Ebola: All Together towards victory
Regulatory News:
Vivendi (Paris:VIV), the international media and content group,
is staging a major music festival on Saturday, September 26 at the
Esplanade du Palais du Peuple in Conakry, Guinea, to raise
awareness about action to combat the Ebola virus. Details of the
event were presented today during a press conference in
Conakry.
Ebola: All Together towards victory will bring together
Guinean and international artists, including Wizkid, Kiff
No Beat, BanlieuZ’art, Azaya, Soul Bang’s,
Sia Tolno, Abram Sonty, Djanii Alfa,
Instinct Killer and a surprise guest. This major concert
will be free and about 25,000 people are expected to join to
celebrate the success of the vaccination campaign against the Ebola
virus.
This concert is the first of a series of initiatives launched
in Guinea by Vivendi, which comprises businesses including
Canal+, Universal Music and Dailymotion. Vivendi intends to promote
talent from Guinea, and more widely in Africa, and to support their
international development.
A new concert hall to celebrate talent in Conakry
With these objectives in mind, Vivendi will lay the foundation
stone of a new, large concert hall devoted to music, shows and
screenings on September 26, coinciding with the opening of the
music festival. Sited in the heart of the Bolloré group’s Blue Zone
in Kaloum, this new venue designed to celebrate African artistic
talent will be named CanalOlympia.
- Canal+ stands for quality
entertainment, impertinence and creativity, and is a well-known
brand in Guinea. As a distribution platform for African culture, it
recently launched A+, a television channel for and by
Africans.
- L’Olympia is the iconic Parisian
concert hall which has hosted performances by the world’s most
prestigious artists including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones,
David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Dalida, Eddy
Mitchell, Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan, Edith Piaf and Gilbert
Bécaud. The famous venue also stages other shows, notably for
popular comedians.
A new label: Island Africa/Universal Africa
Based on the iconic Island label, Island Africa, located in
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, will be committed to discovering local
talent and supporting them in their career development.
Island Africa is developing a large pan-African network of
infrastructure and technical facilities to promote African music on
the continent and worldwide.
Conakry is a first step, with the creation of Guinea’s first
recording studio.
All of Vivendi's companies actively involved in this
project
Vivendi wants to pay tribute to remarkable efforts from the
Guinean government and the World Health Organization in their
continuous fight against the Ebola outbreak. The organization of
the event Ebola: All Together towards victory reflects
Vivendi’s intention to celebrate the success of the vaccination
campaign against the virus and major progress made in recent months
in this field.
With the support of its Guinean partners, all the companies that
form part of the Vivendi group have joined forces to make this
concert a major popular festival and give it the outreach it
deserves.
- A+, the channel for and by
Africans, the leading French-speaking African channel launched by
Canal+ in 2014 on the Canalsat package, currently broadcasting
the first Guinean television series, Alima ou le rêve brisé
(Alima or the broken dream).
- Dailymotion, one of the biggest
aggregation and distribution platforms in the world, will be
opening a channel this week specially dedicated to the event.
- In France, the Canal+ Group
television channels D8 and D17 will emulate this event.
- In 2014, Universal Music joined
forces with several artists to produce a double CD “Stop Ebola”
whose profits were returned to the “Doctors Without Borders”
association. Universal Music artists will again mobilize and be
present on stage on September 26!
In addition to this important media coverage which will give the
event international exposure, the Guinean channels RTG and
Evasion will broadcast the concert, giving a chance for
everyone in Guinea to enjoy the artists’ performance.
Artist mobilization
Organized by Vivendi and produced by Tidiane World Music, Ebola:
All Together towards victory will bring together numerous Guinean
artists as well as African and international stars on September
26.
- Starting at 2pm, different shows
will be organized on the Esplanade du Palais du Peuple to welcome
the audience arriving. DJs will entertain fans and several groups,
including four from Guinea, will perform.
- At 5pm, Guinean artists will
embrace the stage: Azaya, Soul Bang’s, Sia Tolno, Abram Sonty,
Djanii Alfa, Instinct Killer and BanlieuZ’art.
- Starting at 7.30pm, the Ivorian
rap group Kiff No Beat and the young Nigerian music prodigy
Wizkid will be among the artists performing.
The Vivendi group: priority given to talent and to living
together
Vivendi, an integrated media and content industrial group, has
significantly strengthened its presence in Africa, a continent
where its subsidiary Canal+ Group has long been implemented
in some twenty Western and Southern African countries. After
launching the leading African channel A+ in October 2014, broadcast
through the Canalsat bouquet, Canal+ launched four additional
sports channels in July and added 25 new channels to the
“Les Bouquets Canal+”.
Universal Music Group, the world leader in music, always
attentive to the emergence of new talent in Africa, opened an
office in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, a way to reaffirm its
willingness to be the first international major to hold a
first-rank place on the African continent.
For slightly over a year now, Vivendi decided to significantly
strengthen its involvement in talent, firmly believing that it
should be at the heart of a media and content group. Its
VivendiTalents program (www.VivendiTalents.com) aims at
discovering and supporting the development of talent in the fields
of music, humor and audiovisual. The new CanalOlympia hall
to be opened shortly in Conakry will invite and promote all talent;
this first initiative in Guinea will be followed by the opening of
similar such locations in other sub-Saharan African countries.
Vivendi has always been convinced that the intercultural
dialogue plays a vital role for a leading media group. This is
the reason why it launched the website www.CulturesWithVivendi.com
in 2012, which offers regularly the opportunity to African artists
to be featured and get international visibility.
For Vivendi, Living Together is a major corporate value
which has been headlined on its website www.Vivendi.com and which
is perfectly exemplified by the Ebola: All Together towards victory
event.
Vivendi operates businesses throughout the media value chain,
from talent discovery to the creation, production and distribution
of content.
- Canal+ Group is the leading
pay-TV operator in France, and also serves markets in Africa,
Poland and Vietnam. Canal+ operations include Studiocanal, a
leading European player in production, sales and distribution of
film and TV series.
- Universal Music Group is the
world leader in recorded music, music publishing and merchandising,
with more than 50 labels covering all genres.
- Vivendi Village brings together
Vivendi Ticketing (ticketing in the UK, France and the U.S.),
MyBestPro (experts counseling), Watchever (subscription
video-on-demand) and the Paris-based concert venue L’Olympia.
- With 3 billion videos viewed each
month, Dailymotion is one of the biggest aggregation and
distribution platforms in the world.
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