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- Overview of world wide initiatives for and from women in music -
To further strengthen the visibility of our Member Cities, what it means to be a music city, and how actively our Members are shaping the current now and the upcoming future, we have established this section on our website, dedicated to the tangible measures taken by the cities to respond to the various impacts the Covid-19-Pandemic has on the respective music ecosystem.
Get an insight at funding schemes, conducted studies, or policy measures taken by the MCN Member Cities to foster the exchange and learn from each other. This will help to create an environment of inspiration for the steps the lie ahead to further support our music scenes and the corresponding projects that need to be developed. Let’s shape the future together.
Name of Action | Kind | Fokus | City | Short Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist work scholarship | Funding | national | Bergen | Goverment funded scholarship initiated to stimulate economical stability and workflow during the pandemic. 70 m NOK is divided between theatre, translators, architecture and the music field. |
Association for Independent Musicians | Funding | national | Manchester | Hardship fund. Applications open to AIM Member businesses and developing artists signed to those businesses. |
Audience Outlook Monitor - The Patternmakers | Reports/Studies | national | Sydney | The audience outlook monitor is extensive national research on the confidence and comfort that arts and cultural audiences have with returning to events and arts spaces through and beyond covid19. Funded by the Australian federal government, state governments and the City of Sydney, the research delivers bi-monthly updates on audience sentiment. |
Co-financing for the national scheme for additional support for the cultural and creative sector | Funding | national | Groningen | We propose to deploy a support package for the cultural sector: support for the vital regional infrastructure (SPOT, Forum Groningen, Groninger Museum, Vera, Simplon and Grand Theater). The national scheme for vital regional infrastructure offers us the possibility of realizing financial support from the government, which otherwise we as a municipality would almost fully pay for. The required co-financing amounts to 1.425 million euros. |
Community Recovery Plan - City of Sydney | Policy | regional | Sydney | The Community Recovery Plan is an 18 month plan to support Sydney's economic, social and cultural recovery from the pandemic. The plan gives direction as to how the City's services and resources will be directed towards recovery, and how the City will work with community, businesses, state and other local government authorities in responding, rebuilding and transforming through the pandemic. |
Covid Relief Grants - City of Sydney | Funding | regional | Sydney | The Sydney City Council released $3.5 million in funding for the arts and cultural sector to help combat the impacts of Covid19. Grants were offered to organisations who had to cancel events, programs or services, to help meet their costs, keep their staff and pay their artists. Fellowships were offered to individual artists to create new work during the lockdown period. Donations were provided to industry support services who provide emergency funds and mental health support to the Australian arts sector. These cash grants are in addition to millions of dollars worth of rent waivers for cultural tenants in City owned property, subsidised use of City spaces and the waiving of fees and charges related to the City's regulatory functions. |
Cultural loans | Funding | regional | Bergen | Bergen Munincipality gave 10 mil NOK to BUZZ and Zefyr, investment funds targeting the music, gaming, and movie industry. The money was further invested in businesses and projects with a very low interest and long downpayment plans. |
Culture Bail-out Package Relief | Funding | regional | Hamburg | 35 mil. € fund to support music clubs and theaters. |
Customized measures | Funding | regional | Groningen | Reducing rent for cultural organisations. Prepayment of subsidy |
Den kulturelle skolesekken (Cultural School Bag) | Funding | national | Bergen | The cultural school bag (DKS) is a national scheme that ensures that all school students in Norway get to experience professional art and culture every year. All county municipalities have agreed to pay fees to practitioners in the "Den kulturelle skolesekken" who have had their assignments canceled due to the corona pandemic. |
FFUK | Funding | national | Bergen | The aim of the regulations is to establish a temporary scheme to maintain activity and counteract long-term inactivity among performing artists who have lost assignments or income as a result of orders or advice given by the authorities in connection with the covid-19 outbreak. |
Fund for adepting to 1,5 meter society | Funding | regional | Groningen | With a grant, the province of Groningen supports small entrepreneurs, cultural and social institutions that have adapted their business to work in the one and a half metre economy. |
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