femous: 360° women in music

platform for famous female culture

femous: plattform for famous female culture
femous orchestra
femous: plattform for famous female culture
  • event type:Festival
  • date:01 Nov 2011 - 31 Oct 2012
  • city/area:Austria
  • venue:Austria
  • country:Austria
  • style(s):World, Global Beats
  • event posted by:globalista

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femous: platform for famous female culture

the empowerment agency!

Femous: platform for famous female culture is an Austrian based initiative, aiming to make women in music visible.
Promoting female work by facilitating festival appearances, enabling international artistic collaborations,
investing in media cooperation’s and boosting female presence through web 2.0 promotion is part of the femous strategy.
femous works on curatorship cooperation’s with festivals and offers music consultancy for institutions and promoters
as well as various services for female artists and managers, including professionalizing workshops and cultural consultancy services.


a short history

Founded in 2011, in occasion of the centenary of the international women’s day, femous presented throughout
Austria more than 100 cultural events from march to september 2011.
Femous also created an intercultural female musicians pool – the femous orchestra.
2011 highlights were certainly the vibrant one-day-only festival „a femous centenary night “in march,
the artistic co-operations of the femous orchestra with Donaufestival and Ars Electronica,
the networking with outstanding festivals like Jazzfest Wien, PopFest or the associated curatorship of “Wir sind Wien”.
The inauguration of the femous youth award fm4/planet.tt stage at the Viennese Donauinselfest is a step into the future.


What we do

femous shows that outstanding women are no longer an exception. Based on a concept of active cultural diversity,
femous is working on a huge network that encompasses the wide range of female creativity,
focusing on global advanced pop, jazz, world music, electronic sound art or DJ culture.
femous addresses to people of any sex - female, male and transgender-, any ethnic and social
background, and any age and thus shapes social sculptures through the cultural work of women.
As immediately recognizable seal of quality, femous highlights outstanding female acts by including them in the femous web-platform.
femous makes the diversity of female creative work visible through intensive PR, web 2.0
promotion, media cooperation’s and active networking.


Who’s behind

femous is a project by Silvia Jura, Susi Rogenhofer and Célia Mara and is promoted
through the cultural association Globalista: connecting differences.
Jura, Rogenhofer and Mara are long time music professionals and bring in their personal networks.


femous
ein Projekt von Globalista: grenzüberschreitende Kulturarbeit und Forschung
Gemeinnütziger Verein (ZVR 564890040) mit Sitz in Wien


Director-Board

Silvia Jura: Curator, anthropologist, music manager
Tel: +43-699-100-88-700, email: sj@femous.at

Susi Rogenhofer: Curator, cultural worker, Electronic musician, fine artist
Tel: +43-699-108-64-686, email: sr@femous.at
www.femous.org

Célia Mara: Curator, artist, producer