Monthly Meet-Up for transnational artists - Meet the music scene

This Monthly Meet-Up is the ideal opportunity for musicians, festival organizers, and music industry professionals to come together. The event is designed to foster an inclusive and collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and networking.

Please register for the event at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/t4d32jbz

Guests:

Lisa Benjes has been head of the field notes program at inm - intitiative neue musik berlin e.V., the central information and advice center for the contemporary music scene in Berlin, since 2016. field notes contributes to the visibility of the contemporary music scene in Berlin with a bi-monthly magazine, an online platform, and the umbrella festival "Month of Contemporary Music". It offers continuing education for independent music makers, and connects Berlin-based actors with an international audience of professionals at annual conferences.

Yeşim Duman is a curator at Pop-Kultur-Festival Berlin, DJ, host of the Female:Pressure show on Byte FM, activist and organizer of the queer series erdogay, bubble and queer ping pong. Her formats such as Pop-Hayat at Pop-Kultur Festival combines talks, workshops and the performative installation Çaystube, which serves as an experiential space for marginalized communities. She condenses her activities in the queer club scene and post-migrant discourse. In her work, Duman discusses queerness, social exclusion, and the situation of female/non-binary artists in pop and club culture from the perspective of a postmigrant.

Korhan Erel (*1973 Istanbul) is a non-binary electronic musician*, improviser*, composer* and sound designer* based in Berlin. Erel plays electronic instruments, composes and designs sounds for dance, theater and video. Erel uses electronics as a tool for compositions, bringing together field recordings, found sounds and synthesizers, among others. In solo concerts as well as in lineups Erel performs with Ephemeral Fragments, Böseblick, Only With You, Pep Talk, Nervous Entanglement and The Liz. Erel has played all over the world and has released eleven albums with various musicians and groups as well as two solo albums in digital format.

Mario Michel (Ausland Berlin)

This event is organized by Touring Artists and Goethe-Institut im Exil.

Touring Artists offers information and advice for artists and culture professionals in an international context. Touring Artists provides information and advice on administrative and organizational issues that arise in cross-border work for artistic, curatorial and organizational practice, such as the topics visa, residence, social insurance, author's rights and mobility funding.