A Call to Popular Artists of the
European Union
XXXV International Cervantino Street Festival of
CLETA (FICC)
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The International Cervantino Street Festival of CLETA (FICC) is one of the most prestigious independent popular festivals in the Republic of Mexico and it has taken place uninterruptedly since 1975. It is organized simultaneously with the official Cervantino International Festival.
The FICC is organized by the Political Cultural Organization-CLETA (Organización Politica Cultural OPC-CLETA) that is an articulated and systematized unity of artistic, journalistic and pedagogic works; it is an independent organism that includes collectives and individuals that have assumed the historic responsibility of building alternative theoretical-practical alternatives of national and international organization and liberation.
The OPC-CLETA is a CULTURAL organization because its members use their creative capacity to design, produce and promote a free and liberating art; a journalistic communication of critical information/formation and fundamentally pedagogics of liberation that can contribute to the development and reproduction of class conscience.
The FICC is an independent event that does not receive official subsidies nor does it depend on the support of any political party. It takes place with the support of the people (and their organizations) and the volunteer work of all the participants including the invited groups; to ensure a more successful event, it is coordinated with local and federal authorities.
However, for this event, in order to accelerate the relationship with groups from the European Union that coincide with the basic principals and proposals mentioned above, an agreement has been established with the European Commission in Mexico.
Accordingly, the theme for the XXXV FICC will be:
An Artistic Encounter of People to People
European Union – Our America
The event will be based on three points: environmental sustainability, gender equality and respect of human rights.
In this context, OPC-CLETA invites artistic groups and producers of the European Union to participate in the XXXV FICC on the following basis:
I. Dates and locations:
1.- The FICC will take place in the city of Guanajuato from Wednesday to Sunday, October 7 to October 25, 2009, with outreach extensions (artistic caravans) to popular sectors in the states of Guerrero, Michoacán, Querétaro, Oaxaca and Chiapas.
2.- The outreach extensions are in popular, peasant and indigenous communities and will take place from October 17 to November 5.
3.- Thus, the Festival is divided in three parts: From the 7th to the 16th of October in Guanajuato and its surrounding area. From October 17 to 25 in Guanajuato and the states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Querétaro. From October 26 to November 5 in Oaxaca and Chiapas.
4.- Participants can be in one of the three stages, in two or in the whole event if they so decide.
5.- Additionally, all of the groups will be programmed during two days in Mexico City.
II. Concerning the artist groups:
- Participation in the event is by invitation.
- Due to the fact that it is a festival that takes place in plazas and streets, the only groups that will be accepted are theatrical, circus, music, dance and dance-theater of the European Nation countries that have works/presentations for these spaces.
- The groups must fill out and send the “Application to Participate” before Tuesday, March 31, 2009. The application can be downloaded at www.cleta.org/encuentro. Applications will not be accepted after that date.
- To implement the process and support, upon receiving your application an evaluation of the same will be made and, if all the requirements are met, we will send you an official invitation to participate.
- Through experience we know that popular-artist groups are small groups, so they must not consist of more than six participants including technicians.
- Tourists and their friends will not be accepted. The only participants allowed are members of the group indispensable to the group’s artistic work. Journalists, documentarists, researchers, etc. must follow a separate individual process.
- All non-Mexican groups must be present a minimum of ten days in the festival and/or the caravans.
III. Concerning researchers, critics and other participants:
The event is open to participants who are journalists, theater critics, video-filmmakers, photographers, researchers and others who love popular art. They can participate, provided that they comply with the participation basis, by completing an “Application for Individual Participation” that can be downloaded at
www.cleta/encuentro.
IV. Concerning guests:
There will be individuals who, at the discretion of the organizers, will be invited as guests.
V. Concerning the works to be presented:
- The thematic of works is free, although this year preference will be given to those that deal with the themes: environmental sustainability, gender equality and respect for human rights.
- We are clear that the struggle for liberation and the construction of a better world does not impose a format or genre. From this perspective, there is no limitation on the artistic forms utilized but, because it is a street festival, all the works to be presented must be for open spaces, which themselves are the stages for the artistic presentations.
- They can be works for children, puppets, circus for all the public, including kids and young people, and performed individually or by a group…..in this sense, there are no limitations.
- The time of each presentation should not be less than 50 minutes nor more than one and a half hour.
- As it is usually the case with street (popular) works, the technical requirements cannot be too complicated; these will be provided by the organizers.
VI. Concerning lodging, meals and transportation:
- Except for the invited guests, participants from the European Union must cover the expenses of transportation from their place of origin to Mexico City and return.
- The organizers will cover all the internal transportation including Mexico-Guanajuato and the caravans transportation.
- For all the participants, the organizers will cover the meals and lodging (in both the extensions and in Guanajuato) which will be homes prepared for that purpose and will allow a greater internal exchange among the participants.
VII. Concerning the internal activities:
- Throughout the event, in Guanajuato as well as the extensions, efforts will be made to provide an exchange and communication of experiences among the groups as well as with the community. Towards such goal, workshops, conferences, videos and exhibits are being programmed.
VIII. Concerning expenses:
Because all the presentations will be in the street, there will not be a ticket booth nor the groups receive payment for their presentations, workshops or other activities, but at the end there is a public accountability of the event so that everyone is informed about the sources of funding and how the funds and other resources received were utilized.
Those accustomed to ‘passing the hat’ can do so and whatever donations they receive from the public will be for that group including any profits from materials they distribute during their presentations/performances such as CDs, arts and crafts, books, etc.
Any other matter not discussed in this document will be resolved by the organizers.
International Cervantino Street Festival of CLETA
E-Mail: artecleta@cleta.org
Web page: www.cleta.org/encuentro
Telephone: 52 (55) 56898800
Central Office of relationships with the European Union (temporary address)
Real de los Reyes #77 edificio Cedros Interior 4
Los Reyes Coyoacan c.p. 04000
APIA’s reference in Europe is:
Informationgruppe Lateinamerika –IGLA
Währingerstraße 59
1090 Wien Austria
Telephone: 43-1-728 64 12
E-Mail: igla@aon.at
General Coordinator: Enrique Cisneros Lujan
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