Feb 10 - GWMF 2017 : Uprising
The aim for this year’s Gibraltar World Music Festival is to get the community to come together and work together with a message of Convivencia.
This year’s festival will go beyond the music, with a theme of Uprising, and will introduce BrightMed this year.
At a press conference held at Gibraltar Production’s offices this morning, Gibraltar World Music Festival producer Yan Delgado said: “Gibraltar is not only geographically superbly located, it is also a place whose identity and strong added values are marked on a day to day basis by the co-operation of cultures and spiritual beliefs. This reality is the messenger of the signs that the world needs today.
“We believe that the example of Convivencia is the one message that the world needs to see and hear, more than ever.”
For 2017, the festival will go beyond the music and the festival itself and introduce the BrightMEd.
BrightMed has the ambition to celebrate these values and become a unique meeting point of North-South/East-West, with Nobel Peace Prize winners invited as the Sages (World Peace Leaders) to come and discuss world issues, starting with Convivencia.
BrightMed events will take place from the 6 to the 8 of June 2017 as part of the Gibraltar World Music Festival.
The BrightMed International Conference will take place at the University of Gibraltar. The BrightMed Film Festival will take place at Leisure Cinemas and will be projecting documentaries reflecting the struggle of Musicians from Mali followed by the BrightMed Talks available for students and lead by Peace Leaders and other relevant speakers.
Various local artists from the Gibraltar Fine Arts Association will join the BrightMed Art Exhibition called Convivencia. Gibraltar Academy of Music and Performing Arts; Gibraltar International Dance Academy; Schools amongst others will participate in creation of a street party named ‘AFREEKA’. As well as Friends of the Festival such as shops like Newton store will participate in promoting these events.
The GWMF will remain as the music entertainment of the week proposing the following theme: UPRISING, which further illustrates the BrightMed concept.
As per every edition, GWMF will arrange a Street Party open to the population of Gibraltar, called AFREEKA, at Commonwealth Park and concerts at the St Michael’s cave. It will tell the story of artists from Africa (Ethiopia and Mali) and their continuous fight to exist as musicians despite the oppression from extremists.
The Gibraltar World Music Festival was born in 2012 and has been proposing the best World Music artists through prestigious and unique shows. Each year, the GWMF tells the story of a region of the world or a specific style of music with the ambition of delivering the same strong values of peace, universalism and spirituality as Convivencia.
Concert tickets will be available at 92 Irish Town at £35 (General Public) and £30 (Senior Citizens and Students) and in buytickets.gi. Tickets prices will be inclusive of Shuttle Service to/from the Cave. The pick up will start at 19.00 from Midtown Coach Park.
For any other and for additional information, visit Gibraltar World Music Festival social media and/or call 20068899. Alternatively send us an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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