From November 23 to 25, 2008 The Art Monastery Project will hold a programming summit for the Art Monastery Festival in Calvi dell’ Umbria scheduled for May to October 2009. The summit will be held at the beautiful Casale Santa Brigida.

Over the course of this three day event we will have a chance to meet fellow artists and collaborators, look over and discuss proposals, and finalize programming for the coming festival. If you cannot attend and are interested in being involved, please submit your proposal online. We will begin receiving submissions starting on November 12, 2008.

Contact:  programming (at) ArtMonastery (dot) org

November Programming Summit

Tentative Schedule

Saturday, November 22: Symposium and Arrivals

18:00: Symposium with Christine Finn

20:00: Dinner

Sunday, November 23: Contemporary Art & New Music Day

9:00 Breakfast in the Bar

10:00 Welcome

10:30 First set of presentations in restaurant

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Second set of presentations in restaurant

18:00 Break

20:00 Dinner

Note on presentations: 10 min to present, 5 min Q&A, 5 min break

Monday, November 24: Early Music Day at St Stevens

8:30 Breakfast in Bar

9:00 Depart for Rome/St. Stephens for setup, attendee list to be confirmed

11:30-13:00 1st meeting, review contemporary stuff from the day before

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Early music internal

16:30 Pause

17:00 Early music external presentation

18:00 Prep aperitivo & concert

18:30-20:00 Aperitivo & concert

20:00 Clean up, go out to dinner, or go home

Tuesday, November 25: Decision Day

9:00 Breakfast or Departing Brunch

11:00 Staff Session

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Staff Session

18:00 Break

20:00 Dinner

Terms

Since we are so grateful that you brilliant, make-it-happen people want to come and co-create the Art Monastery Festival with us, we would like to offer the following terms:

The nights of the Summit (inclusive Saturday-Tuesday nights) we will offer you a free room at the lovely S. Brigida that, depending upon the number of participants, may be shared with another colleague.

We will also offer healthy Italian meals that we will all cook communally in our restaurant kitchen.

Also offer pickups/dropoffs from the train station or directly to Ciampino if necessary (flying into Fiumicino and taking the direct train to our local station is more convenient for everyone… and cheaper for us… every pickup at Ciampino costs us 30€ in our gasguzzler.)

If anyone would like to come earlier or stay longer in order to enjoy some lovely autumnal Italy, you are most welcome to. However, we would ask you to make a contribution towards the room (approx 35€/night for a potentially shared room… though it will probably be private) and either take care of your own food (each room has a kitchenette) or to pitch in approx 10€ per meal to join our staff lunches and dinner.