WOMEX


Programme Proposals Received

Reach the World Music Community

Book your Hotel Now

Call for Proposals: WOMEX Guide Essays/ WOMEX Photographers

Questionnaire Winner

World of Music Awards

Expo Guide Warning



Dear WOMEXicans,

Great news! Since mid-April our Berlin office has been drowning in WOMEX 08 programme proposals. Advertisement and Accommodation Form are available online now, we are looking for WOMEX 08 photographers / WOMEX Guide essays... and much more.
Read this newsletter carefully!

top Programme Proposals Received

We have received more than 600 Showcase proposals for WOMEX 08, about the same as in the last years. Thank you very much to all submitters and many thanks again to the Sonicbids support team! The new online submission process is more complex (and we were able to help get online anybody having difficulties) but at the same time a major improvement as the Jury and we can already spend all available time - before the Jury meeting - viewing the Electronic Press Kits on Sonicbids and listening to all the great music. So artists will find that they're in fact helped. Their music is getting all the time and attention it deserves.

Around 60 Conference proposals with a broad range of interesting topics including also Mentor Sessions and Master Classes have reached us as well. We are looking forward to a very promising WOMEX 08 Conference progamme!

top Reach the World Music Community

Advertise at WOMEX and the international world music community is yours! Here are six chances to target your audience (note the new WOMEX Bag Name Tag!):
www.womex.com/realwomex/advertise

top Book your Hotel Now

Our Sevillan travel & accommodation partner Viajes El Corte Inglés has put together a brochure in which you can find information about hotels in Sevilla. Once you have chosen your hotel, download the Accommodation Form (available now!), fill it out and fax it back to them (not to us!).
www.womex.com/realwomex/travel-and-accommodation#viajes

top Call for Proposals: WOMEX Guide Essays

We are looking for essays on different aspects of the music industry to be included in the WOMEX Guide 08. The writers of the selected essays will each receive one free WOMEX 08 registration.

More on www.womex.com/realwomex/mediaupdate/2008/mediaupdate_4_08.html#call

top Call for Proposals: WOMEX Photographers

We are inviting a new selection of four photographers for this year. To apply, please send a bio and direct us to your online gallery, so we can get a clear idea of your work and experience. Deadline: Send all proposals to media@womex.com by Friday, 30 May 2008 For full details on terms and requirements, please mailto: media@womex.com.

Have a look at the amazing WOMEX photos of last year's photographers:

top Questionnaire Winner

A winner was drawn from over 500 WOMEX delegates who have answered the WOMEX 07 Questionnaire. The prize - one free registration for WOMEX 08 - went to Mamatal Ag Dahmane, Festival au Désert (Mali).

top World of Music Awards

The World of Music Awards from We Are Listening is your exclusive opportunity to get your music in front of music industry professionals for a chance to win an all-inclusive trip to WOMEX, the largest and most important world music fair of its kind. The contest winner will join world music expert, Dubi Lenz, and a host of other WOMEX delegates in Sevilla, Spain, for a weekend of networking, music promotion and career development. Now is the time to take part in the most culturally diverse music event in the world!
Details at www.wearelistening.org

top Expo Guide Warning

We have heard from several WOMEX delegates that a new company based in Mexico is sending out misleading mailings under the name of Expo Guide - very similar to the Fair Guide mailings from Construct Data. As before, if you don't read the small print you might think it is from WOMEX. It is not: We are in no way affiliated. Only sign if you want to pay over 1000 euros per year to be listed in their guide. If you have been contacted by Construct Data (after 13 February 2007!) or Commercial Online Manuals S de RL de CV and have signed their Fair Guide / Expo Guide update offer because you thought it was sent by WOMEX, please let us know, mailto: media@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
Do Business, Catch Up, and Get Ahead!

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