Jazz & Class

Talk and music - Do all children get an instrument for their birthday? When and how does one first come into contact with jazz? Is it normal that students are prepared for their studies with private lessons? Who teaches you how to behave in the philharmonic orchestra? And who actually sits in the audience at the end?

How does classism manifest itself in the cultural sphere and what can we practically do about it? Where are the levers to reduce access barriers to the jazz landscape? 

The talk takes place in cooperation with the Digital Academy "Insight Out" of the German Jazz Union.

The panel discussion will be framed by a concert in our "First Dates" series : artists who have never made music together before will be invited to celebrate their first collaboration on one of our festival stages in resonance with the audience. With few or even no prior rehearsals, these concerts are carried by the excitement of a first acquaintance, by joyful expectations or cautious skepticism that at best gradually transforms into familiarity. As always in life, getting to know each other for the first time is also associated with the risk of realizing that one may simply not have much to say to each other - and perhaps it is precisely in this not-knowing that the appeal of this format lies. 

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How does classism manifest itself in the cultural sector and what can we do against it? The discussion will take place in cooperation with the Digital Academy "Insight Out" of the German Jazz Union. The panel discussion will be framed by a concert of our series "First Dates" Artists* who have never made music together before will be invited to celebrate their first collaboration on one of our festival stages in resonance with the audience. With little to even no rehearsals these concerts are carried by the tension of a first acquaintance, by joyful expectations or cautious skepticism, which at best gradually transforms into familiarity. As always in life, getting to know each other for the first time is also associated with the risk of realizing that you may simply not have much to say to each other - and perhaps it is precisely this not knowing that makes this format so appealing.