What is a residency?
A time of reflection for a creative mind, away from everyday obligations.
What does Samarbeta mean?
To collaborate, to cooperate, to pull together
Samarbeta is a project born from the minds of Emma Thompson (Fat Out) and Riv Burns (Sounds from the Other City). Both Emma and Riv had worked together at Islington Mill for many years and worked alongside many artists via Islington Mill’s artist residency program. It led them to question why a specific music residency doesn’t exist, and thus Samarbeta was born in late 2013. As is proved through past artists-in-residence, a prolonged period of space and time away from everyday constraints and obligations that are offered as part of a residency program can be so beneficial to a creative mind and so we believe that musicians should be offered this experience as well.
The Samarbeta residency program is an innovative way to progress and encourage the production of new and adventurous music and also encourages musicians to come together and collaborate in a way that without the residency may never have arisen before.
The outcome of the residency is entirely flexible, it could be a new work, an identity, a visual project, the discovery of a new instrument, a collaboration, a live show and everything in between.
For details of all upcoming residencies and to view the Samarbeta residency archive head to their website.
CONTACT:
Emma Thompson: emma@samarbeta.org
Riv Burns: rivca@samarbeta.org
INSTAGRAM: @samarbeta
FACEBOOK: @samarbetamusicresidency
TWITTER: @samarbetamr