Annual Report B | GREEN MUSIC Annual Report 2018 Soju Gang Djing at Jirrmujina Liyan for Darebin FEAST, with Her GMA Refillable Water Bottle Green Music Australia
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2018 annual report B | GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 Soju Gang DJing at Jirrmujina Liyan for Darebin FEAST, with her GMA refillable water bottle Green Music Australia We are harnessing the cultural power of our country’s influential music scene to lead the way to a greener world. An independent not for profit organisation, our advocacy and education programs support, connect, and inspire all levels of Australia’s music industry to deliver arts and cultural activities that are environmentally sound. We run campaigns on key issues to build support and momentum for change. And we celebrate successes and leaders, showing others how much can be done. Contents A year in review | 2 Messages from CEO and Chair | 4 Tackling waste | 9 Advocating for the planet | 22 Partnerships and items of interest | 31 Operational sustainability | 33 Our Board | 35 Patrons, ambassadors and supporters | 36 The year ahead | 38 Financial report | 40 GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 | 1 A year in review 1million+ plastic bottles & cups avoided 1620 people signed our open letter on single-use Brunswick Festival plastic water bottles Darebin Kite Festival Darebin Music Feast Melbourne International Arts Festival Melbourne Fringe Festival Melbourne International Jazz Festival 260 Melbourne Music Week The Age Music Victoria Awards highly regarded musicians Stonnington Jazz Festival and music industry workers Melbourne, VIC support our work WOMADelaide–Adelaide, SA Falls Festival—Perth, WA Nannup Music Festival Nannup, WA 28 32 stories featured in festivals 12 media outlets joined our 27 shared over #BYObottle campaign high profile artists signed up 3170 times on as Coal Resisters social media 2 | GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 41 new #BYObottle artist ambassadors engaged 1.2 million fans via social media 98% of punters surveyed support plastic BigSound—Brisbane, QLD free initiatives Woodford Folk Festival Woodford, QLD Earth Frequency $$$ Peak Crossing, QLD $$ $ Falls Festival Global Rhythms Splendour in the Grass $70K Summer Hill Music Festival Mullum Music Festival raised in fundraising The Plot Bluesfest Sydney, NSW Byron Bay Area, NSW Bellingen Turtle Festival—Bellingen, NSW Black Gully Music Festival—Armidale, NSW Island Vibe Mountain Sounds—Somersby, NSW Nth Strabroke Island, QLD National Folk Festival The Lost Lands Canberra, ACT Lost Paradise Werribee, VIC Illawarra Folk Festival Glenworth Valley, NSW Bulli, NSW Strawberry Fields Grampians Music Festival Tocumwal, NSW Halls Gap, VIC 2M+ Falls Festival audience Lorne, VIC 6M+ members reached audience members via our artist Gaytimes reached via our 40 Party in the Paddock Lake Mountain, VIC ambassador social Launceston, TAS partner festivals. media networks Falls Festival Marion Bay, TAS Cygnet Folk festival Cygnet, TAS GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 | 3 Messages from CEO and Chair Letter from Board of Directors Chair, Blair Palese In 2018, GMA worked with over up the role of Board Chair, as 40 festivals and 100+ artists our previous chair Mahalath on a range of environmental Halperin returns to her role as issues, reaching a stunning 1.5 a board member along with million music fans from across Asher Christophers and Patrick Australia. Our flagship waste Kelly. Stepping off the board— campaign— #BYObottle—had and with our great thanks a huge impact, preventing for all of their contributions more than 1 million disposable and support—are Katie plastic bottles and cups from Noonan, Eadie Eyres, and Kristy being used at music festivals Wandmaker. We are happy to and events. Our work on the welcome new board members Stop Adani campaign was also Susie Sugden, Jessica Cerro, and hugely successful, recruiting Carla O’Neale who come with a popular artists like John wealth of experience across the Butler and Missy Higgins to music and retail sectors that will damaging, and to leverage take action on and off stage, no doubt be a great help as we the power of the music sector helping to bring the issue to grow and develop. to be part of the demand for the attention of hundreds of climate and environmental thousands of people. These Our Waste and Anti-Coal action. To do that, we’ll need successes are a testament Campaigners, Berish Bilander more donors and larger and to the hard work of our CEO, and Emma Bosworth, have more consistent donations staff and board, as well as taken over Co-CEO roles, and from individuals, foundations the enormous contribution are being supported by an and industry leaders. We’re by our volunteers and artist active board. This is an exciting hoping our supporters and ambassadors. time for our organisation as we look to grow our profile, colleagues in the music Organisationally, GMA has industry reach and financial industry can help us achieve undertaken a major renewal support. This year our