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Accompanying Luxembourg artists and cultural professionals on international stages is at the heart of the missions of Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg. The aim is to facilitate the visibility of Luxembourg creations and to imagine new collaborations and circulations.

To meet this objective, a series of professional meetings will be organised in Wallonia and Brussels from 16 to 18 February 2023 to discover the places that make up the contemporary scene in the neighbouring French-speaking region and to participate in the closing ceremony of the Festival de Liège.

Kultur | lx goes on with its “next step” workshops, initiated in 2021. These are supposed to offer artists and professionals from Luxembourg a training dedicated to jazz and improvised music in numerous territories of the world, this edition will include the French market on November 22^nd and 26^th.

This workshop will be designed and hosted by Christiane Louis, Head of the career development unit at the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris. After Master studies in Literature and Information sciences, Christiane Louis began a career in the field of social science research as Head of Documentation Department for public research centres. In 1996, she joined the Cité de la musique to lead and develop the musical information services. The current “Pôle métiers de la musique” offers a wealth of information via the dedicated website, and personalised advice or guidance on the artistic and cultural environment.

Since 2005, she has been leading a professionalization programme for musicians at the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris. It focuses on the initiation and implementation of an artistic and cultural project, and more broadly, on the development of a musical career in relation to the socio-economic environment and the expectations of cultural policies. Over the past ten years, its expertise in the professionalization of musicians has been asserted in the musical sector. The “Pôle métiers” is involved in various professional workshops in conservatories, music academies or universities, and conducts training activities with professional support structures for musicians.

This training will be structured into two part and will be centred around Shuffle, the Luxembourgish jazz showcase festival. The first session will take place online and will prepare the participants to present their projects in an export perspective, taking French specificities into account. The second session will consist in a theoretical session, and a round-table in which French jazz professionals will offer their point of view. At the end of the workshop, participants should have practical advice and tools taking local specificities into account.

The workshop will be held in French.

Day 1 – Tuesday, November 22^nd
How to pitch a project and network in France –Online

10h – 12h: Tools and good practices to “pitch” your project in France |

• Introduction and session hosted by Christiane Louis

Day 2 – Saturday, November 26^th
How to tour in France

neimënster Abbey – in person

11h-12h: A panorama of touring in France | Introduction and session hosted by Christiane Louis

• venues and festivals;
• professional jazz and contemporary creation networks;
• support tools (including competitions);
• cultural policy in the field of touring;
• booking mecanisms and promoters’ expectations.

12h-13h: Round-table – Booking mecanisms in France

Tiphanie Moreau, Head of touring and external relations, Orchestre national de jazz ; Gilles Gauthier, General Manager, Jazzus ; Antoine Bos, General secretary.

Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg is pleased to invite you to join the first Performing arts platform in Luxembourg from 23 to 25th of March 2023 in Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette. A programme divided into three thematic days – young audiences, theatre, dance – will offer you a unique opportunity to discover the performing arts landscape of Luxembourg, its places, artists, creations and its challenges.

Programme
Thursday 23/03 – Focus on young audiences
Friday 24/03 – Focus on theatre
Saturday 25/03 – Focus on dance

Find the programme here (in progress)

Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg is taking up the “next step” workshops initiated in 2021 and is adapting it to the pop/rock/electro world. Kultur | lx will offer artists an inside look and training course dedicated to the pop/rock/electro music market in various territories around the world, starting with the French market on November 29 & 30.

The online workshop will be led by Paris-native Géraldine Zanaska, founder of international music business consultancy, Compass Music. Between earning her master’s degree in Music Business Management from London’s University of Westminster and launching Compass Music, Géraldine has worked for an independent record label, a music venue, a live music promoter, a cultural institution, and the French music export office.

This workshop will address the essential points for developing a strategy to present, market, and promote a project in France. In particular, the workshop will cover the various networks and professionals involved, as well as an overview on the French touring and recording landscape, the challenges and evolution of touring, and the key methods and innovative tools to better promote your project in France. 

This interactive training will start each day with a theoretical presentation and will be followed by a round-table discussion and Q&A with French professionals from the pop/rock/electro sector. The goal is also for the participants to come away with actionable advice and have communication-ready assets (like bio and press releases, highlighting what matters locally) once the workshop is finished.

Deadline for registration: November 20th

Do you want to expand your professional network? Addressing contemporary art professionals is a key element in this process.

