“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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Healthy music audiences: music, gender and health is a small research project by the University of Leeds, investigating sexual violence at gigs in Leeds. The researchers are Dr Rosemary Lucy Hill, Professor David Hesmondhalgh and Molly Megson (University of Leeds). The project is a collaboration with The Leeds Music Hub, a venue and community music…
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Live DMA supports Culture Action Europe’s statement “Securing a Sustainable Future for the European Non-Profit Cultural Sector”. We call on European institutions’ support for non-profit organisations active on local, regional, national and European level that wish to work in a European context and contribute to building a stronger European Union. KEY MESSAGES Non-profit cultural organisations…
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Interreg is a programme of cooperation between territories developed with the support of the structural fund ‘European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)’. The programme started 25 years ago and it has for goal to reduce the disparities between European regions, through common projects and cooperation between trans-border regions. Interreg works for a European growth that is…
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In this Live Style Europe radioshow, we will dive further into the topic of gender equality and diversity in the live music sector. We will first explore the initiatives that are put into place at supra-national levels with an interview with Dagmar Schumacher from UN Women and with Stéphanie Gembarski, from FEDELIMA, who participated in…
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Clubcommission, the network of clubs in Berlin, has released their study on Club Culture. Follow the link below to consult the study and find out what is a club, data on the three dimensions of club culture (economic, social and aesthetic) as well as on the Berlin Club-goers. They also list areas of policy actions…
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Evaluate the composition of your teams, your programming practices and your communication regarding diversity! Are your infrastructures easily accessible for everyone? Do your team know how to respond to disctiminatory behaviour or assault within your venue? The Diversity Roadmap is a tool created by PETZI, the Swiss live music association, in collaboration with the Swiss…
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The Live Style Europe radioshow is back for a second season on Euradio! In this episode you will learn more about Live DMA’s activities: our advocacy work, our capacity-building workshops and the Open Club Day! We also had the chance to talk on the phone with Arne Dee, who coordinates the Survey, a data study…
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As part of the European Music Council (EMC) board, Live DMA supports the decision taken by EMC members to take action to reduce the effects of the climate crisis the world currently faces. In the frame of the EMC Annual Meeting of 27 September 2019, the EMC members unanimously decided that EMC will take action…
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VNPF, the Dutch live music venues and festivals association released the data study of their network. The information in this publication is based on the figures of 48 music venues and 44 music festivals part of VNPF, that were active during 2018 and of which the figures were available. Several different indicators have been used…
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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.”