WOMEX 11 Guide

The award-winning magazine, devoted toprotecting and promoting free expression.1Subscribeonline andsave 40%Now you can read your magazineonline for only £18 a yearVisit www.exacteditions.com/index_on_censorshipNew ways to access Index on CensorshipWith a variety of new purchasing options for libraries and individuals,accessing Index on Censorship has never been easier.2Purchase asingle copy foronly £7.99Visit www.indexoncensorship.org/subscribe for a full list of purchasing options3Continue with yourprint subscriptionfor only £294Read on-the-gowith the newfree app for theiPad or iPhoneRossella Tarantino (Italy)She worked for the European Commission in themanagement and evaluation of cross-culturalprogrammes from 1995-2002. From 2002 onwards,she has been working for Basilicata Region as memberof the Public Investment Evaluation Unit, focusing oncultural and social issues and coordinating developmentof local cultural projects.Speaker › Conference/Session 8Johannes Theurer (Germany)Founder and secretary of World Music Charts Europe,presenter of weekly world music show Dschungelfieber atFunkhaus Europa, manager for EU-funded projects. Staffmember at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, led the audioarchives project DISMARC, curates the audio aggregationplatform for the Europeana portal, developed the musicformat of Radio Multikulti during the ‘90s. Chairman of theSociety for Traditional Music Berlin, frequent advisor, jurorand lecturer.Award Presenter, Sunday 12:00› On Location/WOMEX Label AwardItaly’s IndieAssociation- Your link tothe Peninsula!Come and visit usat the ItalianUmbrella StandL.05Via Della Valle, 7148018 Faenza (RA)ITALYTel. +39.0546.24647info@audiocoop.itMember ofwww.audiocoop.itStuart Thomas (UK)He works on music development for Creative Scotland:leading on popular, Scottish traditional and worldmusic and on international projects such as SXSW andShowcase Scotland. Stuart has 14 years experienceworking in film, music, marketing as well as cultural policyand research and continues to work as a performingmusician, a promoter and a DJ.Speaker › Conference/Session 14Mehmet Ulug (Turkey)Born in Istanbul, started out at university as anengineering student and then transferred to America.Completed his studies in Electronic Engineering and gota job in Baltimore where he discovered the power of jazzand African music. Got paralysed by the sounds of Sun Ra,quit everything and returned to Turkey with the intentionof presenting Sun Ra and the like in his home country.Now running various festivals, a club (Babylon), and alabel (Doublemoon Records).Speaker › Conference/Session 11Jacco van Lanen (The Netherlands)Started Mana Music in 2001, a flexible music drivenmanagement and booking agency. In 2009, he teamedup with legendary Dutch promoter Willem Venema andstarted Double Vee Concerts, establishing a strong brandin booking, promotion and management, supportingJacco’s goal of establishing new artists on an internationalbasis. www.doubleveeconcerts.nlChair › Conference/Session 16Dmitri Vietze (USA)Born 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee. Vietze startedhis global music publicity firm rock paper scissors,www.rockpaperscissors.biz, in 1999. He also edits worldmusic industry blog www.DubMC.com. Earlier this yearhe was named in ‘Billboard’s Twitter 140: Music-IndustryCharacters You Need to Follow’.Chair › Conference/Session 19Coordinator › Conference/Networking Meetings &Presentations: North American Networking Meeting159CO n f e r e n c eBios A – Z