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
news
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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Live DMA supportsĀ Culture Action EuropeĀ 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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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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Live DMA welcomes Live Music Estonia (Live ME) as a full member. The European network counts now 20 members in 16 countries. Live Music Estonia (Live ME) is a live music branch of Music Estonia (ME), music industry development centre and export office Music Estonia. Live ME was founded in August 2019 by and for…
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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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This action is expected to foster cooperation between organisations active in the culture field, to increase the European dimension of creation and circulation of European artistic content as well as to encourage the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of new and innovative practices. Live DMA members and their members are eligible to apply to this…
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20th & 21st of May 2019, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels Together with 100 representatives from the European music sector, Live DMA participated at the dialogue with the European Commission about Music Moves Europe. TamĆ”s Szucs, new director of DG EAC, opened this two days session by directing the dialogue towards a diverse, sustainable and competitive music…
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In April 2018, the Catalan Parliament decided to expand the āCases de la mĆŗsicaā programme. Besides programming live music, these labelled venues have also other functions: they support artistic creation and they provide training, both to professional and amateur musicians. These organisations also have an important educational mission that aims to incite as much participation…
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Live music venues and clubs lay the ground for an abundant artistic scene that we cherish as our European heritage. The diversity of the music stages, everywhere in Europe, gives thrilling opportunities for music encounters between people. They are the music sectorās foundation when it comes to artistic creation and the development of new talents.…
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At the occasion of MIL – Lisbon in March 2019, Live DMA met a delegation of music venues and clubs from Portugal. On behalf of Live DMA board members, we would like to applaud the on-going process of gathering voices and strengths of the participants to set up a national association for music venues and…
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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.”