When: Iceland Music, Austurstræti 5, 101 Reykjavík
Where: Wednesday, Nov 5 @ 15:00-16.30

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On October 24th Iceland celebrated the 50 year anniversary of the Women’s Strike - a landmark protest that helped put the country on the path to global leadership in gender equality.

With women holding Iceland’s highest offices and leading many of the country’s cultural institutions it is dismaying to see music tell a very different story. Majority of the country’s most popular music is by men, and data from STEF shows that around 80% of registered songwriters - and 85% of royalties - belong to them.

How can a nation famed for equality fall so short in music creation and production? What barriers keep women from equal representation? If Iceland can't get it right who can?
In collaboration with Bransaveisla, KÍTÓN hosts a panel discussion on how this imbalance can be addressed and to present the organisation’s key policy goals.

The panel features musicians Anna Róshildur and Katrín Helga Ólafsdóttir, both members of KÍTÓN’s board. Joining them are Guðjón Smári Smárason, Music Director at FM957, and Paul Bridgewater, Editor of the British music magazine The Line of Best Fit.

The discussion will be moderated by Josie Gaitens, journalist and project manager.

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