Zone Franche at MaMA 2025

MaMA Music & Con­ven­tion, a major event for all play­ers in the music indus­try, will take place on Octo­ber 15, 16 and 17, 2025 in Paris, in the heart of the Pigalle / Mont­martre dis­trict !

This will be an oppor­tu­ni­ty for all play­ers in the indus­try, both French and inter­na­tion­al, to get togeth­er for 3 days and 3 nights and dis­cuss the new chal­lenges fac­ing music, dis­cov­er a wide range of artists and groups, and exchange views on the out­look for the sec­tor.

Zone Franche events at MaMA

1/ Eco-responsible tour : presentation of the CooProg platform
Wednesday 15/10 from 12pm to 12:45pm — Workshop area du Trianon

Dis­cov­er CooProg at MaMA 2025 !
It’s a well-known fact : to reduce the car­bon foot­print of artists’ tours, it’s vital that pro­gram­mers coor­di­nate their pro­gram­ming, so that tours are ratio­nal. Pro­fes­sion­al prac­tices already exist, as do projects to sup­port them : CooProg pro­vides pro­fes­sion­als with the tools they need to make their work eas­i­er. Free to access and use, the plat­form enables you to man­age in one and the same place : pro­gram­ming schedule(s) (from sim­ple inten­tions to con­firmed dates), infor­ma­tion on artists, visu­al­iza­tion (geolo­ca­tion) of the tour / oth­er dates, venues and tour oper­a­tors involved in the tour, all exchanges between you (via a chat), etc. Already approved in the field of live per­for­mance, since mid-2025 it has been acces­si­ble to con­tem­po­rary music.

Pro­gram­mers, come and dis­cov­er CooProg ! This gen­er­al pre­sen­ta­tion will intro­duce you to the plat­for­m’s var­i­ous func­tions. It will intro­duce you to a more advanced approach, with hands-on train­ing work­shops (see below).

2/ Eco-responsible tour : training workshops on the CooProg platform
Wednesday 15/10 and Thursday 16/10 from 2pm to 4pm — Networking floor at Elysée Montmartre

Dis­cov­er and learn more about CooProg at MaMA 2025 !
Pro­gram­mers, come and learn how to use CooProg ! This small-group train­ing work­shop will enable you to test CooProg’s var­i­ous func­tions and mas­ter the use of the plat­form.
One com­put­er per per­son is required for the work­shop. These train­ing ses­sions are reserved for pro­gram­mers !

Reg­is­tra­tion via this link

3/ Conference
Thursday 16/10 from 15:30 to 16:30 — FGO Barbara — Panel Room 1

Why, in the cur­rent polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic con­text, is it more essen­tial than ever to bring peo­ple to see and hear World Music ?
The cur­rent polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic con­text is turn­ing our soci­ety upside down. Our major repub­li­can prin­ci­ples are being under­mined, and in the field of cul­ture, this is expressed not only by the ques­tion­ing of its fund­ing, but also — and this is more seri­ous — by the val­ues it con­veys : free­dom of cre­ation and expres­sion, equal­i­ty of cul­tures and equal­i­ty before cul­ture, fra­ter­ni­ty between artists and cit­i­zens of all ori­gins.

Faced with a Min­is­ter of State who claims that “a mul­ti­cul­tur­al soci­ety is a soci­ety where ten­sions flare up”, faced with the extreme right appro­pri­at­ing “home-grown” music, and faced with those who only see music and cul­ture through an eco­nom­ic prism, it is more nec­es­sary than ever to speak out and act in resis­tance. The first will be to assert that the diver­si­ty of cul­tur­al expres­sion is a rich­ness, a neces­si­ty even, in this dele­te­ri­ous cli­mate ; that more than ever, it is impor­tant to bring peo­ple to see and lis­ten to world music, from here and else­where.

4/ Music industry conference
Wednesday 15/10 from 5pm to 6pm — FGO Barbara — Panel Room 1
Organized by RIF and SMA
Co-organized by Fédération des Musiques Métalliques, FAMDT, Zone Franche, France Festivals, Haute Fidélité, Le RIM, AJC, Le Pôle, Octopus, FEDELIMA, Grand Bureau, Technopol, Fédéchanson.

Cur­rent music in the munic­i­pal elec­tions : what’s at stake for the sec­tor ?
In the run-up to the 2026 munic­i­pal elec­tions, the con­tem­po­rary music sec­tor is keen to make its needs and pro­pos­als known to future local deci­sion-mak­ers.
The local author­i­ties play a key role in orga­niz­ing and fund­ing local music struc­tures. How­ev­er, recent years have seen an increase in attacks on free­dom of cre­ation and expres­sion, and a drop in pub­lic fund­ing.
What are the issues at stake in these elec­tions ? On the eve of these elec­tions, how can we get the con­tem­po­rary music sec­tor mov­ing, and mobi­lize to guar­an­tee a frame­work con­ducive to cre­ation, artis­tic and cul­tur­al edu­ca­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion in all com­munes ? This is what we’ll be dis­cussing with our var­i­ous speak­ers.

5/ 7 Showcases of artists produced by network members