La Casa Del Baile (The Dance House)

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Finished 27 / 07 / 2023
Funded!
Received
€ 40.364
Minimum
€ 23.130
Optimum
€ 37.781
501 Backers
  • Contributing € 20

    Come dance with us

    Thank you very much for your input!
    You are already part of this project.

    Your name will be in the acknowledgments both on social networks and on our website.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: by contributing with €20, the Treasury refunds €16.
You will only pay €4! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 57 Backers
  • Contributing € 30

    New album by El Naán

    New album by El Náán entitled "La Casa del Baile" comprises 4 unpublished songs. (EP).
    We will send it to you to download it at the end of this campaign.

    + Your name will be in the acknowledgments, both on social networks and on our website.

    Thanks to your donation we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: by contributing with €30, the Treasury refunds €24.
You will only pay €6! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 48 Backers
  • Contributing € 45

    Come dance wearing our t-shirt

    T-shirt "The Earth for those who dance it" an original design by Niquis del Páramo.
    + shipping by national mail.

    + EP album by El Naán entitled "La Casa del Baile".
    + acknowledgent on our website and social networks.
    + Thanks to your donation, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: by contributing with €45, the Treasury refunds €36.
You will only pay €6! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 172 Backers
  • Contributing € 45

    Come dance with Food Sovereignty

    Annual subscription to the wonderful and necessary "Food Sovereignty, Biodiversity and Cultures Magazine"

    +shipping by national mail. You will receive it at home 4 times a year, with each season.

    + EP album by El Naán entitled "La Casa del Baile".

    + thanks on our website and social networks.

    Thanks to your donation we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Contribute tax relief: contributing €45, the Treasury returns €36.
    You will pay only €9! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 14 Backers
  • Contributing € 60

    Inauguration Party of the Casa del Baile

    Entrance to the opening party of the Casa del Baile at the end of summer 2023.

    + EP album by El Naán :"La Casa del Baile".
    + acknowledgent on our website and social networks.

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.

    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: by contributing with €60, the Treasury refunds €48.
    You will only pay €12! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 34 Backers
  • Contributing € 100

    Come to the Inaguration Party with a friend

    Come to the Inauguration Party of the Casa del Baile with a friend.

    2 Tickets for the opening party of Casa del Baile at the end of summer 2023.
    + EP album by El Naán entitled "La Casa del Baile".
    + acknowledgent on our website and social networks.

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
    ..............................................................................
    Tax refund: by contributing with €100, the Treasury refunds €80.
    You will only pay €20! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 63 Backers
  • Contributing € 150

    Come and dance with us in one of these courses of the Rural University

    Two-day course at the Rural University. You can choose one of the following courses:

    Course on Ancestral Knowledge and Experimental Archeology with Héctor Castrillejo.

    Traditional Percussion Course with Sergio López Santos and Carlos Herrero.

    Yarn Spinning course with La Trama by Marta Valdivielso.

    Cerrato Family Musical Adventure with Música con Rechupete.

    Radio and podcast creation and production course with KJabali Community Radio.


    + EP album by El Naán "La Casa del Baile".

    + your name in the acknowledgments on our website and social networks.

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
    The courses will take place in Summer\Autumn 2023.
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    Tax refund: by contributing with €150, the Treasury refunds €120.
    You will only pay €30! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 45 Backers
  • Contributing € 180

    Come dance with your Pandero Cuadrado

    Handmade pandero cuadrado in Tabanera de Cerrato by the musicians and percussionists of the UniRural craft workshop.

    + national shipping
    + EP album by El Naán.
    + your name in the acknowledgments on our website and social networks.

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: by contributing €180, the Treasury refunds €130.5.
You will only pay €49.5! Calculate it 👉here

    > 29 Backers
  • Contributing € 250

    Patron of the Dancing House

    This reward is for those people, associations, organizations, companies and other initiatives that want to be Patrons of Casa del Baile.

    Your logo will be permanently on the web and your insitution will be ackowledged on the social networks of the Casa del Baile as a collaborating patron.

    + Multiple downloads of the unpublished album by El Naán.
    + 2 tickets for the inauguration party of the Casa del Baile.

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
    .............................................................. .........
    Tax refund: (80% if you are an individual, 35% for organizations\companies)
By contributing with €250, the Treasury refunds €155.
You will only pay €95! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 09 Backers
  • Contributing € 500

    Patrons go to the Naán winery

    This reward is designed for those people, associations, organizations, companies and other initiatives that want to be Patrons of Casa del Baile

    +Dinner at the Naán winery, a musical and gastronomic experience in an intimate space.

    +Your logo permanently on the web and acknowledgment on social networks of the project as a collaborating patron.

    +Multiple downloads of the unpublished album by El Naán "La Casa del Baile".
    +2 tickets for the inauguration party of the Casa del Baile

    Thanks to your contribution, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.
    Come dance with us whenever you want!
    ................................................................ ............................

