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
Communication Officer
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With the Survey, Live DMA presents the first Europe-wide quantitative study on live music venues and clubs. This project not only helps in having a better understanding in the European venues’ legal status, type of activities or number of workforce but also helps our members in collecting their own data at their regional or national…
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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 European levels. Why We Need to…
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With over 400 000 music events, 950 000 artist performances and 70 million audience visits in 2017 (Live DMA Survey, 2020), concert venues and clubs are the music sectorās foundation. They are indeed the lifeblood of artistic creation and the development of new talents. As part of our What Artists Say campaign, we asked artists…
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[last update: 12 July 2021] Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, live music events all around Europe have been put at a stop or with logistical and sanitary conditions never seen before. In order to investigate how to manage live music events of all formats and settings in a pandemic context,…
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In 2020, Live DMA organized a Working Group on the theme of Cooperation and Representation Within the Music Sector. Read the reports of the Working Group here: Session 1 and Session 2. In March 2021, the European Network for Cultural Centers has released the guide Local Networks: Reimaninging the Work of Cultural Organisations, written by…
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European Associations from the performing and live music sector address a joint letter to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel (Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth) and Commissioner Thierry Breton (Internal Market). Following a first letter asking the European Commission for the implementation of a reopening strategy, this new letter aims to share recommendations on the necessary next…
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This month of March 2021 mark the Covid-19 one year anniversary. Itās been exactly a year since all live music venues are shut down, struggling to survive despite some emergency funds provided by the European governments. Music lovers are painfully missing the warming energy of the concerts and festivals, but, more importantly, the whole ecosystem…
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European Associations from the performing and live music sector address a joint letter to Commissioner Breton (Internal Market). āTogether, we are asking for a coordinated post-lockdown strategy for Europeās cultural venues and events.ā During the last year, European associations and their national members have been working relentlessly on proposals to provide support to the cultural…
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Following the open letter published by more than 110 pan-European networks on 30 October 2020 āMake culture central in the EU recoveryā, the group comes together again to reiterate their call to the national governments and the European Commission. In the second open letter published today by the group, coordinated by Culture Action Europe, the…
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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.”