Our charta, our values (professionnels)
Welcome to Strasbourg Music Week, the cross-border festival for pop music and professional meeting !
We try to become a true bridge between European music scenes, this Eurorégional festival highlights up-and-coming artists from France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Switzerland. From hip-hop to trap, electro, metal, rock, chanson, world beat, and jazz, Strasbourg Music Week celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of pop music.
OUR VALUES
🛠️ TRANSMISSION & COOPERATION
- Providing a platform for collaboration between stakeholders from the Euroregion,
- Offering conferences and workshops rooted in current social issues and sector-specific challenges,
- Facilitating knowledge transfer to new and future generations of professionals,
- Creating spaces for dialogue aimed at underrepresented professionals: independents, people from rural areas, with amateur practices, or shaped by social identity factors, etc.
🧠 CURIOSITY & SOCIAL DIALOGUE
- Promoting curiosity, respect, and dialogue as foundations for social interaction,
- Allowing everyone to express their opinions freely and consensually, in line with human rights and democratic values, without undermining human dignity and integrity,
- Ensuring all voices are heard, regardless of gender identity, ethnic-racial background, physical or mental condition, age, orientation, or any other aspect of identity, according to the principles stated above,
- Acknowledging that humour is subjective, and that it is valid to say “that’s not funny” when a joke causes harm or discomfort.
🌍 REPRESENTATION & HOSPITALITY
- Showcasing emerging talents in pop music from across the Euroregion,
- Ensuring fair representation of partner countries, in both the number of participants and artists, and in the composition of conferences,
- Striving for social identity parity—notably in terms of gender and ethno-racial diversity—in both conference programming and showcases,
- Providing a welcoming and inclusive workspace for neurodivergent individuals (including ADHD, autism, etc.).
THE FESTIVAL COMMITS TO
- Offering professional and welcoming conditions for all participants,
- Appointing a designated contact person for handling incidents or actions that contradict the festival’s values,
- Taking all reported incidents seriously and respectfully,
- Listening to feedback from professionals and partners and continuously improving its practices,
- Explicitly condemning racist, sexist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, ableist, or fascist remarks or actions, and working proactively to counter the biases that sustain systems of oppression.
PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPANTS COMMIT TO
- Behaving in accordance with this charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and French law,
- Respecting consent in all social interactions,
- Being aware of power dynamics (professional status, social position, gender, race, etc.) and the unconscious
biases they may involve,
- Not engaging in or promoting racist, sexist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, ableist, or fascist behavior or discourse, and actively working to dismantle the systems of oppression behind them,