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10th Canta al mar – Festival Coral Internacional

October 21 - 25, 2021 Calella/Barcelona, Spain

Let’s celebrate 10 years Canta al mar!

This calls for a celebration: In 2021 the festival "Canta al mar – Festival Coral International" in Calella and Barcelona will be a must-see attraction for many choirs from around the world for the 10th time already.

Sunny weather, long sandy beaches, short walking-distances as well as sightseeing and performance opportunities in Barcelona with concerts and competitions in the world-renowned Cathedral and the nearby 15th century church Santa Maria del Pi, make this festival a unique experience for all participants.

Events like "Calella Sings" in the historic city center and the "Fiesta de la amistad" with the local delights "paella y sangría" as well as a huge choir party create extensive opportunities to meet the locals and to socialize with fellow singers from around the world.

Celebrate with us 10 years Canta al mar and enjoy together with your choir a festival that beautifully combines holiday feeling and love for music in a perfect manner!

GREETING

We are happy to celebrate our festival "Canta al Mar" in Calella and Barcelona already for the 10th time. Join us and enjoy a meeting of choirs from all over the world, where the joint singing in squares and in the streets of the city as well as experiencing the Catalan "joie de vivre" will compose the core of the festival.

Welcome to Calella!

Günter Titsch, President INTERKULTUR | Montserrat Candini i Puig, Mayor of Calella

Participation opportunities

This INTERKULTUR event provides you the opportunity to choose from the following options of participation:

Non-competitive participation	Competitive participation
Festival participation**	Competition categories*
Evaluation performance*

at least one friendship concert performance included

*at least two performances included

Competition

Evaluation Performance

Friendship Concerts

Official Events

"We were very pleased and pleased to meet interesting people from different countries in the world who share everything. It's music. It was indeed a successful festival and we hope to see you at other festivals."

Moshe Novotni, Tziporey Shir, Israel (Calella 2017)

"THANK YOU for such nice days at Calella with the other choirs! We had a great time with our children and we learned a lot from others."

Crescendo Arte Children's Choir, Colombia (Calella 2017)

"I enjoyed it very much: the friendship, the new contacts, the adjudication, the choirs, the hospitality and of course the perfect organization and hosting of INTERKULTUR."

Hans van den Brand, jury member, Netherlands (Calella 2017)

Registration Information

Early Bird deadline: March 15, 2021
Registration deadline: May 17, 2021

Costs

For the participation in this event the payment of the registration fee (per choir) as well as the event package (per person) is required. Choirs that come from a radius of up to 150 km around Calella and therefore do not need an overnight stay, pay a participant fee (per person) instead of the event package. The prices of the event packages and the participant fee can be downloaded below or requested using our contact form.

REGISTRATION FEE

To participate in the event the following registration fees have to be paid per choir/ensemble and category in addition to the costs for the event package:

For Early Bird registration the fee for the first activity* amounts to EUR 100. Any additional activity amounts to EUR 200.
For registration until the regular deadline the fee for each activity* is EUR 200.

Activities refer to competition participation (1 category = 1 activity) and Festival Participation (only concerts). For choirs participating in the competitions the performance in a concert is free of charge.

EVENT PACKAGE

With the event package INTERKULTUR offers participants of its events a special service

We take care of all the details and through authorized agencies of the INTERKULTUR event series we offer an event package that includes, amongst others, accommodation in different hotel categories as well as other local services.

Choirs that come from a radius of up to 150 km around Calella and therefore do not need an overnight stay, pay a Participant Fee per person instead of the event package.
The booking of the event packages which includes already the participant fee is required for all non-regional choirs.

Rates

The rates of the event packages vary according to 3 country groups. They based on the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI) and adopted to the requirements of the national choral scenes.

Please select your country to see the event package and - for regional choirs - the participant fee for your participation:

Registration Documents

Visa & Travel Information

Dear friends of choral music,

the issue of visas generally takes a long time. Therefore please make sure to apply for your visa as soon as possible. It is in your own interest. In case you apply too late, you risk a rejection of your visa registration!

Please contact the embassy of the host country in your country to get detailed information what restrictions and regulations apply to you!

Please keep also in mind that you might need transit visas, depending on your itinerary to the competition country.

If you do not have a valid passport yet, please apply for this immediately!

Participants of some countries need an invitation letter as well as a stamped list of participants to apply for a visa. INTERKULTUR can issue these documents.

Information on travel and health regulations of the destination country can be found on the website of the tourism partner agency M&C Music Contact GmbH.

Important Information

INTERKULTUR can issue the invitation letter for the duration of the event and can stamp your list of participants to apply for visas only if you have fulfilled all the following conditions:

you have successfully applied for the event and paid the registration fee to INTERKULTUR
you have paid the down payment for the event package to our partner agency M&C Music Contact GmbH
you have sent us the completed list of participants (no handwriting!)

Please send the list only once and try to avoid changes of participants, as changes may delay the issue of your visa. We recommend adding 3 or 4 alternative names as a reserve for participants who may cancel the travel.

As soon as you have complied with those three conditions we will send the invitation letter including the confirmed list of participants by email and the original documents by airmail directly to the responsible person of the choir. This person shall bring the documents to the embassy personally.

Please keep in mind that if you comply with the conditions too late so that we have to send the original invitation letter per international express delivery, you have to take over the additional costs (approx. 100 – 300 EUR).

List of Participants

Please download the document, fill it in completely and send it to us as soon as possible.

To open the file the current version of Adobe Reader is required. You can download it at www.adobe.com.

You can send the file

- by sending an email, the list of participants attached, to visa(at)interkultur.com
- by printing it (after filling it in at your computer – no handwriting!) and sending it to us by fax (+49 6404 69749 29)

We assume no liability regarding the application and granting for visas. We do not offer this service but we gladly assist you when you apply for visa at the respective embassy in your country.

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Impressions

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Event Details

Schedule of the Event

Jury

Daniel Mestre (Spain)

Anzhela Maslennikova (Ukraine)

Francisco Núñez (USA)

Organizer

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Destination

3,5 kilometers of sandy beach, its location directly at the Mediterranean Sea and its proximity to Barcelona make Calella a popular European destination. During the choral festival singers can wonderfully make music, stroll and relax in the contemplative old town with its Catalan and Mediterranean charm.
Since its 650 years of history Calella has developed from a small fishing village into a favoured resort of all nations and age groups. This mixture of modernity, hospitality and Catalan traditions add a special touch to Calella and thus make it an appealing travel destination.

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