    Tax refund: (80% if you are an individual, 35% for organizations\companies)
    By contributing with €500, the Treasury refunds €243.
You will only pay €257! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 05 Backers
  • Contributing € 1.000

    Great Patrons

    We will create a beautiful handmade tile plate with your name or the name\logo of your association and hang it the ball room of the Casa del Baile where it will remain forever.

    This reward is designed for those people, associations, organizations, companies and other initiatives that want to be an essential pillar in the rescue of the Casa del Baile.
    + Your logo permanently on the web and acknowledgment on social networks for your role as a Great Patron.

    + Multiple downloads of the unpublished EP album by El Naán: "La Casa del Baile".
    + 4 tickets for the inauguration party of the Casa del Baile.

    +Dinner at the Naán winery, a musical and gastronomic experience with friends.
    Thanks to your donation, we will be able to rescue the Casa del Baile.

    Come dance with us whenever you want!
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    Tax refund: (80% if you are an individual, 35% for organizations\companies)
By contributing with €1000, the Treasury refunds €417.5!
You will only pay €582.5! Calculate it 👉 here

    > 01 Backers

About this project

We are rescuing Casa del Baile and making it the new headquarters of the Rural University, home of music band El Naán and studio of the rural radio station, K.Jabalí.

Needs Infrastructure Minimum Optimum
Purchase of the House of Dance
The house costs a total of €50,265. This includes the price that the current owners are asking for it, which is €45,000, + Taxes €4,423‎ + Notary €842. We have already collected €20,000 in loans and donations obtained through the courses organized by UniRural. We therefore need 30,265 more to cover the specific expenses of buying the house (house + taxes + notary) to which we then have to add the expenses of commissions, rewards and crowdfunding, to reach the optimum value of €37,781, which is the amount that will allow us to rescue the Casa del Baile. The house will be put in the name of the non-profit cultural association Universidad Rural Paulo Freire del Cerrato, which is an association with 10 years of experience and registered with the CIF G67686683. It is legally established and its statutes clearly state that the association can never sell the Casa del Baile for anybody's profit, it can only donate it to another cultural association or town hall.

The amount that we need to pay the Casa del Baile in full.
€ 23.130
The quantity we need to pay Casa del Baile fully
We have already been able to finance almost €20,000 with donations. We are asking for at least €23,130. €1,870 falls short to pay the house in full, so we have included this amount in the optimum value
€ 1.870
Needs Material Minimum Optimum
Notary fees
It is the price that the Baltanás notary charges us to put the Casa del Baile legally in the name of the Universidad Rural del Cerrato.
€ 842
Goteo and Visa commissions.
We estimate this to be 6% of what we will manage to achieve.
€ 2.509
Expenses of elaboration and shipment of rewards.
Recording the EP, creating t-shirts, throwing the inauguration party, postage, panderos cuadrados, courses, dinners, handmade tiles, etc.
€ 3.345
Property transerTaxes
The dance house's price is €45,000, but since it has been assigned a greater value by the cadastre (state evaluator), the property transfer taxes that we will have to pay are €4,400.
€ 4.400
Needs Task Minimum Optimum
Crowdfunding development and management
Material expenses for preparing and carrying out the crowdfunding campaign.
€ 1.685
Total € 23.130 € 37.781
Necessary
Supplemental

General information

After 10 years participating in rural development projects focussed to the recovery of peasant culture and lost sovereignties the time has come where we need our own roof and fireplace so that we can continue our work and invite the community and the associations that have been visiting us for almost 10 years, coming to Cerrato to share with us in the Sovereignty of Joy.

The Rural University has partnered with our neighbors from El Naán and K.Jabalí, to be able to collectively finance the purchase of the old Casa del Baile in our village, Tabanera de Cerrato, and turn it into a community space and cultural centre, concert hall, and the headquarters of social and artistic projects.
And we have a plan to achieve it:

It's called roof, bread, work.

house, fire, warmth,
collaboration, music, culture.

It means reconquering space for the common good.
It means continuing our journey in the countryside.

It's called Casa del Baile🏡

And we need you to make it possible.

Description of the project. Main features, strengths and differentials.

The Casa del Baile is an old dance hall built at the beginning of the 20th century and which, for many decades, was a grocery store, cinema, winery, cafeteria and also offered a collective transport service between towns. It has been abandoned since the 1960s when the rural diaspora left for to the cities, and it turned the villages without people and the halls without dancing.
This is where the locals gathered after working in the fields to dance, sing and laugh, to meet, spend time with each other, and to find love.
We want it to serve the same purpose again, which is to be at the service of the community, now in the 21st century.
We want to convert the Casa del Baile into the headquarters of the Rural University, so that it can continue to be a leading organization in Spain in the fight against rural depopulation as well as in the enhancement of peasant culture and the recovery of lost sovereignties.

The Casa del Baile is to become the rehearsal and concert hall of El Naán and also a space where music, dance, theater and other artistic shows of popular and contemporary culture are regularly programmed.
The Casa del Baile is also to be the studio headquaters for the radio station, K.Jabalí, broadcasting this special community to all of the world.

Why is €23,130 the minimum amount we need?

