Frequently Asked Questions

International Jazz Day partners are people or organizations who participate in International Jazz Day each year. It’s as simple as that. Whether you organize a jazz listening session with friends every April 30, perform for residents at your local senior center or present a full-scale festival, we are proud to have you in our Jazz Day family. Check out some more ideas here for organizing your own celebration, and be sure to register your event to appear on jazzday.com/events. If you represent a qualifying organization or institution, you can receive recognition on our dedicated Organizational Partner page. Simply let our team know you are interested by emailing [email protected].

It is completely free to participate in International Jazz Day. Many of our partners organize small events that cost nothing or little to produce. Others plan larger events that do have an associated budget. The scope and size of an event is entirely up to you. Keep in mind that neither the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz nor International Jazz Day can help defray costs associated with your event.

Sure! Please check out some suggestions here. Remember that no event or activity is too small–what’s important is that you do something to honor jazz and its legacy on or around April 30, even if it’s from the comfort of your home!

To register your celebration as an official International Jazz Day event, simply visit jazzday.com/register and enter your information. Please try registering your event via the website before contacting our team.

Sometimes technical issues can arise. If you are having trouble registering your event using the form on jazzday.com, please reach out to our team at [email protected] and someone will assist you.

Every registration is reviewed individually by our outreach team. Occasionally, if we are receiving a heavy volume of registrations, it might take 48 hours or longer for your event to be reviewed and appear on the map. If your event has not been approved after 72 hours, please reach out to our team.

We cannot grant permission for our partners to use the UNESCO logo. Should you wish to obtain official UNESCO sanction for your event, please contact your country’s National Commission for UNESCO or Permanent Delegation to UNESCO and let them know you are organizing a program for International Jazz Day.

Use of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz logo is typically not permitted for International Jazz Day partner events unless the Institute is directly involved in the organization and/or execution of the program. For more information, reach out to our team.

Click here to access a downloadable package of official graphics that you can use to brand your Jazz Day event.

Absolutely! Please email a png or jpeg of your poster to [email protected] (5 MB in size or smaller), and your poster will be included in our gallery. Please note that we only display posters for events that have been officially registered on our site.

First, consider following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Then, when you post about your event, please be sure to tag our page (@IntlJazzDay) and include the official #JazzDay.

Requests for social media support are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. If your project is not directly related to International Jazz Day, we may not be able to help promote it. We cannot promote or share any content that directs or encourages users to purchase any product or service. We reserve the right to decline any promotional request at our discretion.

Due to an overwhelming volume of requests for crossposting our partners’ live videos, at this time we are not able to accept unsolicited crossposting requests.

Occasionally we are able to connect partners with artists in our network, either by recommending the artist or by providing an introduction at our discretion. However, we will not negotiate with the artist or serve as an intermediary between the organizer and the artist, and make no representation or guarantee that either the artist or the organizer will agree to participate in the program. Any engagement resulting from either our recommendation or introduction is undertaken at the sole risk and expense of the partner.

We would love to include videos and/or photos from your International Jazz Day celebration on jazzday.com. Reach out to our team at [email protected] for more information. All video submissions must be in the form of YouTube videos. Please note that, due to the large volume of video and photo submissions we receive, we may not be able to post your content immediately. We reserve the right not to publish videos or photos that are not directly related to International Jazz Day, or that contain any insensitive, inappropriate or explicit material.

Please reach out to [email protected] with your request. Due to the large volume of video and photo submissions we receive, we are not able to accommodate every social media request.

Visit www.unesco.org/en/call-jazz-day-2026 for complete application requirements and a link to the online application.

You can also review additional technical details with the Jazz Day Technical Annex (PDF).

The deadline for 2026 Applications is November 15, 2024 (Midnight, CET).

No. International Jazz Day is an extrabudgetary initiative of UNESCO, meaning all participants must find their own funding for their events.

JazzDay.com includes extensive listings of all International Jazz Day events registered since 2013. We invite you to visit jazzday.com/events for some inspiration regarding potential partners in your country or region. Events are organized by country, to make it easy to see who is celebrating International Jazz Day each year.

For additional partnership ideas, consider doing some research on jazz and other music festivals, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in your region who specialize in the performing arts. Many of these organizations may already be creating their own International Jazz Day events, and could be interested in linking up with your program.

While we wish we could honor requests for personalized videos for all of our wonderful partners, unfortunately our artists do not have the capacity to do this.