Music culture is one way communities express themselves, share stories, and stand up to division.<\/p>
This session looks at how artists, organisers, and communities across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean are using music to take cultural action into their own hands. From grassroots festivals to cross-border projects, we\u2019ll explore how citizen-led initiatives are creating connection, resisting marginalisation, and rebuilding trust.<\/p>
Powered by Eteron Music culture is one way communities express themselves, share stories, and stand up to division. This session looks at how artists, organisers, and communities across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean are using music to take cultural action into their own hands. From grassroots festivals to cross-border projects, we\u2019ll explore how citizen-led initiatives are creating connection, […]<\/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-27783","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event-cat-roundtables","language-english-el"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"","ams_acf":[{"key":"performers","label":"Performers","value":[{"ID":25805,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-03-20 13:22:36","post_date_gmt":"2025-03-20 10:22:36","post_content":"\n Gaian\u00e8 Kevorkian is a freelance project manager for cultural productions. During her bachelor Her interest in cultural production got wider through collaborations with diverse institutions that promote social projects for migration processes. She got a certificate as a social facilitator thanks to the MARS - Music & Resilience Training Course, co- funded by Erasmus +. This training led to the creation of two research projects brought on in the asylum seeker centre of Cremona and two publications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lately, she got closer to the work of national and international cultural networks, thanks to the Fellowship Program promoted by the European Music Council, to which she participated in 2018-2020. At the end of this experience Link: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gaian%C3%A8-kevorkian-618031172\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaian\u00e8 Kevorkian (IT\/GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaiane-kevorkian-it-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-03-20 13:22:38","post_modified_gmt":"2025-03-20 10:22:38","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=25805","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28460,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-04-28 15:48:48","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-28 12:48:48","post_content":"\n Agatha is a cofounder of KRAMA Collective and a sound designer based in Athens. Edoardo Rossi has been active in the music industry for over a decade. His journey began in 2013 with vinyl pressings during the first LoFi hype. He later became a project manager for Chapter One, a division of Universal Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edoardo also founded Beat-Unit, Germany\u2019s first producer network, and subsequently joined the iconic German rap label Wolfpack Entertainment\u2014home to artists like Raf Camora\u2014as a partner alongside founder Danny \u201cD-Bo\u201d Bokelmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Specializing in publishing, he built a structured network with major German publishers, including ROBA Music, Budde Music, and Universal Music Publishing. As the Berlin Music Ambassador in 2023, Edoardo expanded his activities to Brazil, collaborating with collecting societies UBC and SBACEM, while also serving as an external consultant for the Key Account division of GEMA, Germany\u2019s collecting society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link: <\/p>\n","post_title":"Edoardo\u00a0Rossi (IT\/DE)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"edoardo-rossi-it-de","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-03-28 14:30:38","post_modified_gmt":"2025-03-28 11:30:38","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=25959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27662,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-04-23 15:32:46","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-23 12:32:46","post_content":"\n George is a Cultural Manager, Consultant on EU funding and Policy Advisor for Local Authorities and cities. Nikos Petropoulos is the Project & Operations Manager at Action \u0395\u03c3\u03c4\u03af, playing a key role in the successful execution of cultural and artistic events across Greece. With a sharp eye for detail and a deep commitment to quality, Nikos ensures that every production \u2013 from concerts and festivals to theatrical shows and corporate events -runs smoothly and efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n With years of hands-on experience in event management, he is responsible for coordinating logistics, managing budgets and timelines, and aligning teams and partners toward shared creative goals. His expertise lies in transforming ambitious ideas into well-executed realities, always with a focus on professionalism and audience experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n At Action \u0395\u03c3\u03c4\u03af, Nikos is an essential force behind the scenes, turning plans into action and supporting the vision of artists, clients, and collaborators alike.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikos.petropoulos.77<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moderator:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>Gaian\u00e8 Kevorkian<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
degree in Musicology, in Cremona - University of Pavia, she experimented and deepened this
passion collaborating with diverse projects and no-profit organisations. She co-funded La Citt\u00e0
della Canzone, a workshop for young songwriters based on an innovative educational format
throughout collective creative process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
she started working with KeepOn Live and continued working for cultural associations and festivals in production and artistic direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their work has been showcased at the Epidaurus Festival, the National Museum of
Contemporary Art in Athens, and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Over the past few
years, they have worked in theater sound design, with projects presented at Bolzano
Stadttheater, Schauspielhaus Salzburg, Stegi Onassis, PLYFA and Wortwiege
Festival. As a music producer, their practice exists at the intersection of live
performance and spatial installations. For the past three years, they have been
teaching beginner-level Ableton as part of the edxfutrhug programme.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Agathagelos Paschalidis (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"agathagelos-paschalidis-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-28 15:48:51","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-28 12:48:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=28460","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":25959,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-03-26 13:54:09","post_date_gmt":"2025-03-26 10:54:09","post_content":"\n
https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/glennfitted\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since September 2018, he is the co-founder of MOSAIC \/\/ Culture & Creativity, a Social Enterprise encouraging cultural and social innovation, supporting creative entrepreneurship and activating the potential of cultural and creative industries. He is also the co-founder of SYNERGY EUROPEAN CONSULTING, a consulting agency specialising in EU Funding, Project Development, Creativity and Cultural Management, Strategy and Policy Making consulting.
He was the Executive Director of the Larissa 2021 European Capital of Culture Candidacy O\ufb03ce during the Greek national Bid Contest (2015 to 2016). Today, he is a member of the Pool of Experts that provide capacity building services and peer- learning activities to upcoming European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) in the \u201cCapacity Building for European Capitals of Culture\u201d EU initiative.
He is also an active member of the Culture Action Europe network.
He holds a BA in International and European Relations, an MA in European Union and Developing Countries and an MSc in Management of Cultural Organisations.
Links:\u00a0https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/georgesarlis\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","post_title":"George Sarlis (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"george-sarlis-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-23 15:32:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-23 12:32:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=27662","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28706,"post_author":"1898","post_date":"2025-04-30 11:58:21","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-30 08:58:21","post_content":"\n\n
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