EMC Annual Meeting & Conference 2007
"Changes: Chances and Challenges. Music and the Future"
19 to 21 April 2007, Barcelona, Spain
The European Music Council is happy to follow the invitation of Europa Cantat and its regional member Moviment Coral Català as well as the invitation of the Catalan Music Council to host the EMC Annual Meeting 2007 in Barcelona.
In 1964 Bob Dylan sang “The Times, They Are A-Changin” and today this seems to be more valid than ever. Globalisation and the digital revolution impose enormous changes on the music world. Musical and cultural diversity are to be protected and promoted but face substantial challenges. The 2007 Annual Conference of the European Music Council is aiming towards the future of music. What are the changes, what are the chances and what are the challenges lying ahead in the coming years?
For this conference, experts from the civil society and from politics as well as from the music and culture field will discuss the future challenges for music in a globalising world. Practical capacity building workshops will offer tools for the everyday work in a musical organisation – for today and for the future.
- Please have a look at the programme (pdf-file)
- Please find some practical information on the venues and itineraries here
- For registration, please read the general information (pdf-file) first
Round Table
9 to 10 May 2007, Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany
The European Music Council organised a round table for cultural policy, which took place in the premises of the Broadcasting Station "Deutsche Welle". The round table brought together different stakeholders in the field of music and offered the opportunity to openly discuss common issues in the field of cultural policy in the EU. The aim of the meeting was to identify common interests of the music sector and to develop joint activities advocating for music in Europe.
- You may read a first summary on the round table here (pdf-file).
- The background paper "Five Topoi and an Attempt to Explain our Time" to the UNESCO conference in Essen by Peter Sloterdijk is available here (pdf-file).
- The slides of the presentation by Hannele Koivunen can be downloaded here (pdf-file).
The round table was supported by the
The second
World Forum on Music, organised by the IMC took place from 11-14 October 2007 in Beijing, China. You can read
here the press release to the conference which hosted the IMC General Assembly.
