Workshop: GROOVE x GOETHE INSTITUT: „Global GROOVE: Electronic Music Journalism“

A workshop programme hosted by GROOVE Magazine in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut: Berlin-based magazine GROOVE and the Goethe-Institut have each been documenting, supporting and shaping electronic music and club culture for over thirty years. Together they are now inviting young journalists from all over the world to participate in a workshop programme with the aim of developing a written, in-depth feature on their respective local scene.

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has completely altered cultural life as we have known it. The sudden standstill of the global culture and music industry poses new challenges for artists, but also cultural journalists – with no gigs or club nights happening in most parts of the world, there is little to report about. At the same time, the new situation has led to the creation of new cultural formats, and spaces for discussion have been opened in the digital realm, not only by many of the figures from within the scene themselves but also by the institutions that are strongly linked to cultural events.

That’s how innovative synergy occurs: with their new cooperation, the Goethe-Institut and the Berlin-based magazine for electronic music GROOVE are welcoming ten aspiring music journalists from all over the world to participate in an international experience exchange in the digital realm. Both partners have been documenting and shaping the global developments in electronic music culture for many years. Their competence and vast experience will now be concentrated in a workshop programme under the title “Global GROOVE: Electronic Music Journalism,” hosted by the editors and writers of GROOVE magazine. They invite aspiring cultural and music journalists from all over the world and specifically from the so-called Global South to apply for the programme.

Applications are now open until August 3rd.

Please see here for more information.

NewsHelene Heuser