General Assemblies

THE PROJECT

On March 11th, while the extent of the crisis was still uncertain, 30 independent structures in Lyon engaged in all sectors of creation and media (music, books, visual arts, digital, performing arts, cinema, magazines, radio, web, podcasts, photography, graphic design, design) were created. ...) launched an appeal for confidence and solidarity in the face of the scale of the global disaster that was looming and which we felt would brutally hit our sectors.

Very quickly, the call was joined by more than 300 structures in France: festivals, concert halls, show producers, artists' collectives, authors and actors of creation, online or printed media, labels, publishers, places of accompaniment, technical service providers...

With the closure of the premises, the cancellation of events and the rules of "social distancing" that are antinomic to the very essence of our function, our structures, cooperatives, enterprises and associations of general interest, already structurally fragile, were the first to be hit by the economic consequences of the crisis opened by Covid- 19.

However, we have chosen to suspend all communication and diffusion of this Appeal out of respect for the victims and the primacy of the health emergency. But we have continued to work collectively, to fight to preserve jobs, to measure the extent of the damage on each of our structures - and more broadly on society.