Participation Rules
Participation Rules
BaTTerra International Drum and Percussion Festival
1. Overview
1.1. The BaTTerra International
Drum and Percussion Festival (hereinafter referred to as the Festival)
is a non-profit event, organized by the Artcord Public Association.
1.2. The official website of the Festival
is https://festival.md/ .
1.3. All funds accumulated from sponsorships
and/or private organizations, funding from public institutions, sales revenues,
participation quotas, as well as from other financing activities, are intended
for the formation of the Festival's budget, to cover all related expenses and
to accumulate funds for future editions.
1.4. The festival has several component parts,
each with a specific regulation, described below.
2. Festival
components:
2.1. Contest of young drummers/percussionists;
2.2. Masterclasses for dedicated pupils/students/musicians;
2.3. Presentations of products, techniques,
innovative ways of teaching, exhibitions-sales, other types of
participation/involvement;
2.4. Concert-shows for the general public.
3. Rules of
participation in the BaTTerrist Young Drummers Contest:
3.1. Registration in the contest is made at the
email addresses mentioned on the Contacts page through a message with the subject "BaTTerrist".
3.2. In order to facilitate the organization of
the contest, the name and age are preferred in the text of the message.
3.3. The contest of young
drummers/percussionists is divided based on a skill category and three age
categories:
3.3.1. absolute beginners category with no
age limit,
3.3.2. three groups of intermediate and/or
advanced drummers up to 12 years old, 13-18 years old, over 18 years old.
3.4. The following performances are assessed
and scored:
3.4.1. Musical interpretation with emphasis on
finding and evolving in the musical context, dynamics, vocabulary and
interaction with the scores of the other instruments;
3.4.2. The technique of handling the instrument,
the ability to improvise, evolve with solos;
3.4.3. Artistism, behavior and stage appearance,
showmanship.
3.5. The performances listed above are counted
by a jury of at least 3 people, composed of performance artists in the field,
well-known musicians from the country or abroad, teachers in the related field,
members of the Artcord association.
3.6. If the student(s) of one of the jury
members participates in the competition, that member will refrain from counting
his student. In order not to affect the final score of these participants,
they will be given an arithmetic average score for each category.
3.7. The score will be offered in the range
from 1 to 10 points for each type of performance.
3.8. The final score will be the total sum of
the points offered by all the members of the jury cumulated for each
contestant.
3.9. For each age category, prizes are awarded
for the first three places occupied based on the accumulated score and mentions
for the first five places.
3.10. The results of the competition will be
announced immediately after counting the accumulated scores with the
presentation of each jury member on the justification of awarding grades up to
4 points or from 9 to 10 points, in order to highlight the shortcomings or
exemplary performances, as pedagogical motivation.
3.11. The occupants of the 1st and 2nd places of
the three groups of intermediate/advanced drummers, for each age category, will
be granted the opportunity to participate in the concerts of the festival in
the following order:
3.11.1. the occupants of the 2nd seats - on the
first day of the concert;
3.11.2. Occupants of the 1st seats - on the second
day of the concert.
3.12. The laureates of the group of beginners
without age limit will not have the opportunity to perform in the concert part,
taking into account their technical limitation, but they will be invited on
stage to receive prizes, diplomas, mentions.
3.13. At the end of the festival, the winners
will be handed the prizes on the main stage by the president of the jury and
the sponsors' representatives.
3.14. Teachers and/or schools whose students
took the first three places in each category will receive performance diplomas
from the festival.
3.15. In order to cover the expenses related to
the contest of young drummers, a participation fee will be charged:
3.15.1. The participation fee in the contest is
500 MDL.
3.15.2. Children from socially vulnerable families
do not pay the participation fee.
3.16. In order to participate in the category of
socially vulnerable family member, the participant in the contest, or his/her
legal representative, in the case of minors, needs to fill in a declaration on
their own responsibility where they will mention the basis of their
qualification as a Socially Vulnerable Family.
3.17. The qualification of Contestant from a
Socially Vulnerable Family will be awarded to children who are orphans of
parents, from boarding schools and/or children's homes, to those from
incomplete families with incomes below the average for the economy of the
Republic of Moldova, to students who do not benefit from the financial support
of their parents and/or have a scholarship lower than the average income on the
economy.
3.18. Registration in the contest can be
organized by the Organizing Committee and by other methods, communicated
on the https://festival.md/ website and social networks.
4. Rules of
participation as a Masterclass artist-performer
4.1. In order to participate in the Festival
with a Masterclass, it is necessary to contact the Organizing Committee with an
offer, a technical rider, other requirements of any kind.
4.2. The contacts of the organizing committee
can be found on the Festival's website at the Contacts page https://festival.md/pages/contacts
4.3. The Masterclass offer can be presented
through a brief description, media materials, with the attachment of technical
riders, requests for fees, requests for compensation of expenses, sent
electronically to the electronic addresses mentioned on the page Contacts https://festival.md/pages/contacts
4.4. Technical riders, requests for fees and
requests for compensation of expenses will be submitted only in written form on
physical support or in electronic format with their signature by the bidding
party.
4.5. The Organizing Committee can come up with
its own proposals for artists-performers of the Masterclasses, including from
among the invited headliners.
4.6. The acceptance or rejection of offers for
Masterclasses is made exclusively by the Organizing Committee of the Festival
with the subsequent approval of the management of AO Artcord.
5. Regulation
on participation with presentations of products, techniques, innovative ways of
teaching, exhibitions-sales, other types of participation and/or involvement
5.1. The BaTTerra Festival encourages the participation
of any entities that bring added value to the event and promotes any type of
activities related to the musical field, especially the field of
percussion/drumming arts.
