Vila Compasso (A Bar Village) is a musical fairy tail for children made now into book. It looks forward to entertain the kids world by giving life to some musical instruments, approaching the audience to the classical music.
The book pretends to bring to each home this fairy tail and make every parent, brother, grandfather, uncle or cousin, the narrator of the wonders and events around the mistery of the disappearence of a simphony. It creates a bright moment of familiar investigation and brings the joy of solving a riddle in cooperation, with the help of a musical glossary.
The autors are the composer João Gaspar and the ilustrator Sara Navarro.
This Crowdfunding campaign pretends to get financial support for only a part of the investment on the book publishment. The premiere and offical presentation of the book will take in March of 2018, joining the musical show in many performances, since when we predict to offer the awards.
A Vila
About the author
Before the book, Vila Compasso, is a musical pedagogical show created to children looking forward their integration in the classical music world, musical instruments and their features, by cooperation of many artistic fields such as literature, ilustration and music. In less than 60 min., the audience is moved to a fantasy where musical instruments have life and give voice to real characters living this village, completed by the preview of ilustrations. The original text brings out theory music keywords such as rythm, tempo, intervals, as well accessories like the metronome, putting them into a context so the listener can easily understand and learn them.
Autor e Composer, João Gaspar was born in Leiria, 1991. In 2012, finishes the Vocational School for music in Escola Profissional Metropolitana, with the Meruth Certificate of Best Student and, in 2015, gets the Bachelor Diploma by the National Superior Academy for Orchestra. He was part of the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra, Portuguese Youth Orchestra, The World Orchestra and invited to cooperate with many orchestras as Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, Ensemble MPMP ou Remix Ensemble. He is now member of The Portuguese Air Force Wind Band, teacher at Academia de Música de Óbidos and Conservatório de Artes Performativas de Almada and master former in Music Education at Lisbon Superior University for Music.
Ilustrator, Sara Navarro was born in Vila Franca de Xira, 1991. Finishes the Bachelor in Arts and Multimedia in 2013. Looking for new matters and know-how, as well as inspirations for her work , she gets the Post-Graduate Studies in Audiovisual, in 2014, which fields of studies she decided to improve with a Technical Course of Image and Ilumination by ETIC. She likes to catch memories, keep and share them by her camera, this was the job she took and where she works nowadays. Never forgetting projects among music, painting and ilustration.
Budget and due dates
Book Final Budget 2487,5€
Crowdfunding Budget 1500€
PPL comission 129,15€
Campaign Final Supporting 1370,85€
