Professional seminars for gender equality in the music sector in Europe
Sturm Production is organising professional seminars for gender equality in the music sector in Europe on July 13-15 in Strasbourg, France.
Please see below the programme:
Mornings
- Plenary sessions with round tables and debates
- Accessible to all music sector professional (registration required)
- With the goal of presenting and understanding the existing stakes, policies, and initiatives in Europe
Afternoons
- Work groups, by aesthetical genre or project
- Accessible to professionals already active or wishing to become active on the European scale (registration required)
- Led by project managers from institutions
Evenings
- Free concerts as part of the Jazz à la Petite France festival — a chance to discover European bands playing jazz, pop music, and world music, with women making up roughly 45% of the artists on stage
For whom ?
- Music sector professionals, people active in the music sector, institutional employees, elected officials and politicians
- From all aesthetical genres, fields, and occupations
- Active on the local, regional, national, or European levels
- Wishing to act for equality in the music sector and on stage at a European scale
To do what?
- Outline and analyze the situation and the stakes involved at the European level
- Identify European partners and create a network
- Define objectives, projects, and means of joint action among possible partners
- Identify and study possible sources of funding in Europe
Why?
Despite the growing global awareness, thanks in large part to the #metoo movement, regarding the violence and discrimination endured by women and gender minorities in the cultural sector, the inequalities therein remain massive and systemic. The disparity in the European music sector is particularly glaring. In France, women represent approximately 14% of artists on stage in pop music, 28% in classical music, and only 6% of conductors(1). Women musicians and artists receive significantly fewer rewards and less recognition, publicity, and funding than their male colleagues. A similar situation can be observed in many other European countries.
In 2020, the European Commission adopted the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020–2025 – endorsed in 2021 by the European Parliament – with precise and comprehensive recommendations that remain to be applied and implemented at all levels. The European Commission has made social inclusion one of the five priorities for structural funding in 2021–2027, and gender equality a cross-cutting criterion, offering the means to take concrete action beyond mere principles and declarations of intent.
(1) Source : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – Observatoire de l’égalité entre femmes et hommes dans la culture et la communication. Rapport 2022.
Sturm Production
Born in September 2020 out of the health crisis and its long months without audiences, concerts, and human and artistic encounters, Sturm Production is an association under local law (Alsace-Moselle) created to respond to the urgent social needs of our world in crisis.
The organisation has 3 initiatives:
– The Jazz à la Petite France festival
– A women’s music season: “Ah! les femmes!
– Support for associated artists: Far Est Unlimited (jazz groove) & Melissa Weikart (jazz pop).
