L|A|L.1 - Market Access in Music
27 June 2025 at Music Week Poland - Warsaw, Poland
The first edition of Live|Arts|Lab was devoted to exploring ways to promote fairer access to global culture markets, looking particularly at the music industry. With a remarkable collection of industry and policy leaders, we discussed five broad questions:
a perfect, fair, and just world—would musicians and their music move around the world? How do we know when fair market access is achieved? What does success look like?
What can be done to promote fair pay for disadvantaged artists along local, regional, and global cultural value chains?
What can be done to increase the value of diverse cultural expressions in advantaged communities?
What can be done to promote non-discrimination and gender equality along local, regional, and global cultural value chains?
What can be done to promote the development of the cultural sectors in disadvantaged communities?
This L|A|L was recognised as a Pre-Conference Side Events as part of the Extended Programme towards MONDIACULT 2025.
L|A|L.2 - Access to Diverse Cultural Expressions in Theater
12 January 2026 at Under the Radar - New York City, USA
The second edition of Live|Arts|Lab will start from principle #2 of UNESCO Germany’s Fair Culture Charter : we will be exploring ways “to promote access to diverse cultural expressions and resources across global culture markets.” Specifically, we will work to identify and evaluate strategies which:
engage theater projects in initiatives that promote artists and cultural rights, and engage consumers with fairer practices in the global theater sector,
promote the capacities of the theater sectors of the Global South* and other disadvantaged communities,
implement international law that promotes fairer North* / South* cultural exchange.
This L|A|L is organised in collaboration with Under The Radar Theater Festival and HowlRound Theatre Commons.
*Here we are using the terms “Global North,” “Global South,” and “Disadvantaged” adopted by applicable UNESCO instruments, but acknowledge that these terms carry problematic assumptions and histories that deserve interrogation.
