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
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On this page, you can find the latest news from the Live DMA network and updates on our current projects and activities.
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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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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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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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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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All around Europe, live music venues are doing a wonderful job in finding ways of building new audiences to make live music accessible to as many people as possible. Diversity is a value dear to many live music professionalsā hearts. WHAT IS THE TRY-ANGLE? Inspired by the expertise of these live music actors (see reports…
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Since March 2020, most of the 2,600 live music venues and clubs represented by Live DMA and its members in 16 European countries are in survival mode. Due to government regulations, music venues and clubs had to cancel or reschedule all their events. Due to the current restrictions, apart from small concerts and non-musical events,…
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A selection of articles on Corona & the live music sector: Indie venues fight back against coronavirus, IQ Magazineā 19/03/2020 The Value Of Music In Our New Age Of Coronavirus, Shain Shapiro (Sound Diplomacy)ā 17/03/2020 Hereās A Music & Cultural Cities Framework We Can All Adopt,Shain Shapiro (Sound Diplomacy) ā 25/03/2020 Supporting local venues: āThe rooms might…
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As part of our capacity building project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme Live Style Europe, Live DMA organises each year a working group that aims to empower its members and the live music venues, clubs, and festivals to adapt and to react to the challenges related to the live music sector. In 2019, Live…
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On the 20th & 21st of February, the Live Style Europe working group āMusic is not noiseā met in Trix, Antwerp (Belgium) to work on the challenges related to sound regulations. We drafted the working group so that it could address the challenges of sound regulations from a technical perspective, but also from a political standpoint,…
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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.”