Responsibility
Strategy 2030
Tampere Music Festivals is a part of the City of Tampere’s Urban Environment unit. Our policies and practices are based on the 2030 strategy of the City of Tampere, which states the following: “We carry our responsibility of wellbeing and environment by operating in an ecologically, socially, culturally, and economically sustainable ways. We advance equality and safety with our activities.” On this page, we have summarized information on the practical responsibility actions that the Tampere Music Festivals organization implements in its daily operation.
Actions
This is how we carry our responsibility.
1. Social sustainability
- We are committed to proactively advance equality, and we have action plan guidelines for how to report and deal with inappropriate behaviour.
- We offer internships for students, including persons who speak Finnish as a second language and other minorities
- Information regarding accessibility issues is readily available
- A part of our festival programme is always free of charge for the audience, and to most of our events it is possible to get tickets with the Kaiku card.
- At our events, we consider health and safety aspects of the visitors’ experience. We follow the latest recommendations and communicate those clearly. Ear plugs are available in those events that may potentially cause hearing damage due to volume levels.
- Report inappropriate behaviour.
2. Environment and Climate
- We encourage festival visitors to use environmentally sustainable ways of travelling to the festival by actively providing information regarding public transportation and cycling possibilities to the venues.
- Our food catering and collaboration partner restaurants’ menus always include at least one salty and one sweet vegan option.
- Our operations do not create ingredient or food waste, and in the case that there is surplus in food portions those are gifted onwards.
- We avoid using plastic ware. In the situations that require plastic ware, we use biodegradable dishes instead.
- Some of the materials that are produced for the event are reusable or from recycled sources.
3. We Speak Gay
- We take part in the LGBTQ friendly We Speak Gay -community. This means we are committed to treating all our artists, employees, and customers with respect and equality regardless of gender, race, skin colour, age, nationality, religion, culture, or sexual orientation. We Speak Gay community’s objective is to build an even more empathetic and inclusive Finland, the world’s most rainbow-friendly country for travel.
Tampere Biennale is a “Think Sustainably” -participant. You can get to know other sustainable options in Tampere here.
Harassment contact person
If you notice or experience at our festival any kind of sexual, racist, homophobic, transphobic or other kind of harassment or other types of inappropriate behaviour, please contact the staff at the festival and/or our harassment contact person. The notifications and contacts are completely confidential. If the person reporting the behaviour so wishes, the matter will not be taken forward.