“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.”
Communication Officer
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Setting-up a concert means, first of all, welcoming artists. When it comes to sustainability, live music venues can implement many things to welcome artists and their staff in a way that is comfortable for them AND respectful of the planet. This can be done in-house by the venue, as shown by the venues who took…
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For 10 years now, Live DMA has been working actively to help its members in making live music scenes better everyday. The creation of the network marks the beginning of a long-time cooperation story: 10 years ago, national live music associations in France ans Spain which were already defending live music scenes in their own…
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Live DMA has the pleasure to celebrate its 10 years anniversary during BIME PRO 2022, in collaboration with our member Kultura Live from the Basque Country. ABOUT LIVE DMA We are a European network of live music associations, aiming at supporting the global ecosystem of music venues, clubs and festivals. Today, we gather 20 members in 16…
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Live music actors raised issues facing an increase in cancellations of artistic performances and international tours in the Eastern region as a consequence of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. With this letter, we wish to reaffirm that it is safe to perform in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, and it is important in solidarity…
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Live Style Europe is a monthly radio show presented by Live DMA, European non-governmental network representing over 3000 live music venues, clubs, and festivals in 17 different countries and working to support and to promote the condition of the European live music sector.Each month, we invite a live music expert from our network to discuss topics that…
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Back in 2019, the European Commission launched the Pilot Call “Cooperation of Small Music Venues“, as part of the Music Moves Europe programme. In this framework, 12 consortium of music venues under 400 capacity were selected to run a 12 months cooperation project. This article intends to give a thorough overlook at the project selected…
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Measuring your impact is knowing where you need to take action. It’s as simple as that… in theory. In practice, live music organisers may find the task of calculating a venue’s carbon footprint quite challenging. The venues and clubs who took part in the Digital Safaris on Sustainability did not work alone on this. They…
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Over 140 representatives from across Europe’s live performance sector have signed an open letter calling for the European Union to introduce tougher laws on online marketplaces. The signatories, who represent the worlds of pop, ballet, opera, theatre, comedy and more, are fed up with Europe’s exploitative ticket resale market, which drains hundreds of millions of…
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Live Style Europe is a monthly radio show presented by Live DMA, European non-governmental network representing over 3000 live music venues, clubs, and festivals in 17 different countries and working to support and to promote the condition of the European live music sector.Each month, we invite a live music expert from our network to discuss topics that…
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“It’s all about sharing and cooperation!”
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“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”
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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 we’ve succeeded in doing that!”
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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 recognition”
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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.”