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.
COVID-19 has hit all cultural and creative sectors and within the sector festivals particularly.
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.
Perspectives from the Festival Cities Network on the impacts of COVID-19 on international festivals and policy, a webinar.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A survey in order to come up with alternatives for the internationalisation of music diversity during the health crisis.
A virtual festival of digital performance and a supportive space for artists & organisations to research how their practice can be delivered online.
The event will be hold in a modified way to fit the Covid 19 situation, but will still try to support the audience and filmmakers.
A webinar where 9 giffoners set to talk to the european commissioner Mariya Gabriel, a unique opportunity to talk about their future and some topics for the youth: culture, innovation, education.
On May 13th, Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, sent an open letter to European ministers of Culture and Commissioner of Culture Gabriel, ahead of the Council meeting on May 19th.
Sensorium is a digital arts & culture festival and platform building a thoughtful and foresightful society.
The Cerveira International Art Biennial takes place in Vila Nova de Ceveira (North of Portugal), it is one of the most outstanding festivals of visual arts and is an important event for the national and international artistic culture.
The Festival Academy calls for applications for an online Atelier.
Alumni of The Festival Academy are invited to apply by 20 May 2020!
“A Confined Place” -carried out within the Creative Europe “A-Place” project- is a programme of activities to strengthen the sense of place in the times of confinement.
A conference looking from a data perspective on the different experiences for music venues and clubs in Europe.
Live DMA documents the COVID-19 crisis and supplies resources for the European live music sector. Overviews of the situation in various European countries, best practice
As more countries are banning large gatherings throughout the summer, it could very well mean that 2020 will go down in history as the year
The European Festivals Association (EFA) unites distinguished music, dance, theatre and multidisciplinary arts festivals from Europe and beyond since 1952.
Live DMA is a European non-governmental network working to support and to promote the conditions of the live music sector.
Created in 1991, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe is the ‘Performing Arts Employers Association League Europe’, the European Federation of Music and Live Performance Organisations. Pearle * represents through its members more than 10,000 managers or theaters, concert venues, theater production companies, orchestras, operas, ballet and dance companies, festivals, promoters and other professional organisations in the performing arts in Europe.
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