Women in Music & Arts Conference

Women in Music & Arts Conference
March 23-24, 2022
ONLINE & AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
It’s about music and art as tools for the world we want to see.
🎵2 Days. 15 events. 46 artists.
Full lineup below and at axeworldfest.com.📣
The Women in Music & Arts conference is an essential gathering to launch much-needed conversations about the role of Women in Canadian music and art.
The conference brings together performers, cultural workers, journalists, content creators, visual artists, and fans to showcase local and national women in the industry.
The Women in Music & Arts Conference is designed to encourage new business and artistic relationships, to forge and nurture networks, and to create new opportunities through events, discussions, meetings, showcases and panels.
The conference spans two evenings of discussions, presentations, and networking opportunities focusing on women, BIPOC, cultural workers, and various experimental and contemporary music forms locally, nationally, and internationally.
Conference Schedule📌
⏳WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022
NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
Noon: Welcome and registration
👉12:50 p.m. Panel: Artistic Practices for BIPOC. Facilitated by Jessica Ruano, Community Program Director, MASC🎭
🎨Visual Artist Spotlights👇
Claudia Salguero (Colombia/Ottawa)
Kseniya Tsoy (Ottawa/Toronto)
Marisa Gallemit (Ottawa/Toronto)
👉2 p.m. Panel: Diversity and Inclusion in Our Programming. Co-presented by Debaser
Facilitated by Alka Sharma, former E.D. of Folk Music Ontario and board member, Folk Alliance International
Featuring👇
Rachel Weldon (Producer, Debaser)
Rosina Kazi (LAL/Unit 2)
King Kimbit (Cap City Cyphers)
3 p.m. 📣Artist Spotlights📣
✨Lucila Al Mar
✨OK Naledi

Tickets for the day time event:
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30434
7:30 p.m. 📣Artist spotlights📣
✨Eliana Cuevas
✨Edra Silva Band
✨LAL feat. Rosina Kazi

Tickets for the evening event:
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30437

⏳THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022
ONLINE AND AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
🌼NOON ONLINE PANELS🌼
📢streaming via Axe WorldFest Youtube channel and facebook page📢
✴Sara Curruchich (Guatemala) on the struggles of Indigenous women and social justice issues / Co-presented by Sunfest
✴Women in Music Around the World / Co-presented by Global Toronto
Facilitated by Treasa Levasseur, Folk Alliance International
Featuring👇
✨Amanda Chamorro (Mujeres Haciendo Eco, Paraguay)
✨Sonia Avilés (Encuentro iberoamericano de mujeres en la industria musical, Mexico City)
✨Laura Camacho (Oslo World, Norway)
✨Kristyn Gelfand (Uma nota Culture, Toronto)
✨Valentina Zanelli (CreatiVì Musicali, Turin, Italy)
✴Shoshona Kish interviews iskwē
Co-presented by the International Indigenous Music Summit.
Tickets for the daytime event:
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30438
7 p.m. Artist Spotlights at the National Arts Centre
featuring musical performances by👇
✨Turkwaz
✨iskwē
✨Zaki Ibrahim
Tickets for the evening event👇
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30438