IMPALA & CMU TEAM UP TO KEEP INDEPENDENTS ONE STEP AHEAD IN THE DIGITAL MARKET
IMPALA has teamed up with music business consultancy CMU Insights to launch One Step Ahead, a new digital intelligence facility to enable independent music companies across Europe to navigate and identify trends, developments, challenges and opportunities in the digital music market.
OVER 100 ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR CULTURE TO BE AT THE CORE OF EUROPE’S RECOVERY PLANS
110 organisations from across the cultural and creative sector have published a joint call on the EU and its Members States to place culture at the core of each and every recovery plan.
IMPALA ADOPTS CHARTER TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT MUSIC SECTOR
IMPALA has adopted a Diversity and Inclusion Charter setting out a series of twelve commitments for the organisation, which it will report on annually.
JOINT SECTOR LETTER – SUPPORT FOR CULTURE IN THE RECOVERY & RESILIENCE FACILITY
Today, 21 organisations from across the cultural and creative sector wrote to members of the European Parliament to ask them to support a number of amendments tabled on the draft Report on a Recovery and Resilience Facility.
INVESTEU – ENSURING SUPPORT FOR CULTURAL AND CREATIVE BUSINESSES
Today, 26 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors wrote to European Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Paolo Gentiloni (Economy) regarding the EU’s flagship investment programme InvestEU.
MEET THE NOMINEES FOR THE MUSIC MOVES EUROPE TALENT AWARDS 2021
Tonight, the nominees for the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards were announced at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany in presence of the European Commissioner for Culture, Mariya Gabriel.
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES URGE EUROPEAN COMMISSION NOT TO REWRITE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE
As the European Commission consultation on article 17 guidance closes later today, IMPALA joins a wide-ranging group of rightholder organisations in expressing serious concerns with the Commission’s direction of travel.
OP-ED – A CALL TO INVEST IN ALL OUR CREATIVE FUTURES
Performance artist Marina Abramović, singer-songwriters Björk and MØ, dance choreographer Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker, film directors Agnieszka Holland, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, electronic music pionneer Jean-Michel Jarre, theatre director Ivo Van Hove, conceptual visual artist Daniel Buren, film music composer Alberto Iglesias and writer Nina George are among the many acclaimed names behind this call.
FUSING CLIMATE POLICY AND CULTURE – MUSIC DECLARES CLIMATE EMERGENCY MEETS EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER MARIYA GABRIEL
Earlier this week, Music Declares Emergency and IMPALA had a video meeting with Mariya Gabriel, the European Commissioner responsible for culture, innovation, research, education and youth.
INVESTING IN EUROPE’S NEXT GENERATION BY INVESTING IN CULTURE – JOINT SECTOR CALL SIGNED BY OVER 90 ORGANISATIONS
On 19 June, EU leaders will meet in Brussels to discuss the Commission’s proposed recovery fund and EU long-term budget.
Ahead of this meeting, 94 organisations representing the whole spectrum of Europe’s cultural and creative sector have issued a joint call for strong and systemic support measures at EU and national level to recover from the crisis.