In the 21st century, faced with challenges such as wars, social inequalities, and environmental crises, music and the arts are vital beacons of hope and powerful agents for change. These creative forces inspire us to envision and work towards a brighter future, empowering us to make tangible differences. Acts of kindness and consideration, no matter who we are or where we are, serve as everyday forms of activism. These gestures, combined with supporting emerging talents and raising critical awareness, cultivate a more empathetic and understanding world.<\/p>
Our event features speakers who lead transformative projects that drive societal progress and ignite significant changes, enhancing lives and revitalising communities. Their stories and insights are inspirational and a call to action. <\/p>
Don’t Just Hear The Change, Be The Change <\/p>
Presented by Act in Sync<\/p>
In the 21st century, faced with challenges such as wars, social inequalities, and environmental crises, music and the arts are vital beacons of hope and powerful agents for change. These creative forces inspire us to envision and work towards a brighter future, empowering us to make tangible differences. Acts of kindness and consideration, no matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"event-cat":[492],"nationality":[],"music-genre":[],"destination":[],"topic":[],"language":[79],"class_list":["post-21940","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event-cat-roundtables","language-english-el"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"","ams_acf":[{"key":"performers","label":"Performers","value":[{"ID":20859,"post_author":"1566","post_date":"2024-04-15 16:53:12","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-15 13:53:12","post_content":"\n Misia Furtak is an awarded musician, cultural manager and activist. Together with the band Tr\u00e8s.B, Her professional path fulfills this prophetic verdict, as Misia combines working with the indie music, In 2022, Furtak was selected to Keychange - a pioneering organisation supporting women and She also led the Polish chapter of Music Declares Emergency. She has played in Europe and Japan, Lisa Nasta is a skilled event manager, music educator and luthier. As Director of Re-Play Music, she leads a non-profit that donates instruments, educates children and entertains audiences at Kidz Field, Glastonbury Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Formerly Director of Surrey Strings Music Store and the Abbey School of Music, she developed outreach and education programs while managing tutors & events. Founder of Re-Play Music Festival, showcasing 120 bands over three days in London, twice nominated for Green Awards in Merton, and receiving international recognition for environmental initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, she shares a role of area coordinator\/ production manager for Glastonbury's Green Futures Field, programs Glasto KidzField MusicAcademy and is Weyfest Kids Area coordinator.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Lisa Nasta (UK)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lisa-nasta-uk","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-11 23:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-11 20:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=20805","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21251,"post_author":"1566","post_date":"2024-04-22 14:13:16","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-22 11:13:16","post_content":"\n Alona works in the music industry for almost a decade. Starting as a volunteer for the music festival she soon grew to the position of program director taking care of 100+ acts performing the biggest festival stages in Ukraine. She believes in the power of education and networking having done the music exchange projects in Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and even in the Middle East (Kyrgyzstan, hello!). Along with a colleague she co-founded Music Export Ukraine, an independent organisation that helps Ukrainian artists build international careers. Since then, she showcased local talents at professional events in more than 20 countries, lobbied sector needs in Ukraine and Europe, did dozens of international projects, became the expert in European funding. And strangely, she still enjoys music!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lefteris Moumtzis is a musician, songwriter and producer. With a career spanning more than twenty years, Moumtzis has released acclaimed solo and band recordings both as a composer\/performer and as a producer. In 2016 he released his first solo album under his real name, 'Now Happiness' and in February 2019 his first album as Freedom Candlemaker, Beaming Light, marking a new era for his career. The album was met with positive reviews from internationally renowned press outlets. The singles 'Gold' and 'I am love' followed in 2020 and 2021 respectively. He is currently gearing up for the release of his next album Ageless, having already released two singles and videos (The Win, Resurrection). He has composed music for various theater and dance productions, films and documentaries.\u00a0He is the founder of the record company Louvana Records, along with Andreas Trachonitis and from 2009 to 2024 he has served as artistic director for Fengaros Festival, Fengaros Music Village and Louvana Records.