“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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ACTIVATE THE EUROPEAN LIVE MUSIC NETWORK TO HELP THE UKRAINIAN MUSIC SECTOR Live DMA condemns the Russian government’s violation of territorial law and the violence towards civilian people and war in general. If you are in contact with artists and music operators in need in Ukraine, you can activate our European network for support and…
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MusicAIRE aims to support actions within the music sector that contributes to a green, digital, just & resilient revival of the sector at a European level. In 2022, one grant was launched to help the European music ecosystem grow and emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, the second grant is now out! MusicAIRE will fund projects…
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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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Outraged, fed up, in direct need of support, fighting for their importance and relevance, angry at the unequal treatment they were subject to… The European live music sector went through difficult situations in this COVID-19 crisis. Many live music associations expressed their concerns regarding the mistreatment they were subject to in various campaigns. Once again,…
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This publication was developed by Culture Action Europe. It offers an overview of the place of culture in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) of the Member States of the European Union. In 2020, as an immediate response to the pandemic crisis the EU institutions adopted an one-of-a-kind stimulus package, called Next Generation EU (NGEU). It…
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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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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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Report by Ken Veerman Upstairs in the impressive hall of the Kultuurikatel a mixed crowd of Estonian dignitaries and European music professionals had gathered. Kersti Kaljulaid, Estonia’s youngest and first female president, opened Tallinn Music Week. Creativity, she said, is a sign of bravery. And bravery a sign of a free society. Human creativity and…
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How the live music sector in Europe joins forces The music sector in Europe is very fragmented: the different branches of the sector (live music operators, managers, publishers…) do not spontaneously cooperate together. This means that all the research, development or advocacy are done separately, which leads to a plurality of systems also depending on…
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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.”