WIJM at the EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Sisters: Networking, community and life in the jazz industry

23rd November 2024 - Toulouse Lautrec

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Colour photo of Jane Cornwell in a pink jumper flicking her hair in the air - taken by Lukasz Izdebski

Photography by Lukasz Izdebski

A networking event for women working in the jazz industry over coffee and a nibbles. An opportunity to hear and share experiences in the jazz industry and find some useful advice from journalists, PR, event managers, musicians and photographers.
Doors: 1.00pm
Show: 2:00pm

Guest speaker the award winning journalist Jane Cornwell

Jane Cornwell is an author, journalist and critic and raconteur writing mainly about jazz and global music, arts and culture, and also about travel and luxury travel. Jane writes for major newspapers, magazines and online platforms in the UK and Australia. She is a contributing editor of Songlines magazine and is an interviewer and onstage MC for the likes of Womad, Womadelaide and the EFG London Jazz Festival. She also writes books, press releases and sleeve notes. 

In 2019 she completed a highly regarded Masters degree in Global Creative and Cultural Industries (Distinction) at SOAS, University of London – a course designed to deepen understanding of the Cultural Industries and how they are organised, financed, regulated and have been understood in theory. Her dissertation on the resurgence of jazz music in London – ‘Jazz Refreshed? A Contemporary Jazz Phenomenon’ – involved intensive research, extensive interviews, robust arguments and new ideas.