Awareness Lab

Sensibilizzare, informare, creare reti

Promuoviamo la parità di genere promuovendo i contati tra donne, persone inter, non binarie, trans e agender nel settore della musica contribuendo così a renderlo vivo, rispettoso, equo e non discriminatorio.

Nei prossimi tre anni il nostro lavoro sarà incentrato sul tema della violenza di genere sul quale è imperniata anche la nostra Diversity Roadmap. Nel novembre 2023 abbiamo pubblicato un rapporto sulla violenza di genere nei club e ai festival. Il rapporto, oltre a contenere i risultati dei sondaggi condotti nei club e ai festival sulla violenza di genere, illustra delle strategie d’intervento per i diversi attori dell’industria musicale. Qui puoi scaricare il rapporto (disponibile in tedesco e francese) e il relativo opuscolo (disponibile in italiano).

Assieme a persone esperte, stiamo inoltre organizzando un’offerta formativa che comprende corsi sulla violenza di genere in base alle esigenze dei club e dei festival. A titolo complementare, stiamo anche ideando formati incentrati sullo scambio e l’attuazione nella pratica di conoscenze e sulle attività pubbliche di sensibilizzazione.

Infine, stiamo sviluppando ulteriormente e integrando la nostra Diversity roadmap, ovvero la piattaforma di contatto e scambio sul tema della diversità, nell’ambito della quale mettiamo in contatto i diversi attori del mondo della musica con persone esperte e collaboriamo per individuare soluzioni comuni.

Awareness has become a central concept within club and festival culture — but how can it actually be implemented in practice? This panel brings together people who develop, teach, and apply awareness concepts directly within nightlife settings to share concrete experiences from the field.
At the center of the discussion are questions around training, intervention, responsibility, and structural implementation: What actually works in everyday club situations? Where do awareness concepts reach their limits? And what do clubs and promoters need in order to create more sustainable, safer, and inclusive spaces?
Between theory, nightlife reality, and emotional labor, the panel explores how awareness can move beyond symbolic gestures and become a lasting part of contemporary club culture.

At Zurich Music Week, Hazbi Avdiji from our Team is bringing together people who develop, teach, and live awareness work every day:

Marion Lim (Kauz, Zurich)

Marion Lim has been at the doors of Zurich party organizers and venues such as Les Belles de Nuit, Lush, Porny Days Film Art Festival, and Photobastei for over 10 years. Since 2021, she has been working as a selector at Kauz Club, one of the first Zurich clubs to welcome guests at the door with its own awareness concept. Prior to this, Marion Lim familiarized herself with various club and festival awareness concepts from the German-speaking region out of personal interest. She has also served as an awareness person at events, including at Kauz Club and the Am Bach Festival. Furthermore, as part of the ZHdK program “Trends & Identity,” she delivered a lecture on the topic “Selection – Inclusion and Exclusion.”

Natasha Stegmann (mille sept sans, Fribourg)

Natasha Stegmann (she/her) is an activist and co-founder of MILLE SEPT SANS, a feminist association active in Fribourg since 2015 in the fight against sexist and sexual violence in public spaces. Drawing on her experience with the Aretha Team, which launched the “Aretha Charter” in 2018, she has developed expertise in sexual harassment prevention and the creation of safer environments. Her work helped pioneer in Switzerland a model based on “coveillance”, encouraging collective care, shared accountability and community responses to gender-based violence. Grounded in her experience as a queer person of Asian descent, her activism also focuses on diversity, inclusion and migration, with a strong commitment to anti-racist and decolonial perspectives.

Ida Hadel
Ida Hadel (she/her) has been working at the Initiative Awareness e.V. in Leipzig since 2024. In addition to her extensive work on organizational structures as part of the collective leadership, she provides workshops and counseling on the topics of anti-discrimination and the prevention of (sexualized) violence. She is passionate about power-critical and complexity-aware perspectives and attitudes—which she also promotes through awareness and transformative justice work—and, together with her community, explores how deeply external conditioning is ingrained within us. Ida has spent many years guiding groups in transformative educational work, focusing on collective resilience and balancing demands with gentleness.

 

 

Lokalität: GLEIS   Siehe auf Google Maps

Zeit: 19:30 – 21:00

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Sprache: en

 PAST EVENTS

This session invites organisations to reflect on their current approaches and to further develop effective awareness work.

The keynote explores why evaluation is the foundation of sustainable structures, where concrete action can be taken, and which guiding questions are essential. Participants will also gain insights into practical approaches and tools, including a newly developed chatbot.

The session takes place as part of m4music, is free of charge, and will be held in English.

Presented by Helvetiarockt & PETZI.

Lokalität: m4music   Siehe auf Google Maps

Zeit: 16:00

Für: Tut ils genders

Alter: Tut las vegliadetgnas

Sprache: en