Newsletter 23/2009

WOMEX NEWSLETTER #23/2009

ROSKILDE ANNOUNCES NEW AWARD TO BE PRESENTED AT WOMEX

TWO MORE NETWORKING SESSIONS ADDED

IMZ - WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR

PLACE A BANNER ON WOMEX.COM

Dear WOMEXicans,

A new Award from Roskilde to be presented at the Sunday Award ceremony... The WOMEXimizer is now streaming online... More Networking Sessions... More details on Mentors...

ROSKILDE ANNOUNCES NEW AWARD TO BE PRESENTED AT WOMEX

Roskilde Festival founds World Music Award... The Roskilde Festival World Music Award will be presented at the Sunday Award Ceremony by the Copenhagen Lord Mayor, Ritt Bjerregaard on Sunday 1 November around noon.

The winner will be announced in the coming weeks, and honoured for a contribution to musical and cultural development. The prize is 30,000 euros.

For many years we have had the pleasure of presenting world music to a great audience at Roskilde Festival. Therefore, it is an obvious thing for us to use the event to give something back. That's why we have founded this award, says Peter Hvalkof, booker of world music at Roskilde Festival.

For more details, read here...
www.womex.com/realwomex/roskildeaward

Link to Roskilde:
www.roskilde-festival.dk

For further information on the award contact:
Peter Hvalkof
peter.hvalkof@roskilde-festival.dk
Tel.: +45 46 36 66 13

WOMEXIMIZER ONLINE

The WOMEX 09 WOMEXimizer is now streaming online. Here's a sneak peek at 20 of the 60 artists who will be presented this year.

www.womex.com

TWO MORE NETWORKING SESSIONS ADDED

More events added, this time two special Networking Sessions.

Networking Session: Freemuse
Thursday 17:15 - 18:00 / Room 17 / Belle Center

This network meeting invites all WOMEX participants who share the concern for artists' freedom of expression to join in and get updated about the global situation for musicians and composers. For 10 years Freemuse has been the only international organisation to advocate freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.

www.freemuse.org is the world's largest database on music and censorship and Freemuse continues to lobby for visa issues.

Freemuse Executive Director, Marie Korpe and Programme Manager, Ole Reitov, wish to "pick your brains" and exchange ideas on such topics as: How can the music industry take more responsibility and upgrade its profile on social responsibility? How can new projects be developed? How can we ensure sustainable funding for the work we do?

Networking Session:
Discover the Spanish Music Industry with Sounds from Spain
Friday 16:15 - 17:15 / Room BV 4 / Belle Center

Sounds from Spain will be attending WOMEX 09 as the Spanish national pavilion and will be organising this informal networking event. It was created with the purpose of supporting and fostering Spanish music internationally. This platform has therefore become crucial for Spanish music companies aiming to export and searching for a wider presence in international markets.

Music is one of the priority sectors for the different Spanish institutions and associations involved in Sounds from Spain and this session is aimed at giving exposure to new initiatives and business proposals from the Spanish companies attending WOMEX. In this informal event you will meet record labels, managers and booking agents, festival organisers, professional associations, institutions, etc. It seeks to foster new partnerships and deepen existing links between the Spanish music industry and the rest of the world.

www.womex.com/realwomex/networking

MEET YOUR MENTOR

For the second year, we are offering free, private, 15-minute sesssions with experts in various fields. Over the next weeks we will be introducing them to you. Some slots are still available, but hurry to contact us if you want to take advantage of this valuable service.

Meet two of this year's Mentors below:

Mentor on Music Publishing: David Alexander.
David is Managing Director of Sheer Publishing (Pty) Ltd in South Africa. He is also Vice Chairman of the National Organisation for Reproduction Rights in Music (NORM), the body that represents the music publishers in South Africa; Chairman of SAMEX (South African Music EXports); and serves on the Creative Industries Chamber within MAPP Seta where he advisers the Government on training and development in the music industry.

Mentor on Digital Rights and Licensing Agreements: Patrick Sullivan.
Patrick is founding member, President and CEO of RightsFlow, a Mechanical Licensing & Royalty Solutions provider to labels, distributors and music services. He is also Dual Vice-President of Licensing and Music Services for both The Orchard & eMusic. His fields of expertise include negotiations, legislative affairs, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and royalty development, digital content management and distribution, business and technology integration.

For the full list of mentors, see:
www.womex.com/realwomex/mentoring.html

To reserve one of the remaining slots:
conference@womex.com

BOOK YOUR HOTEL IN COPENHAGEN

Our Copenhagen partners block-reserved many rooms, many at special low rates, but they are about to go back on the open market. And the less expensive hotels are quickly being snapped up. Reserve your room now!

A list with hotels in Copenhagen ranging from budget to luxury is available online: www.welcomehome.dk

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Please note, you will need to select your hotel category on the
accommodation website before reaching the respective booking form.
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IMZ - WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR

An update from the IMZ office regarding the World Music Films on Tour:

"In the last weeks before WOMEX 2009 we would like to draw your attention towards our non-commercial distribution project World Music Films on Tour! Bringing World Music in film and video to a wider public is the motivation behind this project created in 2006 in co-operation with WOMEX.

If you are a festival or an event organiser and you wish to show your audience something really unique and worth seeing, then we are the partners you need!

This year's collection of World Music Films on Tour will once again include the latest film highlights presented at WOMEX.

World Music Films on Tour provides the opportunity to look beyond the familiar. Explore the entire world's musical traditions and experience the diversity of our fascinating planet.

See our current programme selection of about 35 movies including trailers of some of the featured movies here.

If you wish to book a movie for your event, please use the booking form on our website or contact the IMZ office directly by office@imz.at

www.worldmusicfilms.com

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Stay tuned and keep in touch -
Best regards from your WOMEX team in Berlin

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WOMEX 09 Copenhagen / 28 October - 1 November
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