76 International, European & national music organisation are “Claiming a front row seat for music” calling for policy makers to fully acknowledge the artistic, social and economic value of the music sector and to live up to these words in political decision making!
Keychange is an international campaign and network for gender equality, which aims to diversify the current music industry to create a more sustainable and stronger community for everyone.
Join leading music industry experts as they explore the future for live events post-pandemic.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, live music events all around Europe have been put at a stop or with logistical and sanitary conditions never seen before. In order to investigate how to manage live music events of all formats and settings in a pandemic context, many mass gathering pilot events are organised.
76 International, European and national music organisations are calling for better recognition of music in all policy areas.
Love Record Stores is a campaign that was started in the independent music community last year to support independent record shops through the pandemic, resulting in an incredible £1m of sales. The Association of Independent Music is a partner of the initiative, which was recently announced as one of two winners of this year’s Indie Champion Award at the AIM Independent Music Awards for this achievement, alongside Bandcamp.
This programme will engage a group of 45 music industry professionals including 15 exporters, to come together and explore cutting edge methods of music export, from new funding models to digital collaboration, mentoring to job shadowing; while also examining the challenges faced by artists from across Europe when trying to export their music worldwide. Apply now if you work in music export, are based in the EU, speak fluent english and if you want to help design music export programmes of the future.
In research terms, a convenience sample is a group of folks who feature in a study because—well, they happened to be there. Convenience samples do not permit truly random assignments of individuals into the cohorts being studied. For this reason, it is impossible to apply the study results to the general population, or to make claims about statistical significance.
The S+T+ARTS AI and Music Festival 2021 launches an international call for projects dedicated to AI and music led by Sónar and UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
A fund of €14m is available for the new scheme which will make a contribution to costs in businesses in the live entertainment sector that have been significantly negatively affected by COVID-19 restrictions.
The European Forum on Music 2021 will offer a variety of sessions, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, interactive workshops and networking sessions for the music sector to exchange and to discuss the role and place of music in society. Even though the music sector was hit hard, it will come out of the crisis stronger, more resilient and claiming its right place which will be reflected in political action.
A panel discussing the impact of the pandemic on musicians, artists and event producers.
European Associations from the performing and live music sector address a joint letter to Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and Commissioner Thierry Breton (Internal Market).
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.
A huge new temporary outdoor venue including theatre, food, drink, shows, music, cabaret, and comedy will be launched by HOME in May to provide an outdoor Summer destination for people looking for a safe and fun night out as lockdown eases.
Recent research carried out by Help Musicians has shown that the combined effect of lockdown and uncertainty about the future is taking an unprecedented toll on the mental health of musicians.
Amplify Music is “bringing the band back together” to explore where local and global music communities are going for 2021 and beyond.
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.
Award winning host, author and journalist Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people from the world of politics, business, culture and social movements in her series “forward thinking on Covid-19”. In this episode she interviews musician Raul Midón.
European Associations from the performing and live music sector address a joint letter to Commissioner Breton (Internal Market).
A breathing and wellbeing programme for people recovering from the effects of COVID-19 by the English National Opera.
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.
On Tuesday 6th April, Impala will be kicking off the IMPALA Campus with its first digital workshop, in partnership with Westway LAB.
Pearle* urges EU and its Member States to take scientific evidence into account and open up the live performance sector to audiences.
OneBeat announces an exciting new series of virtual exchanges in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: OneBeat Virtual and OneBeat Lebanon.
Following the initiative launched in May 2020, today Pearle* publishes a new edition of the map.
The project is designed to support freelance classical musicians who have been financially and creatively impacted by Covid-19.
Lutz Leichsenring joins Factory Berlin to discuss the success of “United We Stream” on reconnecting the music scene and its audience during isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The beginning of the lockdown period in March has seen an impressive rise of songs reacting to an entirely new situation. These can be examined through this IMLR seminar, in multiple ways: canon, intermediality, global circulation of cultural texts, new aesthetics of video-clips, gender roles.
Within the framework of its new Creaconnections program, Transcultures, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation, launched the No Lockdown Art – NoLA action to support the re-activitism of Belgian and international artists who initiated, during the period containment, interesting audio, video and multimedia projects.
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