The Unconference 2018
Part of Live At Leeds and Leeds International Festival
Friday 4th May • 10am - 4pm
Leeds College of Music & The Wardrobe
The Unfoncerence 2018 in Leeds is really pleased to announce a number of panels for this years conference.
• Brighter Sound present: Both Sides Now – Minding The Gender Gap
• Come Play With Me Selection / Listening Panel
• PRS Foundation present: Securing Momentum - A Practical Guide to Funding
• A Manifesto for New Music & Leeds
• Uncomfortable Conversations: Music & Mental Health
• Music Managers Forum Panel
• Yorkshire Music Forum presents Meet The Experts
A detailed list of speakers across the panels will be announced in a couple of weeks!
The Unconference is part of Live At Leeds and Leeds International Festival, takes place across Leeds College of Music and The Wardrobe in the city centre, is supported by Leeds Beckett University, Music:Leeds and PRS Foundation and is free to attend by registering at www.unconferenceleeds.com
You can also join the Facebook event here.
Brighter Sound present: Both Sides Now – Minding The Gender Gap
This panel will explore projects, initiatives and programmes in the music scene that are putting women front and centre – from the classroom, to the board room, to the stage. It will look at how we can support more women to engage in historically male-dominated spaces, examine the “talent pipeline” and explore what more we can all do to move things forward.
Find out more about Brighter Sound here
Come Play With Me Selection / Listening Panel
An open playback for the selection for an upcoming release on the Come Play With Me label, with discussion from an expert panel. Submissions need to be received by Friday 30th March, and for more information on the process, please see there website.
Find out more about Come Play With Me here
PRS Foundation presents: Securing Momentum - A Practical Guide to Funding
PRS Foundation’s Momentum Music Fund offers grants of £5k-£15k for artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers. 15 – 20 artists are funded each quarter, and recent recipients include Otzeki, Dream Wife, Fizzy Blood, Coco, and Sam Fender. In this panel, for the first time ever, attendees will scrutinise and talk through a successful Momentum application, focusing on each question with industry experts, Momentum Music Fund partners, and an artist with their manager. PRS Foundation will give a short overview of funding opportunities before the panel will give hands-on practical advice on how to successfully apply for Momentum.
Find out more about PRS Foundation here
A Manifesto For New Music & Leeds
This years’ Unconference kicks off with a series of short talks, presentations and provocations from those involved in breaking down barriers and creating opportunities for music in Leeds, brought to you by the team behind Music:Leeds.
Find out more about Music:Leeds: click here
Uncomfortable Conversations: Music & Mental Health - things we need to talk about and things we can do to keep listening and making change
Uncomfortable conversations abound in the creative industries and the media sphere - from #me to #blacklivesmatter to #TimesUp - and the music industries have been called out too, from the under representation of female acts in live music to sexual harassment.
However, a cause for concern from all quarters of the industries has been the uncomfortable reality of mental health issues that appear to endemic across all sectors of the music industries. It is this area that we want to address and we acknowledge that to do so means in all these areas we are committed to asking uncomfortable questions in the hope that this may lead to new ways of living and working together that are better and more healthy for all involved.
Find out more about the "Can Music Make You Sick?" report: web
Music Manager’s Forum Panel
A wide ranging discussion from experienced music managers on the future of music management, how the landscape has changed, what skills are required, the barriers to entry and how you build your networks.
Find out more about Music Manager's Forum: here
Yorkshire Music Forum presents Meet The Experts
Throughout the day, our regular “Meet The Experts” sessions will also return hosted by Yorkshire Music Forum. Across the day, you will be able one-to-one meetings with music industry experts & professionals from a range of backgrounds, including organisations such as PRS For Music, Arts Council England, Kycker and business support from accountants, lawyers and The Business and IP Centre Leeds.
Following the event, together with Live At Leeds The Uncoference is hosting a PRS Foundation Momentum Showcase at The Wardrobe.
The event is free entry and kicks off at 7.30pm featuring Momentum funded artists:
Our Girl
Chelou
Fenne Lily
+ Special Guest Headliner
Join the Facebook event here.
ASSOCIATED EVENTS:
BOTH SIDES NOW OPEN SPACE - making gender equality in the music industry a reality... what can we all do?
Rearranged event: Monday 26th March at Duke Studios Register here
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN REARRANGED FOR MONDAY 26th MARCH
We hope all those who originally planned to attend can make this new date. Thanks!
Brighter Sound, The Hub UK and Music:Leeds presents…
Both Sides Now - Open Space
Making gender equality in the music industry a reality... what can we all do?
Both Sides Now is a large-scale initiative taking place across the North of England to support emerging female artists and up-and-coming industry professionals to transform the future of the music industry.
We want to create a growing network, deliver sustainable activity, and affect permanent change around the perception, opportunities and profiling of women in music, from the classroom, to the boardroom, to the stage.
This first ‘Open Space’ event is for anyone with an interest in this conversation to come together and discuss what could make a real difference - whether that’s about role models, motherhood, education, social mobility, policy change or something else entirely.
Unfolding over a series of informal conversations, the agenda will be yours to set. You might want to convene a conversation about something you feel passionately about, or join a conversation kick-started by someone else. More than just a talking shop, our aim is to get things and people moving.
The event is open to everyone, food and drinks will be provided and there will be activities for children.
We use an inclusive definition of ‘women’ and welcome participants who are women and non-binary, both cis and trans.
Open Space is a method of facilitation, where participants create and manage their own agenda of discussions around a central theme.
Brighter Sound introduce the series of Both Sides Now events: click here
TheHub talk about the event and the nature of Open Space: click here
About Brighter Sound
Brighter Sound is a creative music charity, based in Manchester and working across the North and nationally. They believe music-making and creativity should be a central pillar in the lives of all children and young people, that emerging musicians should be supported to develop their artistic confidence and originality, and that the music landscape should be equal and diverse.
Both Sides Now is supported by through Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence fund.
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