As many as 80 percent of Finnish composers, lyricists and arrangers who write music are men. Over the years, the share of women among music creators has increased very slowly. Now Teosto has launched a project that maps the reasons why so few women or nonbinary musicians end up making music themselves.
In the fall season 2023, Finnish Jazz Federation produces two tours as inhouse productions, on September 11–24, 2023 and October 9–22, 2023, and supports the production costs of two externally produced tours. The call is also out for artists to perform at the Jazz-Espa concert series in Helsinki in July–August 2023! The application opens on October 10, and closes on November 7, 2022.
Open call for artists and artist-researchers for the three residency options at the 5th Research Pavilion. Choose one of the three residencies and apply latest 31 October 2022.
The Women – Music – Futures symposium welcomes proposals for papers and other types of presentations that engage with the conference theme.
The Nordic network of national jazz organizations and club & festival promotors opens a call for bands to participate in a showcase and educational event in Sweden on May 11–12, 2023. The deadline for applying is September 30, 2022.
Villa Karo is a Finnish-African cultural center, which is located in the village of Grand-Popo, Benin, West Africa. The center’s goal is to enhance the African knowledge of Finnish cultural figures, promote collaboration between Finnish and African artists and researchers as well as to support Finland and Benin’s cultural exchange.
The project Making space for artistry - equity for disabled artists and artists who are Sign Language users will organize a training session for the members of Association for Finnish Foundations in September. The members are foundations operating in Finland that fund art creation. In the training, the project can present them with facts about what kind of obstacles there are in applying for and receiving grants. If you want to contribute, the project would be grateful if you would answer the survey via the link below.
The Finnish live music industry joins forces in two sustainability projects this year to measure the carbon footprint of the business, and to build a digital planning toolkit for sustainable development. Jazz Finland administrates the projects in 2022–2023, and the steering group consists of the main umbrella organisations in Finnish live music.
Finnish Musicians’ Union, Finnish Music Creators, Music Finland, IFPI Finland, The Collective Management Organisation for Recorded Music in Finland, Jazz Finland, The Finnish Music Publishers Association, Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras, The Society of Finnish Composers and Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society Teosto are inviting all members of the Finnish music industry to participate in a short survey on the topic of equality in the music industry.
Jazz Finland's new, 2022–2023 project, "Carbon Neutral Tour Model" maps the climate impact of the Jazz Finland tours and tests more sustainable structures for jazz touring. The pilot tours will take place in fall 2022. Jazz Finland calls for artists and tour producers to apply for them on a two-week period between Wed, Feb 23 and Wed, Mar 9, 2022!
