SUPPORT A EU SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT VALORISING LIVE MUSIC SCENES’ RESILIENCE

Not all live music venues and clubs will have the chance to organise their own [Open] Club Day. If you have this opportunity, why not use it to show solidarity with the venues and clubs who cannot do it? One for all and all for one! For example, by endorsing the [Open] Club Day statement, you take part in a European-wide solidarity movement to support local music scenes. The more we are, the more we will be heard and valorised! By sharing the statement with your partners, network, local authorities or friends, you help sharing the immense value of live music scenes. Thank you for this!

BELONG TO A EU-WIDE COMMUNITY

This year, we want to connect [Open] Club Day participants even more. We will organise large meetings for all participants all over Europe to discuss and exchange together, in a very informal and relaxed way.

GAIN RECOGNITION FOR THE WORK YOU DO

If you are a venue or club and decide to take part in [Open] Club Day, promote the amazing work you are doing on a daily basis (from talent detection and promotion, over artist support, up to educational and communal activities). Show that it takes a variety of professions in order to run a venue or club.  Especially in these crazy times, it is important to show the amazing work you do to keep your venue or club afloat.

CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE AND CREATE DIALOGUE

[Open] Club Day is a great opportunity to engage with your community and to welcome a new audience. By inviting people in a different context – during the day and not for a live music show – you create the circumstances to address issues that are important for you. After the lockdown and restrictions on public gatherings that many of us have suffered, we all need and want to connect to each other and with the places dire to our hearts.

CLEAR UP NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES

[Open] Club Day allows highlighting the work accomplished inside the venue and club. By showing the work of your venue or club in a different light, you can help clearing up negative stereotypes that might be running around. The coronavirus crisis has seen dangerous stereotypes arise for music venues and clubs. In Europe, several campaigns or actions were taken to discredit live music scenes, which were seen as unsafe places. This is absolutely false. Use [Open] Club Day to claim your responsibility as a professional actor of the live music ecosystem. The only thing contagious in a venue or club is passion, fun, entertainment, diversity, love and solidarity.

BENEFIT FROM AN ENGAGED AND POSITIVE COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN

The values we represent, as described in our statement, are positive and engaged. Benefit from a communication campaign on [Open] Club Day at a European scale whose sole objective is to support local music scenes.

If you cannot open your doors on [Open] Club Day and invite locals to discover the behind the scenes of your venue, you can still take part in [Open] Club Day. Here are some ideas of how your symbolic participation could look like:

SIGN THE STATEMENT AND LET PEOPLE KNOW

Show that you are part of this solidary movement by sharing the statement on your website and socials. Send out a press release and let your local media know. Send a letter to your municipality!  You can also print out the statement and display it on to your door.

After signing the statement, you will receive a confirmation notification with a toolkit providing some communication materials for this.

IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN DO OUTSIDE

If outdoor gatherings are allowed, you can invite your neighbours, local media and decision makers from your municipality to meet in front of your venue. You can use this moment to explain how this crisis affects you and how you have been working.

You can also partner up with other actors from your town’s music scene (music shops, music schools, rehearsal studios, festival organisers, radios…) and organise together a guided tour through your town explaining how the local music scene works.

GO DIGITAL

If you are into streaming and connecting through digital channels, you can imagine [Open] Club Day activities as digital format. Film a guided tour through your club, stream an interview with your team members, or do an online discussion with artists.

Most [Open] Club Day activities can still be coherent with the current physical distancing and sanitary regulations in place and we are confident that the venues and clubs participating in this edition will do so in the most responsible way by applying the sanitary protocols. [Open] Club Day participants which develop a physical activity welcoming an audience must comply with the sanitary restrictions put in place at local, regional or national level. In case of doubt, feel free to contact the live music association from your country and/or your local authorities to ask them what these restrictions are.

As individual or organisation, you can support [Open] Club Day by signing the statement. Once you signed up, you will receive a confirmation notification with a toolkit providing some communication materials. You can share them on your socials, website or newsletter to show your support.

We use your personal data in a database of contacts in case we need to clarify or confirm any details about your subscription, and to keep you up to date with Open Club Day activities. We will always hold your information securely. No personal user information in link with this website is published, exchanged, transferred or sold without the agreement of the user to any third party. For more information, please read our Legal Notice.

For any help or support in implementing an [Open] Club Day activity, please contact the [Open] Club Day coordinator of the national live music association you are part of.

ACCES (Spain) – info@salasdeconciertos.com
ASACC (Spain – Catalonia) – info@asacc.net
Clubcircuit (Belgium – Flanders) – info@clubcircuit.be
Collectif Culture Bar Bars (France) – contact@bar-bars.com
Court-Circuit (Belgium – Wallonia) – info@courtcircuit.be
Dansk Live (Denmark) – sekretariat@dansklive.dk
FEDELIMA (France) – contact@fedelima.org
KeepON Live (Italy) – info@keeponlive.com
Kultura Live (Spain – Basque Country) – info@kulturalive.com
LiveFin (Finland) – info@livefin.fi
LiveKomm (Germany) – info@livekomm.org
Live Music Estonia (Estonia) – info@musicestonia.eu
Music Venue Trust (UK) – info@musicvenuetrust.com
Norske Konsertarrangorer (Norway) – post@konsertarrangor.no
PETZI (Switzerland) – office@petzi.ch
Svensk Live (Sweden) – info@svensklive.se
VNPF (Netherlands) – info@vnpf.nl

If you are not part of a national association, please contact the European coordination of the event: contact@openclubday.com