Dates: October 18, 2022
Timing: 09h00 – 13h30 | 14h00-18h00
Venue: Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain

The objective of this workshop will be to prepare you to present your work in different situations and through different media in order to better communicate with professional audiences. You will focus on three types of communication situations: the portfolio, social networks and real or virtual studio visits.

Kultur | lx is pleased to welcome Margret Wibmer to lead this workshop dedicated to visual arts.

This hands-on workshop is for professional visual artists working in all types of media. You will have time to discuss your specific project with an experienced instructor/mentor and other participants, refine your approach and present it to other professionals.

Who is eligible to participate?

• Visual artists
• Photographers
• Multidisciplinary artists
  of Luxembourg nationality or resident in Luxembourg

Participation conditions:

• Participation upon registration and submission of an online application is mandatory
• The workshop is open for up to 12 participants. The Visual Arts selection committee of Kultur | lx will select the participants on the basis of their application, should there be more applications than places available
• The workshop will be held in ENGLISH
• Application deadline: 25.09.2022
• Registration and the workshop are free. The costs of the workshop are covered by Kultur | lx
• Lunch at the expense of each participant

Within the framework of the 16th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, which will take place from September 14th to December 31st 2022, Kultur | lx proposes to 7 artists and independent curators from Luxembourg a programme of encounters within the Biennial.

Every two years, the Lyon Contemporary art Biennale takes as its starting point the geography and local realities to inscribe them, through a theme, in a wider spatial and temporal perspective. In 2022, its title, “Manifesto of fragility”, invites us to consider fragility as an act of artistic resistance in a present hampered by the pandemic and its consequences. The Biennial brings together, through exhibitions located throughout the city of Lyon, international artists who have produced new pieces for the occasion. Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are the curators of the 16th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale.

“The 16th edition of the Lyon Biennial affirms fragility as intrinsically linked to a form of resistance initiated in the past, in touch with the present and capable of facing the future. It imagines a world that, instead of considering vulnerability as a sign of weakness, exploits it to try to regain power. It is conceived as a plurality of resilient voices that thrive on tenderness and flourish in adversity. Communities are formed where word, image, sound and movement meet, culminating in the writing of a manifesto for an irreparably fragile world.”

The program of the two days organised by Kultur | lx will be communicated on the website of Kultur | lx. Kultur | lx will cover the costs of accommodation (2 nights) and transport by train for participants who are invited to register on the form hereafter. The first 7 registrants* will then be invited by email to apply for a mobility grant on the Kultur | lx website.

Artists and curators can apply for an accreditation online on the Biennale Espace professionnel (labiennaledelyon.com). This program is open to curators from public institutions (without our financial support).

The deadline for applications is August 27.
* Note: the 7 places have been allocated.

In the context of the 12th Berlin Biennale, which will take place from June 11 to September 18, 2022, Kultur | lx offers 10 artists and freelance curators a program of meetings with residency directors and curators, and visits to the biennale’s exhibitions.

Every two years, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art brings together international artists, theoreticians, and practitioners in exhibitions and accompanying programs. With its political profile, it stands for committed art that addresses the urgent questions of the present. The 12th Berlin Biennale is curated by Kader Attia.

“Kader Attia looks back on more than two decades of decolonial engagement. As an artist, thinker, and activist, he has been particularly engaged with the notion of REPAIR—first of objects and physical injuries, and then of individual and societal traumas. Throughout his practice, repair has emerged as a mode of cultural resistance, a form of agency that finds expression in diverse practices and fields of knowledge. In his role as curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, Attia makes this form of agency the starting point of a program that involves contributors and audiences in a critical conversation, in order to find ways together to care for the now.”

The program of the three days organized by Kultur | lx will be communicated in the next days on the site of Kultur | lx.

The participants have to organize their travel and accommodation. They should arrive in Berlin on July 20 before 10:00 a.m.
Kultur | lx will cover the costs (for 3 days and 2 nights), participants are invited to apply for a mobility support on our website. Participants who have a portfolio in German with a project with the German territory or with Berlin will have an advantage.

The deadline for applications is June 29.

In anticipation of Kultur | lx’s collaboration with Impuls neue Musik starting in 2023, we invite you to a webinar with Sophie Aumüller, Director of the Fund, and Bernhard Günther, member of the Impuls Artistic Committee and Artistic Director of the Wien Modern and ZeitRäume Basel festivals.

This session, taking place on the 27th of June at 10:30 AM, will give you the opportunity to discuss with both speakers, who will present Impuls neue Musik and their call for projects for 2023.

