MEGA – Music Effort for Green Activism is a residence, capacity-building and dissemination project aiming to use music for awareness and action towards climate injustice, ecology, and the environment. MEGA analyses, selects and highlights music best practices, projects and artefacts that positively impact the environment, driving actions and innovations for community-based initiatives.
The project addresses artists and music professionals, artistic curators, and cultural organisers, from 18 to 50 years of age, who wish to delve into creative project production and sustainability skills, either to improve or to gain them from scratch.
The project, comprised of 4 days of in-person Masterclass and Workshops at KORA, was conceived to promote principles of sustainability and ecology in the music industry, favouring a dialogue between professors, artists and project managers who will join the courses in the great southern Italian village of Castrignano dei Greci, in the Lecce province.
Through its training activities, including advanced courses and project work, the project imparts curatorial and design skills, both theoretical and practical. Between lectures and creative production activities held in the village, participants will be invited to use their creativity to produce an artistic artefact with an environmental-ecological focus. The creative works developed during the workshops, with the support and mentorship of the professors, will be presented live during the 2025 edition of AVANT Festival 2025.
Through podcasts, interviews, and the sharing of resources, the aim is to disseminate international practices and case studies at the intersection of music, sound, science, academic research, and sustainability. The project will explore innovative initiatives that can inspire artists, professionals, and cultural organisations to combat climate injustice through creative expression.
The educational materials and resources produced within the framework of the project will be accessible and designed to be scalable across different contexts and countries.
MEGA – Music Efforts for Green Activism is implemented by Sud Sonico, Musichelp, and Ramdom APS.
The course is addressed to people from 18 to 50 years of age, musicians, music professionals, artists and cultural organisations.
Yes, but solely for n.5 European and/or Swedish participants. Italian participants won’t be eligible for any contribution. All the participants, though, will be offered lunch for the duration of the activities.
Transportation to and from KORA, accommodation, and lunch. It is flat-rate.
For any further information regarding the reimbursement, please contact Musichelp.
Candidates will be selected by the evaluation team (Sud Sonico) based on their financial status or a particular disadvantaged life situation.
Go to the Open Call page and fill out the application form. Once filled out the form, you will receive news from us via email.
The masterclasses and workshops will last 4 days: they will be organised as follows
2 days: masterclass
3: workshops
25th August 2025
We encourage group work, but we also allow participants to develop projects on their own.
Our team is always available to provide the support you need, whether you have particular needs or questions. Please feel free to reach megamusicproject@gmail.com for any matter.
The attendance in the course is mandatory at 80%. If participants attend fewer appointments, we won’t be able to release to students a certificate and the related resources, readings, links and bibliography.
6 Ottobre -> Welcome
7-8 Ottobre -> Masterclass con Filippo Rosati, Nicola di Croce, TBC (Margherita Pevere?
9-10 Ottobre -> Laboratori Musicali-Ambientali, presso il Borgo di Produzione
Yes, but only if you attend the course for 80% of the time.
Yes, if your attendance is completed for 80% of the time requested.
If agreed by the participants, the project works will be publicly shown during AVANT Festival, in Lecce, and digitally disseminated on our website, in the RESOURCES section.
“Casa KORA” is in Via Umberto I, 19, 73020 Castrignano De’ Greci LE
From Lecce
Bye car:
26 km, travel time: approximately 20-25 minutes through SS16 road.
By train:
Castrignano de’ Greci has no train station! Suggested solutions:
Train until Maglie, then change to bus, travel time 1h30 minutes/ 2h. 3.70 €.
trenitalia.com
Bye bus:
Bus from Lecce (direct or change in Martano), travel time 55 minutes, ~2 €. Check tickets and timetable: Ferrovie del Sud Est – FSE (fseonline.it) (in the departure from section select Lecce all stations and in destination put Castrignano de’ Greci).
Bus station name in Lecce: Marche-Ex ONMI
Bus station name in Castrignano: Piazza Caduti
In taxi:
Consorzio Radio Taxi Lecce: +39 338 7976465
consorzioradiotaxilecce.it
Radio Taxi Comune di Lecce: +39 0832 1779
Private transfer Lecce – Castrignano dei Greci:
– price: 40 euro +36 20 3286025 or +39 320 706 1409, Kora car
– price: 40 euro, Daniele Scordari, +39 3474730853
The house is located in the centre of the village and has 5 bedrooms, of which 4 are available: 2 with king-size beds and 2 with double beds. There are 2 shared living rooms, a shared kitchen and 3 shared bathrooms, an outdoor terrace on the ground floor and a large garden. The guests will have a private room and free access to the shared spaces.
The price is 35 euros per night
For any further information, please contact direzione@ramdom.net, or call +36 20 3286025 or +39 320 706 1409.
