Stories / Good practices
Coronavirus: Next phase of reopening on 19 April
The Federal Council is continuing its strategy of taking cautious, gradual steps towards reopening. At its meeting on 14 April, it decided on further reopening measures.
Sector: Festivals
Advocacy Initiatives
Live Style Europe Podcast #18 – Secure a Future for Cultural Life in Europe | Live DMA
This month of March 2021 mark the Covid-19 one year anniversary. It’s been exactly a year since all live music venues are shut down, struggling to survive despite some emergency funds provided by the European governments. Gabriele Rosana, Policy Director at Culture Action Europe, answers Live DMA questions about the reopening of cultural venues, in this podcast.
Advocacy Initiatives
Joint Letter Relaunch of Venues and Events
European Associations from the performing and live music sector address a joint letter to Commissioner Breton (Internal Market).
EU response
Coronavirus: a common path to Europe’s safe re-opening
Ahead of the meeting of European leaders on 25 March, the Commission is calling on Member States to prepare for a coordinated approach to a gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions when the epidemiological situation will allow.
Events
Chinese Cinema Season
Produced by Trinity CineAsia, Filming East Festival, and UK-China Film Collab, the Chinese Cinema Season is an online film screening event lasting for three months. It is the first and biggest online screening specialising in Chinese language films in the UK and Ireland that aims to enrich UK lockdown and present Chinese culture in a fresh way.
Events
De Montfort University, Cultural eXchanges Festival
For the first time ever, De Monfort University will be hosting a virtual festival adapted to the ever-changing circumstances, with live streamed content that will feature a variety of guests and speakers from the cultural & creative industries, hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities and run by their final year Arts and Festivals Management BA (Hons) students.
Cooperation opportunities
DANCE STREAM OPEN CALL – TANZAHOi International Festival 2021
In the midst of theater restrictions and an unforeseeable end to a reduced-contact era in the arts, TANZAHOi International Dance and Dance Film Festival will bring outstanding international dance productions to Hamburg via livestream for the 2021 digital festival, ‘Take Part in Another World’. Apply with your dance film to take part in a TANZAHOi 2021.
Events
PlayAway Games Festival 2021 | Looking to the games sector for inspiration in an online world
At a time when so many people across the world are moving online, Tinderbox Collective wants to turn to the Games industry for inspiration – to ask how games are adapting and responding to the pandemic, and to explore what role they could play looking ahead.
Stories / Good practices
Liveurope Festival 2020 line-up talks international touring, covid-19 & future
Liveeurope took the occasion of the festival to sit down with the artists to talk about their careers, international touring, the importance of venues for their professional development, their hopes for the music scene after Covid-19, and more.
Advocacy Initiatives
2021 – STAY ALIVE | New Live DMA Publication
This report gives information about the live music associations’ main priorities for 2021 and what actions they need and expect from governments in response to Covid-19.
Events
Transmediale 2021 – 2022 | A year-long Festival
The upcoming edition of transmediale will unfold via online and in-person events. This new expanded structure, formulated in response to COVID-19, will create a year-long engagement with the festival theme.
Advocacy Initiatives
Open Club Day statement
Taking the opportunity of the coming 4th [Open] Club day on February 6th, 2021, Live DMA calls every music enthusiast to join forces & make this edition of [Open] Club Day a symbol of resilience and solidarity.
Tools & Resources
Covid-19’s impact on the circulation of emerging artists in Europe: insights from Liveurope
Huge financial loses and working with ever-changing and unpredictable conditions are just some of the many challenges venues are facing today.
When it comes to artistic mobility, the average number of concerts with young talent organised per venue went down from 36 (last season pre-corona) to 18. This represents a 47% decrease.
Advocacy Initiatives
Cultural Diversity at stake: Call for reinforced and equal support to local music scenes everywhere in Europe!
This publication explains straight to the point what live music organisers are going through since March 2020 and points to the open wounds that urgently need to be taken care of.
Tools & Resources
Latest Covid-19 update on the Liveurope venues
The second wave of Covid-19 has hit Europe hard, and music venues throughout the continent are certainly not spared.
