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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hamburg Corona Emergency Relief | Funding | regional | Hamburg | Nonrefundable Emergency Relief Fund for freelancers and SMEs from Hamburg |
Hamburg Music Business Support | Funding | regional | Hamburg | 5 mil. € fund to support Hamburg music companies as well as solo self-employed people working in the music industry in overcoming the corona crisis and to enable music industry projects. |
Help Musicians UK | Funding | national | Manchester | Help Musicians Financial Hardship Funding |
Innovative projects | Funding | regional | Bergen | Bergen Munincipality created three new funds for new, innovative projects during the pandemic. Total of 4 millions NOK. 0,5 mill NOK targeted directly at culture for hospitals and homes for the elderly. Two week response time. |
Kulturrom | Funding | regional | Bergen | Kulturrom is the national subsidy scheme for technical equipment, acoustics and premises. They allocated NOK 7 million fortrial schemes and temporary schemes in connection with the corona crisis. |
Live Open Air Initiative | Funding | regional | Hamburg | 1.5 mil. € fund to support live open air concerts during Summer 2020 |
Loans, Credit Lines and Forebearances | Funding | regional | Hamburg | Wide range of different loans, credit lines and forebearances for companies in the creative sector |
Manchester Culture Recovery Plan | Policy | regional | Manchester | Manchester Culture Recovery Plan has been developed with a wide range of partners and stakeholders and a COVID-19 Culture Recovery Board has been established to lead the city’s response to the pandemic and aid the sector’s recovery. The recovery plan is a request to provide the support the cultural sector, including specific strands for music, that needed to aid recovery. It includes a stabilisation strategy, a two year stimulus plan for culture in Manchester, Coordination and Marketing Support. |
Manchester Music City Steering Group | Policy | regional | Manchester | in partnership with the Music Venues Trust (http://musicvenuetrust.com/covid-19/) advice and guidance to small - midscale venues across Manchester City. Specific advice given to support applications to the national about the Grass Roots Music venues fund and the Cultural Recovery Funding. Planned Manchester Music Economy research |
Music & health care/Social Care Magistrate/Aarhus | Funding | regional | Aarhus | An initiative from the City/Magistrate for Social & Health Care in Aarhus supporting musicians to perform outdoor concerts and nursery homes and other City institutions in order to comply with the restictions during the Covid-19-lockdown. |
Musical Postcards from Aarhus | Funding | national | Aarhus | The Musical Postcards was an initiative made by the City of Aarhus in cooperation with SPOT Festival & Promus. The project consists of ten musical postcards featuring ten new and upcoming artists presenting themselves together with ten of the cultural institutions of the city (i.e. museums, places, environment etc.). The idea was to support both artists and institutions during the lockdown periode. All participating artists recieved a rather huge payment from the City for their participation. The Postcards are still being presented on a weekly basis through the official SoMe-channels from the City and is also used in a tourist campaign from the Visit Aarhus-office. |
Musicians Union | Funding | national | Manchester | The MU Coronavirus Hardship Fund |
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