Reminder: WOMEX Showcase Proposal Submission
Call for Conference Proposals: Special Sessions
Virtual WOMEX
Dear WOMEXicans,
Reminder: WOMEX Showcase Proposal Submission
Only 3 weeks left to propose an Artist Showcase:
Where else in the world can you play to an audience of 1000 concert
and festival bookers (2007 figures)? This is surely the biggest
collection of potential world music employers you'll ever have
together in one place.
Come showcase at WOMEX 08.
The call for artist showcase proposals is now open, and the first
applications are coming in. Anyone wanting to apply should do so
before the 18 April 2008 deadline. That's only 3 weeks away! But don't
leave it to the last minute. Due to the online process, there will be
no way to post late entries. Plus the new submission system might take
a little bit longer to master, especially for those who are not
familiar with the Sonicbids procedure.
Read more at: www.womex.com/realwomex/showcases
or go directly to the WOMEX Sonicbids' submission page
www.sonicbids.com/WOMEX2008
Check: www.womex.com/realwomex/how-to-propose for tips.
In case of questions please mail to: showcase@womex.com
Call for Conference Proposals: Special Sessions
This year we are looking to increase the number of practical conference sessions. Can you help? Should we use your services, we'll give a free registration in return.
Mentor Sessions: Inspired by our friends at SXSW, delegates will
be able to sign up to talk to experts in a variety of fields. Each
delegate will have 15 minutes of consultation, and all encounters will
be entirely private. The sessions will last 90 minutes overall.
Mentors will be asked to do 2 of these sessions on 2 different days.
We are looking for mentors - managers, experienced artists, labels,
festivals, press and publicity experts, distributors, in short, anyone
with valuable advice and feedback to offer. If you're interested,
please send us a short bio with your experience. Should you be
selected, a free registration will be yours.
Mail to: conference@womex.com
Master classes: We'll be offering several practical sessions on
the music business, and are looking for 'masters'. Can you offer a
course in contracts, distribution, online press and promotion, label
start-ups, festivals and the like? Here, too, we'll need a short bio
and information about your past presentations, if any. Once again,
free registrations will be offered for all who are selected.
Mail to: conference@womex.com
Special request: The consensus grows that collective licensing is the wave of the future on cell phones and ISPs. Who can provide a conference session explaining how it all works, its plusses and minuses and what our community must do to prepare for it? There's a possibility for a WOMEX essay here, too. Write to us with your credentials, conference@womex.com
Virtual WOMEX
Remember, all day, all year you can use virtualWOMEX to post anything and everything about your music, your work, your business. This is your space for promoting your efforts - and it's free to all delegates of WOMEX who registered in the past year (small fee for those who didn't).
Since launching virtualWOMEX 2.0 last year, we've had some weeks with over 100 postings. Be sure your work is represented.
Here's an explanation of what virtualWOMEX can offer:
www.womex.com/virtual/womex/news/announcing_2_0_for_of
And you can access it on the WOMEX homepage: www.womex.com
Best regards from your WOMEX team
mailto:
womex@womex.com
www.womex.com
www.myspace.com/womex (NEW LINK!)
WOMEX Sevilla / 29 October - 2 November 2008
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