Apsina, Ilze
Director, World music festival Porta (Latvia)
Assad, Gabriel
Co-founder and director of Festival Sensacional, director of Festival Sarará, Pequena Morte producer and bass player. (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Director of OXUS Culture LLC (Uzbekistan), co-founder of CACAN “Central Asian Culture and Arts Network”, Consultant of Festivals in Uzbekistan
Founder and Artistic director of Méra World Music Festival (Romania)
Co-founder, former artistic and managing director of Førde Traditional and World Music Festival, from fall 2019 Director of culture and sports in Sunnfjord (Norway), vice president of Norway Festivals
President of Piranha Arts, Berlin, Germany
Borysiak, Kuba
ethnomusicologist, journalist, broadcaster, record producer and musician, Poland
Editor-in-chief of Songlines magazine (United Kingdom)
Celms, Justs Patriks
International Relations Coordinator, World music festival Porta (Latvia)
Co-founder of International Conference Música Mundo – Brazil, Co-founder of the music hub Bioma Musical and Co-founder of the NGO Embaixada Cultural
Territory Manager, Timisoara 2021 – European Capital of Culture
Decoster, Piet
manager of Via Lactea (world music agency), Belgium
Fulurija, Emir
broadcaster, journalist and founder of Vrelo zvuka, world music programme in Zagreb
project assistant at ERIAC European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (Berlin, Germany)
Knapik, Wojciech
director of Pannonica Folk Festival, Poland
Kovács, Ferenc
Artist (Magony, Tariqa)
Košir, Rok
board of Slovenian Information Music centre SIGIC, founder of Music Slovenia
artistic director of Mercat de Música Viva de Vic, Spain
head of Programming of Institution of Culture Katowice City of Gardens, Poland
Matecka, Agnieszka
manager of Association of Folk Music Animators, Poland
Mészáros, Zoltán
CEO of European Capital of Culture Veszprém 2023
Director of Inside Track (UK and European Cultural Consultancy). Previously Head of International Relations and Liverpool Welcome for Liverpool ECoC 2008
founder and leader of Pro Progressione, Hungary
president of the Managing Board at EXIT Foundation, Serbia
Pommier, Marina
Program organiser of Global Village – Sziget Festival, World Music program organiser at Vidor Festival, Nyiregyhaza (Hungary)
chairman of the Board, Roma Cultre Centre, Riga (Latvia)
Scopino, Fabio
general manager of Italian World Beat
member of the Advisory Board of Cziffra Centre, Hungary
Springer, Bastiaan
Freelance journalist (fRoots, Songlines, Afropop Worldwide site), presenter and producer Concert Radio in the Netherlands
president of Balkan World Music Management based in Ferrara, Italy
Szabadkai, Vera
Content Manager, Hangvető
head of Magdeburg’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2025, Germany
Szöllősi, Ágnes
Program coordinator at Mediawave film & music festival and Zsolnay Fényfesztivál
founder and program director of PLAI Festival, Romania
Director for Business Transformation at Artisjus, Hungary
Vadász, Claude
Director of Association Flonflons, director of Wazemmes l’Accordéon festival
Vajda, Violetta
Project manager & film program manager at Mediawave International visual art foundation
Deputy Director Programming World Music of BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium)
Artistic director, Etnofest and Jazziré, Serbia
Producer & programmer of Balkan Trafik festival (Belgium/Paris)
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