About Impuls neue Musik

Founded in 2009, Impuls neue Musik is a fund that promotes exchanges between France, Switzerland and Germany in the area of contemporary music. It finances music projects that involve partners from the aforementioned countries, making the fund a Franco-German network. Project partners can be artists, ensembles, venues, festivals, universities, academies, research institutes, cultural associations and institutions.

To familiarize yourself with the funding criteria of Impuls neue Musik, we invite you to read this link carefully.

Since Impuls neue Musik is a network dedicated to creative music, this webinar is aimed at anyone with a connection to contemporary music. This can involve any art form (music, performance, visual art…etc.) or any type of project that has a strong connection to contemporary music (concerts, festivals, music theater, artist residencies, academies, sound installations).

The speakers

Bernhard Günther has been Artistic Director of the Wien Modern Festival since 2016. Between 2012-2022 he also directed the festival ZeitRäume Basel – Biennale for New Music and Architecture, which first came to public attention in 2015, as well as being the chief dramaturge of the Philharmonie Luxembourg from 2004-2016, where he was responsible for the festival rainy days, among others. After unfinished studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (violoncello) and the University of Vienna (musicology, theater studies, linguistics, etc.), he joined mica – music information center austria in 1994 as editor of the encyclopedia of contemporary music from Austria, where he served as curator and deputy managing director until 2004.

He has been intensively involved with new music and its environment for more than 25 years as a passionate visitor and organizer of concerts in a wide variety of genres and formats, as an author, editor, dramaturge and curator for various publishers, media and event organizers, as a jury member (including the Kranichsteiner Music Prize, German Music Council, Impuls neue Musik) as well as an occasional musician.

Sophie Aumüller, born in Munich, studied Romance philology in Freiburg, Berlin and Paris. She first worked as an editor, translator and reader in the field of literature and film, and has been active in the music sector since 2004. In 2008 she founded the Shared Sounds festival at Radialsystem V in Berlin, which ran until 2010. In 2011, she co-initiated and directed the Vokal¬fest chor@berlin.

Since 2011, she has been directing the Franco-German-Swiss Fund for Contemporary Music Impuls neue Musik. She also serves on numerous juries, most recently for the cultural support program of the Berlin Senate (until 2021), as well as the Ensembleförderung Musik program of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Deadline to register: 26th of June 2022

General Workshop : June 20, 2022 – 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. (open to all applicants)
Mentoring Session : June 22, 2022- 4:00p.m. to 5:30p.m. (applicants selected by committee)

This final workshop with Music Ally will be split into three sections. The first section will be done by each participant in advance via the Music Ally Learning Hub, focused on Social Commerce (a link to the Learning Hub will be sent to participants in advance). As a $89.4 billion market that is expected to grow to $604.5 billion in the next seven years, marketers need to pay attention to this shift in shopping habits as social commerce capabilities are a key focus for big social and streaming platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok, removing friction in the shopping process.

There are numerous reasons as to why this is exciting for the music industry. First and foremost because it allows us to drive more revenue from physical products by meeting our fans where they spend most of their time. Music Ally’s Social Commerce module looks at the various opportunities already available to sell physical and virtual products through your digital channels and explores how artists have been leveraging these creatively. This will be a practical walkthrough of how to enable shopping on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube and will explain all necessary requirements, possibilities and limitations. We’ll also point to upcoming trends so that you are up to speed with what you need to know in order to grow your D2C business on these platforms.

In the second section of the workshop, we dive into Alternative Platforms & Live-streaming. Platforms like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are used in virtually every artist marketing campaign – but to unlock international or niche audiences, you’ll need to engage with platforms that you may never have used before. 

In this session, Music Ally will teach you everything you need to know to start leveraging some of the most important, non-traditional, digital platforms in your artist marketing campaigns (Discord, Reddit and Twitch). We’ll explain how to engage correctly with unfamiliar – but huge – apps, platforms and audiences. We’ll also briefly cover some key live-streaming platforms like Facebook Live, Instagram Live and YouTube Live to help you connect with your fans globally. 

After the workshop, we will host a panel discussion (about TikTok & Short Form Video, rescheduled from May 23rd) featuring Harry Tidswell (Senior Music & Ents Partnerships Manager at Fanbytes), Sam Hong (artist name ‘Hongza’), and Marlen Huellbrock (Head of Marketing at Music Ally) with opportunities for Q&A throughout the panel.

