Missed the open house event but are still interested in participating in the research? 

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Nashville’s independent music venues—widely understood as a core part of the city’s identity—are threatened. Nashville Metro Council requested an inventory of venues to understand better what’s happening and what can be done. This year, Metro Planning Department staff, with project partners PennPraxis, VibeLab, and Culture Shift Team, have inventoried venues and spoken with community members to understand better the challenges independent venues face. 

This project’s core purpose is to understand better the ecosystem of independent music venues (IMVs). In the process, the project will detail the threats Independent music venues face, seek to understand the needs and aspirations of the region’s creative community, and propose policy approaches for preserving and growing Independent Music venues and the businesses, neighbourhoods, and districts around them.

If you missed the Open House event in May, there are still opportunities to get involved! Please fill out this brief form to receive periodic project updates or share your interest in getting involved. We also welcome you to share the form with family and friends. 

We will conduct some supplemental interviews and research throughout the summer of 2023.

As we continue to work through this study, we anticipate publishing our findings in Spring 2024.

More info here

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Movement – Workshop – Panel Discussion

 As part of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), VibeLab x Hybrid Space Lab x SIP is hosting an in-person workshop and panel “Hybrid Habitat: Nightlife” on October 20th 2022 at Sexyland in Amsterdam.

The night is a theatre of multi-species performances, with the songs of the nightingale or the robin redhead singing at night attracted by the artificial light or the dances of the bats, creating an acoustic and visual experience space.

“Hybrid Habitat: Nightlife” investigates the future of nightlife at the crossroads of technological innovation and the pressing urgency of biodiversity loss. It focuses on sustainable future club cultures, fostering and stewarding interspecies co-existence. A hybrid approach allows the technology to be considered in the context of the biological. For us humans, technologies can help to notice, observe, and collaborate with our biosphere in crisis.

Our program brings together experts from science, technology and nightlife and will raise these and many other questions: How will club spaces and inner cities look like in an interspecies future? And how will the ongoing digital transformation be exploited for new artistic practices in the nightlife which allow humans to notice and collaborate with more-than-human life?

2:00pm: Dose of Pleasure – Movement

Dose of Pleasure is a guided dancefloor meditation hosted by dancer, drag artist, raver, and poetic bodyworker Alvin Collantes. This session will guide participants into getting in touch with their bodily creatures. A perfect warm-up for the following rounds of conversation! (If you arrive late, you can still drop in.)

3:30pm: Animal Club – Workshop 

What will club spaces look like when they are designed as interspecies habitats for human, plant, and animal life? And how will the ongoing digital transformation be exploited for new artistic practices in interspecies clubs which allows humans to notice and co-create with more-than-human life? 

Animal Club creates a space of radical imagination. We will explore how technology and creative practice can help clubs to assimilate within their neighbourhood and biosphere, and how this will give birth to new forms of pleasure.

6:00pm: Fertilization & Cultivation of the Night – Panel

Accelerated by the pandemic, retail stores and offices are moving further or entirely to the digital realm. It seems now more urgent than ever to enter this void with arts and culture – to question the future of inner cities; to re-imagine it and innovate, to protect and rightfully shape it. This panel is exploring strategies and new tools to fertilize and cultivate creative space in future cities. How can we build viable, resilient and inclusive spaces capable of balancing the economic and social demands of creative communities and landlords? And what opportunities may lie in purchasing online territory and extending operations to the metaverse?

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Black Artist Database (B.A.D.), formerly known as Black Bandcamp, has launched a new platform titled Black Creative Database. It’s been created to spotlight Black creatives across the diaspora in pursuit of wage equity, transparency and stable employment for extended creative communities. 

The Black Creative Database began as a blank spreadsheet in late 2020, inspired by the collective action and critical recentering of Blackness demonstrated by by B.A.D. (then known as Black Bandcamp).

That spreadsheet has since grown to become a resource directory of Black creative workers in visual, digital, design, media and curatiorial fields.

Black creatives are encouraged to submit their details to create a profile that will directly link to their online portfolios and social media. 

Profiles on the database will directly link to online portfolios and social media accounts. If you’d like to create a profile, you can submit your details here.

This year B.A.D expanded from an artist database to a platform with a mix series, Patreon account, editorial output and the [pause] initiative.

More info here

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It’s been three years since VibeLab came into the world, yet our message feels more important than ever. We believe that a healthy, independent nighttime culture shapes the identity of a city. Lively, diverse, nighttime communities lead to more liberal, inclusive cities.

How did nighttime.org & the GNRP come about?

Last year as the lockdown rippled across the world, as did our concern for the nighttime and creative industries, so we gathered together a core team to create a knowledge sharing platform Nightime.org, and from there blossomed the idea of the Global Nighttime Recovery Plan.

A collaborative and practical, seven chapter guide, the GNRP highlights the global examples on supporting and reopening the nighttime culture whilst exploring future prospects for nightlife.

Each chapter was led by an expert in that field with researchers, advocates, policy makers, scientists, nightlife industry people and council members from across the world contributing ideas and shared best practice to the plan.

Meet the Global Contributors to the Global Nighttime Recovery Plan

Building relationships and connecting advocates in all parts of the world has always been the core of VibeLab‘s work. In the last three years our movement has gained knowledge, created tools and built more capacity than it has ever had. Now it’s time to share ideas, develop long term strategies and support creative communities to recover from this crisis stronger and more resilient.” – Lutz Leichsenring Co founder of VibeLab

Read all about our current and upcoming projects in our third birthday newsletter

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