Overview of the Strasbourg Music Week’s delegation and partners in europe

Eva Colom Valageas is the Catalan Arts delegate in France for the Government of Catalonia.

The Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (ICEC) is a public institution attached to the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia that deals with the development and consolidation of creative sectors as a lever for its professionalization. ICEC advises and supports the development of Catalan companies in various sectors such as music, performing arts, visual arts, audiovisual, books and digital. It provides grants and financing tools, as well as services for internationalization, business and audience development.

Catalan Arts is the brand created by ICEC for the international promotion of Catalan companies. With a network of European offices (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris), ICEC works on a variety of lines of action to connect, accompany and support the internationalization of creative companies. To this end, Catalan Arts strengthens the presence of companies, and their creations, in international markets and major professional events and publishes resources for professionals.

Sam runs Rocklab project.
Rocklab is Luxembourg's dedicated creative hub and music incubator for artists, bands and music professionals. Located in the heart of the Rockhal, it has 6 rehearsal rooms, meeting rooms, a studio and different performance spaces. It offers a wide range of activities and resources in the form of monthly workshops, round tables and networking events on topics important to the development of bands and artists.

Several support programmes allow artists to rehearse, develop and improve their artistic and musical project in a professional way. To promote and document the diversity of the local music scene,

Rocklab has also developed various video formats such as the Rocklab Sessions and the Rocklab Pop-Up Sessions. Rocklab’s young audience programme aims at raising awareness of musical practice among children and young people.

Pablo Fleury is artistic coordinator of Court-Circuit, the Federation of concert venues and festivals in Wallonia-Brussels.
Since 2016, he is active in the development of the local emergent music scene, the professionnalization of live music organizations and their connection to each other. Graduated with a master in socio-cultural animation, he is also a "bedroom producer" under the alias Slamino.

Active since 1992, Court-Circuit - Pôle Musiques Actuelles - is a federation of pop music venues, concert organizations and festivals, working towards the recognition, structuring and professionalization of the pop music sector in Wallonia and Brussels. Court-Circuit is also the implementation of tools and devices that promote links, meetings and exchanges between its members and musicians from Wallonia and Brussels who wish to perform on professional and emerging stages.

Kenneth is the general secretary of the Brigade d'Intervention Culturelle (BIC), an association in charge of the export of the pop music scene in Hauts-de-France for more than 20 years. The BIC promotes emerging regional scene to France and abroad, on events such as the MaMA festival (FR), the Reeperbahn festival (DE), FrancoFaune (BE) or Bars en Trans (FR), and participates in the Hello Music consortium alongside 4 other organizations of pop music industry in the European metropolis of Lille.

Since 2016, the BIC is the administrator of the Crossroads festival.
Kenneth is also a consultant within the ExtraCité SCOP based in Lille, and a speaker in college. He works throughout France on cultural policies, project development strategies and European cooperation.

Crossroads festival (Roubaix, Hauts-de-France)

The Crossroads Festival was launched in 2016 to promote the modern music sector of the Hauts-de-France region to professionals from other regions and countries, and to set up inter-regional and international artistic and professional exchanges.The festival offers every year, mid-September, in Roubaix to discover around thirty artists, in a « showcase » format, as well as professional meetings. The strategic location in the heart of the Paris-London-Brussels triangle was one of the main considerations that gave impetus to the project. The cross-border and European dimension must therefore important for the development of the Crossroads festival.

The actors of the sector in the Hauts-de-France work in synergy to program emerging artists from their territory. The festival also welcomes groups proposed by various partners (export offices abroad, venues and professional networks in France), and chosen by la BIC’s board.

The professional meetings are co-organized with the Haute Fidélité regional cluster and the Pôle Emploi Spectacles et Audiovisuel Hauts-de-France. Workshops, speedmeetings, conferences, shared work spaces… are offered to invited professionals (more than 400 accredited in 2019) in order to make contacts and exchange on current events in the sector. Musicians and project developers in the region are also invited to participate in these meetings or to take advantage of individual meetings during dedicated times.

Avec l'objectif de découvrir toutes les facettes de l'industrie musicale, Philipp Oppenhäuser a travaillé dans le booking, la promotion et le marketing pour des festivals européens, des promoteurs de tournées renommés, des bureaux export de la musique et des showcases.

Vivant à Hambourg, il travaille dans l'industrie musicale internationale depuis 10 ans, mais il reste connecté à sa ville natale de Coblence en tant que membre du conseil d'administration de pop.rlp.
En 2019, il a lancé "Mechanik" avec Fritz Kröber. En tant qu'équipe, ils aident à résoudre les problèmes des acteurs du secteur des musiques actuelles.

Marion Petit is in charge of sustainable practices at Grabuge, the pop music industry network of the Grand Est region. She coordinates projects aiming at equity, eco-responsibility and health prevention for the members of the network and more broadly for all the actors of pop music in the region. The Grabuge network supports them in the implementation of prevention actions for professionals and public audiences.

Grabuge is the network of pop music industry in the Grand Est region. It was born in 2020, following the merger of the 3 former regions Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne.

The main objective of the network is to allow players to act in a common ecosystem, while remaining independent and nourishing it with their variety of points of view, professions and aesthetics. Grabuge counts about 85 members today. Joining the network is a form of support and participation in the movement. The network resonates beyond the members since it is open to all actors of pop music, whatever their project, their desire and their aesthetic.