ROME, February 15, 2023
Building a new organization to support the future of the entire entertainment industry in a time of such long and deep crisis may seem like an impossible mission.
But sometimes challenges can be overcome.
After several months of intense and productive collaboration and study of the sector’s key goals and objectives, UNISCA (Coordination of the Creative, Entertainment, and Performing Arts Sector) was officially established on October 12, 2021, in Bologna.
UNISCA is an independent and autonomous association made up of highly diverse entities, all united by a shared passion for the core values of art, entertainment, and labor, seen as essential pillars of civil coexistence, democracy, and freedom for everyone.
On February 15, 2023, the UNISCA Assembly renewed its trust in the members of the Board of Directors
- Compatangelo Maria Letizia (Board Member),
- Formisano Claudio (Board Member),
- Mascetti Giovanna Maria (Board Member),
- Pontoriero Michele Massimo (President),
- Trotta Claudio Giovanni Umberto (Board Member and Deputy Vice President).
Thanking the members for their unified and cohesive collaboration, the Board stated its commitment to continuing its mandate, following the programmatic guidelines widely shared by the Assembly.
The President emphasized that UNISCA’s strategy remains focused on creating synergy within the Creativity, Arts, and Entertainment sector through institutional activities and political dialogue:
“We must strengthen the united representation of all the diverse forces in the sector, enhancing their social and cultural ‘biodiversity.’
We must participate in an open and competent dialogue in every public initiative, at local, national, and international levels (from the Observatory to ministerial tables, from fairs to conferences), to demonstrate the real quantitative and qualitative impact of the sector and to promote the aggregation of various categories of workers, businesses, and non-commercial entities.
To this end, starting this year, we are committed to launching a major media campaign to raise awareness about the Risk of Extinction of National Culture.”
Spokesperson Claudio Trotta reflected on the association’s origins, recalling that:
“Paradoxically, UNISCA – which aims to foster the healthy and vital concept of togetherness – was born after months of online conversations, from our own homes, among people who often met only during the long blackout suffered by the live entertainment and events industry.”
The member associations of UNISCA are:
- M.A.M.I. (Italian Association of Music Managers and Agents) – Giovanna Maria Mascetti
- ARIACS (Association of Italian Representatives of Artists for Concerts and Shows) – Franco Silvestri
- AWI (Art Workers Italy) – Giulia Mengozzi
- CAFIM (Confederation of European Music Industry) – Claudio Formisano
- CAM (Coordination of Music Associations) – Andrea Marco Ricci
- IJI (National Federation of Italian Jazz) – Angelo Valori
- FNAS (National Federation of Street Arts) – Giuseppe Boron
- ITALSHOW (Association under Law 4/2013 for Entertainment Professionals) – Tania Borelli
- MIA (Associated Independent Music) – Ermanno Basso
- PERFAS (Performing Artists Association South Tyrol) – Peter Schorn
- SHOWNET (Network of Entertainment Cooperatives) – Marco Olivieri
- Slow Music ETS – Claudio Trotta
- UNA (National Union of Authors) – Luigi Fontana Sbriccoli
External Affiliates:
- ARCI – Carlo Testini
- ASSOARTISTI (Confesercenti) – Elio Giobbi