The cost of the house alone is €45,000, of which we have already managed to finance almost half with courses, concerts and activities.
With the minimum we will be able to pay its current owners almost all that remains of the total amount of the house.

Why is €37,781 the optimal amount?
Because in addition to the house, we have to pay the notary, taxes, all the expenses derived from this crowdfunding campaign, commissions, rewards for patrons, etc.
With the optimum, we can really rescue the house from abandonment and we will put it at the service for the common good.

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Why this is important

When we lost our previous headquarters during the pandemic, we did not know that it would be so difficult to find another space.

We were able to experience first hand the serious problem of access to housing that people and associations face when wanting to settle and work in rural areas.
Nobody sells or rents.
The few spaces available are expensive, are not adapted to current needs, and are often in a very poor state of disrepair.
The municipalities, for their part, do not own facilities for public use and don't have any policies in place to expropriate abandoned houses or land to allocate them to public use. And after much searching, we found the Casa de Baile (The Dance House).

It is the perfect place to serve as both a community centre and a work space as it used to be.

This project is aimed at you who already know us, who have visited us, and who have come to the courses, festivals, concerts and activities.
And also to you, who have collaborated with us in organizing meetings, round tables, museums, exhibitions, community work, tree planting and a multitude of other tasks that we have been doing since 2013.

And to you, who have danced to the music of El Naán and enjoyed its poetry.
And to you, who have ever tuned into the most participatory radio that exists, K.Jabalí.
And to you who don't know us yet but want to, because you love the village, the natural world, the orchard, the oral tradition, the landscape and peasantry, because you work in social, community or agroecological projects, because you dance to popular and native music, love poetry, art and culture and you enjoy sharing with others what you like and what you believe in.

Our idea is to finance the purchase of the Casa del Baile with the contribution of all the people who want to be part of this communal space. We offer you something that is important to us, and we want you to be one of us, to belong to the collective rescue of a house that was destined to ruin and oblivion and that we are going to rebuild and share.

This is why we launched this crowdfunding campaign through Goteo.
If you take a look at the sidebar on the right you can see the different ways in which you can become a patron of this project.
It is important that you know that each contribution you make is deducted and that the Treasury returns up to 80% of the amount of the donation.
You can calculate HERE how much of your donation will be refunded to you.

When we get the minimum needed to buy the house, we will legally put it in the name of the Universidad Rural del Cerrato, which is a non-profit cultural association.
From that moment on, the house will be at the service of the people and of those who have rescued it with us.

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Team and experience

We are 3 organizations promoting this project.

None of us have ever received public aid or subsidies.
We have always done everything with volunteer work and collective effort and support.

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The Rural University finances its activities, festivals and artistic and literary prizes with the contributions made by the people who come to participate.
It is a non-profit association and works thanks to the voluntary work of its members.
El Naán self-publishes its records with collective financing campaigns.
Radio K. Jabalí develops its work thanks to the selfless contributions of a group of people from the village and is financed by the membership fees of its members.

Here we explain who we are in more detail.

1. THE UNIVERSIDAD RURAL PAULO FREIRE DE CERRATO.

We are part of a network of Rural Universities spread throughout the country. There are more than 15 people who work voluntarily. We have gathered experience during the last 10 years as promoters of educational and cultural activities. We have organized more than 30 courses, 10 meetings, 12 music and art festivals, various competitions, and literary and artistic awards dedicated to the promotion of the rural world and its people. We have travelled in the opposite direction to our mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers.
They emigrated to the big cities in search of a home and work, and we have returned to the rural world from the cities in search of our roots, meaning and inspiration.
And in search of a house, land and work that can sow the seeds for the villages of the 21st century.

Here we found, among what was left of the mistreated peasant culture, sustainability, food sovereignty, agroecology, self-construction with earth (soil), mutual support and above all... the Sovereignty of Joy.
We can attest that valuing all this knowledge that is still present in rural areas is not a vain hommage to nostalgia, but, on the contrary, it provides us with practical tools that help us overcome the problems we face today: the ecological crisis; land, water and air pollution; housing, food crisis and energy crisis, etc.

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2. EL NAÁN
Is a band of 7 musicians, born in 2009 and whose epicenter is in the heart of Castilla, Tabanera de Cerrato (Palencia). Music with Iberian roots and poetry are its main creative focus. They have self-produced their 4 albums through crowdfunding campaigns such as Germinal and are now touring towns and cities in Spain with their latest album.
They often participate in campaigns to promote peasant culture, memory and the rural world.

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3. K.JABALÍ (K. Wild Boar)
It is a cultural association in the form of community radio that broadcasts every Sunday on 98.2 FM from Cerrato to all the world, and also shares its programs in podcast format. Its mission is to serve as a bridge between the rural world and the city. It was born during the pandemic to accompany people who live in the villages and their family and friends.

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Social commitment

Sustainable Development Goals

  • Quality Education

    Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.

  • Gender Equality

    Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

    There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.

  • Responsible Production and Consumption

    Responsible Production and Consumption