focus will the growth we need. process this year, with founder be to ensure Australian musical and CEO, Tim Hollo, stepping events and festivals step up to down to pursue other become positive influences on ambitions. I am excited to take our environment, rather than 4 | GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 Letter from exiting CEO and Green Music Australia Founder, Tim Hollo Well, five and a half years after When I started Green Music, quitting my job and taking a I had in mind that, in a few leap into the unknown to set years, the organisation would up Green Music Australia, I be chugging along well and couldn’t be happier to be ready I would be able to step back to move on, with this wonderful and watch it make the world little organisation in fantastic a better, greener place. Now is hands of our employees Berish the time for me to do that. Bilander and Emma Bosworth And, with Berish and Emma who will be taking on Co-CEO doing amazing work with positions. We set out to help artists and festivals and the music scene lead the way venues across the country, I to a greener world, and, with am absolutely confident that your help, we’re doing just that. they will lead the organisation Protecting our oceans and with great skill, imagination, our atmosphere, supporting and commitment, to keep (Tim remains an active musicians to get involved in big greening the music scene. member of GMA’s Board of campaigns, advising festivals Directors.) and venues and industry Thank you all for your support organisations in how to lighten and participation in various their footprint—Green Music is ways, and please keep getting playing a vital role. involved and doing what you can to reduce our impact on the precious, magnificent, unique natural world we are all part of. GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 | 5 Letter from our Co-CEOs, Emma Bosworth and Berish Bilander We’ve all been to festivals strewn with rubbish, diesel generators spewing fumes out back, and a few thousand cars choking the entrances. And that’s just what we can see. What we don’t see is the equally devastating impact of our choices with energy use in venues, how we produce records and merchandise, how we and our audiences travel, and much more. Fortunately, green initiatives are on the rise, and if this last year is anything to go sustainability initiatives remain music festival is often their first by, the times are a changin’. grossly under-resourced. With overnight experience outside From plastic-free festivals, to more funds, green programs of the family unit. These bike valet services and car could be expanded, new ideas first impressions last, and if sharing, to low-energy LED trialled, and massive inroads harnessed successfully, could stage lights, and exciting made in short timeframes. create a new generation of new composting solutions, Increased investment would environmentally conscientious the industry is undergoing a also allow our industry to and respectful human beings. rapid transformation. Artists better measure its impact, As such an important cultural too, once hesitant about and share these learnings institution, the possibilities for being labelled ‘greenies’, are widely. Imagine the power of a affecting change are vast. national strategy on campsite working with us to reduce Most importantly, we must their own footprint, and taking waste that’s informed and implemented by an alliance recognise that the time for on advocacy roles for broader talking is well and truly over. societal change. of festivals. Or even better, the impact the music scene As Yothu Yindi famously wrote, Despite this overall trend, would have on our broader “Words are easy, words are Australia’s music scene still has culture, once it cleans up its cheap. Much cheaper than our an oversized environmental act. Let’s not forget that for priceless land”. footprint, and crucial young Australians, attending a 6 | GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 #BYObottle artist ambassadors DZ Deathray on stage at Splendour in the Grass GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 | 7 One of the biggest causes of the mess is single-use products and the throw-away culture that underpins their use. 8 | GREEN MUSIC annual report 2018 Tackling waste #BYObottle • Refill Not Landfill Library • National Clean Campsite Alliance Waste generated at major water bottles, cups, take-away growing impact of plastic events and venues across food containers, and cheap pollution, campaigns like Australia is a vast and growing abandoned tents all create #BYObottle that limit waste problem. Not only are the sea an enormous headache for creation ‘upstream’ are crucial. of plastic on festival floors, organisers and our planet. Our work tackling waste not overflowing bins, and trashed Green Music Australia is only protects the natural world, campsites downright ugly, facilitating, organising and but is building leadership they’re having a devastating inspiring change, helping that will lead to deep, lasting impact on our environment. the music scene to reduce its cultural change.