Food for thoughts

For more than a decade, Julie’s Bicycle’s British are striving to encourage the music world to adopt greener attitudes. A member of this non-profit association since 2012, Chiara Badiali reminds us in this text that the cultural community must not only be the spokesperson for the ecological emergency: it must act. Here are seven climate […]

“The next world” was promising. It is still in its infancy. All over Europe, the cultural summer will have taken a virtual form that is hardly satisfactory. In streaming, concerts and festivals, live or in archives, fill the void left by the ban on gatherings. A highly energy-consuming alternative at a time of a necessary […]

In 2007, Le Périscope was born in Lyon: a project of a team mainly composed of professional musicians who decided to relocate a former craft premises located in the Perrache district, not far from the famous Brasserie Georges. Twelve years later, after the demolition of the Saint-Paul and Saint-Joseph prisons opposite it, this concert hall […]

"As Brexit looms closer, it is a good moment to assess how the relationship between musicians across Europe, as shown from the UK perspective, have grown and become intertwined over the past 40 years. The difficulties that will increasingly be placed on UK artists to continue being involved, which could become quite onerous at some stage, and even sooner if there is a no-deal Brexit." by Oliver Weindling