M2LIVE weekend
With the highly successful youth event M2LIVE, an event for and by young people, with an average of 4,500 visitors from all people aged 12 to 25 and with the participation and contributions from students of lower secondary professional education till students of the Gymnasium (= grammar school with classical languages) and ROCs and the university; the museum shows its sense of topicality.
This event aims to achieve a more open and interested attitude within the wide world of art and design culture from youngsters towards museums. M2LIVE thus helps young people with a curious mind to determine their place in the world and their identity, to get to know their self-image, to enhance their self-esteem and to develop their "cultural wisdom".
The event has already achieved a special status and can boast a lot of interest, including (far) outside the province. The coming years, when it is to the museum, the M2LIVE-art profile will continue to crystallize further and the borders will be wide open to participation of young people from across the Euregion.
M2LIVE (museum marathon)
- M2LIVE weekend: Saturday from 2 pm to 2.00 am, about 100 performances byyoung talent (from lounge to classic bands and dance) and an after party at the
museum café Ipanema. Sunday from 11.00 am to 17.00 pm with the Film Award
for students, art tours and performances.
- Is organized by and for the Youth
- Museum tours provided by junior and student guides, the so called Art-trips
- M2LIVE Filmprize for students of the Art- Theatre- and
TV academy in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (in collaboration with Film
Theatre Lumière, Maastricht)
- Meet the professionals (meetings/ working together with programmers from the
world of radio and TV, photojournalists and others)
- Meet the art scene (exhibiting work of students of the Art academy)
- Between 4000 and 5000 visitors attend spontaneously
Features of M2LIVE
- Youth participation in organization and execution- Stage location museum (4 stages)
- High quality performances
- Introduction to unfamiliar cultural expressions
- Crossovers
- Meeting / social aspect / networking
- Multi-cultural
- Secondary school, many students but also families
- Support facilities and catering provided by VMBO students ( = lower level of secondary
education for Food, Restaurant and Bakery in the Netherlands)
- Free museum entrance (if you look younger than 25 years)
- Unique event in the Netherlands,
- subsidized by the city council of Maastricht for €40.000,- ,The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Limburg for €10.000,- and the Bonnefanten participates for the amount of € 20.000,-
(excluding overheadcosts and man- hours)
- Bonnefanten is an artmuseum (old masters and contemporary art), is subsidized by the
Province of Limburg, and has about 105.000 visitors a year
What young people do during the M2LIVE event
- Programming of the participants (secondary students program during the day & the highereducation students program the nights): 15 persons
- Providing tours: junior guides (up to 15 years) and student guides (up to 25 years): 20
persons
- PR activities
- Active with appearances and performances (about 350 artists)
- On the day of the festivities people perform various functions: such as presentations, VIP
reception, engineering, catering, hosts (about 50 youngsters in various executive / support
functions)
- Attend M2LIVE film prize for students
- Master classes, etc.
- Visitor M2LIVE
The two M's stand for Museum Marathon, but it is also the M for Museum and Maastricht.
