Shared Planet 9

The FLINTA* Kollektiv shared PLANET 9 is presenting original compositions by students on the topics of feminism, human rights and gender equality in cooperation with the Cologne University of Music and Dance. The “Planet 9” project initiated by Danish singer Mia Knop Jacobsen at the JIB in 2017 has now been taken up again by Berlin and Cologne students Liv Sindler and Eva Swiderski. With the motto of the Bell Hooks quote “Feminism has the power to change all our lives in a meaningful way”, their collective shared Planet 9, comprising 20 female* musicians, aims to promote the presence, visibility and audibility of Flinta* people in the jazz scene. Shared Planet 9, under the artistic direction of Shannon Barnett, a trombonist who teaches in Cologne, Céline Rudolph, a singer who teaches in Berlin, and Fama M’Boup, a singer and lecturer at the JIB, impressively demonstrates the diversity of the young female up-and-coming scene, which, as the last jazz study showed, is still underrepresented.
Afterwards the Jazzorama jam session traditionally takes place.