Not just music, but art in its most varied forms. Following a collaboration already started in the past years, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts will be present at the 2021 edition of the festival “Una striscia di terra feconda”, dedicated to jazz and improvised music. RUFA students Elena Palazzi and Alice Russo have realized a docufilm, which bears the same title of the important cultural initiative and which will be screened on September 10 in the evocative setting of the Casa del Jazz..
The project, whose artistic direction is entrusted to Paolo Damiani and Armand Meignan, is a space for musical creation and diffusion that sees the Regione Lazio as a protagonist, thanks to the “presence” of some important UNESCO sites such as the National Museum of Palestrina, Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, the Castle of Santa Severa and the Fondazione Musica per Roma, which hosts the various activities in the park of the Casa del Jazz.
“Una striscia di terra feconda” is an event based on the creative exchange between French and Italian jazz. The festival has always paid particular attention to young talents. Over the years this commitment has taken on a structural character, in addition to the collaboration with our Academy, in this context it is to emphasize the importance of the French-Italian artist residency, created with the aim of supporting the meeting between musicians from different backgrounds, in original projects to be proposed on the international scene. The festival is also characterised by the unprecedented synergy between public partners: the Ministry of Culture (Mic), the Lazio Regional Directorate of Museums, the French Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Rome – Department for Cultural Growth, the Lazio Region, and the French Embassy in Rome.
A fertile strip of land, is also characterised by the unprecedented synergy not only of ideals but also of resources that has been created between the most prestigious public partners who have financed it in recent years: the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Regione Lazio Museums Direction, the French Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Rome – Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale, the Lazio Region, the Fondazione Musica per Roma and the Casa del Jazz, the French Embassy in Rome through the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, SIAE, INPS- PSMSAD fund, MIdJ (jazz musicians association), CNM (centre national de la musique), AJC (ex Afijma), Spedidam. From 2019, the festival will also host projects designed specifically for children and adolescents, thanks to the collaboration with the association IJVAS (jazz goes to school).
