BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20261025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:GMT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260920T142507Z UID:j6c5Rw DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T130000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260902T175939 DESCRIPTION: Friday 11 September\, 12pm | Online \n\n \nEach month\, Impro vised Music Company hosts Cooler Clinic CPD sessions\, offering artists pr actical insight and honest conversations around sustaining and developing a professional music career. \n\n With applications currently open for the jazzahead! 2027 Showcases\, this September clinic looks at what makes a s trong international showcase application — and the bigger question behin d it: is your project ready to make the most of an international showcase? \n\n jazzahead! is one of the most significant meeting points for the int ernational jazz sector\, bringing artists\, bookers\, festivals\, agents\, labels\, media and other industry professionals together in Bremen each y ear. For 2027\, 38 artists and bands will be selected by international exp ert juries to perform short showcases for an international professional au dience. \n\n Applications are open until 30 September 2026. \n\n For this clinic\, IMC Director Kenneth Killeen will be joined by Eddie Lee\, Direct or of Sligo Jazz Project. Both Kenneth and Eddie have previously served on jazzahead! showcase juries\, giving them first-hand insight into how appl ications are encountered and assessed from the other side of the process. \n\n Rather than trying to second-guess a jury\, the session will look pra ctically at what helps an artist communicate their work clearly and convin cingly. We’ll discuss:\n \n* What actually stands out when juries are re viewing large numbers of applications\n* Why strong audiovisual material m atters so much — and what your videos need to communicate quickly\n* Com mon practical mistakes\, from broken or incorrect links to materials that don’t accurately represent the proposed live line-up\n* How juries move from individual assessment to discussion and final programming decisions\n * How your project sits within a wider showcase programme\, including cons iderations such as instrumentation\, geography\, gender balance and stylis tic diversity\n* Telling a coherent story across your music\, biography\, images\, video and other application materials\n* Export readiness: whethe r your project has the live show\, materials\, team\, availability and fol low-up capacity to turn international attention into something useful\n* T hinking beyond the application itself: what you would actually do if progr ammers\, agents or other industry professionals became interested in your work \n\n We’ll also talk about the wider value of Irish artists applyin g for major international opportunities. A successful application can crea te significant opportunities for an individual artist\, but a strong volum e and diversity of applications also helps demonstrate the scale\, ambitio n and export potential of Ireland’s jazz and improvised music scene inte rnationally. \n\n The session will include time for questions\, so artists considering applying this year are encouraged to bring their own queries. \n\n Who is it for? \n\n This clinic is particularly relevant to jazz and improvised musicians considering a jazzahead! showcase application\, but it will also be useful for artists thinking about international showcases\ , export opportunities and how to present their work to programmers beyond Ireland. \n\n Attendance is free\, but registration is required.\n \n\n jazzahead! 2027 \n\n The jazzahead! 2027 Showcase Festival takes place in Bremen from 22–24 April 2027. Showcase applications are open from 25 Aug ust–30 September 2026. \n\n Artists applying to the European Showcases m ust generally have a majority of band members resident in Europe (excludin g Germany and the 2027 Partner Region\, the Baltic States). Applicants mus t be represented by a registered all-days professional participant or exhi bitor at jazzahead!\; artists can also register and submit their own appli cation. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T180427 LOCATION:Online ORGANIZER:mailto:artists@improvisedmusic.ie SUMMARY:Cooler Clinics Online: jazzahead! + Becoming Export Ready URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/improvised-music-company/cooler-clinics-online- jazzahead-becoming-export-ready URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/improvised-music-company/cooler-clinics-online- jazzahead-becoming-export-ready END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR