L|A|L.1 @ MUSIC WEEK POLAND, JUNE 27, 2025 

The first edition of Live Arts Lab will be devoted to exploring ways to promote fairer access to global culture markets. We will use The Fair Culture Charter as a starting place. This fascinating project weaves together the aspirations of the last 50 years of cultural policy initiatives that seek to redress post-Colonial inequities in the global cultural sector. But then it makes a bold move that is strategic and pragmatic: taking a cue from the “Fair Trade” movement (would you pay a little more for “fair trade coffee”?), it proposes a (yet-to-be-defined) public/private initiative aimed at creating consumer demand for fairness along the entire cultural value chain. We don’t really understand how this would work, but that’s part of what we will be discussing. Fair Market Access is central to The Fair Culture Charter, so after much discussion, we decided this is the best place to start this lab’s conversation: we will be exploring the Charter’s “Principle #5: Fair Market Access.” We have assembled a remarkable collection of industry and policy leaders, and we look forward to discussing whether this is a good idea, and if so, how we might nudge it into existence.