Events
Can we Live Without Mega-Events?
In this public lecture it will be discussed the human need for mega-events and festivals and their importance to city life, city projection and city building. With or without a pandemic, can we live without major festivals?
Stories / Good practices
German Study Finds That Indoor Music Concerts Are Safe With Proper Ventilation and Masks
Back in July, German scientists were planning a 4,200-person experimental concert to gain a better understanding of COVID-19’s transmission risk. Now, these researchers have determined that music concerts are safe with masks and proper ventilation.
Online Training #3 – Curating Festivals
The Festival Academy calls for applications for the third of their series of Online Trainings. Applications close by 10 November 2020.
Stories / Good practices
Beats over Borders
A catch up with three different venues in three different countries to talk about the current state of affairs, their take on the role of mobility for live music, and their hopes for the future, as well as the experience of being a musician in the year 2020.
Report: COVID-19 survey “Festivals’ needs and commitments”
COVID-19 has hit all cultural and creative sectors and within the sector festivals particularly.
How worldwide festivals and concerts are inventing new ways to happen?
Little by little, festivals have been forced to postpone and, in worst case scenarios, to cancel their edition leading to economic difficulties and uncertainty for the future.
Events
International Festivals and Policy in light of COVID-19
Perspectives from the Festival Cities Network on the impacts of COVID-19 on international festivals and policy, a webinar.
Events
Neverthere @ Surge Festival
Neverthere is hosting a space within Surge Festival 2020 for experimental new digital projects. A window providing audiences with a glimpse of live performance, across the world, are innovating during this extraordinary time.
Events
Ingegnarsi
“Ingegnarsi” event wanted to react to the covid 19 situation and to provide an alternative and resilient way to celebrate this important moment for the city by organising a 4-day on line event that has reached over 5.000 people.
Organisations and initiatives
Yourope
Yourope was founded in 1998, and has evolved into the most important Association of European Festivals. Besides discussing trade topics and sharing best practices with its 90 festivals and associated members, Yourope has founded dedicated groups dealing with health & safety (YES Group), green operations (GO Group) and marketing & communication (EMAC Group). The overall aim of the association is to collaborate, share experiences and to pinpoint areas that would benefit from a joint approach.
Organisations and initiatives
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag)
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is Europe’s main conference and showcase festival, focusing on European music. The exchange of European music is one of its main goals. ESNS is a non-profit, European artist only, 100% showcase festival and music conference. Selling out each year ESNS attracts over 4.000 professional delegates, including 400 international festivals, and showcases around 350 European artists for over 40.000 visitors total.
Organisations and initiatives
European Music Exporters Exchange (EMME)
EMEE is a non-profit association made up of 24 national and regional Music Export offices from all over Europe, with its registered office based in Brussels. We pull together a mix of public and private funding to support European musicians, music companies and music professionals in their export strategies. EMEE’s mission is to strengthen the European Music Sector by encouraging musical diversity, visibility, and supporting mobility in and outside Europe through the exchange of information and expertise from the members as well as project initiatives between members and/or other music industry organisations.
Organisations and initiatives
Tallinn Music Week (TMW)
Held each spring in Tallinn, Estonia since 2009, Tallinn Music Week is one of the most acclaimed new music and city culture festivals and key networking events for music and creative industry professionals across Europe. TMW’s core is an international new music festival and Creative Impact conference. The 3-day music festival presents brave new multi-genre acts from all over Europe and beyond in Tallinn’s best concert venues. The 2-day conference looks into the impact of arts as an engine for the economy while offering both inspiration and practical activities to music professionals, artists, entrepreneurs and policymakers from different areas. The festival’s side events cover art, design, public talks and various urban space activities.
Tools & Resources
FIM Recommendations for a safe return to work of orchestra musicians
The covid-19 outbreak has led governments to close all live performance venues and prohibit open-air concerts as soon as their countries were hit by the
Research / Surveys
Survey- Internationalisation of music diversity in times of COVID-19
A survey in order to come up with alternatives for the internationalisation of music diversity during the health crisis.
