Här är ett urval av åRets Digital Open Venue talks.
Anna is the founder of Sleeve, a startup built to empower active, working musicians by making it seamless to monetize their craft and strengthen their connection with fans. Anna is presenting her self and the platform!
Sean-Poul de Fré Gress is a cultural entrepreneur and agent who has spent the past 15+ years building bridges across music scenes in Denmark, the Nordics, and internationally. As founder of Bellerose agency, he manages and books artists with a focus on both artistic growth and longterm career sustainability.
Jan Monahazian is the founder of an music project called Jazz Pilots! If you are interested in new forms of teaching free form/improvisational music for people of all ages. Jan and Musikcentrum Syd are looking for you to take this project to Sweden! Maybe you are are the project partner Jan is looking for!
Copenhagen and Denmark have some emerging talent in the music business. Independent agents as Sacha Kjøller from Kant agency. KANT is a feminist, ambitious, Nordic music agency that deals with music outside of categories, with a focus on Nordic jazz, folk and contemporary music.
Tanya Korenika is an emerging key player in the alternative music scene, running UCE Agency and a queer venue in Tallinn, Estonia. She promotes bands, gender equality and collaboration among artists, emphasizing personal connections in touring. The Baltic music market, with 5 to 6 million people, offers significant opportunities, especially with trends favoring large shows. Funding for cross-cultural projects and platforms like Tallinn Music Week support local musicians and international music business community in connecting and performing.
Meet three agents of change and cultural workers in Ukraine:
ALONA DMUKHOVSKA, Co-founder of Music Export Ukraine
Alona works in the music industry for almost a decade. Starting as a volunteer for the music festival she soon grew to the position of program director taking care of 100+ acts performing the biggest festival stages in Ukraine. She believes in the power of education and networking having done the music exchange projects in Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and even in the Middle East (Kyrgyzstan, hello!).
ANTON SHIFERSON - Crisis Management In Culture - Underground Electronic Label’s Perspective.
Anton is a post-industrial musician (Ship Her Son); A graphic and sleeve designer; The head of a digital department in IT; An event co-organizer; Responsible person for distribution at the electronic label Dnipropop.
MARICHKA CHICHKOVA - UKRAINIAN WORLD OF CULTURE - ON THE EXAMPLE OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SPECIES CULTURE CREATURE
Marichka is a musician, composer, culture manager, head of an NGO that provides Local cultural support. Shes talks about how she manages to be a cultural creative in times of war and how she and her peers organizes a big out door city festival in Lviv each year!
