Climate Change VS Community Spaces

With summer up and coming, there are heaps of festivals and live music events coming up too. These live music events help to make up Australia’s very rich and diverse arts and music culture, and bring communities together. Like every community centered spaces, festivals and live music are at risk from the increasing extreme and unpredictable weather, like flash flooding, fires, heat waves resulting in increasing insurance costs for festivals, possible cancelling or rescheduling of said festivals and higher ticket costs, all resulting in the possible extinction of these events, which are so important for community and culture building and bonding. Bella talks with Tim Shiel, Green Music Australia’s community organiser, about GMA’s recent report from earlier this year, "Rain, Heat, Repeat", and how its findings on consumer behaviour within festivals informs us how extreme weather can and will further effect live music events as well as solutions we need to action in order to save festivals from extinction, amongst many other things. Later, Bella and Shae discuss further the detriment of losing community-based spaces to climate change effects, as well as how communities can be more central in creating eco-friendly live events and festivals.