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Lefteris Moumtzis (CY)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lefteris-moumtzis-cy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 13:26:41","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 10:26:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=20689","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21637,"post_author":"1566","post_date":"2024-04-26 15:46:12","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-26 12:46:12","post_content":"\n Nis B\u00f8gvad Music Supervisor and CEO\/Founder at Copenhagen Film Music Co. Founder of Europe in Synch, director of Act In Synch, Advisory board member Earth\/Percent Mentor at Berklee\u2019s graduate mentorship program for master's students Member of the Guild of Music Supervisors in Los Angeles since 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With 30 years as a music professional, Nis has worked in all aspects of the music industry. From Multi-Platinum selling Songwriter, Recording and touring Artist (Parlophone) and Record Producer to Head of A&R at EMI Music, Member of EMI\u2019s A&R committee, Executive Producer (DR\/Danish National Broadcast) Creative Director & Head of Film and TV at Music Sales Group to Music Supervisor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nis has synchronized music to more than 150 commercials, TV series and feature films and shared his experience and knowledge about the music industry as both a speaker, moderator and education advisor at A&R Worldwide\/Musexpo L.A., Midem Cannes, Sync summit Paris, Spot Festival Denmark; Les Arcs European Film Festival, Sync summit Helsinki, MaMA Conference Paris, London Sync Session, an Artist Mentor at Music Estonia VOL\u00dc\u00dcM mentoring program, Berklee Global Career Summit in Valencia and is among the founding partners of Europe in Synch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M\u00e1rta Ladj\u00e1nszki is the motor of L1 Independent Artists Association of Public Utility, an umbrella NGO for independent creators, performing artists. As an active choreographer and dancer, her focus is mainly on the dance field and she works together with Zsolt VARGA (saxophonist, composer). M\u00e1rta established the 'Series of dance performances with\/for naked spectators' a successful event-series which was hosted by Bakelit Multi Art Center, based in Budapest (H). <\/p>\n\n\n\n After 20 years of artistic cooperation, M\u00e1rta became the project manager of two Culture Europe partnerships on behalf of Bakelit MAC: Be SpectACTive! and Women Power in Comics. She is excited to learn more about the freelance creative sector either by setting up a new dance piece, mentoring artists, curating a program or being project manager of such projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more about her and the activities she is involved with: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moderator<\/strong>: Misia Furtak (PL)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
she has been awarded the prestigious Paszport Polityki for \"a skillful combination of strength and
delicacy that is both independent and hit\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
jazz, modern classical and Polish rap giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
gender minorities in the music industry. She continues her work on diversity and inclusion in the
sector, runs capacity building for artists and is a member of European Music Business Task Force, a
think tank, which explores ways to boost the EU music market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
alongside The National, Arlo Parks, TV On The Radio, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Links<\/strong>:
Linkedin: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michalinafurtak\/<\/a>
Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/misia_furtak\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Misia Furtak (PL)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"misia-furtak-pl","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-08 13:01:46","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-08 10:01:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=20859","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":20805,"post_author":"1555","post_date":"2024-04-15 13:05:03","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-15 10:05:03","post_content":"\n
Links<\/strong>:
Linkedin: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alonadmukhovska\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Alona Dmukhovska (UA)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alona-dmukhovska-ua","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-22 14:14:55","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-22 11:14:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=21251","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":20689,"post_author":"1566","post_date":"2024-04-09 10:04:03","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-09 07:04:03","post_content":"\n
Link<\/strong>:
Linkedin: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nisbogvad<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Nis B\u00f8gvad (DK)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"nis-bogvad-dk","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-04-26 15:46:15","post_modified_gmt":"2024-04-26 12:46:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=21637","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21850,"post_author":"1566","post_date":"2024-04-29 12:20:05","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-29 09:20:05","post_content":"\n
Links<\/strong>:
Sites:
www.martaatwork.com
<\/a>www.L1.hu<\/a>
www.bmac.hu<\/a>
Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/martaladjanszki\/<\/a>
Facebook:
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61558607266296<\/a>
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bakelitmac<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"M\u00e1rta Ladj\u00e1nszki (HU)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marta-ladjanszki-hu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-05-01 15:20:27","post_modified_gmt":"2024-05-01 12:20:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=21850","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"key":"date","label":"Date","value":"24 \u039c\u03b1\u0390\u03bf\u03c5 2024"},{"key":"launch_time","label":"Launch Time","value":"15:15"},{"key":"end_time","label":"End Time","value":"16:15"},{"key":"hero_image","label":"Hero Image","value":15605}],"yoast_head":"\n