Devavanya Drum Festival Cultural Association

National Network
Hungary
Address

Devavanya
Kossuth Lajos utca 9.
5510
Hungary
Devavanya
Albania

Telephone
+36-66-220504
E-Mail
gabor.zsarnai@drumfest.eu
E-Mail (2)
dobfesztival@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+36-30-730-1366
Mobile Phone (other)
+36-30-730-1365
Website
http://www.drumfest.eu
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Media
  6. Youth and education
General Information
The Devavanya Drum Festival Cultural Association was founded in 2008. by 12 person - musicians, cultural organizers and voluntaries to co-ordinate and organize the Festival (which exists since 2002.) and other multicultural projects. We have voluntary project teams for concrete projects but no one is employed by the organization at the present time. Last year the budgetary resources was € 6000 and we are working hard to increase it year by year. The sources of funding are cultural tenders, support from the municipality of Devavanya, sponsorship from companies and individual founders, incomings from selling tickets. Modalities of action are concrete projects like cultural events, information campaigns, conference, seminars and workshops. Our main regional partner is the municipality of the city of Devavanya, the main consultative partners are Harmonium Association (tenders and project management), Kvintus Ltd. (event organizing, marketing and communication) and Mastervisione Ltd. (audiovisual projects).
Mission and Objectives

Our project aims at the promotion of intercultural tolerance, and wishes to strengthen mutual understanding and respect for each others cultures by celebrating the cultural diversity of the world. We believe that being exposed to the culture of the other can indeed contribute to the elimination of preconceived ideas, racism and intercultural intolerance.
In addition, we would like the people to pay attention on the importance of sustainability and environmental protection and other burning issues of the planet.
The main objective is that the people who come into contact with our projects, bring more tolerance, humanism and environmental consciousness into his/her everyday life.

Main Projects / Activities

The main project is the Drum Festival – International World Music Gathering. In 2009. there is the 8th festival and it is evolving year by year. This year we plan a 3 day long Festival which hosts percussion-based world music concerts and dance performances, dj and visual performances, dozens of workshops (music, dance, fine arts, Hungarian traditions etc.), exhibitions, civilian village concentrating on burning issues related to globalization, human rights, climate change, sustainability and the protection of the environment. All of these are live video streamed to the internet and fully documented (photo, video and audio).
We have additional activities during the year, like cultural radio shows for non-profit radios, webportal developing to publish the multimedia content recorded at the Festival and side-projects and create an audiovisual database of the artists and themes related to the Festival.

Contact (1) Full Name
Gabor Zsarnai
Head of the organisation
Andras Konya