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USA Visas For Musicians | Workshop
May 1, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Free
First Music Contact in association with IMRO and Culture Ireland present a workshop on artist visas for the United States of America.
Matthew Covey / Tamizdat and Covey Law will host a workshop on visas to the US which will cover the fundamentals of the US artist visa process, with special attention paid to effective strategies for dealing with new problems we are seeing under the current administration.
Taking place at the IMRO building at 4pm on Wednesday May 1st, the event is free but booking is essential. Email: events@nullimro.ie
About Matthew Covey
Matthew Covey has worked in music and arts immigration since 90s. As a member of the critically acclaimed US/Slovak indie-rock band Skulpey, as Knitting Factory Records’ Amsterdam booking agent, and as the manager of Grammy Award winning band, the Klezmatics, Covey’s varied career has given him a broad understanding of the entertainment industries. He has presented and chaired panels on artist mobility issues at numerous conferences, including SXSW, CMJ, WOMEX, Folk Alliance, APAP, The Great Escape, M4Music, YouBloom, Swn, Reeperbahn, HWCH, IndieWeek, Western Arts Alliance, Mundial Montreal, NXNE, The Edinburgh Fringe, Palestine Music Expo, Output Belfast, NY Winter Jazz, FimPro, and Eurosonic.
Covey is a founding director of Tamizdat, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that promotes international cultural exchange. He is president of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, and founder of ContraBanned. He holds a J.D. from New York Law, an M.A. focusing on post colonial literary theory from University College Dublin, a B.A. in English from Oberlin College, and is admitted to the New York Bar.
Contact: matthew@nullcovey.law