Deadline to register: 16 June 2022

In the context of documenta 15, which will take place from June 18 to September 25, 2022, Kultur | lx offers 7 artists the opportunity to participate in the professional days on June 16 and 17, 2022. documenta Kassel is one of the most important international events dedicated to contemporary art. Every 5 years it attracts a large number of representatives of the international contemporary art scene. A retrospective as well as a prospective event that takes place every five years, documenta is often the subject of landmark statements in the history of art.

The two days organized by Kultur | lx during the professional days will allow artists to visit the exhibitions of documenta 15, to make meetings to broaden their network and to promote exchanges of views.

Kultur | lx will take care of the accommodation and transportation of the participants.

Deadline to register: 20 May 2022

As part of its mission to support Luxembourg artists, Kultur | lx is taking up the “next step” action initiated in 2021, which consists of giving artists a training session dedicated to the market of a specific territory. On June 7th and 8th, Kultur | lx will offer classical and contemporary musicians a training course dedicated to the classical music market in France.

The course will be given by Marion Lesaffre-Pommier, founder of prélude-s (after 15 years at the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris), and will address the essential points for developing a strategy to present and promote a project in France. In particular, the various networks and professionals involved in the dissemination of classical music will be presented, as well as support mechanisms for touring, and keys to promote your project in France.

The training will start each day with a theoretical presentation and will be followed by a round-table discussion with French professionals from the classical music sector:

• Emmanuel Hondré, Director, Opéra national de Bordeaux 
• Claire Laballery, Director, Agence Claire Laballery 
• Louis Presset, General Delegate, Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés (FEVIS)
• Pierre-Antoine Devic, Head of classical and jazz, Believe
• Lucy Boccadoro, Press Relations Officer
• Sébastien Mahieuxe, Director, Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin

The workshop will be conducted in English.
Deadline to apply: June 3, 2022

TikTok & Short Form Video Workshop with Music Ally

General Workshop : May 23, 2022 – 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. (open to all applicants)
Mentoring Session : May 25, 2022 – 4:00p.m. to 5:30p.m. (applicants selected by committee) 

Kultur | lx is thrilled to continue working with Music Ally for our industry-focused workshops and training sessions. As a global leader in digital training for the music industry, Music Ally has trained thousands of industry professionals and artists. A knowledge and skills company, it provides insight to indies, publishers, major labels as well as artists and managers globally. Their mission is to help the music industry embrace digital platforms and build sustainable careers for artists across the globe.  

This Short-Form Video workshop from Music Ally will be split into two parts. In the first half, Music Ally will give a presentation on short-form video, a strategy within music marketing that has exploded over the last few years with the rise of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat. In this presentation Music Ally will look at the specifics of each of these platforms and how they compare against TikTok. They will also give practical advice on how artists can best use each platform to engage their audience. They want to equip viewers with an understanding of how these platforms can fit into an artist’s social strategy and help you to make informed decisions about which platforms to focus your efforts on.

The second half of the session will be a panel discussion between Harry Tidswell (Senior Music & Ents Partnerships Manager at Fanbytes), Sam Hong (artist name ‘Hongza’) and Marlen Huellbrock (Head of Marketing at Music Ally). There will be opportunities for Q&A throughout.

We look forward to welcoming you to this workshop series on Monday, May 23rd!  Music Ally will also be hosting private mentoring sessions on Wednesday, May 25th (applicants selected by a committee).

REGISTER HERE

Save the date !
Last workshop 
20/06 – Livestreaming and social commerce – Timing TBD

Present your approach to the international art professionals

Dates: on April 06, 2022
Time: 10:00 – 13:30 | 14:00-18:00
Venue: Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain
41, rue Notre-Dame, L-2240 Luxembourg

You want to launch your career internationally? Addressing contemporary art professionals is a key element in this process.
The objective of this workshop will be to prepare you to present your work in different situations and through different media in order to better communicate with professional audiences. You will focus on three types of communication situations: portfolio, social networks and studio visits.

Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg is pleased to welcome Sophie Lanoë to lead this first workshop dedicated to visual arts.

This hands-on workshop is for professional visual artists working in all types of mediums. You will have the time to discuss your specific project with an experienced trainer and the other participants, refine your approach and present it to other professionals.

YouTube Masterclass with Music Ally

General Workshop : March 28, 2022 (open to all applicants)
Mentoring Session : March 30, 2022 (applicants selected by committee)

All dates will be held from 10:00 to 13:00 CEST 

YouTube Best Practice: YouTube offers a breadth of opportunities to customise videos, drive viewers to other videos on your channel, create playlists, and engage with your community. In this module we will explain the essentials of YouTube strategy and optimisation. Furthermore, with an estimated 70% of all watch time on YouTube being driven by recommendations from YouTube’s algorithm, this module covers all bases for ensuring your YouTube videos and channels are as visible as possible.

