Emmanuelle Cuttitta is the head of Le Gueulard +, a club in Nilvange. She also is memeber of the board of Syndicat des Musiques Actuelles, and consultant for CNM commisions.
With the Les Eclairantes project, Le Gueulard Plus wanted to establish a process of valuing women artists through artistic and cultural education, awareness-raising events on the theme and collaborative work sessions. This project is part of the structure's long-standing commitment to equity, diversity, equality and parity, which has been reinforced in its CSR program.
Déclic is a new step for FEDELIMA and the SMA in the deepening of their involvement towards a model of sustainable pop music industry. However, both organizations are well aware that the carbon footprint is not the only element of the ecological transition and that climate change is not the only sign of the social and planetary limits being exceeded.
In 2021, at the request of their members, the two organizations launched a first awareness-raising cycle for their members.
A few months later: the project is ready to be launched!
The two organizations have joined forces with the ekodev agency, which will provide methodological support for the completion of 18 carbon audits on a sample of representative organizations in the sector. This first stage of the project will consolidate existing data in order to draw up an objective assessment of the sector's environmental footprint. With the help of ekodev, the challenge is to design trajectories to support all organizations in the sector in reducing their impacts and changing their production and distribution methods to adapt to current restrictions and anticipate those to come.
What is the SMA?
In order to defend and promote this intermediary space in the pop music industry, Fédurok and the Fédération des Scènes de Jazz et de Musiques Improvisées (FSJ) have joined forces to create a professional employers' union: the SMA, the National Union of Small and Very Small Non-Profit Organizations of Pop Music.
The SMA is for all small (10 to 50 employees) and very small (less than 10 employees) organizations with limited profitability, which recognize themselves in this intermediate and alternative field, and whose activities consist of distributing works, and/or accompanying practices, and/or supporting creation, and/or training practitioners in the current music sector. The SMA counts more than 540 members to date.
What is FEDELIMA?
The FEDELIMA is, since January 1st, 2013, a national network which gathers places and projects dedicated to pop music on the whole French territory. Its offices are based in Nantes. Its purpose is to federate and develop any initiative of general interest in the field of pop music, to help its members to anticipate cultural, economic, technological, political and social changes, to support them in their development by proposing adequate means and tools in a concern of complementarity and cooperation, and this from the local to the international level.