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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The Ben je okĂ©? campaign promotes open discussions about unwanted sexual behavior and encourages people to respect each other’s boundaries. It urges everyone to look out for others by intervening if they notice discomfort or inappropriate behavior and to ask, âAre you okay?â By fostering mutual respect during social interactions, flirting, and dating, the campaign…
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To reach out to the culturally diverse part of society, the Dutch cultural sector has launched in 2011 the Code Cultural Diversity (CCD). The Code provides a stepping-stone to develop comprehensive diversity policy in the area of Personnel, Public, Programme and Partners.
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Pulse â Cultural Network for Transition believes that culture can be a driver for transition to a socially just and sustainable society. It connects cultural organizations that experiment with sustainable alternatives to our current societal model, with self-sufficiency and cultural activism at its core. Pulse is a bottom-up network that was founded by several players…
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Dare to Care is an initiative promoting mutual respect in all sexual encounters and preventing sexual abuse, especially in the live music scene. It focuses on personal boundary awareness and encouraging bystander intervention to foster a safer environment. The campaign reaches audiences through festivals, social media, and educational efforts, collaborating with major events like Way…
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Since 2001, PETZI provides their club and festival members with a ticketing system and an event agenda. The aim of this service is to promote the events organized by PETZI members and to offer concert-lovers an alternative ticketing service. The PETZI ticketing and agenda service is non-profit: the money generated from ticket sales is reinvested…
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To facilitate action by everyone by offering advice, tools, testimonials, and practical resources to make concerts and/or festivals in Belgium more eco-citizen-friendly! To encourage questioning and self-reflection, which can lead to changes in behavior. Here you’ll find tips, tricks, and resources to help you think differently and broaden your perspective.
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Curva is a multidisciplinary project by CIRCUITO aimed at transforming Portugal’s musical programming by promoting diversity, inclusion, and representation. Selected as one of 27 initiatives in the European Livemx program, it offers training and mentorship sessions for programmers from CIRCUITO’s 21 venues, led by experts in diversity and inclusion. The project will produce an online…
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Attitude is Everything connects disabled people with music and live event industries to improve access together. They publish a range of guides, reports, and resources covering access for audiences, artists, professionals and the sector at large.
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The Cura Collective works for better health of artists and cultural workers in France. They notably release regularly some research and host workshops on the subject.
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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.”