The IMC World Forum on Music is conceived as an influential global platform for sharing knowledge about music and society in the 21st century, a platform that explores a variety of topics from different perspectives: cultural, political and economic. The topics go beyond the aesthetic aspects of music production and address the mechanisms that promote or inhibit the active participation of people in cultural experiences.
A non-commercial initiative, the forum allows musicians, managers, festival directors, academics, educators, activists, policy makers, government officials and other professionals of the global music sector to engage in high-level interdisciplinary discussions and brainstorm together on guidelines for action.
For members of the International Music Council, the World Forum on Music is an important opportunity to meet and engage with colleagues from other areas of the music sector to broaden their horizons and find inspiration for new projects, even partners for their implementation.
In addition to the members of IMC’s global network, the Forum will also be open to a broad audience of all those who work in music and those who are able to make decisions for better conditions in which music is celebrated – created, interpreted, disseminated, transmitted and learned, preserved, exchanged etc., all over the world.
After Los Angeles, Beijing, Tunis, Tallinn and Brisbane, the Forum will take place in Paris, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the International Music Council, which was founded in 1949 at the request of UNESCO as its advisory body on musical matters.
In recognition of the IMC Five Music Rights, which represent the core values of our organization, the Forum theme is:
Give Me Five! The 5 Music Rights in Action
SPECIAL EVENTS
Music Rights Award
Launched in 2009, the IMC Music Rights Awards are awarded to programmes or projects that exemplarily support one or more of the Five Music Rights proclaimed by the IMC. The Forum will host the 2019 Award ceremony – sponsored by BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts – and offer a unique opportunity to present the winning project.
70 years of IMC history in pictures
In cooperation with the Center of Cultural History of Contemporary Societies of the University of Versailles and the History Committee of the French Ministry of Culture, an exhibition of photos, videos and documents will enrich the Forum programme.
Celebration of October 1st, International Music Day / 70th IMC anniversary
A special concert will celebrate both the 70th anniversary of the IMC and the International Music Day, initiated in 1975 by then IMC President Yehudi Menuhin.
Musical Diversity in the evening
Partnerships with music venues in Paris will allow the forum audience access to a selection of concerts labelled “WFM”, offering participants a glance of the wealth and bandwidth of the music offer in Paris.
