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IMPRA 20th anniversary!
This year, IMPRA is celebrating 20 years with two party evenings on the same date – November 21 – at Skeppet in Gothenburg and Fasching in Stockholm.
For this unique occasion, we have put together the IMPRA Big Band, led by conductor, composer and IMPRA board member Erika Hammarberg!
The evening offers music by female composers, both new and old, performed by some of Sweden's leading jazz musicians.
Guest artists: Lina Nyberg and Gunilla Törnfeldt – who also founded IMPRA in 2006. In honor of the evening, the concert will be recorded by Swedish Radio and IMPRA GOLD will be awarded.
Read more about IMPRA BIG BAND at Fasching here
The Gothenburg evening's program will be presented later, so mark Saturday, November 21 in your calendar and come and transform with us!!
Welcome to celebrate 20 years of jazz, gender equality and change with us!
Our anniversary logo was designed and donated by Siw Lövkvist at Funktionell Form.
IMPRA 20th anniversary is made with support from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the City of Gothenburg.
KLUBB KOM IN IS BACK! 💜🌹
After a hiatus of a few years, it is finally time to open our doors again. We’ve missed you. We’ve missed the music. We’ve missed those nights when you head home a little later than planned, a little happier than when you arrived, and with your head full of sound.
This time, the evening will be filled with improvisation, jazz, presence, warmth, and music that follows its own path wherever it pleases.
We are joined by the French duo LOLA & LÉNA—Lola Payen on vocals and Léna Aubert on double bass. They met at the Paris Conservatoire and have since developed a unique, playful, and inquisitive musical language where jazz, improvisation, original compositions, folk music, film, and visual art all converge.
Afterward, the evening continues with trombonist Agnes Darelid, presented by Gothenburg Free Spirit. 💜
So come and hang out with us!
🕗 8:00 PM
🎟️ 150 SEK / 75 SEK (students)
Klubb Kom In is back.
And this time, we don’t plan on staying away quite so long.
A warm welcome to you. 💜🌹
Visit our Facebook page to get all the information about the event.
Breaking news
Big congratulations to our founder Lina Nyberg, who was awarded the honorary prize "Basisten 2026" by Svensk Jazz for everything she has done for Swedish jazz and improvisation life! We are so proud!
The IMPRA year of 2026 is in full swing! We have already had time to have member lectures and IMPRA Jam at Fasching - check out our event calendar so you don't miss the next IMPRA event!
A warm welcome - and don't forget to become a member!
There's a new jazz festival in town! World premiere for Lupino Festvalen 28/11! Lupino Live is IMPRA's own jazz club that books equally and equally!
Read more about the festival here!
Jazzcamp For Girls Gothenburg edition! We at IMPRA are so proud to be part of running the Jazz Camp For Girls in Gothenburg for the first time!
We are so happy to announce that IMPRA is nominated to "Svenska jämställdhetspriset 2025" - Swedish Equality Prize 2025!
We stand for an industry free from discrimination based on gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age. If you encounter, hear or see something that is not okay, go to Musikverket via the button here and you will get help with where to turn.
What is IMPRA?
IMPRA is a non-profit association whose main purpose is to support and promote musicians who identify as women, transgender and non-binary who are active in jazz and improvisational music.
The association is open to EVERYONE who shares our goals and visions!
We want to see festival programmes, jazz club bookings and live stages with equal gender distribution and a good representation of musicians with different experiences.
Our vision is an inclusive and safe musical life free from discrimination and exclusion.
Our goal is that IMPRA should not have to exist.
Linnea Henriksson
artist & composer
"For me, IMPRA has given me incredibly valuable contacts to be able to establish myself as a musician. I have made friends who shared tips and ideas that I never received during my music education. It has been an injection of inspiration and given me hope for a future as a musician where I am seen as an asset, not as a competitor, which is an attitude I myself will always carry forward. IMPRA has also made me want to get involved in developing the music scene for others as well, which I know I'm not alone in.”
Sofia Jernberg
singer & composer
"IMPRA has become a network where female musicians in a wide range of genres connect with each other and collaborate - priceless! (Many women may feel alone as they are in the minority in this context).
IMPRA is an organizer that presents music regularly all over the country with women in artistic management - that makes IMPRA unique and modern! It is always great fun to come to an IMPRA club. You meet a different audience than usual - usually quite a young audience aged 18-30 and the majority women."
Magnus Thuvesson
Program manager for Älmhult Music&Arts
former chairman Swedish Jazz
"IMPRA has meant a great deal as a collaboration partner to Swedish Jazz. The jazz field has a huge need for initiatives for gender equality and I dare say that before IMPRA there was almost no serious work on the issue. The association was met with great skepticism from some quarters and it is remarkable how the issue has gained an obvious place on the agenda. The skeptics have had to take a big step back. IMPRA has influenced Swedish Jazz in a positive direction when it comes to this work and without IMPRA as a partner, our equality work will be greatly weakened!"
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