SXSW 2019 – South by Southwest

Panel: Cultural Exchange and a Progressive Music industry

Panel with: Vanessa Reed (CEO, New Music USA), Alicia Zertuchi (Sr Music Fest Prog & Visa Specialist, SXSW), Paula Abreu (Assoc Director of Programming, SummerStage)
Moderator: Matthew Covey (Exec Director, Tamizdat/CoveyLaw)

Travel bans, Brexit, boarder walls and boat blockades: with isolationism and xenophobia globally on the rise for the first time in generations, the music industry is unique positioned to combat these trends, and with our work promote communication, empathy, and multiculturalism.

In this panel, a group of music industry professionals will engage in a broad conversation about the economic, bureaucratic, and political challenges the industry faces as it increasingly takes the lead as a voice for progressive international civil society. Speakers will be talking about aligning you organization's mission with the promotion of multiculturalism, and balancing that mission with the imperatives of running a viable—and maybe even profitable—business.