing ARTmania Festival for the first time.
ARTmania Team
At Inferno Festival & Conference 2023
Taking a little piece of the story and a snippet of magic Transylvania with them, ARTmania’s team will present the festival and learn from the best in the industry how to improve rock events back home.
„Musical Bridges Through Cultural Entrepreneurship” is financed with the support of EEA Grants within the RO-CULTURE Programme. The project has a non-reimbursable value of 980.230,30 lei (198.102,36 euro) and is carried out over a period of 12 months.
The EEA Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway towards a green, competitive and inclusive Europe. There are two overall objectives: reduction of economic and social disparities in Europe, and to strengthen bilateral relations between the donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics. The three donor countries cooperate closely with the EU through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). The donors have provided €3.3 billion through consecutive grant schemes between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, the EEA Grants amount to €1.55 billion. More details are available on: www.eeagrants.org and www.
RO-CULTURE is implemented in Romania by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit. The Programme aims at strengthening social and economic development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The total budget amounts to almost 34 million EUR. For more details access: www.ro-cultura.ro
Quotes from our partners
These quotes can be directly used in press releases, should members of the press need them. If your material is not a press release and you’re not in any way affiliated with the project, please be so kind as to check with someone from the project team first. Reach out at [email protected]
This partnership is a response to the need of access of rock-metal audience in Romania to quality artistic products, but also to the need to develop the artistic skills and professionalism of Romanian musicians working in the rock-metal area. We are delighted to collaborate with Inferno Metal Festival & Music Conference and Midgardsblot Festival and we are looking forward to the events we are preparing in the coming year
Codruța Vulcu
founder and director of ARTmania Festival and president of the Romanian Association of Concert and Cultural Events Organizers – AROC
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James Jordan
Inferno Festival
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Brad Gray
Midgardsblot
