NEW DEADLINE for all showcase and conference proposals - it's earlier this year - Friday 28 April, 2006.

Bogdan Benigar (Slovenia)
A concert presenter since 1993, Bogdan Benigar is currently director of Zavod Druga godba Ljubljana which is organiser of Druga godba (That Other Music) festival and owner of music label DruGod. Since 1999, he started programming jazz, world and other music in the Cankarjev dom, the cultural and congress center in Ljubljana. He has presented over 300 international artists in Slovenia. Bogdan was a board member of the European Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2004 to 2006. Finally, he is the former music editor of Radio Student, Ljubljana, and editor-in-chief of Muska magazine, to both of which he still contributes music reviews.
Hanna Gorjaczkowska (Belgium)
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Hanna Gorjaczkowska is co-managing director of Crammed Discs and associated labels, together with Marc Hollander. In the 1980s she set up Crammed´s international distribution network and continues to supervise international marketing, promotion and tours for all the Crammed artists, among them Taraf de Haïdouks, Mahala Rai Banda, Bebel Gilberto, Zuco 103 and Cibelle. She is also art director for Crammed Discs. www.crammed.be
Katja Lucker(Germany)
As Chairman of the Kulturbrauerei Union in Berlin, an ambitious complex of bars, restaurants, cinemas, and concert, studio and exhibition spaces, Katja is an active programmer of world music and cultural events. After studies in philosophy, philology and acting, she began freelance work in culture management in 1997. She has produced and curated projects with a wide-ranging focus, among them concerts with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, France and contemporary music. At Kulturbrauerei, she has been involved in such events as the Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival; the Obertonfest; La Piazza, a festival of Italian culture; Terra Polska, a festival for modern Polish arts; and the multi-media Die Schachtel. She also creates projects with the musik:theatre union, such as kraanerg - Iannis Xenaktis, which was held at the Kunst-Werke Berlin in 2004. www.kesselhaus-berlin.de www.kulturbrauerei-berlin.de
Martin Morales (Peru/UK)
Martin has been involved in digital music retail, A&R, compilations, label management and marketing alongside his passion for finding and developing new artists. He is Programmer/Editor of Apple iTunes Pan Europe and was previously A&R Manager at Outcast/Stimulus (EMI) for KT Tunstall, Oi Va Voi, Koop and Novalima. To date he as co-produced over 100 compilations including Futuro Flamenco, The Shrine, Future World Funk and Beyond Nashville. He has deejayed in Tokyo, Moscow, New York, Marrakesh and around Europe, has remixed Ojos De Brujo, Sainkho Namchylak and Basement Jaxx and continues to run his packed-out world music monthly club night Futuro Flamenco at the Notting Hill Arts Club in London. martin@morales-music.com
Ros Rigby (UK)
Ros Rigby is performance programme director for The Sage Gateshead, the ground-breaking new music complex on the South Bank of the River Tyne. Designed by Norman Foster, the venue was the highly-praised home of WOMEX 2005. Ros also co-founded the organisation Folkworks in 1988 with Northumbrian musician Alistair Anderson, developing a higher profile for the folk arts within music promotion and education in the UK. www.thesagegateshead.co.uk
Jordi Urpi (Spain)
Since the summer of 1999, Jordi Urpi has been the director of Spain´s seminal world music magazine Batonga! But back in 1993, his music reviews started appearing in Voice, Rock & Clássics, Ajoblanco, Amadeus, Tierra, and Songlines, among others. Other articles and reviews have appeared in Integral, CuerpoMente, Viajes National Geographic, Altaïr, Península, and Dialogal. His principal activities reside in spreading world music, something he has done in collaboration with festivals like EtnoSur and the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, and on Ràdio Gràcia and Catalunya Ràdio, and, finally in conferences and lectures in universities, cultural centres and libraries.
Juan V. Villafruela (Spain)
Born in 1967, Juan Villafruela has been involved in numerous intercultural projects since 1996. In 1999 he began to work for the Department of Culture of Seville City Council as European Project Manager and has carried out many cultural and musical activities in the city. Currently he is a member of the Seville Festival Office, taking charge of festivals and great cultural events in the city. He is also engaged in the organisation and programming of the Festival Internacional Música de los Pueblos: Territorios Sevilla.

The WOMEX Jury was invented for the 5th WOMEX edition in 1999. Jury members so far: 1999 - 2005
Adlington, Jenny (UK) - Arjouni Bourelly, Khadija (Morocco/Germany) - Benaïche, Marc (France) - Benoist, Yorrick (France) - Boyd, Joe (USA/UK) - Carfi, Pietro (Italy) - Cesarini, Giuliana (Italy/Spain) - De Kloet, Co (The Netherlands) - den Boer, Jaenneke (The Netherlands) - de Oliveira Pinto, Tiago (Brazil/Germany) - Diamé, Julia (Germany) - Dominguez, Manuel (Spain) - Duran, Lucy (UK) - Gay, Francis (France/Germany) - Granieri, Rosanna (Canada/France) - Hvalkof, Peter (Denmark) - James, Alan (UK) - Jukkara, Jaana-Maria (Finland) - Lemke, Uli (Germany) - Lopez, José Miguel (Spain) - López, Lara (Spain) - Mahmoud, Yusuf (UK/Zanzibar) - Melguizo, Pedro (Spain) - Morgan, Andy (UK) - Mousset, Christian (France) - Nawaz, Aki (Pakistan/UK) - Odenthal, Johannes (Germany) - Pannke, Peter (Germany) - Pavlakis, Katerina (Greece/UK) - Puértolas, Francesc (Spain/Germany) - Ray, Rita (Ghana/UK) - Rigby, Ros (UK) - Sandahl, Sten (Sweden) - Seligman, Gerald (USA) - Theurer, Johannes (Germany) - Thiange, Dominique (Belgium) - Troitsky, Artemi (Russia) - Ulug, Ahmet (Turkey) - von Gaudecker, Marion (Germany) - Winter, Dennis (The Netherlands) - Winter, Michel (France/Belgium) - Wurr, Zazie (Germany/Spain)