INCUBATOR OF CREATIVE EMERGENCY

The Piranha Arts (PA) tree has six dynamic branches. As a music publisher with its own label, Piranha Arts have been carrying new sounds and artists from all countries via Kreuzberg, Berlin to the entire world ever since.

In Berlin, Piranha Arts initiated trailblazing festivals such as HeimatKlänge, Bands United, Fête de la Musique, C3 – Club Contemporary Classical and The Nights of Ramadan.
With changing locations and partners, Piranha Arts organise the leading branch events WOMEX –  WOMEX – the World Music Expo and Classical:NEXT.
PA entertain international partnerships and – with Piranha Arts Consultancywork with professional conferences and network initiatives on four continents.
Whether it is with events or the global sounds of Piranha Records – PA campaign for cultural diversity in Berlin and everywhere around the globe. Music means the world to us! This is why PA engaged with Berlin’s street festival and parade Karneval der Kulturen Karneval der Kulturen right from the start: as musicians, in the jury, with record releases and with the after-parade party “Long Night of Soundsystems”… Since its 2016 edition, Piranha Arts has been the producer of the million-strong Karneval der Kulturen.
Piranha Arts stays in flux and is always open for more. PA stay active at the borders: between music and tech, by research & development, between music and audiovisual, with international film projects and programs.

Trans Europe Halles (TEH) is a Europe-based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists. TEH has been at the forefront of re-purposing Europe’s industrial buildings for arts, culture and activism since 1983. As of 2018, TEH has brought together 118 multidisciplinary cultural centers and other cultural organizations from across Europe.

Their mission is to strengthen the sustainable development of non-governmental cultural centers and encourage new initiatives by connecting, supporting and promoting them. TEH facilitates international cooperation, provide opportunities for learning and sharing, and promote the practice, impact and value of arts and culture.

Their key objectives are:
1. To build a strong supporting structure of exchange and collaboration for member institutions.
2. To advocate and promote the importance and value of cultural centers initiated by citizens and artists as open spaces for creation.
3. To establish Trans Europe Halles as a leading organization for providing professional development and international exchange in the cultural sector.
4. To establish Trans Europe Halles as a vital reference for non-governmental cultural centers in the international cultural sector.

To achieve this, TEH organize two international meetings every year, coordinate international projects, run professional development trainings, act as consultants for public and private organizations, and actively influence cultural policies. For TEH, the power of arts and culture is in inspirational, transformative experiences that have the capacity to change people, perceptions and societies.

Samba Sem Fronteiras (Portugal) is a professional samba group created in 2012 by four Brazilians and a Portuguese resident in Porto. Since 2015, the cultural association Tartaruga Distinta has legally represented it and structured its objectives, which are to spread Brazilian culture through music, in particular samba and its variants, with concerts, workshops and cultural events. The organization also gave birth to a samba roda also called Samba Sem Fronteiras, to unite Brazilians residing in Porto and all Portuguese samba lovers.

The activities of the group are multiple and cover:
· Musical creation and production: 2018 was the year of the preparation and the launch of the first original album of the group, already in preparation for a second job.
-Dissemination: in recent years, the group has traveled the country from north to south with live performances, festivals, municipal parties, private and corporate events.
Training at local and international level, such as those carried out with Samba Résille in 2019 and 2020.

CCAISA is an international cultural center in Helsinki, Finland, established in 1966.

Caisa operates within the Culture and Recreation Division of the City of Helsinki, with a team of 10 professionals chosen for their complementary expertise and experience, about 400 volunteers every year and its actions address more than 10,000 direct beneficiaries every year. The culture and leisure division manages several cultural centers, all of which offer programming based on their own specificities throughout the year. In summer, the city’s cultural offer is also completed by the Espa stage. The events are organized in close cooperation with Helsinki’s arts and culture sector to develop its region into a culturally rich area by promoting arts, culture and creativity. To this end, the City offers many services to residents, including cultural events, performances, exhibitions, courses and arts education. With these services, the City of Helsinki aims to ensure that its culture is diverse and accessible to all.
Located in Kallio near the city center, Caisa is part of this municipal cultural policy and aims especially to support the multicultural development of the city by promoting the interaction of people from different countries, and by providing information about different cultures and the Finnish society.

Located in Kallio near the city center, Caisa is part of this municipal cultural policy and aims especially to support the multicultural development of the city by promoting the interaction of people from different countries, and by providing information about different cultures and the Finnish society. Caisa promotes the development of Helsinki as a multicultural city by using arts and culture as a means to conduct a project organized around the issues of cultural diversity, individual feelings, living environment, nature, gender, sexual orientation, security of individuals and their identities, cultural communities, intergenerational solidarity, as well as body image. Caisa relies on concert and exhibition cycles that address these issues, organizes federative events throughout the year that mix Helsinki residents of all backgrounds, and offers workshops in artistic practices for all generations.

A Bunda is one of the oldest, largest and most vital samba schools in Europe, performing at carnivals and festivals in Sweden, Denmark, Finland,  Germany, France and Italy since 1984, and many of our more than 100 members have played or danced with groups at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival.

In 2007 a delegation of 12 A Bundistas took part in the 2nd International Encontro do Samba at the Cidade do Samba in Rio, performing together with members of Curicica and Monobloco, and also paraded through the Sambodromo among the 2500 participants of União do Parque Curicica, the final group appearing at the last night of the Carnival.

A Bunda took an active part in the first three European Encontros do Samba in Uppsala 1986, Åbo 1987 and London 1989, arranged and hosted the fourth Encontro in Gothenburg 1997 (with 600 participants from many different countries) and participated with a large delegation in the fifth Encontro in Villeneuve-Sur-Lot 1999 organised by Samba Résille.