âIt’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 donât have a sustainable future, we may not have a future at all.â
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As the EU has started discussing the proposed recovery plan, 99 organisations from across Europeâs cultural and creative sectors are uniting their voices to alert EU leaders: our sector needs strong and systemic support measures to recover from this crisis. As it is now well understood, the cultural and creative world is one of the…
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Live DMA supports Culture Action Europe calling on Member States ahead of the European Council Meeting on 19 June to: Double the budget of Creative Europe to 2,6 billion euros, as the core programme for reinforcing European cultural cooperation. (#Double4Culture).Make sure that the additional funds stemming from the Next Generation EU initiative, such as REACT-EU, reach cultural…
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Next Generation EU & long-term EU budget On the 27th of May, the European Commission put forward its proposal to create a new recovery instrument, âNext Generation EUâ. The Commission also presented a new proposal of the long-term EU budget for the next Multinannual Financial Framework 2021 â 2027 in response to the new context:…
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Sound Diplomacy published the Music Cities Resilience Handbook – a practical guide to support cities in setting up resilient music policy. More information on sounddiplomacy.com/better-music-cities A short peek into the report Introduction – Setting the stage The global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic revealed that: The global arts, music and cultural industries were poorly prepared…
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Investing in our culture is investing in our future. Now is the time to turn words into concrete measures.
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Last update: 29/06/2020 – 14:00 This article presents the different exit strategies for the live music sector in the countries part of the Live DMA network as well as the reactions of our members.
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1) Can you please introduce yourself? “My name is Elda GĂłmez, cultural manager who works for ACCES, the Spanish association of private concert venues. I have also been the ACCES survey coordinator since we started this project with Live DMA seven years ago.” 2) Who are the members of your network? “The members of my…
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This article presents: WHAT IS THE VAT The Value Added Tax, or VAT, in the European Union is a general, broadly based consumption tax assessed on the value added to goods and services. Source: European Commission The live music sector is international. It can thus be difficult to grasp all the VAT requirements of each country and…
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âItâs all about sharing and cooperation!â
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âWe 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 levelâ
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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 weâve succeeded in doing that!â
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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 recognitionâ
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ʻʌThanks to Live DMAÊŒs 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.”