āIt’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 donāt have a sustainable future, we may not have a future at all.ā
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Live DMA’s 2019 EP elections statement As part of the Live DMA 2019 EP elections’ campaign, we released a statement aimed at MEP candidates and policy-makers. This advocacy tool for live music venues, clubs and festivals asserts the values and goals shared by our network and affirms our position as stakeholder for the live music…
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At the occasion of MIL – Lisbon in March 2019, Live DMA met a delegation of music venues and clubs from Portugal. On behalf of Live DMA board members, we would like to applaud the on-going process of gathering voices and strengths of the participants to set up a national association for music venues and…
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Yourope, association gathering nearly 100 festivals and live music events in 26 European countries, published the results of their 2018 members survey. This survey investigates the general setting of their member festivals, gives insight on the events’ audiences, explores their European dimension, and analyses the structural and economic settings of their member festivals. Key facts…
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The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee released their live music report and we welcome that it puts a particular attention to the smallest and most fragile live music venues and clubs. One of the key messages of this report coming from the government is to protect, secure and improve the conditions of the…
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In this 5th Live Style Europe radio show: – Interview with Marc Steens from Clubcircuit, one of our two members in Belgium – Feedback on the first session of our Live Style Europe working group āMusic is not noiseā Information mentioned: World Health Organisation noise guidelines for the European region Live DMA Resource Platform: –…
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On the 20th & 21st of February, the Live Style Europe working group āMusic is not noiseā met in Trix, Antwerp (Belgium) to work on the challenges related to sound regulations. We drafted the working group so that it could address the challenges of sound regulations from a technical perspective, but also from a political standpoint,…
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On the 12th of February 2019, Live DMA hosted a webinar on the question of the Agent of Change principle with Mark Davyd, musical activist and CEO of Music Venue Trust who succeeded in implementing the Agent of Change principle in the UK law in August 2018. What is the Agent of Change? Agent of…
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In this forth episode of the Live Style Europe radio show: Release of the Live DMA Online Resource Platform in December 2018. Short feedback on Live DMAās activities at Eurosonic in January 2019. Interview with Arne Dee from VNPF, Live DMAās member in the Netherlands Interview with Susann Hollmann, Deputy Head of the Cultural Policy…
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āItās all about sharing and cooperation!ā
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āWe 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 levelā
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“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 weāve succeeded in doing that!ā
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“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 recognitionā
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Ź»Ź¼Thanks to Live DMAŹ¼s 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.”