Inside Artists – Saman Haddad – programme department
Saman Haddad
Learning to host from Saman Haddad
Beethovenfest Bonn is a music festival and organiser of almost 80 events during the festival period in September. It is evident that it deals with the organisation of concerts, workshops, educational projects and discourse events, for which tickets can usually be purchased. But how can the festival be viewed from a different perspective as a host organisation? How can we succeed in inviting people to celebrate the festival with us, to get to know Beethoven’s music in a wide variety of contexts and to get to know world-famous as well as exciting and aspiring young artists and their interpretations? What does it take for people to come together and interact with each other? The Beethovenfest programme and education team will explore these and other questions together with the Inside Artists Saman Haddad, Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund. What is special about this constellation is that three Inside Artists are assigned to the programme team. They all bring different perspectives on the topic of hosting. In the case of Saman Haddad, this hospitality falls on particularly fertile ground thanks to his extensive network in the Bonn cultural scene and unusual event formats.
Participants:
- Clara Gölz - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Saman Haddad - culture manager, ARTpolis ℅ BIM e. V.
- Lydia Kappesser - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Marion Leuschner - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Annette Semrau - team programme Beethovenfest Bonn
Vita Saman Haddad
Born and raised on the Euphrates and Tigris, educated and living on the Rhine, Saman Haddad is an international cultural creator and mediator in his adopted home of Bonn. With his cultural centre »4telbar - Kunst & Kültür ü. V.«, he initiates a series of events in the field of music and culture with various regional and international players. He launched the integrative music project »KültürKlüngel Orkestar« and is co-founder of the creative community ARTpolis – Community Arts & Music Lab of the Bonn Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Learning (BIM) e. V.
