Become a partner
Are you interested in joining the World Jazz Network? Great! We’d love to have a chat with you to discuss any opportunities for the future via this email address. But, before we do, let’s talk about the following guidelines for membership:
Reciprocity
Each selected partner and their ‘exceptional talents’ gets invited to the International Jazz Laureates Festival (hosted by Amersfoort Jazz Festival) to showcase their talent. JazzNL Foundation will host their visit and finance local travel and accommodation for both professional delegates as well as the endorsed talents. Exceptional endorsed talent will receive a sum of at least 350,- EUR per person on the basis of one performance over the course of the festival. In turn, partnering delegates are expected to invite at least one other endorsed talent of their choice to their respective festival or club over the course of the next year, on the same terms.
Transparency
One of the main objectives of the World Jazz Network is to expand our audiences and build bridges across the global jazz community. We are an open network, deeply rooted in the spirit of collaboration and open communication. That means that our guidelines and activities are transparent and accessible and that we promote the Network and our partners on several platforms. Embracing both transparency and reciprocity, we encourage our partners to do the same: sharing relevant World Jazz content on their platforms and with their audiences to help us grow our community together, online, and in the real world.
Tastemaking
World Jazz Network partners are free to nominate whichever ‘exceptional talent’ they think has what it takes to performing in front of an international audiences. We trust each other’s decisions and, within the Network, rely on each other for mutual promotion and support. In order to achieve our goals together, however, each partner needs to -as unromantic as that sounds- pull their own weight in their respective country. That means that each partner represents at least one venue, festival, or organization that is able to accommodate international talents at least once a year.
World Jazz Network is a JazzNL initiative.
Board:
Michel Peek, Chairman
Anita Verheggen, Secretary
Sven Rozier, Treasurer
Alexander Beets, board member
Ellister van de Molen, board member
