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Ecological Sustainability: the European Music Sector takes action!

Jun3

The global climate crisis has led many organisations from the music sector to act towards a more eco-conscious future. Culture can be a strong driver for positive changes in society. In this article, we highlight ecological initiatives and concrete tools from the live music sector, both at national and...

Gender Diversity and Equality – Workers of the Live Music Sector

Feb20

Lack of visibility of women and gender minorities working in the live music sector, positions who are still very gendered… The live music sector has room for improvement regarding gender diversity. Navigate the slides below to find information on the obstacles the live music sector encounters to implement a...

Webinar on EU Cultural Policy and Advocacy

Feb12

The European Music Council, of which Live DMA is a member, have hosted an online webinar on the Cultural Policy of the EU. This one hour and a half long video gives information on: The different European institutions and their role in deciding on the EU budget, priorities and...

Prevention campaigns against sexual violence for live music audiences

Nov20

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...

The Diversity Roadmap

Oct21

Evaluate the composition of your teams, your programming practices and your communication regarding diversity! Are your infrastructures easily accessible for everyone? Do your team know how to respond to disctiminatory behaviour or assault within your venue? The Diversity Roadmap is a tool created by PETZI, the Swiss live music...

“It’s really important for us to be at the forefront on the sustainability and inclusion questions, to inspire others and help with all these things. If we don’t have a sustainable future, we may not have a future at all.”

Hilma Kekkonen, Svensk Live - (Sweden )

“It’s all about sharing and cooperation!”

Boris Colin, FEDELIMA - (France )

“We need organisations like Live DMA to support our activities. During COVID, it was important to have Live DMA meetings so that we could learn what was going on in the other countries, and that was very helpful when it came to the lobby work on the local level”

Ingrid Stroom, Live Music Estonia - (Estonia )

“We have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Live DMA, a network which was created in 2012 by venue networks from all over Europe. The purpose was to share knowledge and skills with each other, and to set up common projects, and I think we’ve succeeded in doing that!”

Marc Steens, Clubcircuit - (Belgium: Flanders )

“I learned to collect and process data with good quality, and also I learned the importance of data to start a dialogue with institutions. Good data gave ACCES a lot of recognition”

Elda Gomez, ACCES - (Spain )

ʻʼThanks to Live DMAʼs Survey, we showed our government that the more a venue is subsidized, the more money they generate. The Ministry of Culture had little knowledge of our sector. So to present these figures from different European countries was crucial in re-valorising our subsidies.”

David Dehard, Court-Circuit - (Belgium: Wallonia & Brussels )

ʻʼAs a venue, we believe that the live music sector is insufficiently recognised as part of culture. Networks like Live DMA can amplify local voices. Being part of Live DMA help us gain knowledge from across Europe and find partners with similar challenges.ʼʼ

Ieva Irbina, LPNVA - (Latvia )

ʻʼ[European Cooperation] gives indeed vision: weʼre every day provided with mental-openness and support. It might seem imperceptible but itʼs fundamental to feel part of a wider ecosystem. It boosts our awareness as representative of a whole sector and this bring direct advantages to our members.ʼʼ

Federico Rasetti, KeepOn Live - (Italy )

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