Live music scenes are not exempt from the sexist and sexual violence that takes place in everyday life, even though many live music associations part of Live DMA have developed prevention initiatives against sexual violence for concert audiences. This article aims at explaining what is sexual violence, where does...
tools
On this page, you can find practical tools and methodologies that can be either applied right away or that can serve as inspiration to create your own tool or methodology.
The Diversity Roadmap
Evaluate the composition of your teams, your programming practices and your communication regarding diversity! The Diversity Roadmap is a tool created by PETZI, the Swiss live music association, in collaboration with the Swiss music associations Helvetiarockt, Flirt Don’t Hurt, Sensability and We Can Dance It working for safer live...
The Music Cities Manual
Sound Diplomacy are strategic consultants delivering economic growth in cities and places through music and the night time economy. They published a Music Cities Manual : a set of tools, case studies and lessons to increase the value of music in cities, towns and places. They developed the “Music...
Prevent conflicts between live music places and local authorities or neighbours : the Club Kataster Project
Complaints about sound emission are an important factor of a venue closing. With urban densification and gentrification, more and more people move closer to live music places. Besides increasing rents, these phenomenons may also lead to conflicts between cultural live music places and their neighbours. These conflicts may lead...
Understand the relationship between gentrification and small music venues
Are small music venues being gentrified? This question is central to Trine Heide’s essay, MA student at the University of Copenhagen. She tackles the subject of Urban Theory and examines the links between gentrification and small music venues in the UK and in Denmark. What is gentrification? Gentrification is...
They talk about us

Miguel Tudanca - (Madrid (Spain) )

Gunnar Geßner - (Hannover (Germany) )

Anders Tangen - (Oslo )

Armando Ruah - (Madrid )

David Dehard - (Brussels )

Isabelle Von Walterskirchen - (Zürich )