Support the arts in the azores

The Walk & Talk Festival returns between 12-27 July and now has an ongoing campaign to raise funds to support the production of this year.

Until July 4th, fans and followers of the international festival of public art in the Azores may contribute to a program of artistic exception that will gather in San Miguel over 50 Portuguese and foreign creators. The donations are from ten euro and great patrons of public art, people with donations exceeding € 500, will see their name drawn by an artist in a big wall or be guests of honor, with the offering of the airline ticket and stay in St. Miguel during the Walk & Talk.

Crowd funding has become a funding model popular among cultural entrepreneurs and over the past thirteen years since the launch of Artist Share - the digital platform pioneer in this area, the success stories of artistic projects realized through the concerted and collective investment of anonymous rotate. The Festival Walk & Talk follows this trend and within its sustainability strategy bet on private sponsorship, invites their fans and followers to support the event with donations. This bet comes in order to sustain investment in the festival's artistic maturation, which involves an increasing effort of production, from procurement of materials for the works to promote international artistic residencies. "The sustainability of the Walk & Talk is one of our top priorities; we want to ensure that the festival organization translates into effective value for the region. Multiply funding sources, avoiding the overhead or dependency of the public contribution is crucial to the evolution of an event that aims to assert itself as a flag of regional culture, "notes Jesse James, co-founder of the Association Walk & Talk and Festival Walk & Talk in conjunction with Diana Sousa.