“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.”
In 2021 researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research developed a decarbonisation roadmap for the live music sector (Super Low Carbon Live Music Roadmap). This roadmap set targets for different sources of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) associated with putting on live events that align with the scale and urgency of meeting the United…
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CRISSCROSS is an European project that aims to fight gender based violence, particularly in leisure and socialization venues frequented by teens and young adults, through the realization of initiatives to increase the awareness, change the attitude and prevent gender based violence and LGBTI+ phobic based violent behaviour, linked to sexual violence and to the use of substances. In addition,…
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This self-assessment tool allows the music organisations to know their performance in terms of gender in compliance with the Spanish Organic Law 3/2007 for effective equality between women and men along with the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The Self-Assessment test is available in Castellano, English, Galego, Català and Euskera.
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This inclusiscore will enable you to evaluate your association’s project, your openness and your governance from the perspective of issues linked to inclusion. More than just an evaluation tool, the inclusiscore is an educational tool designed to initiate a process of internal questioning. It will give you a snapshot at a given moment of how…
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Mobility of artists and audience is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions within the cultural sector. How can we defend the circulation of artists in Europe while reducing our carbon footprint? Better Live is a project led by 11 European partners from the world of jazz and improvised music that will experiment with the sustainable concerts…
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The Concerto Che Vorrei is a participatory process by KeepOn LIVE that aims to map and analyze the needs of the public, artists and live music spaces to create increasingly accessible and inclusive concerts . Since 2022, KeepOn has been pursuing this co-design path to try to improve the sector with ideas, proposals and suggestions.
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Thanks to the activism of Disabled & Chronically ill artists and art workers everywhere, it is becoming more commonplace for organisations to encourage collaborators to communicate their accessibility needs. Whether you want to write a new Access Rider, update your old one, or you are just starting to think about your needs – please feel…
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“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.”
“It’s all about sharing and cooperation!”
“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”
“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!”
“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”
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.”