Communications and Project Manager, Live DMA, Nantes, France
CEO, Music Venue Trust UK, Barcelona, Spain
Sekretariatschef i Dansk Live, Valby, Denmark
Coordination Romande, Association Petzi, Fribourg, Switzerland
The core activities of venues and clubs all over Europe is organizing live concerts and programming music. Some venues and clubs also manages social and educational activities, support cultural projects, and provide rehearsal spaces. Others might run a restaurant or host non cultural activities. Some receive public funding, others don’t. All these cultural and economic specificities feed the diversity of European live music scenes. To protect this diversity in this particular situation and in general, diversity in support measures is necessary. This panel will look from a data perspective on the different experiences for music venues and clubs in Europe.