Specs On! International Feminist Art Music Festival is aiming to create a platform for art music with a clear gender related focus. With queer theory as a starting point we are inviting you to an annual art music festival, with the assumption and hope that we will increase variety on the international art music scene and make other, more seldom heard stories be told.
In a series of chamber music concerts we will present works of non-normative composers ranging from baroque to contemporary electro-acoutics that easily could fit into the repertoire. We will also hold discussions with representatives from different parts of the music world; intendants, music professors, music teachers of varying teaching level, composer and musicians to bring the structural problems into light.
Not necessarily all participants will be women. The importance lies in showing pieces that do not belong to the norm or continue to reproduce the power structures already in place within classical music.
Venue:
me Collectors Room
Auguststrasse 68
10117 Berlin
In 2015 the festival will take place over a weekend Friday 10th through Sunday 12th of April, at the me Collectors Room, one of the largest privately owned galleries in Berlin. Between December 2014 and August 2015 they show the feminist exhibition Queen Size, consisting solely of art made by women.
Tickets:
- One concert: 10 Euros
- Day ticket: 18 Euros
- Festival pass: 35 Euros
Specs On! is supported by the British Council, the Swedish Embassy and me Collectors Room/Stiftung Olbricht. Other partners are KulturiVäst/RNM and de freo Gallery