The network is officially created September 16th of 2010during the Music Market in Vic (Spain)

This is founded by the gathering of 8 national organisations of live music venues and festivals, covering 7 european countries :

> ACCES in Spain > d’Orfeu in Portugal> Club Circuit in Belgium (Flemish community)> Club Plasma in Belgium (French community)> Dansklive in Denmark> Fédurok in FranceVNPF in NetherlandsLive Music Komission in Germany (new member)

ETHIC

LIVE DMA is under construction / it’s a work in progress process :

> Open to new partners & persons finding resonance and agreement into our philosophy of collective actions

> This common values are articulated into a code of ethics articulated around 3 main aims :

1 – Political

2 – Artistic, cultural & social

3 – Economical

ETHIC

1 – Artistic, cultural & social

We and the venues we represent, are deeply involved in the active sustain of artistic discovery, emergence and innovation, then working for cultural diversity and social impacts of the venues.

The venues major contributors to the dynamic of artistic renewal on local, regional, national or international scales.

ETHIC

2 – Political

We want to be active to defend collectively the importance of live & practices music venues acting in a sens of general interest, and then with public politics deals.

We collectively subscribe for cultural development and general interest and will together act to gain legitimacy on the European political level making bodies dealing with legal matters concerning the popular music field in the European area.

3 – Economical

LIVE DMA partners represent initiatives (venues, club, equipment…) based on different sizes, leading different activities and running under different way of economical and governance structure. The network have more than 500 adherents.

Our members are constructed on a mixed economy made of self made incomes and public financing, and working in a non-profit logic.

However, these initiatives are endangered by concentration phenomenons. In this view the LIVE (DMA) partners appeal once again to cooperation processes between the public sector, the private sector and citizens.

ETHIC

ACTIONS

Annual cycle of LIVE-DMA meetings

Consultation on the future Culture Programme (2014-2020)

Statement on Creative Europe

Mobility & cooperation :

> MUSICATION (Lifelong learning program Leonardo Da Vinci )> Pass For Live (Transfer Of Innovation Leonardo Da Vinci)

MUSICATIONMUSIC & EDUCATION

Musication is a Life Long Learning Programme (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Training courses for professionnals of popular music field running educative actions projects.

Developing educative activities in music venues and festivals on the European territory

ACTIONS

ACTIONS

PASS FOR LIVE

Live DMA Applied to a Transfer Of Innovation project (Leonardo Da Vinci)

This project is about the transfer of a methodology and tool of sharing and participative survey.

This project is linked with the survey committe of Live DMA .

MEMBERS

La Fédurok (France)

Fédurok is a national network of music venues whose current projects revolve around the distribution and support of artistic practices in the area of live music.

It is now gathering over 97 venues spread across the French territory. The network conducts observation, analysis and support tools to help the operators to professionnalise and to grow around in partnership with their politic, economic and civil environment.

Fédurok is also professional training operator.

MEMBERS

ACCES (Spain)

ACCESS was founded in late 2004 to bring together the current music scene in Spain.

It is intended to help to structure the sector reflecting the specific national identities that coexist within the Spanish State, to establish associations and regional authorities in the Autonomous Communities, to represent places with public partners, including the State and civil society, promote the dissemination of new directories and / or minority, to work for the sustainability of places up and support the creation of suitable places.

ACCESS today represents almost 200 places in Spain

MEMBERS

Clubcircuit is a federation of music venues whose projects are focused on the organization of concerts (pop - rock - dance - world).

Founded in 1996, it now gathers 11 agencies spread throughout Flanders and defends the interests of its members, takes care of raising funds and implementing communication campaigns and joint movement of artists within this network.

Club Circuit (Belgium)

MEMBERS

Club Plasma Platform Sound of Modern Music, is a network of concert organizers located in Wallonia and Brussels.

Created in 1995 and coordinated by the Association Court Circuit, it aims to professionalize the activities specifically focused on contemporary music, promote joint promotion and improving the infrastructure of existing sites.

These places, which represent the major cities of the French-speaking Belgium, also offer artist residencies, training and rehearsal.

Club Plasma (Belgium)

MEMBERS

d’ORFEU is a cultural association founded in 1995 with the aim of promoting and fostering the musical practices in a logical expression transdisciplinary.

d’ORFEU outlined his plans for promoting education, research, creation and dissemination of music, in an ongoing exchange with other disciplines.

d’ORFEU gradually extended by supporting initiatives such as festivals and educational programs.

D’ORFEU (Portugal)

MEMBERS

Spillesteder was a federation created in 1972 with 80 venues that offer programs throughout the year and organize 18 festivals.

The purpose of the network is to promote and improve the economic sector of live music in Denmark. Spillesteder coordinates and ensures cooperation between venues, in order to improve working conditions.

Most places are private places, but 18 of them are places that are managed by municipal corporation or private association. These places "mixed" economy are generally in rural areas.

The structure began 36 years ago as a network of jazz clubs, then it has expanded and has a paid professional team. The new name (since 2011) is Dansklive, and its integrate venues and Danish festivals.

DANSKLIVE(Denmark)

MEMBERS

VNPF is an organization serving an established venue and festival community, focused on creating and driving platforms that service fundamental industry needs.

VNPF is an association of 82 popular music venues and festivals. VNPF unites almost all (small and big) more important venues and festivals in the Netherlands.

Objectives of VNPF are serving the common interests of the venues towards government (cities, provinces and state), audiences and performing artists, serving its members and promoting their professionalism, promoting pop culture as a performing arts in general, organising network meetings.

VNPF (Netherlands)

MEMBERS

Live Musik Kommission (Germany)

First confederation of popular music venues in Germany.

Germany is a federal republic, its organization as "Lander“ that cultural policies are developed regionally. The result is a cultural issues handled locally, not nationally.

For the first time, a dynamic range of actors by actors from Hamburg and Berlin landers, all predisposed to a territorial competition, has led to the creation of a national network. For now Live Musik Kommission includes 10 of the 17 German landers. This dynamic of networking, solidarity between actors, and cooperation was made possible through a process of observation.