What is Humanity at Music?
A project of artistic inter-cooperation
The cooperative experience as seen through music, dance and literary creativity. Humanity at Music represents a new way of telling the story, the past, present and future of MONDRAGON. It is an inter-cooperative, artistic, creative project based on the cooperative experience.
The cooperative story has never before been told or sung in the way the Humanity at Music will. It will be different from everything that has come before it, including the way it is organized for participation. It is designed to spur the contributions of the entire MONDRAGON community and all of its cooperatives. The stage is the same, but the actors change.
An open project
Humanity at Music brings together artists of all stripes: narrators, singers, illustrators, bertsolaris (Basque musical poets), actors and dancers, in a moving performance. The project is open to all of the MONDRAGON cooperatives and to all their members and workers. The community is invited to participate in the realization of this multidisciplinary work. At the same time, it will serve to strengthen the bonds between present and past cooperative workers, their families, the towns they live in, and government institutions.
There will be two major milestones during the development of this initiative: the presentation of the book at the famous Durangoko Azoka book fair, and the grand musical and visual performance which will take place in Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 14 September, 2019.
An open project
Humanity at Music brings together artists of all stripes: narrators, singers, illustrators, bertsolaris (Basque musical poets), actors and dancers, in a moving performance. The project is open to all of the MONDRAGON cooperatives and to all their members and workers. The community is invited to participate in the realization of this multidisciplinary work. At the same time, it will serve to strengthen the bonds between present and past cooperative workers, their families, the towns they live in, and government institutions.
There will be two major milestones during the development of this initiative: the presentation of the book at the famous Durangoko Azoka book fair, and the grand musical and visual performance which will take place in Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 14 September, 2019.
The book, a treasure to save and to give
As Maite Mutuberria, the project’s illustrator, says, the book is like a treasure, to be read unhurriedly, to be kept forever. It brings together the past, present and future of the Basque cooperative movement, but above all, it’s an inspiring work of art. A book that belongs in the home of anyone who has experienced the cooperative movement from the inside.