Black Star Foundation is a non-profit organisation which has been committed to promote reggae music in Holland for more than 16 years. The foundation organises reggae events and concerts, manages and handles bookings for artists/bands, publishes music on its own label and supports and develops new talent. BACKGROUND OF BLACK STAR FOUNDATION: Black Star Foundation is started up because of idealistic ideas of the founder Michelle Boekhout van Solinge. She graduated in Geography (University of Amsterdam, 1997), traveled a lot in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and in the year 2002 she lived and worked in Ghana (West Africa). There she got the idea to stimulate the communication between Western and non-Western countries and to bring people with different cultural backgrounds a little closer to each other. Through art and culture (especially music) the foundation wants to contribute in the cultural integration, in bringing people together with different cultural backgrounds and work together on one project. Music is perfect for that, it is a shared interest from people all over the world, a language we all speak, no matter where you are from. Based on that, Black Star Foundation has developed her activities. THE GOAL OF BLACK STAR FOUNDATION: The goal of Black Star Foundation is to promote and stimulate artists from abroad and, more in general, to promote the exchange of western and non-western art, music and culture. The foundation tries to achieve their goal by: * Organising multicultural concerts and other events whereby the artists themselves will exchange experiences, skills and understanding; * Obtaining financial means and credit facilities for promoting artists from countries outside of Europe; * Cooperating with other organisations with corresponding goals. MORE INFO: Website: http://www.blackstarfoundation.nl