We’ve collated some useful resources for those affected by the ongoing global crisis.
Help the electronic music community (and others) during the current coronavirus pandemic, AKA COVID-19.
Various online resources have sprung up in the wake of cancellations currently decimating the live music sector. We’ve gathered them here.
- Sign petitions
- • Sign and share this petition to get the UK government to offer economic assistance to the events industry during the ongoing crisis.
- • This one is for Germany-based artists and freelancers seeking help from the Bundestag and Ministry Of Finance.
- Offer and receive help
- • This comprehensive WordPress site includes numerous resources for helping freelance artists, including law advice, preparation tips and what to do if your gigs have been cancelled.
- • In Berlin, queer art space Karada House has set up two forms: this one for those in need of assistance, and this one if you can offer support (shopping, cooking, driving) to the ill and elderly in your local area. “This is a queer community effort. Priority will be given to people on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and other marginalized folx (i.e. BiPoC).”
- •The Instagram account techno4hire is connecting out-of-work nightlife professionals with alternative work. “You can DM types of work you are willing to do to the profile and I will post them as an image,” organiser Alyce C writes.
- • UK charity Help Musicians has offered advice for musicians (working or retired) in need of support. In some cases, help is also available for partners or dependents of musicians.
- • In Seattle, the US city hit hardest by the pandemic, a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to support the artist community. The target is $100,000. Priority will go to “BIPOC artists, transgender and non-binary artists and disabled artists—but we will try to help as many artists with need in Seattle as we can.”
- • Truants founder Soraya is working with subscription membership platform Patreon “to set up a network of independent musicians, DJs, music labels, promoters and other nonprofits across the UK, which I think might be a useful conversation to have right now,” she tweeted. Learn more about that here.
- Buy music
- • Many have begun sharing Twitter threads filled with Bandcamp links to encourage supporting artists through directly buying their music. New York collective bizaarbazaar has one here, and RA‘s Andrew Ryce is sharing music here.
- • warm winters ltd. founder Adam Badí Donoval has compiled a list of electronic artists affected by the crisis, hosted here by Buy Music Club.
- • London record shop Vinyl Pimp, which remains open, is taking some useful steps to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Idle Hands in Bristol is also open and asking the community to “support us in whatever way you can over the coming weeks.”
We will continue updating this post as more resources appear. Please email [email protected] with any suggestions.