PADX England: Join WAA at WOMEX
WAA is going back to WOMEX!
Join us as a PADX Fellow at the WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo in Manchester, United Kingdom from October 23 - October 27
WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo – is the most international and culturally diverse music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of the global music scene, featuring a trade fair, talks, films and showcase concerts.
Over 2,600 professionals (including 260 performing artists) come together every October from 90 countries, making WOMEX the leading networking platform for the world music industry. Its musical spectrum is unparalleled in the international showcase performance market, ranging from the most traditional to the new global local underground, embracing folk, roots, jazz, local and diaspora cultures as much as urban and electronic sounds from all over the globe.
WOMEX hosts 7 stages, around 700 exhibiting companies, 100+ speakers, films, an opening concert and an award ceremony across five packed networking days and rather short nights.
WOMEX and its community aim to support and strengthen the role of culture around the globe and to spread its values through nurturing and promoting creativity and music. As a result, the local and global music community is able to – and needs to – contribute to cross-cultural understanding in a welcoming, tolerant, diverse and productive manner.
The event remains devoted to facilitating and promoting the global music industry and providing a platform to connect, inspire and share experiences, enabling new partnerships across transcontinental markets and an open economic and international cultural dialogue.
The PADX team will facilitate a delegation made up of 4-6 Fellows (artists, agents, and other performing arts professionals) to WOMEX this fall.
Fellows receive a subsidized price for the trip, along with access to experts on the ground — participation in high-level meetings with global arts professionals and commerce consulates — plus participation in a special pitch session. You can find a list of additional benefits on the PADX webpage. There is no deposit requirement to apply for a Fellowship position.
Learn more about the opportunity here.
PADX is made possible through funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration’s (ITA) Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).