YouTube Analytics & Monetisation: YouTube is undoubtedly a key platform for music discovery. Understanding your audience, content performance and how to earn revenue from the platform are therefore essential. This ‘YouTube Analytics & Monetisation’ module serves as a deep dive into how to make sense of YouTube’s new artist-focused analytics platform in order to fuel your channel growth.

We will explain the most important metrics, how they are measured and how they contribute towards your success on YouTube. Impressions, CTR, engagement, audience retention – which are the most important metrics to keep track of and what actionable insights can we retrieve from them? Following the discussion on analytics, we look at the various ways an artist’s YouTube channel can be monetised in order to create a revenue stream from the platform.

We look forward to welcoming you to this workshop series on March 28, 2022!  Music Ally will also be hosting private mentoring sessions on March 30, 2022 (applicants selected by a committee).

General Workshop: February 28, 2022 (open to all applicants)
Mentoring Session: March 2, 2022 (applicants selected by committee)
All dates begin at 10:00am CEST

How do you optimize your profile on streaming platforms? How can you reach the widest audience and drive engagement across key streaming platforms? Find out in our next workshop with Music Ally to learn how to leverage streaming platforms and build your profile with the analytical tools available in Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Studio. You’ll also understand the nuances of marketing artists and music on streaming services.

We look forward to welcoming you to this workshop series on February 28, 2022!  Music Ally will also be hosting private mentoring sessions on March 2, 2022 (applicants selected by a committee).

Deadline to apply: February 21, 2022.

Save the dates!
Upcoming workshops:
28/03 – YouTube Masterclass – Timing TBD
19/04 – Direct-to-fan – Timing TBD
23/05 – Short Form Video Masterclass – Timing TBD
20/06 – Livestreaming and social commerce – Timing TBD

You dream to catapult your project or project idea into an international future?

In this workshop we will study your project to define together the importance of its presence on specific international markets and help you to develop a long-term strategy thanks to an analysis of the environments in different countries of the world and a mapping of festivals and visibility spots.

Kultur | lx is thrilled to welcome Iva Horvat from Art Republic for our first ever performing arts focused workshop that will take place from 07 to 10 February 2022 at Rotondes.

This hands-on workshop is directed to Professionals working in the performing arts (directors, choreographers, producers, managers and other professionals). You will have ample space to discuss your specific project with an experienced trainer and other participants, fine-tune your strategy and present it to other professionals.

What should you expect to learn about?

• Study the project and define the importance of its presence on a specific international market.
• Development of long-term strategy with the artist and the project.
• Analysis of the environments in different countries of the world.
• Mapping of festivals and visibility spots for the project.
• Application of methods and tools to put in practice a strategy in specific space and time.
• Communication: How? When? And what for?
• Values and principles to elaborate a profile in an environment.
• Creativity in forming new and unique methods and forms of work, for self-defining as a professional. Producing yourselves.

Kultur | lx is thrilled to be working with Music Ally for our first ever music industry-focused workshops and training sessions. As a global leader in digital training for the music industry, Music Ally has trained thousands of industry professionals and artists. A knowledge and skills company, it provides insight to indies, publishers, major labels as well as artists and managers globally. Music Ally’s mission is to help the music industry embrace digital platforms and build sustainable careers for artists across the globe. 

Of particular relevance to this project is Music Ally’s global efforts to support developing regions working with partners to democratise access to the best information and training resources with social impact at the core. Sharing Music Ally’s core values, Kultur | lx has identified a need to support the Luxembourgish music sector with a series of professional development workshops with a particular focus on music business fundamentals, release marketing and fan-base growth.

We look forward to welcoming you to our second set of workshops on December 7 & 9, 2021, focused on The DIY Musician/Music Entrepreneur.
Registration is required before November 29th. (Places are limited – first come, first served).

What should you expect to learn about?

• An overview of the Distribution landscape, the key players, their offerings, cost structures and how to make the right choice for your strategy/needs.
• Panel discussion with a distribution and DIY specialist who will give tips on the best way to do things independently.
• Using fan data and tools to build a tour, including Shazam, YouTube, and Spotify.
• Looking at tools like ToneDen to increase ticket sales and general promotion of tours.
• Interactive panel discussions surrounding live and touring.

More information here.