It’s what we like doing best apart from making music: looking at a specific scenario, city, a gap in education or communication; mapping its challenges and potential; dreaming up an ambitious plan and then realising it to optimal result, through seamless production.
We accompanied Veszprém on its ECoC journey from start to finish, assisted Novi Sad, Timișoara and Tartu in their successful applications. We have worked with UNESCO’s Creative Cities network, winning membership for Veszprém and Varaždin. Several cities benefited from our help: winning grants, drawing up a layered music strategy, executing large and smaller projects, dreaming big and making it reality. Read more on how we can help, and browse our partners, past and current projects – they speak for themselves.
Music connects across cultures, communities and ages, and we are grateful to employ its cohesive powers in a plethora of projects. It may answer a great number of societal ills, forge community and benefit a city or whole region, as the success of our major music education project Soundplay, or the regional development programme MOST attests. We always look at specific local potential and needs, and devise the best way music can serve the community, building on continued feedback from partners and using our production expertise.
Hangvető’s partnership with Veszprém, European Capital of Culture in 2023 stands out as the most comprehensive; we accompanied the city on its ECoC journey, from the BidBook to the realization and management of hundreds of events.
Hangjáték / Soundplay was a flagship music education project, harnessing the power of active, social music making. With its nearly 8000 participants, 556 hours spent making music and involving 5000 families between 2022-2023, Soundplay proved the potential of music in building and positively impacting communities in the long run.
The music school Hangár, with a pop-rock profile and launched within the framework of the project, is still running and thriving. The InterUrban program series hosted almost 30 cities in Veszprém, offering a taste of their local culture, traditions and gastronomy.
During the multi-genre cultural fair, each city tempted the public for 14 days with a wide array of events and activities befitting the guest cities.
With over 150 events around Veszprém and the Lake Balaton region, InterUrbán brought the audience the culture of cities like Bologna, Chemnitz, Ghent, Sevilla, Tartu. BALKAN:MOST showcase and conference was a unique celebration of contemporary Balkan music, and a festive closure of the MOST Music project.
The three-day street fiesta, showcase and conference was also a crowning event of the Veszprém–Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture year. BALKAN:MOST was a meeting point between South East and Western Europe – both in terms of music and professional exchange.
Hangvető made music a key element in Veszprém’s profile, helping it attain the UNESCO City of Music designation, and representing the city in the Creative Cities network between 2019 and 2023.
What makes our work so effective, and helps us maintain a global outlook as well as up-to date standards is the wide-ranging experience we have with international partners. Through our partnerships with Veszprém we have worked with the Creative Cities network, organizing cluster meetings and submitting a successful application for the City of Varazdin. We have had projects supported by Creative Europe, MOST and UPBEAT pioneering in the field as the first consortium lead by a Hungarian firm, and the first platform project with a Hungarian company in the lead, respectively.
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