Present-day music networks european networks
11:00 – 13:00 - Salle de Conférence
Modérateur : Bernard Batzen
Intervenants :
Alexandra Archetti Stolen, Présidente de EFWMF, European Forum of World Wide Music Festival
Rob Berends, Président de Network Europe
Anki Heikkinen, Présidente de Europe Jazz Network
Cristof Huber, Président de Yourope
Jean-Paul Roland, Président de De Concert

Present-day music networks european networks
Do they have any real power ? How do they protect the public interest ? Do they help develop the music industry ?
Results and opinions...
For over 10 years, the present-day music networks (rock, pop, jazz, world music) have produced a considerable amount of work. This work is largely unrecognised and yet its impact reaches several million people every year in Europe and its actions have helped transform the landscape and practices of today’s music.
This debate is an opportunity to discover their activities and most of their current projects : security, the impact on the environment, diversity, mobility, training, pooling of people, representativeness and more... It is an opportunity to present their achievements and to measure the real impact of their actions regarding public interest., artists and the public. The key European networks will be brought together.

En Chordais
11:30 – 12:30 - Salle de Méditerranée
With Kyriakos Kalaitzidis

En Chordais

The Centre for World Music with its archives, books and music publishing and concerts venues.

The cultural centre and music label En Chordais was created in 1999 in Saloniki, in Greece, where it has been receiving the support of the European Union as well as the Greek Ministry of Culture. The project’s aim is to explore the musical and cultural heritage shared by several countries including Greece, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and more... The musical school brought together different cultures and religions. With each project, research is also being conducted. Musicologists, historians, musicians, composers and producers work together in the school in order to share their view of World music with the rest of the World.

An introduction into Dutch Jazz and World Music
By Music Center the Netherlands (MCN, www.mcn.nl)
13:00 – 14:00 - Salle de Méditerranée
Jaïr Tchong, project manager world music, MCN
Sophie Blussé, project manager jazz, MCN

An introduction into Dutch Jazz and World Music
By Music Center the Netherlands (MCN, www.mcn.nl)

In recent years the Dutch world scene, like the jazz, has become a thriving one. There are specialised venues like Tropentheater Amsterdam and RASA Utrecht, and there are many high profile festivals, like Amsterdam Roots Festival, Music Meeting Nijmegen and Festival Mundial Tilburg. Groups like Arifa, Amsterdam Klezmer Band and Mdungu have travelled the world, with their specific take on contemporary global music. The internationally famous jazzvenue Bimhuis Amsterdam increasingly programmes world music, like the newly housed jazzvenue Lantaren/Venster in Rotterdam.

In this presentation you will have a short, concise and stimulating overview of the most interesting groups, festivals and venues – in other words: all the movers and shakers in the Netherlands.
Presented by Music Center the Netherlands; MCN plays a coordinating and stimulating role within the national and international music arena by supporting, communicating, and most importantly, by initiating activities, like the Dutch Jazz and World Meeting 2012 (October 4, 5, 6, Amsterdam). Home to many different partners active in the music sector, MCN forms a unifying factor in the chain of demand and supply. Moreover, it also serves as a nucleus within the music sector.

Charles Cros Academy’s favourites
14:00 – 15:30 - Salle de Conférence
Avec les membres du jury :
Laurent Aubert, Directeur des Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie de Genève
Caroline Bourgine, productrice radio, conseillère de l’année des Outre-Mer
Etienne Bours, journaliste, ex-conseiller de la Médiathèque de la communauté Française de Belgique
Helmut Burgel, Directeur du Festival Stimmen Alain Fantapié, Président de l’Académie Charles Cros
Emmanuelle Honorin, journaliste à Géo, productrice
Patrick Labesse, journaliste au Monde
Henri Leconte, Ethnomusicologue
Philippe Krümm, Rédacteur en chef de Trad’Mag et Accordéon magazine
Rabah Mezouane, journaliste, programmateur à l’IMA
Frank Tenaille, journaliste, Vice-Président de Zone Franche, coordinateur
Sami Sadak, Ethnomusicologue, Directeur artistique de Babel Med Music

Charles Cros Academy’s favourites
For 65 years The Charles Cros Academy has supported creativity in the music industry and helped develop the careers of artists and recording professionals. The Academy is made up of well known specialists who year after year pick out the most remarkable recordings, films and books from a variety of musical genres. The Academy will be awarding its ‘pick of the year’ « World Music for 2012 » during the Babel Med Music Festival.

Arianna : Euromediterranean network for culture and cultural heritage
14:30 – 15:00 - Salle de Méditerranée
Antonio Damasco, Directeur Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare (Italie)
Ferran Morillas, Directeur Qadar Produccions Culturals (Espagne)

Arianna : Euromediterranean network for culture and cultural heritage
In 2012, the ‘Arianna network’ organised the first « Mediterranean Travelling Festival ». This event’s aims are to discover new festivals, fairs, social rituals, research, and more broadly local arts and crafts and to make them known to the general public. Each festival that belongs to the network is given a time slot according to its needs to present various events to the public. These vary from concerts, artistic creations, conferences and symposiums, research and residencies... This travelling festival will spend all of 2012 to travel and cruise between various ports and cities of the Mediterranean such as Turin, Sassari (Italy), Toulouse (France), L’Escala, Barcelona (Catalunia, Spain) , Crete, Kilkis (Greece), Algiers (Algeria), Fès (Morocco) etc.