CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
‘NEW DIRECTIONS 2’ - International Music Industry Meeting.
15-16 October 2009, Centralny Basen Artystyczny, Warsaw, Poland
Thursday October 15, 2009 - DAY I
Session 1. 9:30 – 12:00
Presentations of several successful European Festivals operating in the cities
Main topic: Music festivals as platform to promote cities / developing city brands; benefits and changes in the cities.
FLOW FESTIVAL – Finland
>>>Matti Nives
MY CITY – Budapest
>>> Sandor Kozlov
SPOT FESTIVAL – Denmark
>>>Ole Ammitzbøll F. Jørgensen
>>>Rasmus Wehner
DOUR Festival, Belgium
>>>Alex Stevens
GREAT ESCAPE, UK
>>>Kat Morris, Operations Manager
Le Printemps de Bourges, France
>>>Fernando Ladeiro-Marques
Session 2. 13:00 – 14:50
Presentations of Polish new initiatives and city events
European Centre for Solidarity Gdańsk
>>> Monika Bogdanowicz
Malta Festival In Poznan
>>> Katarzyna Tórz
Przemiany nad Wisłą Festiwal, Warsaw
>>> Agnieszka Wlazeł (Coordinator)
>>> Ewa Czeszejko – Sochacka (Representative of President of Warsaw for European capital of Culture 2016)
Wroclaw Era New Horizons, Avant Art Festival
>>> Kostas Georgakopulos (Festival Club Artistic Director - ENH, Director - Avant Art Festival)
Session 3. 15:00 – 18:00
Music Export Offices – How they work, the main goals and achievements
European Music Office
>>> Jean-François Michel
French Music Export Office
>>> Stephane Włodarczyk
Hungary Music Export Office
>>> SZÉP Fruzsina (Program Director)
Denmark Music Export Office
>>> Christian Hald Buhl
Friday October 16, 2009 - DAY II
Session 1. 10:00 – 11:30
How to export Polish music?
1.Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Polish Music Export - users manual
>>> Krzysztof Gałkowski
2.Good Shit From Poland! Speeches of the organisers of events promoting Polish music in the UK
>>>Andreas Studer (The Hub, Project Manager, UK)
3. Speeches of concert promoters organizing concerts for polish artists abroad but for none Polish type of audience.
>>> Maciej Karczewski (Club Ancien Cinema, Luxembourg)
4. Speeches of representatives of Polish Cultural Institutes operating abroad – What they do to promote Polish Music
>>> Arkadiusz Bernaś (Director IKP, Budapest)
>>> Anna Mosser (Polish Institute, Vienna)
Session 2. 13:00 – 14:00
Presentations of Winners of Young Music Entrepreneur Competition from the region.
Main topic: How to run your business successfully in the creative sector?
>>> Alex Lavery
>>> Radek Miszczak
>>> Anna Mamińska
Session 3. 14:45 – 16:00
OUR SPECIAL GUEST: KARL BARTOS, Professor at the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin.
The speech of the "Musica ex Machina”. This lecture expounds on how technology breaks into the musical production, performance and reception.
