V Festival DJs CONTRA LA
FAM 2009
Mercat Fira de Bellcaire (Encantes Viejos)
Sunday the 26th of July, 12h to 24h.
The Festival DJs CONTRA LA FAM is a benefit electronic music and visual arts festival to raise funds to contribute to the development of social initiatives that address local hunger issues.
Over the past four years, the Festival has donated more than 33.000 euros and has been grateful for the participation of over 100 artists. This year, our economic goal is to raise 21.102,72 euros to be donated directly for the renovation of kitchen and dining facilities at 4 organizations in Barcelona that provide services to and care for people living in situations or at risk of poverty and who experience problems associated with drug dependency and AIDS.
With four years experience working with entities in the social sector, DJsCLF sees the festival also as a platform for increasing awareness about the work the centers do it supports. This goes beyond its direct economic contribution as it allows people to know not only about the centers’ realities but also about the life situations of those to whom they provide services.
For this 5th anniversary, the Festival will once again take place in one Europe’s oldest markets, the Mercat Fira de Bellcaire, better known as Encantes Viejos. The big change this year is that for the first time ever the festival will take place in the summer.
Since the XIV century, Encantes Viejos serves as an example of Barcelona’s commercial dynamism. With more than 500 professionals and retailers working year after year, day after day, occupying more than 15.000m2, serving over 100.000 consumers weekly, and home to the sales of all types of products: old and new, artisan to high-tech electronic goods, this market is quite a spectacular place. People who frequent the market represent all types including some of the city’s youngest and hippest crowds. There is also a sector of traveling salesmen who live in situations of true marginality and social exclusion and whose only means of economic sustainability is made from their work at the market.
The Festival will have 2 stages (Main and Club), the Hamaka zone, the Organizations Fair along with the SHOWCASE PACAS, an artistic collaboration with the collective Vaqueros de Barcelona: the city’s best street artists, and for the first time the participation of the benefit project SuperNanas.
12.00h a 16.00h. Free.
II Feria de Entidades (Organizations Fair) (Calle Dos de mayo) & SHOWCASE PACAS
There will be stands for 20 non-profit organizations that work in the social-cultural sector or are involved in improving problems of hunger, the environment, human rights and poverty both on the local and international levels. Many have been or will be beneficiaries of our P.A.C.A.S program or our Festival.
The Feria de Entidades of the V Festival Djs CONTRA LA FAM provides the means for the public to know about the work of these organizations and it also increases awareness of the realities of the city and that of those with whom the organizations work.
SHOWCASE PACAS, in its second year, is becoming an annual “special program” in the CLUB stage during the early afternoon for those who have participated in our P.A.C.A.S workshops (DJ, sound production, etc. etc.) to show us what they have learned and for emerging professionals selected in collaboration with other trade fairs, entities, and festivals in Barcelona.
16:00H a 24:00H. 10€
The Main Stage is where Djs and groups will perform.
The Club Stage, is a bit more intimate, but perfect to enjoy some of the best DJs we have.
The Relax Zone (the palm tree zone) will be designed by the ecological collective Hamaka and is a space for relaxation and full-time enjoyment of the atmosphere.
Vaqueros de Barcelona, the city’s best street artists, return to create live work that will later be exhibited and auctioned during the 2nd year of our collaborative project SPRAY CONTRA LA FAM.
SuperNanas will create a Silent Concert. A carpeted space to chill out where live tranquil music will be heard through headsets (to tune out surrounding noise and to create an intimate experience) that will be distributed amongst the crowd: to parents and to kids.
Electronic Music + Social Action+ Urban Art together with public support, the 300+ volunteers, and the help of public and private entities, the musicians, Djs, street artists, visual artists, associations, and press that will all be there are the ingrediates for a day full of great music, sun and solidarity!
This will be yet again a great encounter of culture, social action
for the fight against HUNGER.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Mercat Fira de Bellcaire (Encantes Viejos)
Sunday the 26th of July, 12h to 24h.
The Festival DJs CONTRA LA FAM is a benefit electronic music and visual arts festival to raise funds to contribute to the development of social initiatives that address local hunger issues.
Over the past four years, the Festival has donated more than 33.000 euros and has been grateful for the participation of over 100 artists. This year, our economic goal is to raise 21.102,72 euros to be donated directly for the renovation of kitchen and dining facilities at 4 organizations in Barcelona that provide services to and care for people living in situations or at risk of poverty and who experience problems associated with drug dependency and AIDS.
With four years experience working with entities in the social sector, DJsCLF sees the festival also as a platform for increasing awareness about the work the centers do it supports. This goes beyond its direct economic contribution as it allows people to know not only about the centers’ realities but also about the life situations of those to whom they provide services.
For this 5th anniversary, the Festival will once again take place in one Europe’s oldest markets, the Mercat Fira de Bellcaire, better known as Encantes Viejos. The big change this year is that for the first time ever the festival will take place in the summer.
Since the XIV century, Encantes Viejos serves as an example of Barcelona’s commercial dynamism. With more than 500 professionals and retailers working year after year, day after day, occupying more than 15.000m2, serving over 100.000 consumers weekly, and home to the sales of all types of products: old and new, artisan to high-tech electronic goods, this market is quite a spectacular place. People who frequent the market represent all types including some of the city’s youngest and hippest crowds. There is also a sector of traveling salesmen who live in situations of true marginality and social exclusion and whose only means of economic sustainability is made from their work at the market.
The Festival will have 2 stages (Main and Club), the Hamaka zone, the Organizations Fair along with the SHOWCASE PACAS, an artistic collaboration with the collective Vaqueros de Barcelona: the city’s best street artists, and for the first time the participation of the benefit project SuperNanas.
12.00h a 16.00h. Free.
II Feria de Entidades (Organizations Fair) (Calle Dos de mayo) & SHOWCASE PACAS
There will be stands for 20 non-profit organizations that work in the social-cultural sector or are involved in improving problems of hunger, the environment, human rights and poverty both on the local and international levels. Many have been or will be beneficiaries of our P.A.C.A.S program or our Festival.
The Feria de Entidades of the V Festival Djs CONTRA LA FAM provides the means for the public to know about the work of these organizations and it also increases awareness of the realities of the city and that of those with whom the organizations work.
SHOWCASE PACAS, in its second year, is becoming an annual “special program” in the CLUB stage during the early afternoon for those who have participated in our P.A.C.A.S workshops (DJ, sound production, etc. etc.) to show us what they have learned and for emerging professionals selected in collaboration with other trade fairs, entities, and festivals in Barcelona.
16:00H a 24:00H. 10€
The Main Stage is where Djs and groups will perform.
The Club Stage, is a bit more intimate, but perfect to enjoy some of the best DJs we have.
The Relax Zone (the palm tree zone) will be designed by the ecological collective Hamaka and is a space for relaxation and full-time enjoyment of the atmosphere.
Vaqueros de Barcelona, the city’s best street artists, return to create live work that will later be exhibited and auctioned during the 2nd year of our collaborative project SPRAY CONTRA LA FAM.
SuperNanas will create a Silent Concert. A carpeted space to chill out where live tranquil music will be heard through headsets (to tune out surrounding noise and to create an intimate experience) that will be distributed amongst the crowd: to parents and to kids.
Electronic Music + Social Action+ Urban Art together with public support, the 300+ volunteers, and the help of public and private entities, the musicians, Djs, street artists, visual artists, associations, and press that will all be there are the ingrediates for a day full of great music, sun and solidarity!
This will be yet again a great encounter of culture, social action
for the fight against HUNGER.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!