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Leading club owners and promoters to discuss the future of clubbing during Unsound panel

Unsound festival has asked club owners and promoters from across the world to discuss the future of club events

Leading club owners and promoters are coming together to discuss the future of clubbing and club events.

The conversation will take place during a panel curated by Unsound festival and co-hosted by Mixmag.

Representatives of the club community based in America, Europe and Asia will give their insight on the road ahead for clubbing and club events in the face of COVID-19.

Titled Survival Mode: Clubs, Live Music and COVID-19, the panel will host Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann, Dtekk from Poland's FOMO KLUB, Ria Katz of New York's Quo Vadis Productions and Knockdown Center, Glasgow promoter Sarra Wild, Shimpei Kaiho of WWWβ in Tokyo) and Gareth Williams, head of Club ALL in Shanghai. It'll be moderated by Mixmag contributor, music journalist and agent Lisa Blanning.

The panel will take place on Thursday September 3 from 5pm BST and will be available to view via Unsound and Mixmag's Facebook, YouTube and Twitch accounts.

The discussion is part of a series of online panels that are a precursor to this year's edition of Unsound, which will take place online instead of its spiritual home of Krakow in Poland.

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