5.2. The Organizing Committee welcomes and
facilitates any form of participation.
5.3. The Organizing Committee makes the maximum
possible effort to support the smooth running of the proposed activities within
the limits of existing possibilities.
5.4. Any requested support must be strictly
coordinated with the Organizing Committee.
5.5. Priority for participation in the given
category will be given to entities that come with sponsorships for the BaTTerra
festival, but will not be strictly limited by this support.
5.6. Sponsorships may have any form agreed by
the participating entity and the Organizing Committee.
5.7. In order to participate with activities in
this category, it is necessary to contact the Organizing Committee through any
available form.
5.8. Contacts can be found on the Festival's
website at the Contacts page https://festival.md/pages/contacts.
6. Regulation
regarding participation in concert-show programs
6.1. In the concert programs of the Festival
there are 3 categories of musicians / bands / performers:
6.1.1. Winners of the contest of young
drummers/percussionists who occupied the 1st and 2nd places in each
age/performance group;
6.1.2. Bands/artists/performers who come with an
artistic offer sent to the email addresses mentioned on the Contacts page https://festival.md/pages/contacts and are accepted for participation
by the Organizing Committee;
6.1.3. Headliners from abroad, special guests and
local artists invited by the Organizing Committee.
6.2. The winners of the contest of young
drummers/percussionists who occupied the 1st and 2nd places in each
age/performance group are automatically included in the concert program,
according to the following formula:
6.2.1. the occupants of the 2nd places – at the
concert on the first day of the festival,
6.2.2. Occupants of the 1st places – at the
concert on the second day of the festival.
6.3. The placement of these contestants in the
stage schedule is totally at the discretion of the Organizing Committee.
6.4. The contestants or their legal
representatives cannot dictate the time or placement of the performance, but
they may amicably request changes in the performance placement at least 10 days
before the festival with the motivation of these requests.
6.5. Requests for amendments may be considered
or disregarded. Priority will be given in cases where applicants come up
with proposals for sponsorship of the festival, but do not guarantee their
mandatory acceptance.
6.6. The winners of the contest undertake to
participate in the concert program based on the above.
6.7. Refusal to participate may lead to the
disqualification of the contestant without the possibility of recovering the
participation fee.
6.8. For the participation of
bands/artists/performers, it is necessary to submit the participation offer.
6.9. The offer to participate may include a
brief description, media demos, other types of presentation, sent to the
contacts mentioned at https://festival.md/pages/contacts.
6.10. The offer can be in the format of an
artistic show number, an individual program with backing tracks, a live
performance program of musical bands, other types of stage performance.
6.11. Participation offers may be in the form of
original compositions, covers, acting versions or covers. The first two
categories are encouraged and given priority.
6.12. The acceptance or non-acceptance of offers
is made exclusively by the Organizing Committee.
6.13. The organizing committee, in its
decisions, takes into account the public's preferences, the artistic value and
variety of the offer, but also the support of the offer by the festival
sponsors.
6.14. Each artistic offer must be accompanied by
the technical requirements of the artists/bands/performers, which will be
submitted in electronic format to the Organizing Committee.
6.15. Each accepted participant will benefit
from a cash prize in the amount of up to 2000 MDL or a voucher for the purchase
of goods in music stores, at the participant's choice. Monetary prizes are
subject to taxation and taxation according to the legislation of the Republic
of Moldova.
6.16. The decision to award these prizes is
entirely at the discretion of the Organizing Committee, but will take into
account the opinion of the festival sponsors, if these sponsorships are
specific for offering prizes to participants.
6.17. In addition to the monetary prizes, the
participants of the Festival will receive diplomas and mentions.
6.18. The placement of each
artist/band/performer accepted in the Festival program is totally at the
discretion of the Organizing Committee and cannot be subject to influence by
the participants.
6.19. Requests for adjustment, motivated, of the
placement of the evolution can be accepted amicably by the Organizing Committee
with no less than 10 days until the festival.
6.20. Priority will be given to adjustment
requests supported by the Festival sponsors.
6.21. The stage time granted to each participant
in the concerts is strictly delimited by the Organizing Committee and is
totally at its discretion. It will be announced and coordinated with the
bidder at the time of acceptance, but it can be adjusted unidirectionally by
the Organizing Committee along the way.
6.22. The participants accepted from the above
categories will not be able to request soundcheck time, but will benefit from
the assistance of the technical staff during the evolution within the limit of
5 minutes of linecheck.
6.23. Requests for stage lighting, special
effects, etc., will be discussed with the Organizing Committee and will be
facilitated to the maximum within the limits of the existing technical and
logistical possibilities.
6.24. The Organizing Committee does not offer
compensation for expenses to the first category of participants (winners of the
contest of young drummers/percussionists).
6.25. The Organizing Committee does not offer
expense compensation to the second category of participants, except for
expenses directly compensated by the festival sponsors, or by the sponsors of
the artist/band/performers.
6.26. The Organizing Committee cannot be obliged
to disclose any data regarding the offering of prizes, compensation of
expenses, sponsorships to the public, except for the statute of the organizing
Association and the legislation in force.
6.27. Headliners from abroad, special guests and
local artists invited by the Organizing Committee are subject exclusively to
the discreet decisions of the Organizing Committee.
6.28. The invitation and acceptance of the
headliners in the Festival program can be made with the consultation of the
funders/sponsors and/or partners of the festival, but it is not mandatory.
6.29. The offering of fees, compensation of
expenses, meeting of technical requirements, hosting of participants in the
last category is made exclusively at the decision of the Organizing Committee
within the limit of the available budget, but they can be modified post-event
from the income obtained or from the financing/sponsorship offers, specially
intended for these purposes.
