WOMEX 24


Celebrating 30 years of WOMEX


Piranha Arts

Piranha Arts

Piranha Arts is a Berlin-based independent creative company up against all kinds of walls. From the very start, musical and cultural diversity have been the driving forces behind crossing borders - be they cultural, political or commercial. It all started officially with the staging of the Berlin premiere of Rufus Thomas and the release of the “Beat! Apartheid” compilation, our first vinyl long player in early 1987.

Today, we are a team of more than 30 Piranhas, inspired by our totem animal, exotic by nature, a swarming creature, fighting back if attacked, and easy to remember in all languages and regions. We operate both locally and globally, and we are active as cultural innovators, tech developers, curators, partners and multipliers.

In Berlin we are now best known for the Karneval der Kulturen, the million strong annual street parade and festival - which since 1996 has grown to become the biggest manifestation of cultural diversity in Germany. With major cultural events like the Heimatklänge Festival, Die Nächte des Ramadan and more we were part of reinventing Berlin as an international cultural capital after the Wall fall in 1989.
We travel Europe with the leading music showcase, conference and expo event WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo - and Classical:NEXT - the global gathering for all art music professionals. From the world, to the world, we carry new sounds and artists with our own independent record & publishing label Piranha, with a focus on African, Gypsy and Jewish music since the beginning.

For more info please contact:
connect@piranha-arts.com

 
Piranha Records

Piranha Records

Label & Publishing

Piranha is an independent record & publishing label, based in Berlin-Kreuzberg. We have been swimming among the sharks of the music industry since 1987 and now have more than 150 album releases and 1,200 copyrights to our name. Physically and digitally, the Piranha label is distributed internationally as part of the !K7 network while SMV Schacht Musikverlage and its set-up of sub-publishing partners administer and protect the Piranha publishing rights worldwide.

Piranha started as part of the world music movement in the 1980s, with a focus on African, Gypsy and Jewish music - everything the Nazis hated. Since then, we have stayed in tune with our original vision, introducing fresh sounds and artists from the world to the world, mastering the ever changing challenges of the music industry following digitilisation, while remaining a significant player in the global underground music scene.

For more info please contact:
records@piranha-arts.com

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WOMEX

"The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers."
- UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity

Since 1994, WOMEX has been travelling all across Europe, growing on its way into the number one networking platform for diversity in the music sector worldwide, with the prestigious WOMEX Awards for artistic achievement and professional excellence as each edition's final highlight.
Recent stop-overs included Tampere (2019), Digital Edition (2020), Porto (2021), Lisbon (2022).

2023 WOMEX took place in A Coruña, returning for the third time to Galicia, Spain. This year's culturally and musically diverse event concluded with 2750 music professionals (incluing 220 performing artists) from 105 countries, hosted more than 60 artist showcases spread across seven stages, and 18 music-based documentaries. 96 speakers and mentors participated in the conference sessions, and delegates attended the trade fair with 703 exhibiting companies with more than 250 stands and a radio studio on-site.

WOMEX 24 celebrating 30 Years of WOMEX will be hosted in Manchester, UK from 23-27 October 2024.

For more info please contact:
womex@womex.com

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Karneval der Kulturen

Berlin Street Parade and Fest

Piranha Arts is the operator of Berlin’s Karneval der Kulturen since 2016 – four days full of music, dance and entertainment. The Karneval der Kulturen is an integral part of Berlin's cultural events and reflects the diversity of the city unlike any other. At the street parade on Whitsunday and during the four-day street festival, people from various backgrounds and cultural references have been coming together for 24 years to creatively bring their passion and ideas to the streets sharing them with an open-minded audience.

Since the anniversary year 2020, the event could not be held due to the Corona pandemic. Other social and organisational conditions have also changed in the metropolis of Berlin in a quarter of a century. Therefore, in 2022, the concept for the event from 2023 onwards will be developed in a broad-based participatory process.

For more info please contact:
info@karneval.berlin

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